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I'd laugh my ass off if they opened with CD. But it will be that one song as opener on the 1st night. The one everyone knows will be the opener. It will probably be really dark seconds before the show starts and then you hear the immortal words, you know which ones..and the place will go ballistic

It would still be the first Guns N Roses show on the 8th as advertised, if they went on stage on April 1st with a different alias like Metallica went as DEHAAN or Steel Panther as Jam Prancer. We have no idea whos names are in the legal papers for the line up of GNR, so if 3/5 went, or just Slash or just Adler or whatever, it would not be Guns. For it to be considered false advertisement the full GNR line up that is supposed to perform at Vegas would have to be there, and their name would have to be Guns N Roses.

To the Whisky stating GNR is not playing: to fuck with people, on top of liking comments of people who think theres gonna be a "surprise", there is also the possibility they mean "Guns N Roses" is not playing, but if the GNR members came out under a different name like Metallica or Steel Panther did recently, then they didn't lie. Officially, "Guns N Roses" is not playing there, yes.

And I still dont buy the big announcement was a tribute band, that cant be just it, a tribute band. Either the whisky guys are huge scumbags, or this was deliberately planned, along with the post about Adler cancelling and then tagging #GunsNRoses, they KNOW what that looks like to people. This might be the typical "surely they will read between the lines" GNR thing just like back in late last year shortly before the reunion was public

I always found it maddening that the awesome music slash wrote for get in the ring was never played live because of axls lyrics. That'd be funny as hell if they opened with get in the ring lol. Hope they play it live anyways. Also breakdown would be a good closer, it's much like paradise city in a way with the long shredding solos and length

Let me get this straight because there are some pretty big pointers going on here:

Wasn't the info given to someone here that GNR will play an acoustic show? If that's the case then that's a big ass coincidence that this lafon guy wrote "just missing acoustic gnr now". Like why acoustic? Why did he specify that? That's SO RANDOM. Either that's pure coincidence again, or he knows something too.

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This Hollywood roses band didn't list that date for the show on their tourdates, just some may shows. And that comment from that woman in the screenshot is interesting too, the singer and the band didn't post it or mention anything about it? That's very unusual to be honest.

2 minutes ago, gunsfanoldie said:

Also, not to be a cynic, but what the fuck do they have to lose by lying through their teeth to you. I could just as easily work at the Whiskey and say "listen, I'm a huge Guns fan. I get this. Unfortunately, we've heard nothing about the real band coming to play so I hate to disappoint you". And maybe thats true, but thats also exactly what I'd say if they were coming. So one person never believes the box office at the Whiskey again?! Seriously, what do they have to lose by engaging you. Even though I don't think they're playing there lol.

I don't know man. But you gotta remember even Slash  pulled the "No" to people asking if reunion is happening as late as November 2015

Just now, killuridols said:

Bah, it was an April's fool thing indeed

 

It's not April fools day yet mate. You dont do April fools jokes on....any of the other 364 days.

18 minutes ago, gunsguy said:

Right but the option was there to say nothing at all ya know?  They chose to engage so for me I believe them as they responded when they could have said zip

 

What you gotta realise is that they can only say no. They aren't stupid, they KNOW if they say "no comment" that it means yes, cause if GNR werent playing they'd just say straight up no, too.

1 minute ago, Axl_morris said:

you guys are clutching massive straws.

 

it'll be a tribute band. nothing more.

 

Cant see GNR contacting a tribute band to use them as an alias.

 

That's not what I think would be the plan at all. What I think might happen is the tribute band performs a song or two, and then they go like "we're gonna bring out some friends of ours, and then imagine the faces of the people when it's the complete AFD line up taking over the instruments. And then the reactions of the guys who were there because they thought its GNR and left after the first song, and then hear real GNR came out later? I would kill myself if that happened to me haha. With this band, anything can happen. I think they're deliberately fucking with us here, a tribute band is not a "big announcement".

2 minutes ago, vegasjunkie2004 said:

It's them. I've never heard of Hollywood Roses. Damn I wish I lived in LA. If they play under a different name, they can still say Guns N Roses first show was in Vegas. 

