GN'R @ Rose Bar in New York (Feb 14, 2010) [incl Axl in NYC news articles]

[helenluna]

How did you get them big like that?
Oh, and thanks for posting!

[babydolls]

sexkitten - my happiness for you, purry girl, knows no bounds!  Of COURSE you got in my rocking friend!
my fave pic is the one of you rocking out with DJ in the background
you are sheer class!  the pics are fkn brilliant - what a night you must have had!
awesome....    and plenty of 

[Mechanical-Worm]

Right click and choose the copy image address and passed it in the search bar and it popped up.

[Shackler]

Some of you may have read the gaurdians article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/15/guns-n-roses-surprise-gig
Where it says ''Guns N' Roses play to half empty club''

A deliberately biased article against the band...

Spin and Rolling Stone report that the band went on stage at 1.30am and played for 1hr30mins...

So people leave when a gig finishes now? 

[Brundle25]

Some of you may have read the gaurdians article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/15/guns-n-roses-surprise-gig
Where it says ''Guns N' Roses play to half empty club''

A deliberately biased article against the band...

Spin and Rolling Stone report that the band went on stage at 1.30am and played for 1hr30mins...

So people leave when a gig finishes now? 

That article makes me angry
"reportedly half-empty"  So he wasnt there! What a pillock.

[peka80]

Really guys, WTF is this?! 

[alimari]

He's born blonde:



Looks like the raven hairdye is fading or he quit the color. To be sincere I really like the black and wish he'd keep it instead of going brown or blonde.
Anyway, who am I to decide?

OMG! He is eating mud!!






Ok, maybe it's just chocolate cake.

[Gaymo, the Hobbit]

Old news.

[Will]

Hi guys, I was lucky enough to sneak into this show!   As you can imagine it was absolutely amazing!  I was in the 2nd row. Axl shook my hand.   Saw Mickey Rourke, but I didn't see Baz and the whole knife incident.  It was completely old school...people smoking cigarettes and joints all over the place and it wasn't a problem.   A tequila company sponsored it, so it was free drinks as well...double score!!!!  It was really rowdy...someone even crowd surfed in a 150 person crowd!  Hell yeah!  Started at 1:30 and ended at 3.

Cool story! I'm glad for you. And thanks for posting the pics!
Not a big fan of tequila though. A Jack Daniel's sponsored event, now that's somewhere I'd go to! (even though I would have gone to the Rose Bar too if I was in town, make no mistake lol)

[ppbebe]

Some of you may have read the gaurdians article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/15/guns-n-roses-surprise-gig
Where it says ''Guns N' Roses play to half empty club''

A deliberately biased article against the band...

That article makes me angry
"reportedly half-empty"  So he wasnt there! What a pillock.

sad. deterioration in the quality of the paper is marked there 

http://galleries.purple-diary.com/tags/axl-rose-sebastian-bach-purple-after-party-feb-2010

nice pics!
they also have nice black and white videos of scom and pc from the night.
http://vimeo.com/9508717
http://vimeo.com/9480233

[Mechanical-Worm]

Some of you may have read the gaurdians article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/15/guns-n-roses-surprise-gig
Where it says ''Guns N' Roses play to half empty club''

A deliberately biased article against the band...

That article makes me angry
"reportedly half-empty"  So he wasnt there! What a pillock.

Yep, I forgot to post those links in my post but I did in the post in AFC.

sad. deterioration in the quality of the paper is marked there 

http://galleries.purple-diary.com/tags/axl-rose-sebastian-bach-purple-after-party-feb-2010

nice pics!
they also have nice black and white videos of scom and pc from the night.
http://vimeo.com/9508717
http://vimeo.com/9480233

[jemin]

That Sweet Child vid is pretty cool.  The PC vid is messed up though.

[One.In.A.Million]

Wow, thank you very much for those two Vimeo videos, the Sweet Child one owns. Sweet Child is one of those songs that compliments itself by being stripped down. Also DJ and Bumble handled the solo brilliantly on the acoustic, and in DJs case the clean sounding Guitar.

