At least for now or until Axl flakes out again. Headlining Coachella and as many as 25 stadium shows.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...dium-las-vegas
At least for now or until Axl flakes out again. Headlining Coachella and as many as 25 stadium shows.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...dium-las-vegas
Axl is still too out of shape to hit the high notes, and to see full lines of lyrics. Vince Neil has that issue as well.
While I love GnR, I wouldnt pay more than $50 for a full reunion. I cant see stadiums selling out for this, unless they had multiple opening acts.
Maybe they will be at Lolla. That would be the only day I would go.
No doubt that Axl's voice isn't the same but the mystique of GNR can sell out arenas. Who's to say that hell doesn't completely freeze over and Vinnie Paul makes up with Phil Anselmo for Pantera to join the show.
I'll believe it when Slash says its so.
Also, without Dime, there is no Pantera, but Vinny Paul knows that, I think.
.Sux that Rose is such a cunt, they are/were a great band, he must be broke...
Axl has allegedly already blown off the Jimmy Kimmel appearance and wont go.
Saw these guys in 93 in the Boston Garden, St Patrick's Day. Many clear memories still, we got the whole GnR deal. (Brian May Band opened, who were kinda LOL even tho Brian May is God.) They started late, Axl threw a tantrum 3 songs in and they walked off stage, crowd loudly protests for what seems like forever, they eventually come back out and play for probably 2 hours more at least. Had good seats, a couple rows up on the Gilby/Duff side of teh stage, back when you could find a solid ticketmaster outlet and camp out for the best seats, and pretty much get them every time if you were willing to give up a few hours. Snowing like a motherfucker by the time the concert was over.
Hell, I still remember the day the Illusions came out, we went to Strawberries Records and Tapes, and popped in Illusion I in kunt's car on the ride home, turned up loud. Its not one of their great song by any stretch, but it works as the first track and was fuckin killer to hear, pretty much a guarantee that these two dozen plus songs were gonna fucking kick some ass.
Also, Gilby Clarke is still God.
edit: still have the stub. date says 16th, but was pushed back to the 17th.
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My Guns and Roses story
<Gallo has had to endure this like 2-3 times...lo ciento>
Back in 87, I wanted to see Alice Cooper with Megadeth. First concert. Was awesome. A few months later, a guy I went with said, "Hey Alice is coming back to UIC this winter". I said cool...who is opening? He said, "I dont know..some new band...guns and flowers or something like that." OK Cool. So we get 4 tickets.
Fast forward to the show. We got 4 tickets in the back center balcony, looking straight at the stage. We get settled in and grab some food and head to our seats. All of a sudden, a few minutes later, the lights go down, and Guns and Roses come out. They just go balls to the wall right from the start. My 3 friends and I are looking at each other like, Damn! These guys kick ass! About 4 songs in, two guys show up and sit in front of us. They were both about 6 ft 2, and maybe 160 lbs. Tall string beans, wearing dark denim jean coat with the light denim jeans look, with patches all over the coats (I remember Zoetrope was one of the bands, along with Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin). The dude in front of me, about a minute later, turns around and asks me, "DUDE!....Did they play JUNGLE yet?" I have absolutely no clue what he is talking about, but I didnt want to look like some nerdy 16 yr old poseur, so I said, "Oh man, I dont know, we just got here". Im then looking over at my buddies and going "What's Jungle?". No one else knew.
The two stoners then reach into their pockets and pull out a massive ceramic bowl and start packing it. The opening of that bowl was like an inch in diameter. That thing was huge. They packed what looked like $20 worth of weed into it and started smoking it. We were getting a contact high just sitting behind them.
Im sitting there with two guys from my soccer team and a black guy I played hockey with. Its a metal show in 87, so my black friend, "Nappy" as we called him, due to his 6 inch nappy 'fro, kind of sticks out in a metal crowd. He was sitting to my left and he and I are rocking out and talking a bit, when a few songs later, in between songs, we hear Axl yell out, "You know where you are!!!???, and then half the crowd goes nuts, and you hear the opening guitar riffs from Slash. "ZUH-Nuh-nuh-Nuh-nuh-nuh..."
The tall, stoner in front of me, throws his hands up in the air and yells out, "FUCK YEAH!!!!". Well, he also had his bowl in his left hand at the time, and when he threw it up in the air, all of the lit weed went flying backwards and right into Nappy's hair.
You have to realize that there are a grand total of TWO BLACK GUYS in an arena that has maybe 10,000 people in it. There is one black dude we saw by the front left side of the stage area, and the black guy next to me, and the weed is falling between his pieces of hair and dropping down into the area by his scalp, and here are 3 white guys beating the head of a black guy, trying to get the embers out. Every time we smack him, and keep in mind, he is yelling and screaming and trying to smack his head, we are all beating on his head as well. Everyone around us had to be like, "Damn...they're beating that n-word's ass!"
It took around 20 seconds for us to try to mash out the embers, and his head was smoking. He eventually had to pour some liquid we got from someone, on his head to cool it down.
