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Source: Sanctuary Records?
Guns N' Roses Storm New York
Monday May 22, 11:30 am ET?
Sold Out Shows, Guest Stars & Fanatic Audiences
Next Up - European Tour


For Immediate Release

GUNS N' ROSES STORM NEW YORK

SOLD OUT SHOWS, GUEST STARS & FANATIC AUDIENCES

NEXT UP - EUROPEAN TOUR

They're back!!!

Guns N' Roses - whose shows at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom sold out
in less than 3 minutes - have reclaimed the throne that was always
theirs. From stellar reviews to audience adulation, Guns N' Roses' New
York shows proved that they are back in a big way.

Concert goers weren't let down as Axl Rose and band mates Tommy Stinson
(bass), Richard Fortus (guitar), Robin Finck (guitar), Chris Pitman
(keyboard), Dizzy Reed (keyboard), Brain (drums) and new guitarist Ron
"Bumblefoot" Thal (who has only been in the band for two weeks!) burned
through Guns N' Roses classics such as "Welcome to the Jungle,"
"Paradise City," "My Michelle," "Mr. Brownstone," "November Rain" and
"Sweet Child O' Mine." The final show at Hammerstein found the band
joined by one time Guns' guitarist Izzy Stradlin on "Think About You,"
"Patience" and "Night Train," which also included an enthusiastic Kid
Rock coming onstage to join the band.

Over the four nights, audiences were also treated to nearly half of the
band's upcoming new album, Chinese Democracy, with live performances of
"Chinese Democracy," "Better," "There was a Time," "Madagascar," "IRS"
and "The Blues."

The four shows, which took place on May 12, 14, 15 & 17th, were the talk
of New York City, with fans and famous faces such as Matthew Perry,
Mickey Rourke, Drea De Matteo, Lenny Kravitz, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Fred
Durst, Sebastian Bach, Ethan Hawke, Jay Z, Jimmy Fallon, Maxwell and
Sean Penn to name a few, paying homage to one of the greatest bands in
Rock n' Roll. Each night was a celebration on stage, which would then
continue off stage with parties at Sixes and Eights, Bungalow 8, Butter,
G Spa, The Marquee Lounge and The SoHo House.

The band ended their New York jaunt with a surprise acoustic performance
at The Plumm for actress Rosario Dawson's birthday party. The band's
scorching performance, which left the way beyond capacity crowd
screaming for more and gasping for air well into the wee hours of the
morning, had birthday girl Dawson commenting of Rose: "They've never
played all acoustic, this is history in the making, how much does this
fucking man rock?!"

The N.Y concerts were warm up shows for the European leg of the band's
forthcoming tour, which starts May 25th in Madrid at Juan Carlos Arena.

For the upcoming tour, Guns N' Roses are playing a mixture of headline
Festival appearances including Rock In Rio in Portugal, Download at the
UK's famed Castle Donington, Rock Am Ring in Germany, Gods Of Metal in
Italy, Novarock in Austria, Graspop in Belgium, Roskilde in Denmark, A
Heavy Day In The Park in Holland as well as their own headlining indoor
shows in Madrid, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Paris, Zurich, Stockholm,
Oslo and Helsinki, most of which have been instant sellouts.

But nothing beats the home turf of the US or New York City. W. Axl Rose
commented, "We've just finished our 4 shows in New York and had an
amazing time. New York has always been special and it feels great to be
doing this again particularly in front of so many friends. I am very
excited about Europe and getting back over here in September."

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Edit: Updated version. /jarmo

Nice write up. Click on the mulimedia link for a big ass photo of axl!.....cool. :)

"New York has always been special and it feels great to be doing this again particularly in front of so many friends."

Man axl is quite a socialite now isn't he?



Hatts

nice........ :o 8)

Would have been appropriate to at least mention Sebastian Bach...

WHOA!!!!

Over the four nights, audiences were also treated to nearly half of the band's upcoming new album, Chinese Democracy, with live performances of "Chinese Democracy," "Better," "There was a Time," "Madagascar," "IRS" and "The Blues."

I guess the 13 tracks are pretty official at this point.

High Res anyone?

http://mms.businesswire.com/bwapps/mediaserver/ViewMedia?mgid=69215&vid=5

Choking, I think it is interesting to note that those six are apparently on the first album. From Axl's interviews, it did not sound like they had decided on the final tracklisting for either the first or second albums.

kool i hope he enjoys europe,so kool !

Best part is how they mention Guns has reclaimed the throne - its REALLY sad that since 92-93 nobody has picked up the torch.  I've always thought whenever Axl comes back and CD is FINALLY released we'd see the resurrection of rock - dare I say its sooooo close???  This is definitely guns year.

Rock will return, GN'R's timing is perfect. Music fans everywhere are starving for rock, look at VH1 this month. Everyone wants the 80's back but nobody has dilievered yet...

From CC on surreal life, to Rockstar's next reality TV show, to Bo on Idol even though he is a poser, to VH1's Supergroup reality show. All the signs of the second coming are here.

Bands like Art Brute... the list goes on forever.