They got almost 100k more likes on Facebook than Duff, 420k, so theyre very fucking popular. But ahahaha I'm not sure what to believe now. THis could so be GNR, guys. I mean it can't be coincidence that this show is on April 1st, It just CANT

20 hours ago, ManuARG said:

Is there any other option besides PC to close the show?

I want them to open with PC and close with RQ

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread already, but I found this interview from 2001 where he explains thoroughly why he left in 1991, and those reasons might still apply today why he's not involved. He however said "one gig" would be no problem for him, so I'm sure we will see him atleast ONCE back on stage with the old guys. And it appears Vegas would be the most logical choice for him to be there, (I still think he WILL be there). I was gonna quote the most important bits but I wouldnt recommend to skip any of it as it gives a very good understanding of what Izzy actually is like, and his motives

It’s been a long time since we last did this - 12 years, to be precise - but suddenly here he is, larger than life: Izzy Stradlin. Ex-Guns N’ Roses, ex-drug addict, but still, in his own way, as defiantly maverick as ever: sitting in a hotel room in London, looking tanned and healthy and sipping camomile tea. He has a plugged-in electric guitar balanced on his knees. Is he going to play us a song? Yes, he is. He picks it up and begins strumming. At first I don’t recognise it, then it hits me: Pretty Tied Up, one of his own from Use Your Illusion II. He starts singing: ‘I knew this chick… lived down on Melrose…’ Axl sang it on the album, of course. But that lazy Midwestern drawl belongs entirely to the guy who wrote it, the one with the low-slung ’tood and the cigarette dangling from his gob.

These days, of course, Axl isn’t around to sing it for Izzy. The cigarettes are gone, too: banished to the same dark place as the booze and drugs. He recently celebrated his 39th birthday and yet he looks younger, leaner, than he ever did back in the ba-ba-bad old days. Which throws the memory of our last meeting into even sharper relief. Back then, Izzy was wasted. But, hey, this was LA in 1989. and we all were. He had a cheque for $900,00. in his pocket, he said, but no bank account to put it in. “Give it to me,” I joked. “I’ll take care of it for you.” He staggered to his feet, appeared to actually consider the possibility for a moment, then folded it up and put it back in his pocket.

“Later, man,” he said. And now here we are. Much later… 

BORN JEFF ISABELLE on April 8. 1962. Izzy, as he became known at school, is from Lafayette: the same Indiana backwater as his erstwhile partner in crime, Axl Rose – or just plain Bill Bailey, as he was back then. A small town with a courthouse, a college, a river, and some railroad tracks, Izzy recalls how: “We rode bikes, smoked pot, got into trouble – it was pretty Beavis And Butt-Head, actually.”

His grandmother played drums. She even had a band. “These old ladies who’d play swing and jazz at parties… [and] I’d watch The Partridge Family on TV and think, ‘That looks good, I’ll do that’.”

He first met Axl at Jefferson High school, in the mid-70s. “I remember, the first day at school there was this big fucking commotion. I heard all these books hit the ground, yelling, and then he went running past. A bunch of fucking teachers chasing him down the hallway...” The drummer in a school band, it was Izzy who persuaded the flamehaired youngster to have a go at singing. “I thought, well, here’s a guy who’s completely crazy, he’d be a fucking great singer. We had to coax him a bit [and] it didn’t go so well in the early days. Sometimes he would just come over and stand around, like he was embarrassed. Or he’d start to sing and then he’d just leave. Walk out and I wouldn’t see him again for like three days! “Some things don’t change, huh?” he adds with a rueful smile. 

By the time Izzy left school at 17. (the only Gunner to actually receive a high school diploma) he was ready, he decided, for the big one: Los Angeles. His reasoning: “The weather was better and that’s where everything was.” Hitching down to Hollywood, he first became the drummer in punk band Naughty Women, then The Atoms. But when part of his drum kit was stolen, he sold the rest of it, bought a bass and joined Shire. Then changed his mind and left again to become a guitarist instead. Being the guitarist “seemed cooler” than being drummer and, most crucially, it was “easier to write songs on.” It was 198. and Izzy was living in a small apartment in Huntington Beach, an LA suburb, where he was occasionally joined by his old Indy pal, Axl. “He came out like three times before he stayed. Then, probably at the end of ’82. he came back out with this girl and rented an apartment, and that’s when he finally stayed.” Forming a band together “just seemed the obvious thing to do.” 

