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S OF LEON and GUNS N' ROSES Find out the whole story behind the feud here https://youtu.be/xChfGOrVYZI LOVE ROCK N’ ROLL TRUE STORIES? NEVER MISS A BEAT FACEBOOK: @RNRTrueStories TWITTER: @rocktruestories BLOG: www.gnrcentral.com HELP ME MAKE MORE GREAT VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/RNRTrueStories #rollingstones #mickjagger #keithrichards #taxevasion #britishrock #sixtiesbritishrock Hey rock rebels what's going on So back in the early 2010's the Fox TV show Glee was supposedly all the rage It was such a big show that even NBC's show The Office did a whole episode about it Now I personally hated the show and thought it was awful Now there was one story though that went under-reported and that involved music being used for the show So prior to Glee using music from popular artists or bands they need to get permission first Now there were three bands that the producers of Glee went after who refused to let their music be licensed and that was Foo Fighters Guns N' Roses and Kings of Leon and it would be Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash who would reveal in January of 2011 to Entertainment Weekly that he said no to the TV show licensing Guns N' Roses music saying Glee is worse than Greece and Greece is bad enough I look at Greece and think between High School Musical and Glee Greece was a work of art the guitarist will conclude it's kind of funny that this is coming from the same guy who showed up on American Idol a number of seasons ago Now the guitarist didn't have a hard-line stance against licensing Guns N' Roses music but preferred to lend his music and image to projects he endorsed For example Guitar Hero Three Legends of Rock video game featured Welcome to the Jungle even though Axl Rose would turn around and sue the game developer and publisher three years later but that's a story for another time Now Glee creator Ryan Murphy would respond several weeks after Slash made his comments to Entertainment Weekly and was pretty vitriolic in his response not only attacking Guns N' Roses but the band Kings of Leon for publicly rejecting an offer to have their music in an episode of the hit series Murphy would tell The Hollywood Reporter that Kings of Leon are as he put it self-centered a-holes and they missed the big picture According to Murphy the bands are missing the opportunity to inspire kids taking up music saying a seven-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song which will make them want to join a glee club or pick up a musical instrument It's like okay hate on arts education you can make fun of Glee all you want but at its heart what we really do is turn kids on to music and it would be Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill who offered a more even-handed the response to Murphy's comments in the article saying this whole Glee thing is a shock to us It's gotten out of hand At the time of the request we hadn't even seen the show It came at the end of that record cycle and we were over promoting Use Somebody This was never meant as a slap in the face to Glee or to the music education or to fans of the show We're just not sure where the anger is coming from In the same article Murphy would also respond to Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash saying usually I find that people who make those comments their careers are over Their uneducated and quite stupid but it would be Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl who would go on the Howard Stern Show in 2011 and defend Kings of Leon and Guns N' Roses for saying no to the show as he said here I've had the same manager for 21 years I've had the same accountant for 21 years I admire your loyalty I think you're very grounded person and there's not a lot of people in rock n' roll who are very grounded There are a lot of people who are just off their [---] rocker So we're talking about business for a second So when this guy from Glee comes to you and he seems kind of like a mafioso he says to you we want to use the music of the Foo Fighters for the TV show Glee Well let me explain something first Okay Glee never approached us to do music Oh That that came up in conversation when we were doing an interview for The Hollywood Reporter I was gonna ask is that the way you have to go now in music You have to go to Glee You have to go to American Idol Well I think the point I was trying to so eloquently make when I talked about it was that I think it's important that bands don't feel pressured to to do that sort of big business thing you know like we all grew up in garages and garage bands and fan tours and you know whenever anybody asked me musical advice I say you know what just be good at what you do and don't expect.