The whole of Europe is gagging for rock and heavy metal. Take Lordi for example  :hihi:

hehe you forgot lordi who just won the Eurovision song contest  :rofl:

Funny how Axl never mentions the west coast regarding the tour????

2 press releases in the last few days have i died and gone to gnr heaven keep the pr releases coming santuary maybe a pr release about an album or release date!! : ok: : ok: : ok: :yes: :peace: :beer: :beer: :smoking:

You know everywhere that i went In New York I proudly told everyone I met tHAT i HAD COME TO NYC TO SEE GUNSNROSES! :hihi:

Jay-Z??? does he know who Guns n Roses are? :rofl:

Im just wondering why the hell no one can spell Nightrain!?!? How hard it is..? You see Nighttrain and Night Train but is it so hard to spell Nightrain?  :P


Nice interview otherwise  :D

Or maybe they are just gessing these songs will be on the album as no one including Axl doesn't know the track list for CD?

notice that it is listed as There Was a Time.

though it couldve been to keep the release clean, i also have a feeling that this will be the actual title of the song and TWAT was just an acronym to refer to it as in the studio or just a shorter way to refer to it/write it down (like CITR, WTTJ).

It's an official press release. ?It's safe to say that the songs listed will be on there.

Glad to see Sanctuary really upping the promotional machinery! : ok:

and that they mentioned CD itself i guess is something :P

ah well, with the ball rolling, id expect more PR's in the near future.

For Immediate Release


They're back!!!

Guns N' Roses - whose shows at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom sold out
in less than 3 minutes - have reclaimed the throne that was always
theirs. From stellar reviews to audience adulation, Guns N' Roses' New
York shows proved that they are back in a big way.

Concert goers weren't let down as Axl Rose and band mates Tommy Stinson
(bass), Richard Fortus (guitar), Robin Finck (guitar), Chris Pitman
(keyboard), Dizzy Reed (keyboard), Brain (drums) and new guitarist Ron
"Bumblefoot" Thal (who has only been in the band for two weeks!) burned
through Guns N' Roses classics such as "Welcome to the Jungle,"
"Paradise City," "My Michelle," "Mr. Brownstone," "November Rain" and
"Sweet Child O' Mine." The final show at Hammerstein found the band
joined by one time Guns' guitarist Izzy Stradlin on "Think About You,"
"Patience" and "Night Train," which also included an enthusiastic Kid
Rock coming onstage to join the band.

Over the four nights, audiences were also treated to nearly half of the
band's upcoming new album, Chinese Democracy, with live performances of
"Chinese Democracy," "Better," "There was a Time," "Madagascar," "IRS"
and "The Blues."

The four shows, which took place on May 12, 14, 15 & 17th, were the talk
of New York City, with fans and famous faces such as Matthew Perry,
Mickey Rourke, Drea De Matteo, Lenny Kravitz, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Fred
Durst, Sebastian Bach, Ethan Hawke, Jay Z, Jimmy Fallon, Maxwell and
Sean Penn to name a few, paying homage to one of the greatest bands in
Rock n' Roll. Each night was a celebration on stage, which would then
continue off stage with parties at Sixes and Eights, Bungalow 8, Butter,
G Spa, The Marquee Lounge and The SoHo House.

The band ended their New York jaunt with a surprise acoustic performance
at The Plumm for actress Rosario Dawson's birthday party. The band's
scorching performance, which left the way beyond capacity crowd
screaming for more and gasping for air well into the wee hours of the
morning, had birthday girl Dawson commenting of Rose: "They've never
played all acoustic, this is history in the making, how much does this
fucking man rock?!"

The N.Y concerts were warm up shows for the European leg of the band's
forthcoming tour, which starts May 25th in Madrid at Juan Carlos Arena.

For the upcoming tour, Guns N' Roses are playing a mixture of headline
Festival appearances including Rock In Rio in Portugal, Download at the
UK's famed Castle Donington, Rock Am Ring in Germany, Gods Of Metal in
Italy, Novarock in Austria, Graspop in Belgium, Roskilde in Denmark, A
Heavy Day In The Park in Holland as well as their own headlining indoor
shows in Madrid, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Paris, Zurich, Stockholm,
Oslo and Helsinki, most of which have been instant sellouts.

But nothing beats the home turf of the US or New York City. W. Axl Rose
commented, "We've just finished our 4 shows in New York and had an
amazing time. New York has always been special and it feels great to be
doing this again particularly in front of so many friends. I am very
excited about Europe and getting back over here in September."

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This is the correct one.



/jarmo

That is gold! ;D

Thanks.

I sure would've loved to run into Sean Penn, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Drea De Matteo, and Ethan Hawke at the shows. :yes: :beer:

I would say it is a good time to be a Guns N' Roses fan. A great time will be the day when their new album finally releases. This is a good time...but not great.

Can't wait to see them again in september

he has a song called guns n roses.

