Jewpanese99

Wow. This is truly amazing. This is better than any interview. This is up front and personal. Thank you Axl. I look forward to reading more of your posts.

However, Rashad took care of Liddell quite nicely earlier this year (I know Chuck is on his way out).

He did, although if you rewatch the video - look where Chuck's right fist lands, just around the shoulder of Rashad. Had he hit him properly, mere milliseconds before - we'd be seeing Liddell-Forrest. He's still got it, he's just aging slowly.

I hope Forrest DESTROYS Rashad.

I'm also glad Razak Al-Hasan got his arm broken - dislike him! Teaches him a lesson!

Chuck is cool. I wish I could do half the things that guy can do when I'm pushing 40.

Razak Al-Hassan is crazy! I can't believe that guy didn't tap!!

Who do you think is going to win the Forrest vs Rashad fight? I'm thinking Forrest.

I like Forrest a lot. He has proven that the Ultimate Fighter is not just a reality TV Show. It really is like talent scouting. He's great for the UFC. However, Rashad took care of Liddell quite nicely earlier this year (I know Chuck is on his way out). It's a tough call, I'm leaning toward Forrest as well but I might change my mind closer to fight night. How do you think Forrest will win?

My thoughts are that Dana has had a major fuck up in allowing that little bitch Junie get away with so much, if he had been in previous houses he would have got fucked up.

"This is the UFC. We don't vote them off, we beat them off." That was hilarious! It was so nice to see Junie tap though. That guy is a waste.

Any thoughts on Nogueira Vs Mir at UFC 92? I like Mir but I think Nogueira will take it.

Nog will beat Mir and then beat Lesnar to be undisputed champ.

I think that is how it will play out too. Brock has amazing strength but I don't think his ground game is quite there as witnessed when he lost to Mir.

My thoughts are that Dana has had a major fuck up in allowing that little bitch Junie get away with so much, if he had been in previous houses he would have got fucked up.

"This is the UFC. We don't vote them off, we beat them off." That was hilarious! It was so nice to see Junie tap though. That guy is a waste.

Any thoughts on Nogueira Vs Mir at UFC 92? I like Mir but I think Nogueira will take it.

Phil is awesome. You are right, he is under appreciated but NOT the best front man ever imo.

I have seen commercials for the album pop up on TV.

I was watching The Trailer Park Boys and saw the commercial.

It's nothing over the top all it is the screen is black u see the words

"The Wait is Over"

fallowed by the new GNR logo and then underneath that u see Chinese Democracy available everywhere November 23rd

All this is going on during the intro of the title track

I haven't watched TPB in a few years. I should start watching again.

On Topic: Looks like CD is coming out November 22 in Bulgaria.

This is the reason why the album has taken so long, you have other albums like this coming out and its like why bother, cuz they will steal all your sales, for example though the years you have had albums by Allen Iverson, Ron Artest, Shaq, Mystical, LFO, New Radicals, Clay Aiken.

You just can't compete with that

You forgot about William Hung!

Off topic: Good luck in the World Series... If they ever start it up again!

Holy Shit I can't believe this is real! You guys are fucking awesome! There is no denying those screenshots. I can't wait!!

Those who attend concerts are being ripped off. They pay to see and hear Guns N' Roses music and they get a setlist of mostly songs played by a group of guys who didn't even write them and who sound nothing like the songs should sound. Personally I wouldn't pay to go see Axl's so-called "Guns N' Roses" concert.

I attended a GN'R concert this year and I feel far from being ripped off. I saw GN'R when the guys who did write the songs were playing them too and I have to say this time was just as good if not dare I say better. These guys sound awesome live and you're missing out if you don't go see it for yourself.

one in a million never played live??? they played it twice (both times in NYC)..cbgbs 1987 and 1988 at the limelight...................ANd Helmet being 4 twentysomethings??? Helmet toured with Faith No More 15 years ago..Helmet are in their late 30s or 40s

Lead singer Page Hamilton is the only remaining original member of Helmet. The new guys are younger but this guy's review is still wrong on so many other levels it's not even funny.

It's been a little slow at work so my superviser told me on Monday that I could take Tuesday off because he knew I was going to the concert. Pretty sweet deal I thought.

I hate how they say that axl made the fans wait he came on just a couple minutes after they finshed setting everything up.

I know what you mean. I also think the Sebastian thing was blown out of proportion too. I only saw one guy get the boot not two girls.

http://www.whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?o...ew&id=12519

Jungle Revisited: Marathon GN'R gig rocks MTS Centre 'til wee hours

December 5th, 2006

For Guns N’ Roses fans Winnipeg was Paradise City Monday night.

Well, make that Tuesday morning.

The band are notorious for starting their shows late and took to the MTS Centre stage at midnight following a short (in Axl Rose’s world) break of only 45 minutes after opener Sebastian Bach finished.

Why Rose chooses to make his fans wait is a mystery, but the best guesses are to build anticipation for his travelling circus or so people can get enough of a beer buzz going to truly enjoy the group’s trademark brand of blooze-based hard rock.

