LISTENING PARTY WOES: GUNS N' ROSES KICK OUT TALENT SCOUT WHO DISCOVERED THEM AND MADE HIM LISTEN FROM THE SIDEWALK!

The talent scout who discovered GUNS N' ROSES was kicked out of a recent Hollywood listening event for the band's new album CHINESE DEMOCRACY. Tom Zutaut was the man responsible for signing Guns N' Roses to Geffen Records back in the 1980s, marking the start of a hugely successful career for the rock band.

But relations between Zutaut and Roses frontman Axl Rose have become frayed in recent times - culminating in the former music executive being shown the door by security guards at a listening party held at the Roxy Theater in West Hollywood earlier this month (18Nov08). Zutaut revealed all about the incident to website Blabbermouth.net - but insists he is not bitter towards Rose and is a fan of the new record, which took 15 years and cost $15 million to produce.

He says, "Yeah, sadly it is true that I was escorted out of the Roxy by a beefy security guy just prior to the last three songs of the playback. I did stand on the sidewalk and hear the last three anyway. "I believe that love and hate are a complicated thing but ultimately the same thing. I love Axl and think Chinese Democracy is a genius body of music. "It is sad and disappointing to me that those around Axl would lie to him to fuel his hatred towards me with imaginary events used to drive a wedge between us."

Axl? I don't believe ya! You'll get a spanking when you hit Toronto next year.