I hate it how the press release is saying that Guns N Roses is a legendary band. The only legend there is Axl theres no Slash no Duff no Izzy so it aint the same Guns N Roses that is legendary this is a new band. Stop being so deludded

I really just can't believe all the positive press guns n' roses are getting this time around.  After 2002 i never thought they were going to ever be taking seriously.  I think a big part of it this time is that they all look relativily normal.  Buckethead gone.  Finck looks normal.  Axl looks (and sings) like axl.  They really just proved to the world there not fucking around.



Hatts

Awesome, no press releases for ages, now they can't shut up!

Um I have a right to voice my opinion so i'll "whine" (since thats what u wanna call it, i call it voicing my displeasure at what Axl's doing) for how much i want when i want & how i want, if you dont like it ignore my posts :D

Could not agree more.  I love this new version of Gn'R, and have accepted them as "Gn'R", however, calling this band "lengendary" is a stretch.  Only Axl and the Gn'R name is rock legend.  The rest are not. 

Don't want this to be the 1,687 thread on "is this Gn'R", however, I am not a fan of the propaganda Sanctuary is putting out.  What happened to "let the music do the talking"?  :-\  ::)

Really? what's it about the usual stuff in hip-hop ghetto life n killing etc.
even if he does have a song called that why see the band named after your song? i doubt he is a big fan!

Then again, what do you know?

I hope those tracks dont make the album - they just arent very good....

I was really hoping that most of those songs weren't on the album, not cos i don't like them - just that we've waited all this time and heard some live stuff and some leaks, and now it turns out that stuff was half of the album! I was kinda hoping that only a couple of those tracks were on CD and that we'd have 10 or so brand new ones to look forward to.

I just hope that the songs we've already heard sound loads better on the CD!

Looks like youre in for a disappointment...

I like them all, I just hope the studio versions are as good as the live renditions.

6 out of 13, 7 more tracks which im sure are goign to be dynamite, if CD is released, i think you ll see the snow ball effect on GNR, it ll just keep getting bigger and bigger

what you mean? what do i know? explain yourself?

I mean you really dont know what youre talking about.

why don't I? Jay-z hasn't taken an intreset coz he's a fan, he's intressted in them coz he wants to see what money he can make coz he a CEO now!

The only one of those songs I don't think is strong enough for the album is 'IRS'. It's not bad but nothing special in my opinion, a little repetitive. Maybe the album version will be a little different. I say replace it with Catcher though  : ok:

Ohh i guess ur just so close with Jigga to know this for a fact.

I know no black person, especially a rapper & a rap fan, would like any other style of music. I mean coz Axl never liked or promoted or wanted N.W.A. on the tours or anything like that.

There you have it people, theres the golden rules for life, no liking hip hop if u like Guns N Roses or rock n roll & vice versa  ::) :P :-*

and u do know Jay-Z great!!! ask him if he got a new album coming out soon! : ok:

My point is since he became CEO of def Jam he's started getting behind rock bands example fall out boy, antranx, GNR etc. he could of signed rockbands 2 rockfella if he is a fan of certain bands!
Why show so much intrestest now???

Def Jam is a rap label not a rock label

I never said i knew Jay Z what i'm saying is ur saying with certainty that he doesnt genuinely like GNR. How do you know?

unless u really know him then u can't answer than that, but i've seen plenty of Jay-z interviews were they ask him what music he into, who he is feeling, fav artist of all time etc. he's never mentioned any rock bands in any of them, not GnR or linkin park who he collab with.

this is certainly interesting but it could be just another way of saying they are new songs, not that they will necessarily feature on the new album because the band and everyone around it have always been very secrative about chinese democracy in the past. still a myth. 8)

No offense, but that is as official as your going to get-certainly not a myth. : ok: I am kinda disappointed that those tracks are definitely on the first record. I was hoping a few would be put on the second so we would get more "unheard" stuff. ps Obviously I will take what I can get at this point. :hihi:

When Jay-Z did his MTV Diary in promotion for his Dynasty album (in 2000), he was seen listening to rock music and talked about how much he likes it.  Hes stated that he likes John Mayer (http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1484845/20040205/mayer_john.jhtml?headlines=true) (in early 2004, before running Def Jam).  You just dont know what youre talking about.

i hope all the new tracks weve heard aint on the album  :no:

maybe just better, twat and maddy !!

i.r.s is sooooo lame and its really just an average song !!

they aren't "definately on the first record" at all (although i wouldn't mind that), because axl has said that they are still picking out songs for it and he could change his mind and most likely will a hundred times from now and till release date.

Since this press release was three days ago and Axl hasn't spoken since...I'll go with that for now. >:(

IRS is my favourite of the new songs. expecially since i heard the live version from the 15th : ok:

i'm addicted to it as well, and yeah that version rocks! ;D i really hope they play it when i see them this summer! :drool:

A quote from ur link:
where he's become a Grammy-winning popstar,

doesn't sound like a rock artist, you got any more jay-z is into!
 
 

This thread is about the news release.  Not about J-Z.  Take it to pm's if you want to argue about it some more.

dont cha love it when people like Mr Rage say something doesnt smell like shit, then Booker proceeds to grab them by the head & rub there faces in it to prove it smells like shit.