An Axl ChristmasIn the wake of the complete public apathy towards our 1991 album Looks Like Rain... Tastes Like Chicken, we released An Axl Christmas as a holiday single. As far as we know, this is the only Christmas song about Axl Rose ever written. It's also hopelessly outdated. (Hey Axl, will you hurry up and release another stupid record so we'll sound relevant again?) The nifty lead guitar work (including the eerie Slash-ripoff line that kicks the whole thing off) was done by the great Mike Lecuyer.
An Axl Christmas went on to become our biggest hit. This, of course, was not a difficult position to attain. The song became quite popular on the national Dr. Demento show, and appeared on the show's Funny Five countdown during the holidays throughout the early nineties. Axl was even featured on one of Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes compilation albums, alongside tunes by artists such as "Weird Al" Yankovic and Barnes and Barnes. The song was also picked up by a few Boston-area radio stations.
Despite its questionable shelf life (always an issue when it comes to novelty songs), An Axl Christmas remains a sentimental favorite for us. It has not been available in any format for five years or so. Now we invite you to dust off your G'N'R posters, roast a few chestnuts, and enjoy.
An Axl Christmas (MP3 - 1.81MB)
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