As we now know, a combination of coincidences and chance fuck-ups (details of which still depend on who’s telling the story) then resulted in what became, in June 1985. the first permanent line-up of Guns N’ Roses: Axl on vocals, Slash on lead guitar, Izzy on rhythm, displaced Seattle punk Michael ‘Duff’ McKagan on bass and Slash’s old school pal Steven Adler on drums. What happened next is now the stuff of legend. The crackling, diamondhard, expletive-sprayed monster that was Appetite For Destruction, their first album in 198. sold more than 4 million copies and wrote the band its own asterisk-heavy chapter in the rock’n’roll history book. At a time when rock had sold its balls to the butchers – when Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were still considered ‘heavy’ – Guns N’ Roses came along and showed us how it should be done, putting booze and drugs back on the menu at a time when rock’s glitterati were still babbling on inanely about gyms and mineral water. This was rock without the condom on and soon almost everybody was infected. 

“Man, once that shit started happening, it was like, forget it. Just hang on,” Izzy says now with a slow, still incredulous shake of the head. “The rest was just a ride…” The fact that it was another three years before they would pull themselves together long enough to make a follow-up – the double Use Your Illusion I & II sets, in 199. – only added to the mystique. In reality, however, the period between the start of 198. – when the first aborted attempts were made to begin a follow-up – to the end of 199. when basic tracks were finally laid down – was a desperately dark time for Guns N’ Roses. Not least Izzy, who found himself in the grip of heroin addiction. “Oh, yeah. But I was addicted to everything,” he says nonchalantly. “Whatever was going on. I didn't even know I was in trouble until someone pointed it out to me…” 

That someone happened to be Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, whose own exploits in the field of ‘advanced chemistry’ were, at that point, better known even than Izzy’s. They had met when GN’R opened for the Aerosmith on a US tour in the Autumn of 1988. and had stayed in contact ever since. “I remember, we were talking on the phone and I said, ’Steven, I’ve got this hole that goes through the middle of my sinuses. I’ve got like one nostril now’. He goes, ‘Oh, yeah - deviated septum’. He knew all the terminology. I was like, what? Let me write this down. Oh, fuck, yeah! That’s me - wait, hang on…” Pretends to snort another line. 

Izzy had been on the road with the band for over a year between the release of Appetite… and the end of the Aerosmith tour. 1. months of sharing the road with the likes of Mötley Crüe, Faster Pussycat, The Cult, Iron Maiden... The only way he knew how to handle it was to “make sure I was out of my skull for pretty much all of it. We all did…”  Doing drugs was “just normal, something we’d all been into since we were kids. Then we toured with Aerosmith and it was like, thank God we got to meet some people that weren’t fucked up! It influenced me big time. Tyler and those guys, they were always like my rock idols. Growing up in Indiana, I loved fucking Aerosmith, man. Smoke a joint, listen to the first record… “When we toured with them I’d go out to watch and they’d sound fucking amazing! I thought, we’re gonna have to really pull this shit together to keep up. Cos they were tight, you know? And with us, even then, it was like the music was taking a back seat to all the other shit…” 

By the start of 1989. Izzy and the band were off the road at last but now a new reality began to dawn. “We’d stopped hanging out together – me, Duff, Slash, all of us. Isolated in small apartments somewhere. The drugs and drinking and stuff was a big part of the isolation. It was like self-imposed and it became worse. The drugs and all that just got worse…” Through it all, however, he kept up a dialogue with Steven Tyler. “I had a lot of conversations with Steven. Mainly, he would tell me really fucking scary drug stories - shit like locking himself in a bathroom and filling in all the tile cracks with toothpaste. And seeing worms… I thought, ‘Whoah, I’ll never get that bad!’ “Then another half-a-year went by and I found myself driving down the 101 freeway in LA and I’m seeing snow, cos I’ve been up for like days, doing coke. Oh, man… And then that fuckin’ worm thing came up! 

