GUNS N’ ROSES REP DENIES SLASH BAN
A representative for GUNS N’ ROSES has dismissed reports the group banned= fans from wearing any SLASH clothing at a recent concert.
Frontman Axl Rose and the hat-toting rocker famously fell out when Slas= h quit the band in the mid-1990s, after their relationship deteriorated. = They never patched up their friendship and their ongoing war of words con= tinues to rage, with Rose recently accusing his former pal of lying about= the rift in his 2007 autobiography.
A U.S. report claimed the band upset Slash fans at their gig in Canada = last Wednesday (20Jan10) by asking them to turn their t-shirts inside out= and leave their top hats outside. TMZ.com reported a security guard conf= irmed he had been given the orders, insisting, "The instructions were pas= sed down from a producer for the band." But Rose’s personal assistant’s son, Fernando Lebeis, has spoken out to= deny the allegations, confirming a ban never took place.
He explains, "We did not advise any security to ban any sort of apparel= …. If they did, they did it on their own accord, or under someone else’s= order - from within their management."
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