The rock band finally returned to meet with a first concert at the Troubadour club, one of the places where they took their first steps to success, which not lacking 250 of his most loyal fans.
The rock band Guns N ‘Roses returned to finally meet with a first concert at the Troubadour club, one of the places where they took their first steps to success, which did not lack 250 of his most loyal fans. Faced with some 500 lucky spectators, vocalist Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan, they played together for the first time in public after more than two decades. The last presentation of the band in Argentina was in 1993.
Nick Hart flew from Boston to queue at one in the morning in front of an empty shop in Hollywood. The purpose of your trip is 5,000 kilometers tattooed on his biceps: singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash, the two pillars of Guns N’Roses long estranged
Hart was one. the thousands of fans, many of them tattooed and dressed in black, who lined up in front of the old record store Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard. The reason:. The surprise announcement of a show of Guns N ‘Roses on Friday night at the Troubador
The publicist Kim Estlund, who also handled the announcement of the official reunion the band 8 and April 9 in Las Vegas, published in Friday morning: “the dates for the most anticipated musical event of the millennium! Guns N ‘Roses will be playing in his first live concert 2016 in the sacred ground where they began, The Troubadour, TONIGHT, Friday, April 1 “.
Even at its peak popularity among the late 80s and early 90s, the band was always a volatile mix of personalities, complicated turn for drug abuse and infamous for its shows that began hours later or were canceled without notice.
the official website of Guns N ‘Roses would not let him quite clear: “A joke on April 1?” it read. In Anglo-Saxon countries on April 1 is the equivalent of April Fool’s Day in Latin America. Then redirected visitors to the home page, in which there was a section in which it was announced that tickets were sold in the old store Tower Records and a nostalgic price of $ 10.
An old fashioned brochure promised a performance” sometime after the 23 (…) of the guys that will bring them the most chaotic 2016 tour “.
Hart was sure it was not a joke or a hoax. “We talked to the right people and we knew it was like that,” he says.
Soon after, Twitter accounts certified -the original guitarist Slash of the band-bassist Duff McKagan and hung ads concert, and the official account of the group in the social network posted a photo of your battery already prepared on stage at the Troubadour, one of the clubs he played until his album “Appetite for Destruction” made them one of the most famous artists in the world in 1987.
Some of the most loyal fans queued for hours at the gates of the old store now owned by Gibson Guitars. Mike Torres, 34, reported that he had “followed the tracks” of reeencuentro the group after two decades and was lining up from 20 on Thursday.
Another fan, Al Davidson , he claimed that the event was “too prepared” to be a hoax.
the store, which is now closed and in that once worked Slash, was conditioned overnight and cover with the logo of the band. Even the police barriers bore the logos of Guns N ‘Roses.
Then it was announced that the first 250 people who were in the queue could buy for $ 10 a ticket to the show, as part of the efforts of the band to keep “retro prices”.
According to the mail Estlund, the place was “transformed into a fully interactive GNR experience with an exhibition of objects” with “historical and classic clothing members, original artwork, awards and more.”
a concert next week in Las Vegas week elements will follow two 16 and April 23 at the Coachella Festival in Indio, California.
last month the group announced a tour this summer of 2016 in 21 US cities. The tour will bring together on stage to Axl Rose, Slash and McKagan for the first time in 23 years.
The band premiered Friday in homage to its beginnings in Troubadour and challenging the name that she gave this event that many thought would not occur ever: “not in this lifetime Tour” (not in this lifetime)
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