I was staying with this coke dealer, I’d been up for five fucking days, and I was out in his garage, for what reason I’ll never know. And I pulled open this drawer of nuts and screws, and sure enough, man, they were turning into maggots! I thought, I gotta get the fuck out of here…” But if Tyler had been influential in getting Izzy to at least think about getting straight, it was one, now infamous incident, that really forced the issue: when he was arrested on a domestic US flight from LA to Phoenix for urinating in the aisle of the First Class section. “Ah, I was drunk, man. Then waking up in jail… Not cool, man,” he says with an embarrassed grin. Because it happened in ‘federal airspace’, the US authorities were rather less amused. Taking into consideration a prior arrest for marijuana possession, Izzy was put on probation for a year and – irony of ironies – subjected to random urine tests. Now he really had to stop: the law demanded it. “Suddenly, I can’t use drugs anymore or I’m going to jail. Wow…” It was 199. and suddenly the band’s enforced lay-off had an unforeseen positive side. With the time and the motive to clean up his act properly, Izzy went into rehab and began receiving professional counselling. What really made him stop, though, he thinks now, “was I wanted to. Cos I figured, at some point your heart’s just gonna pop, or your mind’s gonna snap, right? Eventually, that shit will kill ya, and it does. It kills people all the time. Once I got maybe like a week of sobriety, like actually going a whole week without a drink, I thought, oh god, if I can just keep this up…” 

The biggest test for the newly sober guitarist was returning to the band. “I’d come in for rehearsals for Use Your Illusion and there’s one of the guys with a big line of coke. ‘Hey, Iz - you want some coke?’ ‘Ah, no thanks, I just got back from my probation officer, you know?’ To get sober is really [tough] but to do it like that, in a situation where everybody’s still using…” Nevertheless, he persisted for almost a year. Recording wasn't so bad - remarkably, basic tracks for both Use Your Illusion albums took less than two weeks, he says. It was going back out on the road that did for him in the end. “The shows were completely erratic. I never knew whether we'd be able to finish the show from day-to-day, cos [Axl] would walk off…”  

 They say that in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king, but for Izzy, returning to the road with Guns N’ Roses, in 1991. was “a nightmare.” Axl’s ‘mood swings’ had become so regular, “I said to Duff and Slash, we gotta learn a cover song or something, for when [Axl] leaves the stage. They were like, ‘Ah, let’s have another beer…’ They didn’t care.” The lowest point was the notorious riot that ensued halfway through a show in St. Louis in 1991. after Axl first dived into the crowd and then refused to continue the show because someone in the audience had taken a picture. Possibly the most unsavoury incident in the band’s crazed, incident-driven career, as Izzy says now: “When something like that happens, you can’t help but think back to Donington [in 1988. when two fans were trampled to death in the rush for the stage at the start of GN’R’s set]. What’s to stop us from having some more people trampled - because the singer doesn't like something? Like, what’s the point? What are we getting at here?” 

Travelling in his own trailer-truck from gig to gig while the others flew - no longer able merely to lose himself in the illusion - Izzy knew it was only a matter of time before he bailed out completely. Steven had already gone - hypocritically bumped out of the band for failing to deal with his own drug problems. Things just weren't the same anymore. “The music had taken a back seat completely, there was nothing new coming from us. We didn't sit around and play acoustic guitars anymore. It was like, oh, time to go on - where’s the singer? The singer walked off? Now what do we do?” “We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified… Drug addictions, personalities, just the craziness that was already there anyway. The nuttiness. It just became… too much. Plus, my friends, these guys… I’m basically watching them kill themselves. Not so much Axl, but Slash and Duff – these guys were on my top ten list of guys that might die this week. And I’m thinking, ‘You know what? I just don't want to be part of it. It didn't feel like it was good.” 

Izzy’s decision to leave Guns N’ Roses was announced officially in November 1991. Looking back at the cuttings, it seems like nobody made much fuss about it. The downsizing of GN’R to the Axl & Slash Show had begun long before that. 

