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http://www.jambands.com/news/2015/12/29 ... -for-tour/

According to Billboard, founding Guns N’ Roses members Axl Rose and Slash will reunite next year for a headlining slot at Coachella and a possible tour. The website cites “multiple sources” that confirm the band will play the festival when it returns to Indio, CA in April.

Guns N’ Roses are also reportedly in talks for a North American stadium tour for next summer, and they are scheduled to play the new Las Vegas Arena after its April opening. The band is said to be charging as much as $3 million to play. Consequence of Sound also claims sources that add Duff McKagan to the list of band members involved in the reunion.


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I'm in if there's a tour. If Izzy is part of it, I'll drive a long damn ways.

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Iowan wrote:I'm in if there's a tour. If Izzy is part of it, I'll drive a long damn ways.
with you, though I don't want to catch them early in the tour, would prefer to see them create some relative stability (and by that I mean at the very least show up to play scheduled shows and not have any Stills/Young "eat a peach" moments) and also would want to hear what peeps say about the shows.
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Not sure how I feel about this. I'm mixed on it.
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Clams wrote:Not sure how I feel about this. I'm mixed on it.
if I had a vote I would have them leave it as it is, but if they go out I want to see it, all things being equal. If Axl is all in it could be hot. Saw him with what they call GnR these days a few years back at Bridge School and while it was mostly miss, when it was hit it was great
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
Clams wrote:Not sure how I feel about this. I'm mixed on it.
if I had a vote I would have them leave it as it is, but if they go out I want to see it, all things being equal. If Axl is all in it could be hot. Saw him with what they call GnR these days a few years back at Bridge School and while it was mostly miss, when it was hit it was great
Axl's a fat douchebag
They haven't made music together in 25+ years
The whole thing is an obvious money grab
Tickets will be a fortune
Stadium shows suck
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Clams wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
Clams wrote:Not sure how I feel about this. I'm mixed on it.
if I had a vote I would have them leave it as it is, but if they go out I want to see it, all things being equal. If Axl is all in it could be hot. Saw him with what they call GnR these days a few years back at Bridge School and while it was mostly miss, when it was hit it was great
Axl's a fat douchebag
They haven't made music together in 25+ years
The whole thing is an obvious money grab
Tickets will be a fortune
Stadium shows suck
I can't argue with a single one of those points
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Clams wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
Clams wrote:Not sure how I feel about this. I'm mixed on it.
if I had a vote I would have them leave it as it is, but if they go out I want to see it, all things being equal. If Axl is all in it could be hot. Saw him with what they call GnR these days a few years back at Bridge School and while it was mostly miss, when it was hit it was great
Axl's a fat douchebag
They haven't made music together in 25+ years
The whole thing is an obvious money grab
Tickets will be a fortune
Stadium shows suck

Not entirely sure you know what "mixed" means.
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I could care less. I read somewhere this afternoon that tickets for stadium shows, if they happen, would run in the $250-275 range. Are you fucking kidding me?

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Clams wrote:They haven't made music together in 25+ years
Slash left the band in 1996 so this statement is incorrect.
I agree with all your other statements.
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I could care less but I am glad that his frees Tommy Stinson from his role as GnR musical director/bassist/Axl handler to get back to his own music.
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emandrisdad wrote:I could care less. I read somewhere this afternoon that tickets for stadium shows, if they happen, would run in the $250-275 range. Are you fucking kidding me?

This. While my educator's salary has kept me from seeing Bruce, TP and heartbreakers, etc. because of the ridiculous expense, not seeing G n R is more about not supporting "Ass" Rose.
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I was never all that much of a G n' R fan to start with but I'm happy for those that have been waiting for this, or at least something close to this.

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I had tickets to see GnR back in the day and the show was cancelled day-of because Axl was "exhausted". It will be interesting to see if they can keep the commitment to Coachella, much less 25 stadium shows. Hopefully Axl has grown up a bit since then and can keep it together so he doesn't disappoint the fans who are willing to pay all that money to see them.
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Saw them twice in 1990. That's good enough for me.
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I was 5 in 1990. Hence my desire.

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Do I wish I could've seen them in their heyday? Fuck yes. Do I want to see them now? No chance
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Considering Slash and I almost ended up in a fight last time I saw him I think I'll pass.
and the rest as they say is uh er uh, well somebodies history somewhere?

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Kudzu Guillotine wrote:I was never all that much of a G n' R fan to start with but I'm happy for those that have been waiting for this, or at least something close to this.
One perfect album. then the heroin and the rock stardom. Ugh. Seriously. Listen to "The Spaghetti Incident" THEN decide if you want to go.
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Swamp wrote:Considering Slash and I almost ended up in a fight last time I saw him I think I'll pass.
PLEASE share this story.
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Steve French wrote:
Kudzu Guillotine wrote:I was never all that much of a G n' R fan to start with but I'm happy for those that have been waiting for this, or at least something close to this.
One perfect album. then the heroin and the rock stardom. Ugh. Seriously. Listen to "The Spaghetti Incident" THEN decide if you want to go.

There is one very very good single album that could be assembled from Lies and the Use Your Illusion discs. In no particular running order:

Patience
Used To Love Her
Right Next Door To Hell
Dust & Bones
Live & Let Die
Double Talkin' Jive
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You Could Be Mine
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Double Talkin Jive is by far my favorite Illusion track
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Steve French wrote:
Swamp wrote:Considering Slash and I almost ended up in a fight last time I saw him I think I'll pass.
PLEASE share this story.
It has been too long since a fresh story from the swamp.
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Zip City wrote:Double Talkin Jive is by far my favorite Illusion track
Mine too. Izzy, I believe.
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Clams wrote:
Zip City wrote:Double Talkin Jive is by far my favorite Illusion track
Mine too. Izzy, I believe.
If Izzy's in, I'll fly cross-country to see them. If not, then I doubt I even go.

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They could be in 1989 form and I wouldn't go just because Axl has consistently been the biggest asshole on the planet for almost 30 years and his Bugs Bunny teeth irritate me to no end.
If Uncle Tupelo or the remaining members of CCR reunited I would lose my shit.

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jr29 wrote:If Uncle Tupelo or the remaining members of CCR reunited I would lose my shit.
for me that would be New Grass Revival (UT as well)
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GNR was the first band I really lost my mind over. I was a really big fan back in the late eighties, early nineties and even after the wheels had come off.

Every time a rumor popped up that Chinese Democracy was about to be released I got excited even though I knew better. When it finally was released I had given up and lost interest anyway and actually hearing the songs didn't do much to,change that. Even though some of them are pretty good.

If this had happened ten years ago I would really be excited. Now I can't say that I care very much. I wish I did. But as others have said, if Izzy is involved in this it will make it more exciting for me.

Axl waited a few years too long on this one.
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I am having a hard time believing that there will be enough demand for a tour of stadiums. I could see sheds and arenas with maybe a LA stadium gig--or perhaps Saint Louis :D -- but a full-on stadium tour? Color me skeptical
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