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@killuridols, I'm not saying it's a member of the band. The part of the RS article I quoted says the gun belonged to a member of the band's touring company, not to the member himself. So maybe it belonged to someone who travels with Fortus. It's just a thought, because Axl was looking at him, nothing more. Another thought is that Axl is too loyal to his people to expose them on stage, so maybe it was someone else's "touring company", a security guy for example, that had the gun.
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1 hour ago, killuridols said:
A representative for GN'R confirmed to Billboard, "Yes, this indeed happened on Friday, July 15, as they were crossing the border coming from the Philadelphia tour stop on the 14th." The rep also noted that the gun didn't belong to any member of the band.
Told ya...
"However, the trek endangered its lone Canadian concert after the "classic" GN'R lineup was detained entering Canada when a gun belonging to a member of the band's touring company was found onboard."
Seems like Axl is looking at Richard here? And is it Richard saying "That's right"?
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Yes, the gun incident took place at the Canadian border. I like the way Axl told the story, with a smile on his face, kind of parodying his old rants, like he did with security at the Philadelphia show
This is Axl at his best; and of course it's much, much better than his Beta jokes 
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12 minutes ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:
i think it's more that people who are coming to see a "reunion" show expect more of the older GN'R songs. also they don't want as many down tempo songs, most are at a GN'R concert to have fun and faster songs are more conducive to that for most people. i would die happy being able to hear "Dust In The Wind" but idk if that's everyone's cup of tea. i could listen to almost their whole catalogue if they'd play it to be honest!
Yes, I understand this and to be honest I find the down tempo Wish You Were Here-Layla-November Rain-KOHD sequence a little boring. What I don't get is why "Sorry", a guitar driven blues song, is considered the odd one out in the setlist. And I'm not referring so much to the majority who want to hear old songs they're familiar with, but to fans here in the forum who know "Sorry".
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Yes, "Sorry" is a down tempo song, but GnR had a few of these already in the Illusions era shows. I don't understand why this particular song is the "mood killer" of the show, except that the great majority of the crowd isn't familiar with it.
I wonder if the people that complain about "Sorry" being a mood killer would say the same if they played "Dust in the wind" for example, which I'm sure the crowds back then never had heard before.
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3 minutes ago, killuridols said:
Grandpa Angus payed them 1 million each so that bad boy Axl wouldn't feel alone in Europe. Slash is so greedy he said 'hell yeah' and Duff is so spineless he said 'yeah whatever!'
And Slash hugged Axl in that backstage video because Axl payed him an extra bonus
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This is frozen for me (same with the other periscopes) but may work for you:
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Just now, killuridols said:
What is that? Wht does it mean? What girl?
Attitude lyrics corrupt Melissa
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Lol, Axl "these lyrics coming from that innocent girl's mouth. You're corrupting her, Duff"
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1 hour ago, Spirit said:
Actually I think these are the shows counted:
2 Las Vegas shows ~29,000
2 Mexico City shows ~130,000
1 Detroit show ~40,000
1 Kansas City show ~41,000
1 Washington DC show ~27,000
Total: ~267,000
5 cities, 7 shows.
Coachella doesn't count.
Yeah, you're probably right.
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4 hours ago, Crazyman said:
Weird, it only includes 7 shows in 5 cities. So far they've played 9 shows in 8 cities on the NITL portion, and 7 shows in 4 cities during the April run.
Also they have the highest average audience (over 53,000!) for acts that have played more than 3 shows.
The annual POLLSTAR ranking of the concert industry’s top performing artists is tabulated for all North American shows played between January 1 and June 30, 2016.
It's 4 shows in April (The Mexico shows and The Troubadour don't count) and 3 shows in June.
