“Being Axl Rose is exhausting sometimes” — 1992 MTV News erupts as Rose freezes Kurt Loder with silence, hijacks tough questions, and turns a tiger-tense interview into farce. In 1992, MTV News veteran Kurt Loder found himself “walking a tiger on a tightrope” when a defiant Axl Rose turned a high-stakes interview into a psychological stand-off. Using terrifying silences and dismissive wit to hijack tough questions, the rock god admitted, “Being Axl Rose is exhausting,” while single-handedly reducing the media’s scrutiny to a farce…..
The assignment looked simple on paper: veteran MTV journalist Kurt Loder, the calmest man in music television, would sit down with Guns N’ Roses frontman […]