You guys suck. I never got to see them live and they are my favorite band (slightly behind Johnny Cash as favorite music). In 1991 they played a show at the race course in Birmingham when I was in 9th grade and started a riot which ostensibly got then banned from the state. Then they broke up before I got to college and started going to shows.
He was fast as hell. He actually played Junior Hockey, and his 15 seconds of fame came when he took out the best player on the other team, who was some young stud. The guy was skating around behind the goal, with his head down, and Nappy skated at him, and leveled him into the boards, giving him a concussion.
That young stud was Eric Lindross.
12.18.87 - UIC Pavilion, University Of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL
opening for: Alice Cooper
set: It's So Easy, Out Ta Get Me, Mr. Brownstone, Sweet Child O' Mine, My Michelle, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Welcome To The Jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City
If Im sober, and if I didnt have to print up those damn paper tickets, I try to hang onto every stub/wristband I get. I lost about 50 of the stubs about 20 years ago, due to some skank stealing them from me.
no.
I have seen well over 1300 bands at this point. I started to lose count. Here is what I remember seeing and the times I saw them, but Im probably missing 100 small bands.
1. Megadeth (2)
2. Alice Cooper (6)
3. Grateful Dead (52)
4. Guns N Roses (2)
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers (4)
6. Pearl Jam (5)
7. Smashing Pumpkins (3)
8. G.W.A.R (2)
9. Iron Maiden (4)
10. Motley Crue (2)
11. Bob Dylan
12. Indigo Girls
13. Neville Brothers (6)
14. George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers
15. God Street Wine
16. Jane's Addiction (3)
17. Motorhead (3)
18. Tesla
19. John Cougar Melencamp (2)
20. Spin Doctors (4)
21. Blues Traveler (6)
22. Robert Plant
23. Anthrax (3)
24. Foreigner
25. Widespread Panic (27)
26. Allman Brothers (9)
27. Funky Meters (3)
28. Freddy Jones Band (2)
29. Replacements
30. The Dead Milkmen (2)
31. Nitzer Ebb
32. Front 242
33. Tony Bennett (2)
34. Charlie Daniels Band
35. Kenny Chesney (2)
36. Phish (42)
37. Lotus (6)
38. String Cheese Incident (8)
39. Phil Lesh and Friends (4)
40. Rat Dog (22)
41. Billy Idol (2)
42. Porno for Pyros
43. Digable Planets
44. Steve Miller Band (5)
45. Los Lobos (4)
46. Son Volt
47. Weezer (2)
48. Dave Matthews Band (5)
49. Jackie Greene
50. The Dead (5)
Bonus: Anyone else I can seem to remember
7 Walkers
Against Me!
Alabama Shakes (2)
Aquarium Rescue Unit
Arc Angels
Arctic Monkeys
Alesso
Alice in Chains
Arcade Fire
Arrested Development
A$AP Rocky
Atreyu
Band of Horses
Bassnectar (6)
Beausoleil
Bela Fleck
Ben Kweller
Ben Harper
Ben Harper and Restless 7
Benny Benassi
Best Coast
Better Than Ezra
Big Head Todd and the Monsters (4)
Big Gigantic
Bob Mould
BoDeans (3)
Bonham
Bootsy Collins Rubber Band
Boys Noize
Bruce Hornsby (2)
Buckethead
Buddy Guy
Busted on Bourbon Street
Cake (4)
Cathy Richardson (3)
Charlatains UK
Cheap Trick (2)
Chickenfoot
Chromeo (2)
Cinderella
CJ Chernier
Coheed and Cambria (2)
Cold War Kids
Cracker (4)
Dark Star Orchestra (2)
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Dead Confederate
Deadmau5 (3)
De La Soul
Del Amitri
Depeche Mode
Derek Trucks Band (3)
Desaparecidos
Devon Allman's Honeytribe (2)
Die Antwoord (3)
Dinosaur Jr. (2)
Diplo (2)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band (4)
Disco Biscuits
Dot Dot Dot (OK, its a friends band, but they will be huge...) (5)
Dr. John
Dread Zeppelin (2)
Echo and the Bunnymen (2)
Eddie Money
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (3)
Eric Clapton
Faith No More (2)
Fishbone (2)
Fleet Foxes
Flogging Molly (2)
Forgotten Space
Frightened Rabbit
FURTHUR (15)
Future Rock (2)
Galactic (3)
G-Eazy
G. Love and Special Sauce (4)
Glitch Mob
Gorillaz
Gossip
Gov't Mule (12)
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (3)
Green Day (3)
GRiZ (2)
Guitar Shorty
Hercules and Love Affair
Here Come The Mummies
Hot Chip
Ice Cube (2)
Iggy Pop
Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk (2)
Jason Mraz
Jay Z
Jeff Tweedy
Jerry Garcia Band (3)
Jesus and Mary Chain
Joe Ely
John Kadilcek (2)
John Kadilcek and Friends
John Mellencamp
John Popper and the Duskray Troubadours
Judas Priest
Kaiser Chiefs
Kaskade
Keller Williams (3)
KiD CuDi
Kill Hannah
Kings of Leon
LA Riots
LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin 2
Leftover Salmon (4)
Lenny Kravitz
Les Claypool
Living Color
Lonnie Brooks (4)
Lou Gramm
Lyle Lovett
Matthew Sweet
Material Issue (2)
Merle Haggard
Metallica
MGMT
Mickey Hart Band
Mighty Blue Kings (2)
Ministry (2)
moe. (3)
moe. w/ Bruce Hornsby
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
Moon Alice
Morphine (2)
Mr. Big
MSTRKRFT (2)
Neil Young
Night Terrors of 1927
Nine Inch Nails (2)
No Doubt
Nora Jones
North Mississippi All Stars
N.W.A.