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1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. It's So Easy
3. Rocket Queen
4. Out Ta Get Me
5. Nightrain
6. Mr. Brownstone
7. Sweet Child O' Mine
8. You're Crazy
9. Paradise City
10. My Michelle
11. Think About You
12. Anything Goes
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@SerenityScorp, you can read the first pages here:
https://books.google.gr/books?id=1Jh4dkcw0nsC&printsec=frontcover&hl=el#v=onepage&q&f=false
You have to pay to read all of it. I haven't read it. Davis has written good books about other bands, but from what I know the GnR book is based only on material already published (interviews etc), he never met the members of the band or anyone near them except for Vicky Hamilton.
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- The GnR song "Don't Damn me" was never played during the Illusion tour, would you consider playing it on the upcoming (SMKC) tour?
Slash: No, there's a reason for that, it's too many words. It's a cool song and everything, I think even Axl never did it because ... too many words without a breath and it just makes it really impossible to do it live.
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On 13/07/2016 at 2:20 AM, Frey said:
And then there's Duff. Don't forget Duff. Duff is still having a hard time getting noticed. He is a gentle, silly and delightful man, even when he is drunk, which nowadays seems most of the morning and most of the afternoon and a good part of every evening. Duff is having a hard time with life on the road. He is, frankly, getting sick and tired of fans who come up to him and, rather than fall all over him, ask, "Where's Axl?" Duffs wife, Linda, recently got him a tshirt that reads: 'No, I don't know where Axl is!'
Duff wishes Linda could be with him more often. He is 28 years old, and the fits of loneliness are starting to become fits of terror. "A lot of nights I wake up, and I'm, like, where am I, what city, and you run to the window and look out and try to figure it all out," he says. "You actually forget who you are. It's, like, I am completely blank. I end up a lot of times just sitting on my bed, and I'll find tears start coming out of my eyes and my heart is just aching. It's, like, please let there be another show soon. It's, like, can you get the next shot of insulin."
On 14/07/2016 at 3:48 AM, Lumikki said:As for the part about Duff, OMG!!!
I can't deal with the mental image of Duff crying all alone in a dark hotel room at night.
That's just
to me. It's incredible how miserable most of them seemed while touring, though usually you just hear Axl talking about that.
Yeah, this is so sad
It's a miracle they survived that tour. They were unhappy and depressed most of the time. And yeah, Axl has often talked about it and said he didn't want to tour, but I think it's distinct in Duff's book, too (not so much in Slash's) that he was miserable. And the frustration Duff felt because the fans didn't care about him 
; it's the bass player's fate to be and outshined and unnoticed. But he found his inner strength and it's so good that now is one of the most respected musicians...
...and the best looking member of the band
(I stole this from the Philadelphia thread)
On 13/07/2016 at 10:23 PM, Frey said:I think the video might be a reference to the Axl suddenly freaking out and jumping out of a running car story?
Yeah, seems like it. It may have been something Slash said in that incident that brought up a traumatic memory from Axl's past and stroke him. When I read about it in Slash's book, I imagined it as a scene in a movie
: Slash starts telling Axl gently to apologize to his grandmother, Axl looks outside, gradually Slash's voice becomes his stepfather's voice saying something like "apologize to your mother", Axl starts rocking back and forth and then jumps out.
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I looked for the interview where Axl said he was called the "Ayatollah" and in his mind it was the beginning of the "Axl-the-dictator" story. I couldn't find it, but I saw that Steven mentions it in his book (which I haven't read yet) and says Axl got "a little pissy" over the "Ayatollah" thing. There are also parts of it in Stephen Davis's book with some slightly ironic comments. It was 1986, just after they were signed. The interview, probably the first they ever did, is like the cartoons, so childish
They were apparently drunk and/or on drugs. Axl was the only one who answered "seriously" to some questions, particularly in the part where he talks about his feelings while singing. Izzy ... he must have been quite a mess the time he was an addict.
Here are the excerpts from Davis's book:
In early April 1986, Music Connection, the L.A. weekly magazine, sent reporter Karen Burch to interview Guns. The band had been promised the cover of the magazine. (...) She found them still living at Vicky’s place, amid wall-to-wall amps, guitars everywhere, brimming ashtrays, garbage. (...)
