izzy might play with gnr

[87gnrrocked]

GUNS N' ROSES founding guitarist Izzy Stradlin joined his former band onstage for three songs at the final show of the group's four-night stand in New York City on May 17. Stradlin, who left the group in 1991, performed "Think About You", "Patience" and "Nightrain", the latter of which also featured an appearance from Kid Rock. Izzy was heavily rumored to turn up for the group's New York shows, its first concerts since December of 2002.

Regarding the possibility of guest appearances with GUNS N' ROSES on their current European tour, Izzy said in a posting on his official web site, "I don't have any concrete plans at this moment to join them in Europe but I will let you know if it changes. Please let people know nothing is confirmed at this point for Europe. NY was pretty cool."

Izzy left GNR in mid-1991, just around the time its "Use Your Illusion" albums were released. He has since recorded five albums on his own, either as a solo artist or with the JU JU HOUNDS.

Axl has promised that the band's long-delayed new album, "Chinese Democracy", will be out later this year, but no release date has been announced.

[bucketmaster101]

GUNS N' ROSES founding guitarist Izzy Stradlin joined his former band onstage for three songs at the final show of the group's four-night stand in New York City on May 17. Stradlin, who left the group in 1991, performed "Think About You", "Patience" and "Nightrain", the latter of which also featured an appearance from Kid Rock. Izzy was heavily rumored to turn up for the group's New York shows, its first concerts since December of 2002.

Regarding the possibility of guest appearances with GUNS N' ROSES on their current European tour, Izzy said in a posting on his official web site, "I don't have any concrete plans at this moment to join them in Europe but I will let you know if it changes. Please let people know nothing is confirmed at this point for Europe. NY was pretty cool."

Izzy left GNR in mid-1991, just around the time its "Use Your Illusion" albums were released. He has since recorded five albums on his own, either as a solo artist or with the JU JU HOUNDS.

Axl has promised that the band's long-delayed new album, "Chinese Democracy", will be out later this year, but no release date has been announced.

Did we not see the actual email not too long ago, someone posted it on here ummm just before the madrid show i think

[f**k_your_enemy]

old news.

^ dude I love your avatar!!

[axlslash]

I didn't know Izzy had an official web site to make postings on

[Padme]

I didn't know Izzy had an official web site to make postings on

Here

www.juju.34sp.com/izzy/

[D-GenerationX]

I don't have any concrete plans at this moment to join them in Europe but I will let you know if it changes. Please let people know nothing is confirmed at this point for Europe.

Now look at this thread title.

And we actually wonder why people go to these shows and feel ripped off because the old guys are not there.

STOP SETTING YOURSELVES UP FOR DISAPPOINTMENT

[CALUCA]

After hearing ron thal and richard... i dont think we need anyone.

It is cool to see Izzy joining, because hes a former member of the orignal band.

[SlashisGOD]

If it happens, then I say let Ron and Finck go.

[busngabb]

It means play with them as in do a couple of songs at certain venues, not join the band permanently.

Can none of you read English?

[mustaine]

If he play's with the band in Europe, I think it will happen in Donington.

[axlslash]

Has anyone here ever emailed Izzy and gotten a response?

Edited May 30, 2006 by axlslash

[Alan Niveen]

Izzy and... Duff to make appearances ?

I hope so.

[metalgroupie]

I heard Slash "might" rejoin. He said so on some radio thing.

THIS IS WHERE I HEARD IT HERE:

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash joined VR/ex-GNR drummer Matt Sorum this past Saturday, May 13, as a guest on Camp Freddy Radio. During the two-hour show, Slash addressed a number of topics, including the rumors that he was rejoining GUNS N' ROSES, Axl Rose's claim that Slash made an unannounced visit to Rose's house in October 2005, the reports that he had quit VELVET REVOLVER and filed for divorce, and the songwriting process for VR's sophomore album. A few excerpts from the broadcast follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):

On the rumors that Slash was rejoining GUNS N' ROSES:

Slash: "I saw a thing that was put out that said something to the effect that I won't be doing any gigs until after a certain point [referring to a May 8, 2006 Associated Press article which stated that 'Slash may end up back in the band as well, but probably not before the Hammerstein shows.' — Ed.] He put out some sort of… He [GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose] did a radio interview, I guess, in New York, and it said whatever city he was gonna be playing, it said it won't be until after that… And I was like, 'Where does this stuff come from?' But before that, the whole thing was, like, everybody just assumed that I'd quit VELVET REVOLVER and I was joining… Even you guys [speaking to Matt — Ed.] thought that."

