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Find all the pictures from the parties on the last page of this thread...

Gunsnroses.gr presents 3 GN'R tribute parties in Greece: Athens, Thessaloniki and Kozani.

Gifts, videos, live acoustic show (for the Thessaloniki show) and more are waiting for those who will show up...

All 3 parties are sponsored by Jack Daniel's.

KOZANI
Friday MAY 9th 2008
ROCK BAR FLOU
14 Tranta str.

ATHENS
w/ Kids of The Underground (www.myspace.com/kidsoftheunderground)
Friday MAY 16th 2008
SKULL BAR (www.skullbar.gr)
11 Katsoni str & Ippokratous str.

THESSALONIKI
Friday MAY 23rd 2008
EIGHTBALL CLUB (www.myspace.com/8ballclub)
1 Pindou str
Ladadika

About the poster: Old images of GN'R were used for the poster, cause they're (unfortunately) a lot more recognizable to most people. We've supported the current lineup of GN'R since day one and we've never stopped doing so and never will. Besides, our main goal is to let people know (through these events) that GN'R are still alive and kicking!!! We hope that on our next posters, we'll have our new guitar heros who will attract a lot more people through their work on Chinese Democracy...

Anyway, the guy who created the poster, did an amazing job... At least that's what everyone who's seen the poster has said. I hope you'll love it as much as I did...

1500 posters were printed  for promotion thanks to Jack Daniel's!

(http://www.gunsnroses.gr/posterweb.jpg)

poster design: www.studiodepress.com

Will there be an open bar?





/jarmo

If you come to any of the parties, I'll buy a round for everyone... And there will be too many people...  :P

Wait, so is this like tribute bands or actually GNR playing? I'm confused..........

No, it's 3 tribute parties to GN'R.

Mostly videos of the band that most people (besides the traders and the youtube geeks) have never seen...

There will also be a live acoustic show from a tribute band at one of the parties, the one at Thessaloniki.

Damn, it would be heaven to have GN'R playing  ;D, but do you actually think the current lineup of GN'R would play anywhere with this poster?

Too bad that I have not planned to go to Ouranoupoulis (spelling?) this year again, otherwise I would be there (the Thessaloniki date).

I wish you all the best for it, the idea is great!!!

Pretty awsome poster, if I do say so myself.  I'd buy one!

So everyone on this forum has seen them?
Great, that's just great Christos.

Fuck you and fuck your party.

No album news these days, but at least there's a party in Greece  :-X

Thats cool! I would love to go to something like that.
amyl

We'll have something special just for you sweety...


3 parties... not just one...  :P

That's a badass picture that they're using.   :)

Well, I can confirm that they played in Jax, Fl Halloween night 06' with a couple original lineup banners hanging. 

Hanging from where?



/jarmo

As you walked in to the front of the Veteran's Memorial Arena and outside the stadium area - in the lobby where they sell t-shirts and drinks.

So, are you saying the band had anything to do with it?

Promoters do all kinds of things.



/jarmo

i went to 4 shows from one of the first to the very last in 2006, and I never once saw a poster promoting any ex-members.   Same with the show I saw in 2002.

I don't think the band told anybody to hang them if that's what you're asking. I'm just responding to that AG guy's comment about Axl and his new band not being willing to play somewhere that had an original lineup poster hanging.

I don't think Axl would have cancelled the Jax show had he known those banners were hanging, though.

Maybe they weren't aware of them.

 ::)



/jarmo

Hmm.. I can't say I saw banners at every show that I saw in 2002/2006, but I did see 3 shows in 06' - 1 that had banners promoting the original lineup and I saw a 2002 show in Pittsburgh that had the same banner hanging.

I remember reading from many differnet sources that all  the advertsing (including TV commercials) over in Europe before the Spring 2006 festival dates included only originals members. And mostly Axl, Slash & Duff. This was right before Bumblefoot was announced as the new Guitarist and the rumors of a Reunion and Slash rejoining were everywhere. This Ad campaign obviously fueled that fire, until the tour kickoff in N.Y.C. with Bumblefoot on guitar

Well, I'm 110% sure the band had no idea of that...