UNLIKE STEVEN ADLER, whose career nose-dived after leaving the band, Izzy’s first impulse was to start up his own band - the Ju Ju Hounds. An album of the same name quickly followed and within a year Izzy was back on tour, only this time it was clubs and theatres (including a warmly-received appearance at London’s Town & Country club). “No more hockey stadiums,” he shudders. A more low-key recording than the inflamed GN’R catalogue he had helped produce, Ju Ju Hounds perfectly mirrored its creator’s new outlook: funky, free-flowing, unworried. Not a bit like the band – or the man – he left behind. “When I got out of Guns N’ Roses, I started riding bikes again. Cos I rode ’em as a kid. And then I stopped for a few years in LA cos I didn't have a bike.” Which was probably just as well, giving his, uh, state of mind then. “Fucking A!” he laughs. “Damn straight, or I probably wouldn't be sitting here now. But I did a lot of things I hadn't done for a long time. I just started…” His hands fiddle with the guitar again as he searches for the right words. “I just started living again…” 

Musically, at first he found it hard not having the rest of the band to bounce off of. “In Guns N’ Roses I’d write a bunch of songs and I’d play them for Axl and he’d go ‘Oh, that sounds like Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak. Or ‘That sounds like Queen!’ He would always pick this shit apart and sometimes it was annoying. But suddenly I’m in this new thing and I don’t have somebody [like that].” On the plus side, unlike Slash, who would eventually have to find a new frontman for his songs, singing was not a problem for Izzy. “It felt pretty natural. Axl was never usually there for rehearsals, so I’d be the guy singing a fucked-up version of Paradise City or whatever. It just became a matter of, ‘Well, now I always have to sing them’.” Had he been tempted to get a frontman, though? He nearly chokes on his camomile. “No. By that point, I said I’d rather sit around and play acoustic guitar in my bedroom than try that.” 

Nevertheless, Izzy did return briefly to the Gunners, in 1993. after Gilby Clarke, his short-lived replacement, busted his hand in a dirt bike accident. For the fans, it was a welcome return for one of the original members. For Izzy, “it was weird. We toured Greece, Istanbul, London – I liked that side of it, seeing some places I’d never seen.” But that was the only thing he did like about it. After he’d left the band, he had “a big shit load of money sitting somewhere [for me] and they weren’t paying me [it]. I don’t know the deal was, some kind of legal bullshit.” Funds, he claims, which were only released after he agreed to come back temporarily. “Money was a big sore point. I did the dates just for salary. I mean, I helped start this band…” Up comes the guitar again. A flurry of angry notes ensue. These were his final shows with Guns N’ Roses. He left without saying goodbye. “I didn’t actually say ‘see you’ cos they were all fucked up. Duff and these guys, they didn’t even recognise me. It was really bizarre. It was like playing with zombies. Ah, man, it was just horrible. Nobody was laughing anymore…” 

He says his last face-to-face contact with Axl was six years ago. “I'd moved back out to LA. I bought this old Norton Commando 850. and was riding around one day and I thought, ‘Fuck it, I'll go by his house. Bastard, he lives up in the hills, he’s got a big house, I’ll go and see what he’s doing’, you know? “And I go up and he’s got security gates, cameras, walls, all this shit, you know. So I'm ringing the buzzer, and eventually somebody comes and takes me up and there he is. He’s like, ‘Hey, man! Glad to see you!’ Gives me a big hug and shows me round his house. It was great. “Then, I don't know, probably a month later, one night he calls me [and] we got into the issue of me leaving Guns N’ Roses. I told him how it was on my side. Told him exactly how I felt about it and why I left. And man, that’s the last time I’ve talked to the guy! “But, I mean, he had a fucking notepad. I could hear him [turning the pages] going, ‘Well, ah, you said in 1982. blah blah blah…’ And I'm like, what the fuck - 1982. He was bringing up a lot of really weird old shit. I'm like, ‘Whatever, man’. But that’s the last time I talked to him. 

“Every two or three years I'll put a call in to the office and say, ‘Hey, tell Axl gimme a call if he wants to’. But I mean… the weirdness of his life. To me, I live pretty normal. I can go anywhere. In 2001. I don’t think people really give a shit. But for Axl, I know for the longest time, because his face was all over the television and stuff, I don't think he could really go anywhere or do anything. “And I think because of that he kind of put himself in a little hole up there in the hills. He kind of dug in deeper and deeper and now I think he’s gone so fucking deep he’s just… I mean, I could be completely wrong. But I know he doesn't drive [unheard of in LA] and he doesn't… He doesn't do anything. I’ve never, never seen him in town. Isolation can be a bad thing, but Axl’s been at it for a long time now. You know, he always stays up at night…” He drifts off, not even trying to find the words this time. 

The key to Axl’s personality, reckons Izzy, still lies back in Lafayette. “In high school, you know, Axl, he had long, red hair, he was a little guy and he got a lot of shit [because of it]. I think he never got laid, too, in school. I hate to bring this up cos this is getting nasty,” he laughs. “But he never got no pussy at school, Axl. So now the guy’s a big fucking rock star, he’s got the chicks lined up, he’s got money and he’s got people… and the power went to this guy’s head. I mean, he was a fucking monster! Nuts! Crazy! 

“And I never saw it coming. I mean, this is my side of it, he'd probably say I'm completely fucking crazy, but I think he went power mad. Suddenly he was trying to control everything. Did you ever see those fucked up contracts for the journalists to sign?” he asks, referring to the notorious ‘consent forms’ that Axl foolishly tried to foist on the media in 1991. “The control issues just became worse and worse and eventually it filtered down to the band. He was trying to draw up contracts for everybody! And this guy, he’s not a Harvard graduate, Axl. He’s just a guy, just a little guy, who sings, is talented. But man, he turned into this fucking maniac. And I did, too, but it was a different kind of maniac. I was paranoid about the business aspect – freaking out going ‘Where’s all the money?’” 

He tells a hair-raising story of a “missing” million-dollar advance from a merchandising company. “I’m out of my fucking gourd, right? I’m at the fax machine and I've got like a hundred faxes strung across this room. And I've got a pistol on the desk cos I kept hearing people walking on my roof, right?. So I'm snorting coke, faxes keep coming, snorting more coke… And I'm reading through this stuff, trying to just grasp what had happened to us. “The call that really sent me off my rocker was [from] one of the attorneys. I said, ‘There was a million-dollar advance, where is it?’ And he goes, ‘Well, Izzy, I don't really know right now’. I was just like ‘Aaarrrgggghhhhhh!!’ It was just the last thing and I snapped completely. 

“For [Axl] the money wasn't as big a deal. But he had this power thing where he wanted complete control. And you can say, well, it goes back to your fucked up childhood where his dad used to smack him around, you know, and he had no control, so now he’s getting it back. But it’s like, it’s still cooky, you know? You don't have to have everybody signing stuff.” 

When Axl finally sent his old school friend a contract to sign, it was the final straw. “This is right before I left - demoting me to some lower position. They were gonna cut my percentage of royalties down. I was like ‘Fuck you! I’ve been there from day one, why should I do that? Fuck you, I’ll go play the Whiskey’. That’s what happened. It was insane.” 

AXL STILL HAS HIS CONTRACTS, and still owns the band’s name. But in achieving these hard-fought goals he has sacrificed the one thing worth fighting for: the band themselves. That’s a strange way to conduct business. “I recognise it as something that’s not normal,” Izzy agrees. “Maybe it was just the stress and pressure of being him. I mean, he had people threatening to kill him constantly. So that’s got to be hard to deal with. Then you've got these fucking morons in the KKK thinking we're behind them because of one song [One In A Million].” The decision to put One In Million on GN’R Lies, their 1989 mini-album - with its denigrating lines about ‘Immigrants and hooray for tolerance!s’ coming to ‘our country’ to ‘spread some fuckin’ disease’ – was typical of the skewed thinking that now pilots the GN’R flagship alone. “That’s a song that the whole band says: ‘Don’t put that on there. You're white, you’ve got red hair, don't use it’. You know? ‘Fuck you! I’m gonna do it cos I’m Axl!’ OK, go ahead, it’s your fucking head. Of course, you're guilty by association. [But] what are you gonna do? He’s out of control and I’m just the fucking guitar player…” 

Interestingly, when I remark that it must feel like strange timing, to be here promoting his own album just as Axl is powering up for the next GN’R opus, he disagrees. “No, it’s perfect timing.” How so? Has he heard it? “Not a note. I’d like to hear it, actually.” How does he feel though knowing it’s being sold as a GN’R album? “Well, it’s obviously not Guns N’ Roses, I think all the fans [know that]. It’s not even right that he uses the name, because he’s the only guy

36 minutes ago, AncientEvil80 said:

I agree with Niven, without Izzy/Steven, it's just Velvet Roses. I know it, he knows it, YOU know it.

You know why the Velvet Roses thing makes no sense? According to this logic that Slash Duff and Axl form Velvet Roses, Velvet Roses debuted in 1991 and did the whole UYI tour. So VRs debuted over 20 years ago and no one just knew about it until VR was formed in 2003, oh god this is some voodoo! They were still considered GNR until like 1993. It makes NO sense whatsoever. They are the UYI GNR, Axl Slash Duff + 2 hired guns. 

7 hours ago, gunners fan said:

Nope.......London 2016....Baz and Axl are at Gordon Ramsey's Savoy..
Waitress tells the boys....JB is eating alone....by the window.....on the other side

Baz gets up...looks over...sure enough she is right.

Axl asks the w to send a glass of champagne to JB courtesy of X/B

he sees them and they spend the rest of the night party!!

dont believe me......google it.

 

https://www.gordonramsayrestaurants.com/savoy-grill/menus/

This was 4 years ago, not this year lol. I also recall Axl and Baz and David Lee Roth not letting Bret Michaels sit with them in a similar scenario haha

31 minutes ago, Slash787 said:

 

OH GOD THANKS FOR REMINDING ME OF THIS! THIS I LOVE

Imagine if Duff sang this tune at Coachella in April

1 minute ago, gunsfanoldie said:

Eddie specifically says "they" told him when "they" would start doing press. Eddie does not mention a date, but what I just said is exactly what he said in the podcast. So what I take from that is Eddie knows when they'll start doing press but he has not been given clearance to tell the public when that will be. Followed up by him specifically saying Duff told Eddie that Duff will talk to Eddie first. Again, take that to mean whatever you think, but thats as specific as it gets. Hence the reason I put the exact time it is in the podcast, cause its really short and that way people can just hear it straight from him instead of having it get changed around through various posts:

http://podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?programID=658&pid=1636361 (14:00 minutes in to 16:00 minutes in. Two minute thing about Guns)

To me it sounds like Eddie said "they" and then realized what he said could come off wrong and then adjusted to it being "Duff told me..." But still possible he had contact with all 3 of them. Its just how I perceived him

Axl not rehearsing worries me only because..this will be the first time Slash will actually play November Rain or Estranged live in over 20 years and how are they supposed to properly rehearse that when Axl is not around? I mean it's almost a sure thing they will play NR

1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

I'm not getting my hopes up to be honest. My guess is it won't happen til after the scheduled shows and he'll just say a lot of things we already know. 

 

On how he got back in the band:

The hotel incident with Axl, subsequently filling in for Tommy. 

 

On how Slash came back:

Something similar to what Slash already said. 

 

On Vegas/Coachella:

Those shows were a lot of fun, the magic was back

 

On the future:

Who knows, anything can happen! 

 

 

It makes me sad that this is a believable scenario on how this will go down. goddamn you GNR

I hope they go LZ on our asses and bust out some songs they never or rarely did live before (locomotive and breakdown im looking at you)

3 hours ago, Silverburst80 said:

It's so Easy

Nightrain

Sweet Child

Estranged

YCBM

Brownstone

Reckless LIfe

Don't Cry

Patience

Locomotive

Out ta get me

Rocket Queen

November rain

Better (keep Axl hapy)

Chinese Democracy(keep Axl happy)

Don't Damn Me

Coma

 

 

Encore

Jungle

Paradise City

 

That'll do me nicely.

 

Man the band needs to do a Q&A so they can finally answer why in the F*** they never did Dont Damn Me live. They even did Garden Of Eden for gods sake

34 minutes ago, PsychoKiss344 said:

Metallica and Guns show??

Just imagine...

That twitter guy asked for Metallica OR Guns..but that would be epic indeed

1 hour ago, Harry Sunrise said:

This is not the official Frank Ferrer facebook page.

Yeah no shit? That's his facebook PROFILE.

7 minutes ago, Tom-Ass said:

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe he just forgot to remove it, or he's deliberately fucking with the fans because he knows we don't want him in