Matt: "Well, hey… You can't believe everything you read. [Laughs]"

Slash: "It was like all these rumors going around. So I just wanted to dispel that one. That one and the fact that I ever had a conversation with him [Axl] at all.'

Matt: "I told the story last week that I ran into him [Rose] in New York and actually talked to him, and it was fairly pleasant. It was very pleasant, actually, but we were both drunk, so that helped. [Laughs]"

Slash: "When we were on the red carpet last night [at the MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in Hollywood], that was the first thing that I went and talked about to what's-her-face from CNN, and [i was] just so inundated with questions about what's going on with VELVET REVOLVER, supposedly all this in-band fighting going on, and then all these rumors about GUNS N' ROSES, and this and that and the other, and I was just like… I've been minding my own business, sitting at home, working on the songs [for the new VELVET REVOLVER album]. I mean, the fact that people even care enough to start rumors or keep regurgitating them… it's amazing."

Matt: "I mean, I guess FALL OUT BOY isn't doing anything crazy to talk about, so they might as well talk about us old sods. [Laughs]"

Slash: "I guess that's one thing that's always gone along with that name, GUNS N' ROSES — there's always been this controversial… just talk. [Laughs]"

Matt: "Well, like you were saying before, it didn't help us get through airports quickly. It's like, 'You guys over there, in the room. Drop your pants.' [Laughs]"

Slash: "I think this is the first time, though, that it's actually been so intrusive that I started, like, going… 'Cause I don't read… I don't get on the computer and read everything that's going on, so it's always by word of mouth. 'Oh, I heard this,' or 'I heard that.' 'Where'd you hear that?' 'Oh, it's online.' [Laughs]"

Matt: "You can't get away with anything in this world anymore, man — I'm telling you. If you're down there in Atlanta hanging out with some stripper, the next day it's on the Internet, and if you've got an old lady back in… wherever. I mean, there's nothing you can do in the world that everybody isn't gonna put up on the Internet, and it's a real drag, actually. [Laughs]"

Slash: "In this case, though, it started stuff with my band. And, of course, that whole thing that I filed for divorce didn't go over well either. [Laughs]"

Matt: "The old lady didn't dig that too much. [Laughs]"

Slash: "No, that was like… [i was like], 'What are you talking about?' 'Look on your computer.' And I'd look on there… [it was written] very matter-of-factly, on the date that [supposedly] I did it… this, that and the other, and all things considered..."

On VELVET REVOLVER's current status:

Slash: "We're still a band and none of that stuff [the rumors] is…"

Matt: "We actually just recorded a song that we're gonna put on this movie. Do we have the movie? Or don't we? [Laughs]"

Slash: "I think they offered it to us and we have to give them song, and… It sounds really good, so I don't think there's gonna be a problem, like, 'Oh, I don't think that's what we wanted.' [Laughs] I mean, I guess that could happen, but I doubt it."

Matt: "It's this new Steven Spielberg flick. It's…"

Slash: "And [Robert] Zemeckis."

Matt: "And Zemeckis… yeah, I forgot about him. Zemeckis and Spielberg… And it's this animated flick called 'Monster House'. It's really cool. They took us down to see it in a private screening room and the whole deal. It was nice."

Slash: "Yeah, it should probably be a big movie."

On Axl Rose's claim that Slash made an unannounced 5:30 a.m. visit to Rose's house in October 2005 during which he stated, among other things, that "Duff was spineless," "Scott [Weiland] was a fraud," and that he "hates Matt Sorum":

Slash: "I'm not gonna go into the whole long thing. It was just something that he [Axl] decided he was going to… It was a lot of this stuff was built to promote the next GUNS record and the tour and all that kind of stuff, 'cause there was this blatantly fabricated thing in there that I'd gone to his house and that he and I had a conversation in which I said all this stuff about my bandmates. And it's just blatantly untrue. For one, I have not talked to the guy in any way, shape or form since 1996, so it's going on 11 years. [Laughs] So that's basically it. There's just no truth to it. And all things considered, it put lot of whatever in people's minds that I was that kind of a guy, so it's… there you have it. So it's not true."