Of Montreal
OK Go
Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Particle
Patty Smyth
Paul McCartney
Pavement
Pennywise
Perry Ferrell
Phoenix
Pink Floyd (2)
Plastikman
Pretty Lights (4)
Primus (3)
Radiators (5)
Railroad Earth
Ratt (2)
Rebirth Brass Band (3)
Red Red Meat
Robert Plant and the Band of Joy
Roger McGuinn
Rolling Stones (2)
Rush (4)
Rusted Root (4)
ScoMule
Shakey Graves
She and Him
Simian Moblle Disco DJ
Sister Hazel
Sly Stone
Snoop Dogg (2)
Snow Patrol
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (7)
Stephen Marley
Sting
System of a Down
Tame Impala
Tea Leaf Green (2)
That1Guy (2)
The Answering Machine
The Black Crowes (4)
The Bloody Beetroots
The Bravery
The Bridge
The Decemberists
The Hold Steady (2)
The Hood Internet
The Jayhawks
The Joy Formidable
The Other Ones (7)
The Raveonettes
The Smithereens (2)
The Specials
The The
The Thurston Moore Band
The Wailers
The War On Drugs
Them Crooked Vultures
These United States
Tiesto
Toad the Wet Sprocket (3)
TOOL
Traffic (2)
Trey Anastasio
Trombone Shorty (4)
Twenty One Pilots
U2 (3)
Umphrey's McGee (7)
Uncle Tupelo
Urge Overkill (2)
Vampire Weekend (2)
Van Halen
Velvet Revolver
Violent Femmes
Walter Wolfman Washington (2)
Warrant
Warren Haynes (4)
Ween
Wilco (2)
Willie Nelson
Wolfgang Gartner
Yonder Mountain String Band (2)
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Mike Gordon
Easy Star All-Stars
Beats Antique (2)
My Morning Jacket
Slightly Stoopid
Big Gigantic
Foo Fighters (4)
Truth and Salvage Co.
Michael Franti (3)
Matisyahu
Drive by Truckers
Amos Lee
Girl Talk (2)
Galactic
Paul Simon
Steel Panther (5)
Skrillex (4)
Boombox (2)
The Motet (6)
Imagine
Yelawolf
Jack White
Paul Oakenfold
Chris Cornell
Dawes
Alabama Shakes (3)
Gogol Bordello (3)
Dispatch
Young the Giant
Cage the Elephant
Damien Marley and Nas
The Cars
MiMosa
Big Boi
Ghostland Observatory
Barenaked Ladies
Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Dr. Dog
Zedd's Dead
Zedd (2)
Skream and Benga
Black Sabbath
Big Gigantic
Preservation Hall Brass Band
Perpetual Groove
Porter Robinson
Passion Pit
Journey
Survivor
Charlie Daniels Band
38 Special
The Smithereens (2)
Kill The Noise
Two Door Cinema Club
Dog Blood
2 Chainz
The Cure (2)
Knife Party
Tedeschi Trucks band (2)
Col. Bruce Hampton (2)
Widespread Panic w/ John Fogerty
Trey Anastasio Band (4)
The London Souls (2)
Jimmy Cliff
Soul Rebels
Jorma Kaukonen
Terrapin Family Band
Zac Brown Incident
Childish Gambino
Naked Raygun (2)
Social Distortion (2)
Dropkick Murphys (2)
so after that third spin doctors show, you were like nope not done i absolutely need more of this
Fuck yeah I was. Those guys kick ass. Chris Baron had an issue with his throat a long time ago, and for like 9-10 years, he couldnt sing. He finally got his voice back and I saw him out on a floating bar/island here in the far NW burbs in 2009. Awesome. Then, they played a local fest about 20 min from here a few years back.
Back in the late 80's, I went out to NYC to catch some Grateful Dead shows. We ended up going to the Wetlands (famous NYC concert venue/bar). We didnt really know who the Spin Doctors were, and walked into the bar by chance. They turned out to be the band that was playing, and they were really good. After about 45 minutes, a member of the band would stop playing, unplug, and walk off stage, and a different musician would plug in and play. After about 20 minutes, Chris finally walked off, and this big fat dude walks out and starts jamming on harmonica. Spin Doctors slowly left the stage and Blues Traveler slowly took their place.
It turns out, those two bands have been tight with each other for like 30 years. Chris and John Popper went to HS together.
That was a kick ass show.
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