Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Personally I made a $2000 phone bill for my parents, later tricked the boss of the jail to let me go see the 2006 show, used up all my jail calling time, marked the leave as: seeing a show with my mom, which we did lol

Listened to Appetite while I pooped

Only....

GNR

 :beer:

Going to see them in Lisbon in 2006.  Was huge to me.  First time I had ever left the country, with the exception of Canada which is not far from my Seattle based home....  Have never stopped thinking about that experience still today!!

I once walked out of an audition (a call back for a commercial actually) cause one of the producers started talking shit about Axl when he saw my Illusion tattoo. I had a good shot of scoring that gig too but I wasn't about to stand there letting this bougie fatback talk a bunch of crap.

I flew across the country to see Axl perform in 2001 despite people telling me it was a risk he wouldn't show up.  They were wrong!

Guess it'll have to be that we named our son William Axl. Axl must be honoured (not knowing) having such a beautiful boy named after him :-)

I continue to spend all my money collecting whatever i dont have in my collection.Not the 1/3 of what troccoli has but I'm satisfied :)

I was 3rd or 4th row and right next to the center walkway.Axl's glasses landed 2 meters away from me after Brownstone but that m/f security guard kept them.
The Darkness kicked ass right ?  :hihi:

Quit my job to see them open for Aerosmith at the Spectrum (RIP) in '88. I did ask for the day off a few weeks earlier, but my boss forgot about it and wouldn't let me have off, so....see ya!
 :beer:

Wrote Appetite.

Flew into NYC to see GNR at the Brooklyn Bowl on 6/6/13 ! And I declined Tommy Stinson's request to give up my beloved Bitty Ted to Axl! :hihi:

I'm gonna have to go with the whole Checkmate/running a radio show/on the phone with Merck/dealing with Brazilians for the next year thing.....

That was a fun night....lol

Gave Axl a rest as I helped sing heavens door at hammersmith in 2006. I never get bored mentioning that. :smoking:

As far as $ and collecting, me too!  As for the size and/or content of your collection - as long as you're happy, that's what matters!

lets see all the money I have spent on my collection over the years. Driving with Cineater all the way too Sturgis in 2010. 900 miles! I wasn't going too miss my fav. band play at my favorite place on the planet. Actually went too Vegas in 2002 after the tour was cancelled not wanting too lose our airfare. We tried too make the best out of it but I have too admit it totally sucked when we got there and the billboard was still up on the main highway. lol

Spent over 12k seeing all GNR's Australia shows in 2010 and 2013
Saw one show in Melbourne 93 and 2 shows in Melbourne  2007

Spent tens of thousands on my GNR collection

I spent 1k on my 5 Axl Rose Topps cards that are still pending release

Went to see them at Eastern Creek raceway in Sydney in 1993 as a 16 year old.

Caught the overnight bus (1000k journey from home) each way, stayed in a backpackers hostel for two nights and scrounged food for two days in Sydney with only $60 to my name...

On the return journey I could only afford 2x 30 cent ice cream cones as a McDonalds was the only place they stopped for us to eat. Otherwise I'd probably just have nicked something...

Wow! My friends think I'm obsessed with GNR. The only thing that I have done was support them by buying their albums and going to shows when they are in the NJ/NYC area when I can afford it.

Buying AFD for the 8th time and the Illusion records for the 3rd time.

Waited for Axl to show up on stage, May 31st 2006, in Budapest Hungary. More than 3 hours worth of wait...I think he broke some record there, I was ready to wait about2 hours, 3 hours were a bit surprising...

Was a good show anyways, although a bit short.

That is the best thing I have heard all day!!


For me...Waited in line for many hours alone to get concert tickets three different mornings in 2002.  Waited almost 4 hours each time and all shows were cancelled.  In the weeks after the riot some people laughed at me like Nelson from The Simpsons..HA-HAA!!  "I told you so" they always said.

At that point I gave up on seeing the band until 2008 or so when I felt like things were getting a lot better and I believed it could be possible.  I never gave up on the actual band...just had given up on seeing them live.  So I guess to answer the question the biggest thing I've done is not given up!

flew to vegas by myself for the 12/29/01 show.

I did that too. It was my very first GNR show. :beer:

I had my MBA school graduation on 5/12/06.  I was considering skipping my graduation to go to the Hammerstein show, but my dad had already paid money to fly down and see the graduation and stay the weekend.  Luckily we had booked a flight going back to NJ early on 5/14/06.  I got home, said hello to my mom for a few minutes and took NJ Transit into the city.  I slept on my friend's couch for 3 nights and saw the remaining 3 Hammerstein shows which I forgot to mention to him I was doing.   