Both of those videos are really nice, thank you. 


Lee

[leagnr]

http://www.billboard.com/news/billboard-bits-michael-jackson-axl-rose-1004068345.story?tag=hpfeed#/news/billboard-bits-michael-jackson-axl-rose-1004068345.story?tag=hpfeed

[inlikeflynn420]

That black-and-white SCOM video is great! It's like the best fucking "MTV Unplugged" ever. Sounds awesome with the acoustic guitars, Axl looks as cool as he ever has and the band was definitely having a genuine good time on stage. Axl is doing it his way, and it's fucking awesome. i'm happy for the band, happy for the fans, and looking forward to the GnFnR future!!!

As far as Sebastian Bach goes -- what a fucking pal! It is scary (like others, i immediately thought of the Dimebag incident). Thank God nothing tragic happened. I think it's awesome that Baz, of all people, thwarted the potential attack. Too bad Mickey Rourke didn't get there in time to give the asshole with the knife a dose of the "Ram Jam"!

Another crazy incident in the history of this band. Rock and fuckin' roll! I love it!!!

[FunkyMonkey]

GUNS N' ROSES: Rose Bar Video Footage, Photos Available - Feb. 19, 2010

Video footage of GUNS N' ROSES' second late-night secret show in a tiny private venue during New York Fashion Week ? which took place at the Rose Bar in the wee hours of Valentine's Day night (February 14) in front of a celebrity-filled crowd of 150 people ? can be viewed below. Photos of the concert are available at this location.

Video: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=135418

[Loaded NightraiN]

GNR is on the Hot Topics section on msn.com, for the shows!


Thought that was pretty cool!!

[kyrie]

Sounds like the band kinda won this guy over (note - this is about the club scene in general but a lot about the Rose Bar gig):

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-greatest-show-on-earth/16163

Guns N? Roses Keep Hope Alive

The phone calls began around noon on Sunday. Desperate rockers caught wind of a performance by Guns N' Roses (and Axl Rose) in the intimate confines of Rose Bar. I politely instructed them to cultivate a relationship with Nur Khan, Rose Bar's knight in shining armor, so that in the future they're invited to parties. I wouldn't get involved. I wouldn't make inquiries. Nur, I'm sure, was inundated with requests from his own family of thousands. I had no intention of attending as Sundays are reserved for visits with my parental units. Nur texted me around 7:30 to invite me and well, the prospect of seeing a stadium act in a living room setting was undeniable. He also invited me to the Purple Magazine party on the roof. I took a deep breath and thought, maybe the whole scene should do the same. With all the talk of the 98 Kenmare space with my gangster hero Paul Sevigny, maybe this was a flashpoint. Maybe this is the start of a big decade for clubdom.

The scene is seething, waiting for answers to the questions. Is this really fun? Is this really cool? Is this all there is? Will it ever be great again? I?m not talking three bottles, some models and a B-list actor cool. I?m talking a cool that is so cool that it turns that crowd off. I?m not talking follow the leader cool but trendsetter cool, new music cool. Isn?t it time to send those mix format DJs back to weddings and their menial labor jobs? Isn?t it time that DJs aren?t just Serrato geeks playing the same track as the guy next door? That shit?s got to be over soon.

Now, it?s very arguable that an aging Axl with a band called Guns N? Roses (which has been slashed down to basically a parody) isn?t really that cool. However, the performance in a small joint with a super exclusive invited crowd is a d?j? vu event. It felt very warm, fuzzy and familiar and brought up the possibilities and the rewards of doing it right, of not selling out to greed. Nur likes loot as much as the next fellow but he hasn?t, in my experience, lost sight of the ball. He hasn?t caved in as most of the other joints have and considered a five bottle buying bean counter a VIP. He denies them and builds his relationships with artists and talent. It?s the theory that clubs can be built around smart, sharp, hip crowds and not meccas for bottle bullies and their mail order brides and escorts. Nur was gushing all about sound check, and, as all great club deities are the super-est of salesmen, his pleas hit home and I said ?yes?.

