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Title: Vaguely interesting GN'R article from windowsmedia.com Post by: Scone on October 17, 2004, 10:02:00 AM An appearance at MTV's annual Video Music Awards helped garner interest in the new lineup, but a rusty performance from Rose and an interview where he said his new album wasn't coming out anytime soon didn't do much to further their cause. That summer, the band started on their first tour in almost eight years, and they managed to fulfill all of their commitments in Europe in Asia.
Sadly, they caused a violent and destructive riot in Vancouver when Rose failed to show up for the first date of their North American tour. Tour openers CKY were especially inconvenienced, as Rose had only asked them days before to reroute from California to Canada for the show. A few shows managed to come together, with Rose hitting the stage quite late at certain dates. But Rose didn't show up for a Philadelphia concert after allowing both opening acts to go on beforehand. The costly vandalism that followed the announcement was enough to convince tour backers Clear Channel to cut their ties with the group, ending the tour and convincing CKY to verbally thrash the group on their website. While he was up to his old shenanigans with the retooled lineup, former members Stradlin, Slash, Sorum and McKagan finally put an end to the rumors and announced that they were searching for a vocalist for a new, Axl-free band. (The rest of the artlicle is at http://windowsmedia.com/Mediaguide/Templates/Biography.aspx?p_id=P%20%20%20%20%204416) I never found out the reason CC decided to cut the tour short, has the vandalism been labelled the official reason for the tour going belly-up or is this just Microsoft being inaccurate? Title: Re: Vaguely interesting GN'R article from windowsmedia.com Post by: takeshi on October 17, 2004, 10:24:13 AM CC dropped the tour because they were worried about losing a huge amount of money if Axl noshowed for the rest of the concerts.
Title: Re: Vaguely interesting GN'R article from windowsmedia.com Post by: Chief on October 17, 2004, 05:41:48 PM somehow i wouldn't exaclty trust Microsoft with any accurate news on the music world, esp. with a band like GNR!
Title: Re: Vaguely interesting GN'R article from windowsmedia.com Post by: mega_music on October 17, 2004, 06:58:48 PM Windows and Guns N Roses do have something in common. When things start going good something\someone causes some shit and the whole thing crashes.
Title: Re: Vaguely interesting GN'R article from windowsmedia.com Post by: PeterCoffin on October 17, 2004, 10:14:36 PM I believe Microsoft took that from MTV.com and it is innaccurate. CKY never said a bad thing about Axl. In fact, as I recall, they only had good things to say of him - even after the cancellations.
Title: Re: Vaguely interesting GN'R article from windowsmedia.com Post by: ccorn69 on October 19, 2004, 12:41:40 AM thanks for the read scone, the perception of gnr and axl given by the media sucks, the media needs to fuck itself
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