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You can be damn sure the NFL is looking into the possibility. Not many acts left with the broad appeal of classic GNR.

Recent years have had U2, The Stones, Prince, Tom Petty, Springsteen. Unless they delve back into pageants or hit-of-the-day artists, I could see it happening.

Getting laid to AFD when it first hit the scene. Amazing what that back beat can do for you ...you ought to try it people...

Seeing Axl in LA in 86 looking like a chick during th glam look era . My guitarist pointing him out and telling me "Thats Axl from Guns and Roses and hes going to be a star."

Reading an article in Hit Parader Rising Stars write up about the next big band ...GNR and remembering Axl when I was in LA

Being the first in Laramie to have AFD and then to give my friends a listen to AFD at a party at my house when it first came out in Laramie Wyoming. 87

SCOM ..hearing it in the desert outsideof Tucson Arizona durning a thunderstorm and rain from HELL and instantly making up my mind to come home to Wyoming to the love of my life because she had "eyes of blueest sky and if they thought of rain..i'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain." One of the greatest adventures of my life ... 5 days on the road home to her..with AFD as the soundtrack of my life. Junkies on a greyhound bus,,nights in waiting to make a connection in a New Mexico bus station with only a dog and and old man to talk to, rapping with some black fellas to Walk this Way" and dreaming of surprising my blue eyed girl in just a few days time NO sleep...that was summer of 88 on the way home to her. "Her hair reminds of a warm safe place where as a child I'd hide and pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by...True in 88 and true today.. and I still sing it to her and she still crys.

Guns and Roses in Denver 91

Civil War.. damn song said everything about politics i still feel about today

Moline Ill 02... when the dream continued...

And I actually mean this honestly: Cool story bro.

I'd like them, but I'd also buy the music if it were released later as well. I think many here would.

GNR just endures. Their very best songs are about yearning for something... a person, place, time, etc. Something everyone can relate to.

Top-notch musicianship all around.

GNR was authentic. They really did lead the type of lives you heard about.

They hit that magical combination of the right people, in the right era. What they created will last and be popular forever. Could they recapture it? Possibly, but it doesn't really matter anyway.

CD is actually a damn good opener. The intro works really well in a live setting. Song falls a bit flat for me after about the opening minute though. I like that they used it this tour.

However, WTTJ is the best opening song of all time, and one of the best songs ever, period.

anybody else think dj is a poser?

I was quite young during their hayday. I knew the name and a few of the songs but being just a young kid, 6 or 7, it didn't really resonate.

I kind of discovered them on my own a few years later when I was a teen and you start figuring out what you like in music. In fact, I was sitting in the garage and heard the November Rain outro and I remember it stopped me dead in my tracks.

I was pretty much hooked from then on. I kept thinking "How come no one sounds like THIS anymore?"

It's one of my favorite Guns performances ever. Not a rock song, but its absolutely beautiful.

Pretty much a push between '06 and '10. I'd give the edge to today, because somehow he just looks and sounds RIGHT.

In '06 he was still great but visually and vocally he was quite different than in the past - it worked but it was somewhat jarring. Everything is just clicking now.

Really, if you haven't seen this band in 2010, make it happen. It's unreal.

Only caught them here in Canada, but they were phenomenal.

It made it doubly exciting because it was only a month after the band came out of the woods a year after CD.

Depends how you look at it.

Axl has never released a bad record.

Much of what you hear on CD is from that era, and its unlikely that's all we'll hear...

And to see him live, he is as strong as ever.

Crazy Gary Oldman in Since I Don't Have You

A free album download with a ticket purchase is becoming fairly common. Tom Petty is doing it on his current tour. It's just a value-added thing for the fan.

New music would be cool, but you can never expect that from this band.

Axl Rose

Izzy Stradlin

Slash

Duff

Brain

Teddy Zigzag

I was at the local hole in the wall 2 - 3 years ago. While listening to to a david bowie tune on the music box, me and some of my friends started talking about music issues.

Well, I started something about GNR and this guy comes over to our table and stats talking about how he saw GNR in the 90's .

then he said the new music "fucking sucks". I said no. it doesnt. That a band that can do their own thing and go in diffrent ways of music is more then a man that wears a big hat.

he told me I was gay and I pushed him in to the wall. the barmaid called the cops but I didn't care. I defended a band that i love. I would do so again if I could.

anyone have anything to share?

Sounds like you're both a pair of fucking idiots to me.

Telsa needs to get on a boat with the rest of the washed up 80's bands and sail far, far away.

Some people would say that about Guns. Show a little respect. Telsa was a solid band.

It will always be the elephant in the room, as long as the original members are alive. There's no avoiding it.

It all stems from the world's enormous desire to see that incarnation again. I can't think of another divorced band out there that still has such public demand. Zeppelin, and thats a maybe.

I think both the band and the fans on this forum seriously underestimate the desire and the love the fans would have for some U.S. dates.

1. Bad Apples

2. Think About You

3. Anything Goes

4. Buick Makane

5. 14 Years

6. Cornshucker

7. Dead Horse

8. Ain't It Fun

9. Attitude

10. Look At Your Game Girl

Saw his name in some twitter updates and I just about shit. This is the coolest. I fuckin love Duff.

Awesome story. I saw two Nazareth shows this summer. McCafferty has got to be well into his 60s, but his voice is still otherworldly. Seeing them live really gives you an idea of how much Axl was influenced by him.

Solid single with a good chorus would be all it would take. More than doable for this band but you have to question if the effort is there.

Love Tom Petty. I've always wondered what he thought of that performance though, Axl completely owned it really.

I want one new song.

One new song, recorded with this lineup. A straight-up rocker, with a bluesy DJ riff and singable chorus.

Release it as a single, take over rock-radio airplay.

The rest will take care of itself. Perhaps announce it as a piece of a future album. Axl won't have to do a ton of interviews, talk shows, etc.

One solid song, with the type of sound that is instantly indentifiable as GNR.

Easier said than done, but they have the talent to make it happen in two weeks.

Pretty much settles it right there.