Nur is taking it to the next level. Another fashion week for him at Rose Bar, and he still puts acts into a room not big enough to house their equipment, let alone the pretty people. ?Eight seasons into Fashion Week and I?m still doing this shit!? he offered in unbridled glee. He gushed about past shows, ?The Cult, Jane?s Addiction, The Black Keys, The Kooks, Velvet Revolver, Arckid, and I forget who else right now.? I left him to his cell phone and the pleas of thousands and finished dinner with the flock.

The most impressive thing about the event is how professionally it was handled at the door. It wasn?t the madhouse associated with every major fashion week event. Calmness and professionalism separated the invited from the rest and it was done with polite but sure words. It was a room filled with hot, smart women and familiar faces. Guys who looked like rock stars wearing ?Who?s Cooler Than Me? hats. Mickey Rourke and crew with Vegas and his posse. Russell Simmons meticulously saying hello to everyone. Ever dapper, always dashing Andr? Balazs with crew attached parted the crowds as easily as Moses would part the waters of a guppy tank. I smiled, said hello and got the warm acknowledgment of nightlife?s reigning king. As he moved on, I heard gasps about the tall beautiful woman he was with. I didn?t notice her. Alas, I?ve reached that point.

I glad handed Binn and Genc Jakupi and gushed over Guest of a Guest?s Rachelle Hruska. There were so many bold-face names, I wanted to alert the media. I decided that I was the media and I won?t leak (more) names. As the show neared, the placid hipsters started to resemble those mall shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving. Nearness to the stage was the goal. Security edited a few of the guestlist/door decisions without dampening the excitement. The band hit the stage hard. Axl looked good, if not a little too much like Mickey Rourke. I glanced at Mickey?s table to assure myself. He really should play Axl in the movie. We were all arms length from each other and pogo-ing like it was 1989. Band and audience became one. The crowd was spectacular and, in that frenzied state, as sexy as I?ve ever seen a club crowd.

It can happen. It will happen. There?s nothing much wrong with nightlife, except for the wrong people being in control of the right spaces. Nur will do bigger things, as he said to me, ?As a complement to this not instead of this?. How can people lament about how lame nightlife has become when Rose Bar is always there, when Brooklyn Bowl and Skeebar still open their doors nightly? With Nur and Paul?s place moments away and Jane rumors abound, we can come back to the future. You can still get fixed up well at 1Oak on most nights, and The Box is turning three this week. I still go and it?s still fun. There?s a lot going on. Avenue is what it is for those who believe in what it is, and it?s undeniably being exactly that.La Esquina still serves me right. I?m having tea later at The Breslin and Provocateur is delivering as promised. The house bastions, Pacha (David Guetta?s there next weekend) and Cielo, still provide. The dive bars are more fun than ever. Lit Lounge is still my favorite haunt. I think we?re going to be all right.

[FunkyMonkey]

Not at the Rose Bar...but no wonder Axl and Sebastian were at the back of the club.

Susan Sarandon vomited on by transsexual performer at burlesque club
 
Actress Susan Sarandon was vomited on by a transsexual performer at a burlesque club.

Sarandon, who recently separated from long-term love Tim Robbins, was one of a number of stars to celebrate the third anniversary of hip New York club The Box.
But everyone was stunned when transsexual performer Rose Wood vomited on stage - directly hitting Oscar winner Sarandon.

'She actually handled it very well,' a witness said. 'She was laughing while a bunch of guys came over to towel her off.'

Standing just a few feet away were actors Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber, while Guns 'N' Roses frontman Axl Rose and his frequent collaborator, former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, hung out toward the back of the club.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1535346.php/Susan-Sarandon-vomited-on-by-transsexual-performer-at-burlesque-club#ixzz0gIrrWo25

[Judas Fuckin Priest]

 

poor Susan...