On Slash's claim in a February 2006 interview that GUNS N' ROSES' "Chinese Democracy" would finally surface in March:

Slash: "I got a lot of flak for having said that, 'cause everybody through I was on glue. I'm the first guy to go… I would never have put out a date. But somebody who would know is who told me that, and that's somebody close to that side of the fence that told me, 'Oh, we got a March release date.' So I just repeated it, basically. It was somebody in the business. They made it sound like it is coming out on such and such a date. Really, I didn't realize that it was such a big deal. And I think some people were like, 'You've gotta be out of your mind.' But it was very sort of casual, in conversation."

On potential producers for the new VELVET REVOLVER album:

Slash: "I think Duff ran into Lenny [Kravitz] at some point and they were talking about producers, and Lenny offered his serverices. Something like that."

Matt: "We haven't actually figured out who's gonna produce it yet, but we are doing one song with this guy Dave Sardy, who produced JET and the new WOLFMOTHER band. We're kind of gonna go… I think we're gonna be a little nastier sound on this record, hopefully."

Slash: "The whole record thing… Everything that I've heard that everybody's been working on is just awesome."

Matt: "Yeah, we've got a bunch of songs, so we've basically… Everyone's kind of just been doing their own thing. You come off the road after being on the road together for 18 months and it's kind of like, 'I'll see you in a couple.' [Laughs] So we kind of all spread out. We've got a big pile of… Slash's got a pile of songs, and me and Duff got a couple of that we did together, and Dave's [Kushner] got one, and actually one that we're using for this movie."

Slash: "That's how this band seems to get together every time. We just do one song for a movie and that kick-starts the whole project. [Laughs]"

Matt: "It's gonna be kind of cool 'cause the song is coming out really good, so it'll get us out there again, 'cause we've kind of been out on the road. People don't realize that when you're out on the road that you're out there. I've just been on an 18-month tour.

"But the new album is gonna be good… very good. We don't know who's producing it yet.'

Slash: "A lot of good candidates."

Matt: "Everybody's just throwing it out there. Sometimes you get in a press thing or something and you might say something that maybe… Scott talked to Pharrell at the Grammys and then it became, like, an idea, but it hasn't been, like, engraved in stone or anything. And then, like, I… I talked to… Duff talked to Lenny Kravitz — I was there when Duff was talking to him — and it was sort of like, 'Let's just get together and see what we can come up with.' That kind of thing. It wasn't like, 'Hey, do the record.' It was more like just a couple of musicians getting together seeing what they could come up with, really."

Slash: "What really is casual conversation, once it hits the press, man, it gets turned into something else. Everybody who's out there listening sort of gets the wrong… gets the misconception, basically."

Matt: "So that's basically the story for now. We're definitely… I have my studio. We were over there the other day, and it seems like it's a pretty good vibe over there, so we're just gonna get in there and kind of demo everything up and get the songs happening, because, you know, it's all about the songs, my friend."

An MP3 file containing the audio of Slash's May 13 appearance on Camp Freddy Radio has been made available for download at this location (40 MB).

[Funeral]

He [GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose] did a radio interview, I guess, in New York, and it said whatever city he was gonna be playing, it said it won't be until after that… And I was like, 'Where does this stuff come from?'

That just flat out lie! Axl never said that!

Slash still a lying machine!

[moreblack]

what does Slash have to do with Izzy playing with Nu Guns?

[axlslash]

He [GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose] did a radio interview, I guess, in New York, and it said whatever city he was gonna be playing, it said it won't be until after that… And I was like, 'Where does this stuff come from?'

That just flat out lie! Axl never said that!

Slash still a lying machine!

And Axl speaks the gospel truth?

Also, listen to the whole Trunk show. I do recall Axl saying something like that on there, but I don't remember verbatum what it was.

Edited May 30, 2006 by axlslash

[moreblack]

well like Axl's press release said Slash came and told Axl a bunch of shit about his bandmates in October of 05, but then on Rolling Stone at the Korn CD release party interview he did in January he said he hadn't talked to him in 10 years or something. Which is it Ax?

[TheAlien]

well like Axl's press release said Slash came and told Axl a bunch of shit about his bandmates in October of 05, but then on Rolling Stone at the Korn CD release party interview he did in January he said he hadn't talked to him in 10 years or something. Which is it Ax?

Ops this time u're right!

[Funeral]

you might have to go and listen to it again.

He never said that Slash will join the band again after the NY shows!

in fact...he said something different when he was asked!

Something like: "am done with the past, we have a new Guitar player"

[moreblack]

well like Axl's press release said Slash came and told Axl a bunch of shit about his bandmates in October of 05, but then on Rolling Stone at the Korn CD release party interview he did in January he said he hadn't talked to him in 10 years or something. Which is it Ax?

