Guns n' Roses Announce Las Vegas Residency
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 12:01AM It’s the new trend among 80s bands: the Las Vegas residency! Guns n’ Roses will launch their residency at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this fall.
Guns n’ Roses will do 12 shows, starting on October 31. Tickets go on sale Friday. The name of the residency is apparently Appetite for Democracy.
I have to admit I’m a little surprised Guns n’ Roses are following Motley Crue’s footsteps with a residency. I figured it would be someone like KISS or even Poison to do it first, buy hey, money is money and Axl Rose has to eat too, baby. The question is, will The Joint let Axl have his way and go on in the middle of the night? Probably. There’s a casino just outside The Joint and I’d imagine Hard Rock management would love for concert goers to spend money on slots while waiting for Axl.
So lets do a roll call, here. Who plans on attending this residency? With tickets at just $45 bucks, it’s not an expensive night… unless you have to travel to Vegas. Then all bets are off. (Get it?!)
Reader Comments (22)
It duzn't get any more Rock and Roll than that! (Am I missing anyone?) of course, this isn't the REAL G'n'R, but still, it'll look good on the marquis and ya gotta admit, they do play their as*s off regardless of what we may think of the whole Axl/Slash thing.
Gotta wonder what the rider on the contract stipulates about showing up on time, though. This might be a situation where Axl might want to make sure he shows up on time or he could find himself in the desert where no one can hear him scream like the little old lady he's always sounded like.
Though it's cool he's doin' this, he's still a first class a*shole, topping off all his B.S. with letting the fans down at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
AND "G'n'R" doesn't stack up to any of their predecessors who have done one of these Vegas stints before.
Not by a mile.
There's thousands of holes in that desert, Mess with the wrong "union rep" & Ax-hole will be buried in one of them.
I can see it now "GnR - The newest impersonator show on the Strip".
Couldn't be less interested in this.
But to just plain rock out and take a break from all the slot machine noise on my 3 night vay kay to Sin City ?? Sign me up !
Hey if Van Halen can get back together.... I have hope.
Ipod to drive to work song of the morning ~ Rockin' Is Ma Business by The Four Horsemen (glam enough for ya ?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKv_YYzdI2w
And, GNR, you make good points, as always, and just gotta say, The Four Horsemen's "Nobody Said It Was Easy", as Bob emphasizes, is easily one of The Best Rock & Roll Albums Ever and I will add, one of my Top 50 Favorite Hair Metal Albums of All Time! Beyond Glam Metal. Beyond Metal. This is a Rock & Roll album of the HIGHEST order!
AND "Rockin' Is Ma' Business" is easily one of my Top 50 Favorite Hair Metal Songs of All Time! I got it wedged right in between "Outlaw" by The Scream and "Balls To The Wall" by Accept on my "A" iTunes Playlist, "Heavy Roxx". This is what I call Mean A*s Rock n' F*ckin' Roll! Good one, GNR!
Too bad these guys didn't make a video to match the epic lyrics of the song. Instead, they made a throw away video that looks like it was shot in Venice Beach in an afternoon. There are a couple of things out here that have been finally been released, including a DVD and Live CD from '92.
Also, if you've got a spare 110 smackers, feast your eyes on the still sealed Promo CD of "Nobody Said It Was Easy" packaged in a Denim Blue Jeans Pocket (sans the jeans, of course) up for auction on Ebay right now. So frickin' cool!:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/W's/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380442729651
And Four Horseman rock, big time!
I hope its successful for them and for the Hard Rock Las Vegas!
It is a great town to catch a car crash of acts. Seen Tom Jones and David Lee Roth there. I'll leave it to you to guess which show I chose and which show I was expected to attend.
And the people watching is half the fun. Have beens and never weres mingle with almosts and gold stamped bona fides.
Like I said, I _could_ get to this show . . . interesting.
PS: Metalboy!, nice reference to The Scream. Quite a few great people involved in the making of _Let It Scream_. I wonder though: what do you think of Corabi's next move?
Rita! How do I find this stuff. Ooo, you are asking about a very dangerous game. I hesitate to tell you because it can easily consume all of your time AND money. It's called Ebay!
Guns' LoG has the potential to rebuild a rope line where all the bridges once stood before he burned them. But Guns and Corabi is an odd enough pairing that it could work. That said, Corabi is better than the baggage that combo would have to drag with them. If I had my "what if" pick it would be Clarke, even though he is still involve in the newest iteration of Fastway.
Sidebar: the Motley Crue that recorded _Motley Crue_ was never going to work for a variety of reasons. But it is an incredible showcase of his talent and the things Crue is capable of when they are pushed a bit (Mars having to deal with another talent in a love/hate way pushed him further than it did Lee or Sixx).