I also had a job interview on that Monday 5/15/06 morning...... and I ended up getting the job  : ok:

Nice :)

Been their fan, bought their music and went to see them play.  What should we have done for them?  Dumb thread.

I continue to follow and post on a message board, inflating the idea that the general public still cares about all this.

In 2012 the Band came for one show in Israel and the Promoter did very poor job with promoting the show on Radio, TV etc...
5 days before the show they asked me to Interview me as "the biggest Fan of GNR in Israel" to sell I guess more tickets.
2 guys from the biggest News Channel came to my home and did an Interview with me so I had to clean my "GNR TEMPLE" Room and I was very sick that moment and could barely speak cause I lost my voice for 2 days.
the Interview took more than a hour and I just told good things and the way I see the Band and how much I love the new lineup vs the old one that most of the people know from the 80's and 90's.

that Interview is somewhere in the net I guess, maybe I'll find it later and you can see the whole crazy temple with rare items.
If I was the Guy that managing the GNR show in Israel , I'm sure it was a lot more than 15,000 people in our country.
I'm doing anything I can in those 23 years being a GNR fan and trying to promote the Bands name and everything that connect to the Band.

http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-bbc853fb1394831017.htm&Partner=facebook_share

i didint understand a word but thats badass

Well, it's in Hebrew ;D
Thanks

Flew to Lisboa to see GNR play for Rock In Rio in 2004 only for them to cancel.
Met some cool HTGH members (can't remeber who - Kikki was one of them I remenber) in the hard rock, got blind watching an awesome GNR cover band.
The Foo fighters played instead which was cool anyway. Dave Grohl did a parody of axl and thanked him for pulling out.

A have a GNR logo with a dragon tattooed on my right arm. It's pretty big, goes from my shoulder to my elbow.  :P

that sucks!!!! but im sure you still had a great trip...i hope

Slept in front of a garbage can from noon- 8pm to assure I was the first 1 in the door in Atlantic City in 2010 only to find out about 150 people who showed up right before the doors opened had a separate pass the line that for some reason I didn't know about until it was too late. I've also educated countless unaware Gnr Fans that they do indeed still exist (without Slash) & they have played hundreds & hundreds of kick- ass shows in since 2006 mostly which Axl not
only shows up for & sounds awesome but actually comes out pretty on time & they released a new album in 2008!  :confused:

Nothing on the level of others, but went to Vegas during Thanksgiving weekend 2012 to catch the last residency show. It's only appropriate that GNR received the honors of being my first concert out of state!

Heh, giving away my copy of Chinese Democracy to every douche-bag who told me that album sucks because he/she heard it from someone else without even listening through the album and deciding for themselves.
Leaves me buying a fresh copy every time though, yet the feelgood moment is priceless ;-) "Here you go, decide for yourself!"

going to 2006 show completly sick but was my first time and had bought the ticket time ago,i would have gone in a weelchair.

I dissolved several bodies in plastic barrels and hid them in the desert.


I mean, I bought multiple copies of every album ...

It's not a dumb thread at all.

Music is a big thing to alot of people. It can be the common thing between two people that marry. It can be the one thing that gets a child living a bad life from point A to point B in a good way. It can be that something that helps someone get over a divorce, a death or some other negative experience

Music and bands are a big deal to alot of people, so sometimes people will want to give back in their own way.

What is dumb about that?

made a huge flag (10x10) to Rio de Janeiro gig in 2010.  : ok:

Once in a while I sing out  :D

Happy Louie Louie Day GNR!  The greatest party song ever written!

Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go

. Just wondering- were u at the Manchester UK show in 2010? Thought I remembered talking to u about that & u were trying to get Axl's attention during Heaven Door to do it again w/u- he acknowledged u & seemed to remember but of course he didn't share the Mic that nite- if that wasn't u it was someone claiming to be! : ok:

havent had much interest in this thread...cant say ive done anything more than anybody else Ill say this.. ive done my share of shows and purchases... but thats everybody

but to flip it the other way gnr music has done a lot for me tho...

its always there for me when I need it... so im thankful for that... I am critical of the operation, i think it leaves a lot to be desired over the years, but I am always thankful for the live era music and for the chinese democracy album