Izzy would break in with sarcastic asides, cynical jokes, and open hostility. He would deflect her questions with: “Ask another,” “We don’t care about that,” “That’s a stupid question,” “No one gives a fuck about that,” “Next,” “Fuck you and your magazine.” (...)
She started by asking their ages, and it went downhill from there.
AXL: “Sure, we’ll reveal our ages.”
DUFF: “Yeah, we don’t care. I’m nineteen.”
AXL: “I’m twenty-four.”
SLASH: “No, Duff is twenty-two and I’m nineteen.”
IZZY: “This really does not fucking matter.”
SLASH: “Just fucking tell her.”
IZZY: “Axl isn’t really twenty-four. He’s a million years old! He’s seen fucking everything!”
VICKY: “C’mon—go with the real ages here.”
IZZY: “What’s the bullshit with the ages? That shit doesn’t matter to us.”
SLASH: “Izzy is twenty-three and Steve’s twenty-one.”
IZZY: “Just print that for the Rainbow so they’ll let us all in.”
SLASH: “Please—just don’t ask us where we’re from.”
IZZY: “Yeah, fuck that. There’ll be no shit in there about me being from Indiana, which deserves fucking nothing. It was a worthless fucking city. It’s shit.”
SLASH: “Can you print, like, ‘Indiana sucks’?”
IZZY: “The fact that I’m from Indiana has no business being in my career.”
(...)
She asked about songwriting. “We all write,” Axl answered. “I write the majority of the melodies, and we work on everything else.”
Slash said that Axl wrote all the lyrics and they all collaborated on the rest.
Axl continued: “We write in vans on the way to shows. We write songs when we’re hanging out on the corner waiting for someone to buy a bottle. Yeah—waiting for alcohol.”
“If I can speak for everybody,” Slash said, looking around at his already bored bandmates, “the whole point is that we want to reach a lot of people. We want to be a . . . worldwide exhibit! We don’t have to be accepted, we just wanna be a band that’s fucking out there.”
Slash’s inspiration sent Axl into a self-defining soliloquy: “I live for the songs,” Axl said. He paused. His tone changed, darkening. He seemed in a trance. The rest of the band woke up and leaned in to listen. “If I go through a bad time . . . well . . . anything I have to go through is worth it if I can get a song out of it. If I slept in a parking garage, and I hated it, and I wanted to give it all up . . . but I just kept going . . . and I got a song out of it, from the experience . . . then I’m so glad that I had to go through a ton of shit. . . . “When I’m onstage, that’s when I take what I’m worth to the public. I bring out everything I’ve worked on for the past month, show the people my songs, and give that feeling to them. “When I’m singing a line, I’m thinking of the feelings that made me come up with the song in the first place. At the same time, I think about how I feel singing those words now, and how those words are gonna hit the people in the crowd.”
Axl described the toll these feelings took on his body and mind. The band had all noticed how he would tremble after good shows. “I usually have to have someone stand beside me when I come offstage, because I can’t even tie my own shoes. I’ve gone through so many thoughts onstage.” He described looking out at a crowd of 700 and knowing 300 of them. He loved some, hated others, was in debt to this one, had slept with that one—ten times. “You see all this stuff, plus—you’re thinking about the feeling in the music. I put every possible thought I can, into every performance and every line.”
The room was quiet. They were listening carefully. Time stood still. “And that’s why I might be known as . . . histrionic . Because I go all out.” (...)
Vicky came up with some cash and Steven and Duff left on a Marlboro run. Karen Burch went to the bathroom. While she was out of the room, they recorded some vulgar sexual suggestions on the tape for her to discover later. When she returned, she was shocked to find that Axl had broken her cassette recorder. He explained that he was going to leave a message on the tape, but he pushed the wrong buttons and the thing is fucked. Sorry. Vicky came up with another machine, and the interview continued.
DUFF: “We’re doin’ what we wanna,” glug glug, “and we’re pulling it off.”
IZZY: “We sell out every fuckin’ club in L.A. that we play.”
SLASH: “Listen, I don’t care if you think I’ve got a bad attitude, or if I’m being big-headed about it, but this is the only fuckin’ band that’s come of L.A. that’s real —and the kids know it.” Karen asked how the band got along with each other. Slash said that they didn’t have many friends outside of the band.
AXL: “We’re a family.”
DUFF: “When we go out, there’s nobody else we would have more fun with. If someone’s not there and then they show up, it’s like . . .”
AXL: “Great—you’re here! Let’s go! Rape! Pillage! Destroy!”
IZZY: “That’s our motto.”
Axl said that he thought the band would stay together as long as there was a spark between them.
IZZY: “Till we die, and then some.”
Steven said that even after they died, they would still be together.
SLASH: “Yeah, I mean . . . I loved my dog. . . .”
IZZY: “But then he died, and now you have Steve.”
STEVEN: “Hey—fuck you!”
AXL: “And we don’t share girlfriends.”
This set Slash off. He explained that they had girlfriends, somewhere in the past, but they had gotten rid of them when the band started to happen. “They’re a pain in the ass,” he opined about the girlfriends they’d had. “They take up too much fuckin’ time, and they have their own ideas which they’re constantly throwing in your face.”
Asked if they were as “bad” as people said they were, Slash replied, “We are.”
Duff added, “We have no choice.”
Axl concurred: “Trouble? All the time.”
The reporter gave everyone one wish.
Steven wished for peace of mind. Izzy said he wanted a Maserati. Slash wanted an endless supply of Marlboro cigarettes. Duff just wanted to have the GN’R record out, and to be on the road.
Axl was more prophetic. “I think that . . . I don’t like that question. It’s ridiculous because we are working on getting everything we want. If I had my wishes, I’d want all the money there is. I’d want power and control over everything there is, and third, I’d want all the wishes there are to have.”
Slash summed this up. “Axl is just another version of the Ayatollah.”
The other version of the Ayatollah then tried to spike the interview. He had hated the whole thing. He tried to sabotage the photo session for the promised cover story. He began calling Karen Burch. (...) When the story was published on April 14, 1986, it carried a disclaimer: “This issue’s cover [photo] and cover feature are running against the wishes of Guns N’ Roses, according to W. Axl Rose.”
Then Axl wrote a long, angry letter to the magazine, that was published a few months later.
Steven says that Axl was pissed off with the magazine because they spelled his name "Axel" and that the interviewer ended her article with "Well, fuck you and your band" in response to Izzy's "Fuck you and your magazine"
Axl said in the 2011 Eddie Trunk interview and in China Exchange that it was Izzy who called him "Ayatollah", but it was Slash. Maybe he confused it with the first Rolling Stone extended article in 1988:
Even the other band members describe Axl in terms of a Jekyll-and Hyde dichotomy.
"He does a lot of weird shit no one understands," says Slash, "but I love the guy. I mean he's a real sweetheart."
It's funny that Slash used this word
"He can still be a tyrant," says Izzy, "but then he can turn around and be the nicest guy in the world."http://www.oocities.org/rattlesnake_suitcase/rollstone88.htm
I reread that Rolling Stone article. There is a lot of interesting stuff in it, and I think it was the first time the bipolar issue was brought up.
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@Andy14, I hope they don't
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And Axl's joke last night ...
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29 minutes ago, Frey said:I am shocked and surprised these gifs and videos of Axl tickling Slash are not in this thread yet
Here we are
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Before Jungle, Axl said: "I'm very happy you came here tonight to see us. I would understand if you didn't. Very glad to see you".
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This is Axl at his best; and of course it's much, much better than his Beta jokes 
I can't deal with the mental image of Duff crying all alone in a dark hotel room at night.
to me. It's incredible how miserable most of them seemed while touring, though usually you just hear Axl talking about that.
; it's the bass player's fate to be and outshined and unnoticed. But he found his inner strength and it's so good that now is one of the most respected musicians...
GNR Women's discussion
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I like Baz as a person, too (not so much his music). He seems a really goodhearted guy. And yeah, he's very funny. He could make a career as a comedian.