And I don't expect them to be searching for posters or ads so they can make sure that it's just them on all kinds of advertising...

yeah, and in the UK when ads came on tv for the 06 donnington festival, it was clips of the original band videos, but with axl only showing i think

dont quote me on that, was a couple of years back now

That is right. Clips of Axl from the old videos... not the band.

very possible, I never saw the TV commercials.........I did see posters with pictures of only Axl, Slash & Duff ( this was interstesting because VR's downhill slide had just begun with Slash's supposed rant to Axl about how much he disliked his band members)..........It was probably just the promoters making a buck

Live Pole Dancing only at the Athens Party!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df8v5QKStiY

What ashamed they got that Tennessee swill to sponsor. Someone needs to show up with some of Kentucky's finest, and show the people what GOOD liquor tastes like.

Well at least those classes you've been taking finally have a use..

Back off bitch...  :smoking:

I told you there would be something special just for you, but all you're thinking of is me.

I've told you a thousand times, thanks for the offer but I'm not gay...

Poor excuse, like the people who will visit will be non GnR fans who don't know about the changes. Come on, the ones visiting will be fans who already know about the changes, in detail. Even people who are not following GnR know Slash is gone and in VR. but there he is on the poster.

It is because of stuff like this that the current line-up isn't getting exposure...nice job living in 1987 and making up excuses for it by wanking over old pictures...I know I will get flamed for saying this because you are a "HTGTH Crew" but screw that, it's the truff :peace:

Really, what would one expect? The event is sponsored by that Lynchburg Piss Water.

I see your audition didn't go as well adz..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlKFz3cSDZo

until the NEW GnR release a record, this is the reality of the situaution...Slash is a household name that everyone associates with Guns N Roses 2nd only to Axl............if you did a public poll that lists 8 people,  Slash, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Dizzy Reed, Bumblefoot, Chris Pitman, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer. And then asked which names they associate with Guns N Roses, Slash would easily beat the combined vote total of the whole new band  : ok:

Nice way to spin what I said, Slashhead.

We are talking about folks who are not GnR fans...they won't visit these events so no need to make a poster with them in mind.
GnR fans will visit these events...they all know what is going on. So put a poster of Axl and Finck in there, they will know it is GnR.

In fact, post just a poster of Axl and everyone on this planet knows it is GnR....even people who don't listen to the music. So there goes your theory.

 And read slowly, maybe you will understand the point  :peace:

Why have a poster with just Axl?  isn't this "a band"?

yes and axl is the FRONTman who represents the band.

The current line up isn't getting exposure cause of stuff I do? Check out Gunsnroses.gr first and then open your mouth... You have no fuckin idea...

It's the "truff" that you have in your own head, for which I don't give a flying fuck...

I don't care when people, who have probably done nothing more than post a bit on the internet, tell me how to do whatever they think is "right".

I stick with the reason I stated. The old members are UNFORTUNATELY still more recognizable than the new ones, and until Chinese Democracy is released and we get some official videos it will be like this, whether we like it or not.

There are people that don't even know that GN'R played in Greece in 2006, cause it all happened in 2 weeks with almost no promotion (except from ours)...

Can't say he didn't try...  ;D

You ignored the point I was making....nice.

Read again slowly, only GnR fans are gonna visit these events...so the poster is directed to them.....anyone who thinks there is 1 GnR fan left in this galaxy who doesn't know Slash left a decade ago, is or demented or a Slash fanatic who just can't get over it. I am not saying you are, I'm saying the ones who believe that rubbish : ok:

So yes, you are insulting the current lline-up with that poster. If another person had posted what you did, it would have been removed or placed in another section. I won't say more here because you will just ignore the point again and keep that retro poster, so anyway.

And the guy who said Axl isn't the band...first that was not the point. I was talking about recognizing members by non GnR fans....you say Axl, they say GnR...you say Slash to them, they say VR and the guy who appeared on Ellen trying to sell his house :peace:

It's the second time you post this shit.

