Three days after being unceremoniously booted as the opening act on the Guns N' Roses US tour, the Eagles of Death Metal seem to be taking it all in stride.

With tongues firmly planted in cheeks late yesterday, the garage rockers issued a statement littered with GNR lyrics in response to Axl Rose's decision to dump the band.

"At first the audience refused to welcome us to the jungle, but by the time we took our final bow, it had become paradise city," the statement read. "Although Axl tried to November rain on our parade, no sweet child o' mine can derail the EODM night train. We say live and let die."

The Eagles were supposed to serve as opening act between regular opener Sebastian Bach and GNR for the next three weeks. But the band's irony-laden garage rock, complete with over-the-top facial hair and humorous preening, didn't seem to go over very well with the Cleveland crowd.

Cleveland Plain Dealer pop critic John Soeder reported that the Eagles of Death Metal took the stage after Bach's set and were met with "not deafening boos, but lots of grumbling and grousing and...indifference."

Soeder also wrote that the while some people were dancing along to the Eagles' good-time, sleazy garage rock, it appeared as if the majority of the audience was not into it and was even a bit confused by the group.

"The audience seemed to be confused [during the Eagles' set] as to who the joke was on," Soeder wrote. "They like their metal unironic. Numerous songs slipped into falsetto, and if you're a purist heavy-metal fan, falsetto isn't good."

"My impression was, and I don't want to belittle the GN'R fans, but they didn't really get the inside-joke quality of the Eagles ... or the facial hair," Soeder told MTV News about the handlebar-mustache look sported by Eagles singer Jesse Hughes.

GNR has yet to announce a replacement for the Eagles of Death Metal, and the band has canceled its concert in Milwaukee tonight because Rose is "suffering from an ear infection and strep throat," according to the band's Web site.