The rock band Guns N ‘Roses again to finally meet with a first concert at the club Troubadour, one of the places where they took their first steps to success , who has not missed 250 of his most loyal fans.
Nick Hart flew from Boston to queue at one in the morning in front of an empty shop in Hollywood. The reason for his trip 5,000 kilometers is tattooed on his biceps: the singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash , the two pillars of Guns N ‘Roses long estranged <. /> p>
Hart was one of 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 reunion. official 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 started, the Troubadour, TONIGHT, Friday, April 1 “.
Even at its peak of popularity between the late 80s and early 90s, the band was always a volatile combination of personalities, complicated turn the 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 he 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.
A brochure old fashioned promised a performance “sometime after 23:00 hours (…) 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 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, said that had “followed the tracks” of reeencuentro group after two decades and was queuing from 20:00 pm on Thursday.
Another fan, Al Davidson, claimed that the event was “too prepared “to be a hoax.
the store, which is now closed and in that once worked Slash, it was conditioned overnight and covered 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 efforts the band to keep “retro prices”.
According to the mail Estlund, the local was “transformed into a fully interactive GNR experience with an exhibition of objects” with “historical and classic clothing Member elements, original artwork, awards and more. “
a concert next week in Las Vegas week, whose tickets are already sold out, will you two on 16 and April 23 others in the Coachella Festival in Indio, California, with a jump to the City of Mexico in the middle.
last month the group announced a tour this summer (northern hemisphere) of 2016 in 21 cities in the United United. The tour will bring together on stage to Axl Rose, Slash and McKagan for the first time in 23 years. The plans made public so far do not include guitarist Izzy Stradlin
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in the end, the band released Friday in homage to its beginnings in Troubadour and defying the name she gave this event that many thought would not occur ever: “not in this Lifetime Tour “. (not in this lifetime)
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