Not everyone is as slow as you are, so keep your advices to yourself...  : ok:

For the rest of your post, I still don't give a flying fuck...  : ok:

Oh, and just for the record, our main difference is that I believe in this band and a poster does not prove otherwise...

On the other hand a few posts do...



You want an ex member in the band?  :rofl:

Just stop posting and kissing asses...

I am the guy who designed this poster, and the main reason i did it the way you see was explained by Chris and it is more than clear.
Until the time the present lineup is fixed and Guns N' Roses as we know them today release a series of new promotional pics (including individual member pics) and music videos, people and fans will never be able to IDENTIFY with these new members. Image is all that counts. Different indivuals in a band, different personalities. This is my point of view. I love and promote the new band, but i tend to see how things communicate visually.
There are thousands of pictures and videos out there of the old band people grew up with and recognise. We should embrace this history
My only wish is that the new GNR will soon present themselves to a whole new generation of fans and we will reach a point where the new pictures and videos of those new members will be synonymous to the name Guns n Roses. People like Chris and Jarmo strugle hard in presenting the new band as an entity, with a new identity.
More than all that, this is a tribute party to the history of the band, i see nothing wrong with accepting the fact that the people in this poster are loved and still connected for so many people with Guns N' Roses.

:yes:

I'd just like to add that these parties are also a peek at the present and future of the band, through the few pro-shot videos we have, the videos that are worth playing at a tribute party... (RAR 2006, Download 2006).

I don't believe that RIR III is a good video that represents the current lineup.

I sooooooooooo wish i could attend those parties, please dont forget to post some pics if you can  :beer: and have an aweosme time

We'll definitely have pics of the Pole Dancer and the Go Go Dancers from Athens...  ;)

Considering myself a youtube geek, I hope there will be some decent videos from the GnR Athens show in 2006...?  :D

I love the poster and I'll try my best to be there!  :beer:  :beer:  :beer:

Maybe you are missing the point of all this...........Guns N roses "Appetite" etc..... is 20 years old now, most of the fans from the old days have grown up, got married, had a family, and started careers. Many of them don't give a f*ck who is in Guns N Roses in 2008.....does that make them not fans?, just cause they don't "troll the internet for new Chinese Democracy leaks while posting on GNR message boards". I disagree, these people are Fans,..... but GNR to them is, and probably always will be Axl & Slash because thats what they grew up on. Guns are CLASSIC ROCK now, AFD & UYI are, and will be a part of our pop culture till the day we die and maybe beyond......and like it or not Slash was part of it.

So... how did the firstone go?, any pics+

First party went GREAT but no pics cause we were too fuckin drunk to take any. I believe we only took one...

We didn't make the same mistake last night though... LAST NIGHT WAS FUCKING AMAZING!!!!

I've got MANY pics and i'll post them as soon as I go back to Thessaloniki on Monday.

But last night's highlight for me were the GREAT reactions when we played Knockin On Heaven's Door from Rock Am Ring 2006...

People loved it and they kept asking me where they could find this video. They were asking for new songs, we played the ones from Rock Am Ring...

AMAZING NIGHT...

PICTURES & DETAILS SOON...

You're posting at noon, either you were still drunk or it wasn't that great.  :P

 ;)



/jarmo

No sleep at all....  ;D

Forgive him; he hasn't had his diaper changed yet, and the stink has pervaded his senses.

or just another Newbie that has no idea about Guns N Fckin Roses

Pictures from the party in Athens soon...

Oh, the last party will be UN-fuckin-BELIEVABLE if all goes according to my masterplan...  :smoking:

We'll see in a few days...  :beer:

I hadn't checked this "old GnR fanclub" thread for a while.....nice to see you all acted like kids with your attacks behind my back  :peace:

Old GnR is dead and buried, get over it and stop trying to defend using old pics to promote GnR these days  :love:

:rofl:. old GNR has passed to history, and as history it shouldnt be forgotten

yea i think it would have been cool to put current members on the poster rather than old members.   you say its because the old guys are more recognizable, but you are doing nothing to help that.   otherwise it sounds cool.