Either way, when Rose came on he and his excellent seven-member band — three guitarists, a bassist, two percussionists and a keyboardist — were on top of their rock ’n’ roll game, much to the delight of the diverse crowd of 11,000 fans who filled the arena for a night of nostalgia.

For some it was a chance to relive the glory days of the late 1980s and early 1990s before the grunge movement killed the sleazy excessiveness Guns N’ Roses practiced — although there were many there who looked like they weren’t even born when GN’R were ticking off their fans the first time around.

For others it was a matter of pure curiosity: Would the erratic Rose even show up (if he didn’t, MTS Centre staff had a contingency plan in place and the police presence was extremely high in and around the arena to prevent hooliganism), and if he did would he be a moody self-centred jerk or the embodiment of what a great frontman should be.

Fortunately it was the later.

The group kicked off the two-hour-and-20-minute show with the familiar guitar intro to Welcome to the Jungle before an explosion of pyro announced Rose’s arrival centre stage wearing jeans, a black buttoned-up shirt and sunglasses with his long hair braided into unsightly looking corn rows.

His distinctive nasally whine sounded as strong as always on It’s So Easy and Mr. Brownstone, two more favourites from 1987’s Appetite for Destruction that opened the show. Rose looked and sounded good, but the years have taken their toll on the 44-year-old in other ways — he relied on a teleprompter situated on a stage extension to help him with lyrics.

Rose seemed genuine when speaking to the crowd. He talked about how he was looking forward to the Canadian dates and explained why he and the band still enjoy playing the same material nightly, even if much of it dates back 20 years.

“It doesn’t mean we’re not into it. It’s like doing the tango or Bossa Nova, but here you’re dancing with guitars,” he said.

Speaking of dancing, Rose’s two basic moves are still that weird serpentine slither and a series of herky-jerky bounce steps. I hereby nominate Rose for some crash course lessons on Dancing With the Stars.

The set list was a trip through some of the group’s greatest moments with Live and Let Die, Sweet Child O’ Mine, Out Ta Get Me, November Rain, My Michelle, Patience, Nightrain and, of course Paradise City, all revisited and given extra muscle by the sheer number of musicians on stage. It was great to see former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson and Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck up there, but the night would have been more special with guys named Slash, Izzy and Duff backing Rose.

Instead, there was a crowd-pleasing appearance by Trailer Park Boys star Bubbles who joined Rose and Bach for the country-tinged Liquor and Whores and another GN’R classic, Used to Love Her.

Rose and his crew previewed a number of new songs from the long-awaited Chinese Democracy album: Better was a straight-up blast of guitar rock that sounded like it was written during the band’s heyday, The Blues was a blustery piano-based power ballad, and the title track was a lengthy, mid-tempo, symphonic rocker that lacked a discernible hook.

Whether the album will add to the band’s legacy remains to be seen, but the songs fit in perfectly during the GN’R v. 2006 concert.

Four hours before the headliners took the stage, the tattooed and pierced Suicide Girls burlesque troupe stripped down to their thongs and pasties while recreating the famous ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs, danced in flaming hula hoops, poured chocolate sauce on each other and threw peanuts to the audience while playing the parts of sexy airline stewardesses.

Next up were 1990s alt-metal stalwarts Helmet, who were added to the bill after the Eagles of Death Metal were dropped/quit (depending on whose version of the story you believe) from the tour after one show.

Helmet find themselves in the same situation as GN’R: a band with only one original remaining member. In this case, Page Hamilton led his quartet of unknowns through 40 minutes of edgy noise rock and gritty alterna-metal climaxing with the title track of their/his career highlight, Meantime.

Gilmore Girls star Bach followed with a frantic set of songs from his days as leader of Skid Row . The thrashy Slave to the Grind, trashy Here I Am and sappy power ballads 18 and Life and I Remember You were mixed in with some new generic hard rock solo material.

The long-haired vocalist/actor was a manic whirlwind of energy, running all over the stage and banging his long hair in front of his four-piece band while screaming out two decades of lyrics and getting the crowd to sing along during an impromptu version of the Canadian national anthem, with an incorrect line thrown in for good measure despite his repeated reminders he was Canadian. He even waxed patriotic by dedicating the song Canadian Metalhead to the troops who died overseas, “for our right to rock and roll.”

The good-time party vibe turned slightly ugly near the end of his one-hour set when Bach got two girls thrown out for being antagonistic during one of his many between song rants. Seems he can give it, but can’t take it.

rob.williams@freepress.mb.ca

Guns N’ Roses

MTS Centre

Dec. 4, 2006

Attendance: 11,000

Based on what I saw last night in Winnipeg... fuck yeah! I would see them again tomorrow if I could.

I was at this show and I don't think she is biased at all. That show kicked fucking ass!! My only complaint is that they didn't play I.R.S. or Rocket Queen but we did get Down on The Farm and Used to Love Her (With Baz and Bubbles). Great show. Axl sounded awesome...time for sleep.

I posted this topic earlier this morning in the concerts section for the Dec. 04 show in Winnipeg. I didn't think it would get this much reaction. I just thought it would be cool to let everyone going to the Winnipeg show know that the buses would be running later to accomodate the show. I guess Bandita was right.... it was a slow news day.

A pissed off mother, wow thats NEWS-WORTHY.

I hate parents that are so fucking protective of their kids like that, chances are the kid has already watched plenty of porn, and the suicide girls aren't any worse than what you can see on cable TV.

No kidding. I was 15 years old the first time I saw GN'R and they had topless girls come out and serve them drinks during an acoustic set. It's no big deal.

Burlesque show isn't paradise for city mother

Sun Dec 3 2006

By Jason Bell

SHE won't take her kid down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the girls are topless.

One Winnipeg mom has decided against letting her 14-year-old son attend Monday night's Guns N' Roses concert at MTS Centre after learning a burlesque act has been added to the show.

Suicide Girls, an assortment of pierced and tattooed, semi-nude punk-rockers, will open for Axl Rose and his band, who close out most concerts with the perennial party-anthem Paradise City.

Corina, who didn't want her last name used, figures the downtown arena will be more like Sin City when the Suicide Girls hit the stage.

"It's soft porn," she said. "When I bought tickets to a rock concert for my son, I didn't expect there to be naked women. He and his friend aren't going.

"I think other parents need to be aware so they can make a choice."

The Suicide Girls combine music, choreographed dance and skits -- but it's basically a strip show.

A video on the troupe's website clearly shows there is nudity involved. They aren't dubbed the Most Dangerous Burlesque Tour in the World for nothing.

Corina isn't at all happy.

"When I bought the tickets for $180, they didn't mention an opening act," she said. "I don't see how minors can be allowed to go to this."

The music critic for the Des Moines Register online newspaper wrote this of the Guns N' Roses opening act (only added to the show in mid-November) following Friday's show in the Iowa capitol: "... five Goth strippers from the Suicide Girls burlesque troupe who twirled a flaming hula hoop and slathered each others' bare chests in chocolate sauce."

MTS Centre officials are well aware of the tour's notoriety.

"There will be some nudity," said Scott Brown, director of corporate communications.

But a decision was made not to send out an advisory warning to audience members, he said. "What will be seen at this concert has been seen before. Motley Crue had some aspects of nudity, and we received no complaints," Brown said.

Suicide Girls and former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach are among several acts expected to open for Guns N' Roses.

Actually, suggesting Guns N' Roses performs Monday night could be wishful thinking.

Tuesday morning might be more likely.

On Friday night, Axl and the boys didn't take the stage in Des Moines until 12:30 a.m., and the show didn't conclude until 2:45 a.m.

But Corina said the scantily clad women, not the expected lateness of the concert, was the clincher.

MTS Centre officials announced last week that since the band usually takes the stage around midnight and plays for a couple of hours, extra Transit buses are being brought in to make late runs.

Buses for most major routes will leave the arena when the show is over, while walkways to some parkades will also stay open later.

jason.bell@freepress.mb.ca

Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscribe...p-4395769c.html

There's even a video released by Eagles of Death Metal about this affair : http://www.ifilm.com/video/2802098

Jesse Hughes is a complete dickhead. After watching that video how can anyone take this guy seriously?

Are you supposed to take Artist/ Celebrities seriously?

Just because Tom Cruise is an "it" thing for Scientology you are going to supposed join that "Religion"?

If you cant tell by this point. I dont know what to say.

Its like saying "I take Marilyn Manson seriously". What the hell! The guy does it for the media, so does every other Artist who likes face time.

I was referring to what he's claiming about what happened at the concert. I don't believe what he's saying or take what he's saying seriously. If Tommy threw his bass at Axl and Axl threw it back and Tommy left for 4 songs people whould have noticed and it would have been reported.

There's even a video released by Eagles of Death Metal about this affair : http://www.ifilm.com/video/2802098

Jesse Hughes is a complete dickhead. After watching that video how can anyone take this guy seriously?

Why heven't we read any reviews that mention this bass throwing incident? Maybe because he's full of shit.

Great news! This will be the best opener so far. I just hope Axl is healthy and ready to go. I'll be going to the concert on Monday.

Axl Rose is the greatest front man in the history of the world.

Baz (or any other lead singer) joining GN'R is the worst idea in the history of the world.

Sorry dude. I like your enthusiasm but this idea sucks.

Question is:

Did Michael J. Fox get a copy of Chinese Democracy and will he be willing to leak it?

..hmmm

Well he is kinda featured on it....if Madagascar is on CD (which I believe it will) and the audio clips are left intact.

DJ on 93rock says some people have gone to customer service to get their money back because GNR just took the stage about a half an hour ago. What do these people expect. If you're going to a guns show you gotta know it's gonna be late.