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Show i went to last night fucken killer rock4 rock4 rock4

Slash Rocks Adelaide And Proves He Has Best Live Rock Band On The Planet

New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas. A Tuesday night in Adelaide. After just three songs, they are neck-and-neck.

This reviewer did not set out to compare the Slash show at Thebarton Theatre last night to Guns N' Roses all-bells-and-whistles outing at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino which rang in my 2012.

That had probably been my personal gig of the year to date, with Axl Rose’s wailing version of AC/DC’s “Riff Raff” a spine-tingling highlight, and this was ... well ... a Tuesday night in Adelaide.

But given the pulsating, compelling, crushing delivery of “Halo”, “Nightrain” and “Ghost”, the comparison had quickly grown unavoidable. Slash’s new album may be a little too modern rock for these ears but this is already a visceral, life-affirming spectacle.

By the time “Standing In The Sun”, “Back From Cali” and “Mr Bownstone” flash by as songs four, five and six respectively, it’s official: Tuesday night in Adelaide is actually BETTER than New Years in Las Vegas.

Myles Kennedy, replete with understated dark buttoned shirt and chain wallet, is as close to perfect as any vocalist you could hope to be. He doesn’t try to imitate Axl or any of the other singers he is “covering” tonight – but makes every single tune (aside from the two sung by vocalist Todd Kerns) his own.

Slash is like a footballer who has become a tennis player. Before, you could only glance at him occasionally – now he is the centre of attention despite uttering barely a word into the microphone all night.

And he stands up to the scrutiny. To say his is a God-like presence as he grimaces, smiles and plays classic riff after classic riff is the suggest you expected anything else – and I didn’t.

Here is what does surprise, delight and entrance:

Slash has decided to stick with a band – The Conspirators – rather than continue down the purely solo path. As I said, the recorded result of this is not quite to this writer’s taste.

But live, the punkish aesthetic of Appetite For Destruction, born out of squalid camaraderie, has been gloriously resurrected. Axl once once said an early 2000s incarnation of GN’R could “play the shit” out of the early songs. Well the Conspirators can play the #!#% out of them – with all the subtlety of a rhinoceros on Viagra.

“Rocket Queen”, “Nightrain”, “Mr Brownstone”, these guitar-driven anthems from 1987 get their most anarchic, authentic renditions from this band. The current GNR, on the other hand, leans heavily in style and feel towards the over-blown but magnificent Use Your Illusion albums – into which Slash did not delve at all last night.

Pauses between songs while pianos and the like are wheeled out – and the number of slower tunes – suck the momentum away from current GN’R. It’s only the Blues Jam and “Godfather Theme” which do that to Slash’s gritty set.

Ultimately, Slash gets out of the DeLorean from scummy 1988 where this was the size of venue Guns were playing. Axl is from still from 1992, when they were in stadia. That’s the difference.

Current GN’R are not cabaret – but compared to Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, they are.

Both bands, morally, could convincingly call themselves “Guns N’Roses”. Both finish with “Paradise City”, shooting confetti into the stalls. But the Conspirators can’t afford to give away a mic every night when their singer throws it as far as he can.

When Velvet Revolver’s “Slither” ends the main set and the same band’s “Fall To Pieces” starts the short encore, something else is glaringly apparent.

The idea of reassembling VR with a new singer to replace Scott Weiland is patently ridiculous. Slash already has the best live rock band on the planet right now.

http://www.triplem.com.au/adelaide/music/news/blog/review-photos-slash-rocks-adelaide-and-proves-he-has-best-live-rock-band-on-the-planet/20120829-h2dh.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWY5HPIBFsM

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

Yeah rons better then Slash :lol: his tone sucks arse hes just a nurd that winges like a baby

Read the review pal better then the cover cover band with half the members

Gnr sucks theses days has since 98

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

Yeah rons better then Slash :lol:

Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band :D

Read the review pal better then the cover cover band with half the members

Gnr sucks theses days has since 98 the

Hahaha "pal". I don't know shit about cover cover cover whatever the fuck you were trying to jibber there, but let's see Slash cover Ron. :lol:

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

Yeah rons better then Slash :lol:

Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band :D

Read the review pal better then the cover cover band with half the members

Gnr sucks theses days has since 98 the

Hahaha "pal". I don't know shit about cover cover cover whatever the fuck you were trying to jibber there, but let's see Slash cover Ron. :lol:

lol why would he want to play that shit dumb arse

Ron the sook iv got a sore back the nerd want be in the band for much longer

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

Yeah rons better then Slash :lol:

Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band :D

Read the review pal better then the cover cover band with half the members

Gnr sucks theses days has since 98 the

Hahaha "pal". I don't know shit about cover cover cover whatever the fuck you were trying to jibber there, but let's see Slash cover Ron. :lol:

lol why would he want to play that shit dumb arse

:lol: Isn't that the excuse for every moron on earth when they can't handle the truth? Sure is.

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

Yeah rons better then Slash :lol:

Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band :D

Read the review pal better then the cover cover band with half the members

Gnr sucks theses days has since 98 the

Hahaha "pal". I don't know shit about cover cover cover whatever the fuck you were trying to jibber there, but let's see Slash cover Ron. :lol:

lol why would he want to play that shit dumb arse

:lol: Isn't that the excuse for every moron on earth when they can't handle the truth? Sure is.

yeah its the truth Bumblesooks heaps good he got inducted into the rrhof he was on 1 of the greatest albums of all time and was on guitar hero he played with micheal jackson and everone else the list goes on

Bumblesooks will be remember for being on a album that was the biggest flop of all time :takethat:

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yeah its the truth Bumblesooks heaps good he got inducted into the rrhof he was on 1 of the greatest albums of all time and was on guitar hero he played with micheal jackson and everone else the list goes on

Bumblesooks will be remember for being on a album that was the biggest flop of all time :takethat:

Whatever you're using to translate your native language into English is fucking you up.

Slash wouldn't be in the HoF right now if they hadn't thought that they could force a reunion. Anyone who thinks otherwise clearly hasn't put much thought into who has and hasn't been inducted. Especially in the first year that they were eligible.

Slash can play with whoever he wants to play with. I have nothing positive or negative to say about that.

Chinese Democracy was far from a "flop". It did great for a rock album that was released in its time period. Nobody with any common sense could deny that.

That emoticon is stupid. :shrugs:

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

Yeah rons better then Slash :lol:

Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band :D

Read the review pal better then the cover cover band with half the members

Gnr sucks theses days has since 98 the

Hahaha "pal". I don't know shit about cover cover cover whatever the fuck you were trying to jibber there, but let's see Slash cover Ron. :lol:

lol why would he want to play that shit dumb arse

:lol: Isn't that the excuse for every moron on earth when they can't handle the truth? Sure is.

The truth is Ron covers Slash (very badly). Slash aint got any reason to cover something Ron did. Not an excuse, just the truth. deal with it.

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Uh, you know they are not a piece of shit.

They are. Deal with it.

Well, Ron can play any member of that band under the table any time that he wants to. Same with Richard. Tommy absolutely slaughters the bassist. Do you even know the bassist's name? Never mind, nobody cares. Slash is just lucky that DJ is in the band so people have a reason to miss him. Nobody with a brain would otherwise. :shrugs:

Deal with reality. :thumbsup:

I can shit on Ron. Great guitar player? Yes, but nobody needs his finger tapping bullshit in every song, have you seen 14 years? Even Slash at his worst owned that solo. Richard November Rain solos SUCK, don't deny it. Ashba Civil War solo is laughable, the guy can't bend for shit.

They're a piece of shit band. Maybe I could change my mind in 2028 when the next Axl Rose record comes out. :rolleyes:

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The truth is Ron covers Slash (very badly). Slash aint got any reason to cover something Ron did. Not an excuse, just the truth. deal with it.

I can shit on Ron. Great guitar player? Yes, but nobody needs his finger tapping bullshit in every song, have you seen 14 years? Even Slash at his worst owned that solo. Richard November Rain solos SUCK, don't deny it. Ashba Civil War solo is laughable, the guy can't bend for shit.

They're a piece of shit band. Maybe I could change my mind in 2028 when the next Axl Rose record comes out. :rolleyes:

Wake me up when you guys see Slash do a vastly superior version of his Nightrain solo with one hand and his eyes closed. Then we'll talk. :sleeper:

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Wow, so we're talking just about technical stuff. If thats the case you're right. For me the music is more important and i just can't stand it when Ron abuse the solo parts, especially on nightrain.

By the way, without Slash there would be noone who covers his stuff

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The truth is Ron covers Slash (very badly). Slash aint got any reason to cover something Ron did. Not an excuse, just the truth. deal with it.

I can shit on Ron. Great guitar player? Yes, but nobody needs his finger tapping bullshit in every song, have you seen 14 years? Even Slash at his worst owned that solo. Richard November Rain solos SUCK, don't deny it. Ashba Civil War solo is laughable, the guy can't bend for shit.

They're a piece of shit band. Maybe I could change my mind in 2028 when the next Axl Rose record comes out. :rolleyes:

Wake me up when you guys see Slash do a vastly superior version of his Nightrain solo with one hand and his eyes closed. Then we'll talk. :sleeper:

:laugh: Oh, so you're one of those who consider that solo a "masterpiece"? HAHAHAHA!! Buckethead Nightrain solo was awesome, but Ron's? Please... :rofl-lol:

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The truth is Ron covers Slash (very badly). Slash aint got any reason to cover something Ron did. Not an excuse, just the truth. deal with it.

I can shit on Ron. Great guitar player? Yes, but nobody needs his finger tapping bullshit in every song, have you seen 14 years? Even Slash at his worst owned that solo. Richard November Rain solos SUCK, don't deny it. Ashba Civil War solo is laughable, the guy can't bend for shit.

They're a piece of shit band. Maybe I could change my mind in 2028 when the next Axl Rose record comes out. :rolleyes:

Wake me up when you guys see Slash do a vastly superior version of his Nightrain solo with one hand and his eyes closed. Then we'll talk. :sleeper:

:laugh: Oh, so you're one of those who consider that solo a "masterpiece"? HAHAHAHA!! Buckethead Nightrain solo was awesome, but Ron's? Please... :rofl-lol:

Ron's is better than Bucket's as well. Fretted or fretless. Doesn't matter.

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Ron suffers from Guitar tourette's.

I'm actually going to believe you here because it's obvious that you should know all there is to know about tourette's in general.

Anyway, I don't like this section. It smells. I'll be back in the upper class section of MYGNR. See you there.

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