Ops this time u're right!

Of course I am.

[Funeral]

well like Axl's press release said Slash came and told Axl a bunch of shit about his bandmates in October of 05, but then on Rolling Stone at the Korn CD release party interview he did in January he said he hadn't talked to him in 10 years or something. Which is it Ax?

yeah, except this time Slash is trying to make Axl look desperate....when in fact, he already has a better Guitar player in the band!

hey...this time Slash might have been Drunk...for real!

Edited May 30, 2006 by Funeral

[moreblack]

well like Axl's press release said Slash came and told Axl a bunch of shit about his bandmates in October of 05, but then on Rolling Stone at the Korn CD release party interview he did in January he said he hadn't talked to him in 10 years or something. Which is it Ax?

yeah, except this time Slash is trying to make Axl look desperate....when in fact, he already has a better Guitar player in the band!

hey...this time Slash might have been Drunk...for real!

Slash drunk?!? OH MY GOD!! NO!!

What a shocker, what an insult to Slash to insinuate he drinks!!

If these guys are so much better how do you explain this review:

Axl rose proves slash right, although not intentionally

Guns N'Roses Are finally making

a serious comeback. Well Not really

Guns N'roses...Singer Axl Rose and his

collection of session musicians are

starting their Europe tour.

"How many of you motherfuckers tought we wouldn't show up?" asked Axl rose the Portugese Fans.

We are at Rock in Rio The european version of the Festival with the same name in Brazil.

Guns N'Roses are going to be the closing act for the saturday in the beatifull Parque da Bela Vista.

Axl did not only show up (wether he shows up or not is always a surprise)but he Rocked, well atleast for some parts of the show he did, and for some other parts he didn't. No matter how good the three new guitarists are they'll never be able to replace slash.

The charismatic duo Axl/slash were once the face of one of the biggest rockbands in the world but somewhere after the release of Use your illusion I & II it all went wrong.

Slash wanted to stay true to Blues based rock while Axl wanted a more industrial sound. the band fell apart.

While slash and the others were staying active with other bands Axl dissapeared from the public eye.

He's since been working on His forthcoming album "Chinese Democracy" with his ever changing line up of musicians.

Chinese Democracy is supossed to finally come out this fall but a release date has been pushed back so many times that this really isn't reliable anymore.

A previous attempt at a comeback(2002) failed miserably, shows were cancelled, riots broke out. his status as a rock icon was no more. Axl was slowly turning in to the laughing stock of the whole rock scene.

However the show in Lisboa was no laughing matter Axl gave a descent show nothing earthshattering but just a good show. During the show Axl looked a bit insecure and nervous, he's really lacking his old arrogant appearance.

Axl -44- may have aged a few years but he still runs around like never before and he also hasn't lost his scream however at some parts during Sweet child o'mine he seems to run out of breath.

Axl running out of breath took the momentum out of the show, the same goes for the great but unnecessary solos.

A few songs of the forthcoming album were played but the crowd weren't really affected by it. The crowd only started to go wild when the old songs were played like; Welcome to the jungle, you could be mine and ofcourse the inevitable ballad November Rain. although the songs were played by a group of no name hired musicians they all sounded great.

The thing proven by this show is that Guns N'roses their real power lies in blues based rock and not in Axl's new songs thus meaning slash was right.

A reunion of Axl/Slash isn't going to happen anytime soon not only because of Musical differences but also personal conflicts between the two and serveral lawsuits are making sure a reunion won't happen.

The real Guns N'roses will probably never reclaim their throne but to be fair, Axl is planning a serious comeback this time round and we'll all just have to settle for that.

[Funeral]

^^^That's just a fucking lame opinion of some one who cant get over the old band!

hummm, who ells has the same lame opinions in here?!

you guess it!

[moreblack]

^^^That's just a fucking lame opinion of some one who cant get over the old band!

hummm, who ells has the same lame opinions in here?!

you guess it!

a good chunk of the population shares those thoughts.

By the way the only lame thing is your reaction. How predictable that if a review does not kiss Axl's ass you immediately dismiss it as opinion and living in the past. Well get ready to do a whole lot more of that over the next few months...

Edited May 30, 2006 by moreblack

[metalgroupie]

Doesn't Axl completely hate Slash? Didn't he try to sue him...and i think Duff a few months ago? Or is that just a bunch of more bull shit rumors on the .net?