"Said - said - said: I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the ypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we meet.
Good friends we have, oh, good friends weve lost
Along the way.
In this great future, you cant forget your past;
So dry your tears, I seh."

Bob Marley

I don't expect you to understand the meaning of these lyrics... It takes half a brain to understand them...


And how would YOU know that?

takes not only a brain but a heart and soul too, aweosme ones

i bet the reactions were better in the Lisboa Hard Rock Cafe party in 2006. The singer kicked some major ass...

Here are the pictures from the party in Athens!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27064950@N03/sets/

More pictures with all the surprises from Thessaloniki to follow REALLY soon...  ;)

A few pictures from the flickr album...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27064950@N03/sets/

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/2528983068_dd3fab8119.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2528988384_3dee5ddd76.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2335/2528165841_979e879b7e.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2203/2528168839_a4f3cce1f2.jpg)

nice pics. the second one looks trippy.
the party seems to have been quite a spectacle.

It was awesome, but wait till you see the pics from Thessaloniki...  ;)

So?  :P



/jarmo

That wrinkly dog is way too cute.

I'm still waiting for 2 REALLY cool pics of our second "surprise"... I'll try to get them today...

Fast women, pretty horses, and good whiskey ... oh wait, I thought he was in Kentucky. Oh well, one must settle for mediocre drink.

Egalitarianism that Likes Ass ...  just sayin, maybe!!!

he's in greece....I hear Ouzo is not mediocre.

Come over here and have some ouzo, tsipouro or tsikoudia and then we'll talk about whiskey...  ;)

I still can't believe you got Gene Simmons there.

I thought you'd never ask...

A special picture I took at the KISS concert last month, dedicated to AdZ:

(http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/5653/geneingreeceob8.jpg)

All this hype from one Greek.....

If it was that special and great, wouldn't we known about it as it happened?  :P



/jarmo

I didn't get any updates..

I once dated a Greek Girl, and her dad supplied us with ouzo ... liberally. Perhaps, that explains my love for the olive skinned beauties.

I don't think that I have ever seen a woman more beautiful, that came from that area.

Cheers! My friend.

I didn't see any pictures of Gene in the flickr album?

Am I blind?  Somebody, lead the way!

I might post some, I took many pics cause I wasn't really interested in the gig.

I got in for free... I also got a guitar pick.

KISS must be REALLY pissed off at me...  :rofl:

All the pictures are up now...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27064950@N03/sets/

Check out some of them from Thessaloniki... ;-)

Snakedancers...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/2579688777_9482c60fd0.jpg)

Strippers... The Sexiest girls ONLY at your GN'R party!!!

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/2579688221_b4877524c6.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2579687971_3e03399065.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/2579688295_c75bf48477.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2579688661_8f1359a773.jpg)

Live Acoustic show...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2579689197_98bfb67f53.jpg)

For more pictures click on the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27064950@N03/sets/

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2528988384_3dee5ddd76.jpg)


(http://i27.tinypic.com/idhmrk.jpg)

Don't tell me you didn't recognise him..

Oh, shut up already... You're just jealous...  :P

Of 25 hairy men and a stripper?

the party idea was really cool, but i dont know about the stripper being touched by a minor   :P

LOL...

He's not a minor... He's just REALLY short...

^He looks to be about the perfect height to me. ;D

Less hairy men and strippers. More cute dog.
 :love:

Of course...... :nervous:

*runs for cover*

I really like that poster. GN'R and JD ;D

No. I recognize  Christos AG in these ???

Thank you very much...

Finally someone who is NOT blind or has stupid hair...

Your welcome christos.

I'm not sure about the hair...my new hair colour might beat someone's curls for the foreseeable future. :(

Noone can beat AdZ when it comes to fucked up hair category...  ;)

You'd wish blindness, a disability, on someone?

You're even sicker than I previously thought. :no: