Twelve GN'R shows in Vegas (10/31 - 11/24)

[slashsbaconpit]

Oh, hell yeah! Locomotive!

[axlrosegnr]

Cry me a river...haha.

A Clark County commissioner said she regrets the commission?s decision to temporarily rename Paradise Road to Paradise City Road to promote Guns N? Roses concerts because an ad for the iconic group?s concerts depicts what appears to be a sexually assaulted woman beneath the ?Welcome to Las Vegas? sign.

?Paradise City? is among the band?s best-selling songs. Guns N? Roses will be resident artists at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel through Nov. 24. Paradise Road runs alongside the Hard Rock.

The ad is a revised version of the group?s banned cover of its first album, ?Appetite for Destruction.? The cartoon-like drawing depicts a robotic monster lurking over a skeletal robot, with a disheveled woman sprawled on a sidewalk, her underwear pulled down below her knees and her blouse opened, exposing a breast. The ?Welcome to Las Vegas? sign, and another that reads ?Welcome to Paradise Sin City? have been added to the drawing for the current concert promotion.

The artwork appears on the group?s website selling tickets to its shows at the Joint, and a somewhat sanitized version ? no exposed breast and no underwear ? is used in mainstream advertising including newspaper promotions and taxicab placards.

When the Sun posted the story Monday about the street name change, a reader responded, ?So with this ad, do you really think violence against women doesn?t resonate? Why would the county commissioners not recognize this demoralization of women and then go ahead and name a street after this band??

Commissioner Mary Beth Scow, who represented the county at the ceremony commemorating the temporary name change, said she was unaware of the ad promoting the concert that the county was throwing its support behind.

?I hadn?t seen the advertising before the media event,? she said Tuesday. ?It?s clearly inappropriate. Maybe it?s the risk of doing business with a rock band, but I guess we?ll have some remorse over this decision. It?s a lesson learned.?

A spokeswoman for Safe Nest, a woman's shelter, said the county should rescind the street name change and that the Joint and the rock band should apologize and stop using the image because it promotes acceptance of violence against women.

"It?s very frustrating to see approval ? almost a celebration ? of rape and violence against women," said Lisa Lynn Chapman. "Our community has enough issues with domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and so many other violent issues that to have this being paraded around town on taxicabs and in advertising is very offensive."

Even the toned-down version of the ad reflects violence, because of the torn garments, and allowing that sort of image "makes it easier to perpetuate a culture of violence against women," Chapman said. Guns N' Roses "should not be rewarded (with a street name in its honor) for this kind of insult against our community."

A spokesman for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority offered an, ?Oh, boy? when told of the promotion's artwork and then deferred to county government officials for comment.

The county prepared a street sign for Paradise City Road for presentation to the group on the assurance that promoters would reimburse the county the $300 cost of making it. There were no plans to actually post the sign on street corners.

Scow said she thought she had done due diligence before attending Monday?s event, saying she even looked to the lyrics of ?Paradise City.?

She said she liked the song?s chorus: ?Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty ...?

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/30/commissioner-calls-poster-guns-n-roses-concerts-in/

[Pinball Wizard]

Hi, welcome to 1987!

People's overreaction to these things still amazes me! 

Can't wait until they discover Used to Love Her and One in a Million!

[GNR4L]

Cry me a river...haha.

A Clark County commissioner said she regrets the commission?s decision to temporarily rename Paradise Road to Paradise City Road to promote Guns N? Roses concerts because an ad for the iconic group?s concerts depicts what appears to be a sexually assaulted woman beneath the ?Welcome to Las Vegas? sign.

?Paradise City? is among the band?s best-selling songs. Guns N? Roses will be resident artists at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel through Nov. 24. Paradise Road runs alongside the Hard Rock.

The ad is a revised version of the group?s banned cover of its first album, ?Appetite for Destruction.? The cartoon-like drawing depicts a robotic monster lurking over a skeletal robot, with a disheveled woman sprawled on a sidewalk, her underwear pulled down below her knees and her blouse opened, exposing a breast. The ?Welcome to Las Vegas? sign, and another that reads ?Welcome to Paradise Sin City? have been added to the drawing for the current concert promotion.

The artwork appears on the group?s website selling tickets to its shows at the Joint, and a somewhat sanitized version ? no exposed breast and no underwear ? is used in mainstream advertising including newspaper promotions and taxicab placards.

When the Sun posted the story Monday about the street name change, a reader responded, ?So with this ad, do you really think violence against women doesn?t resonate? Why would the county commissioners not recognize this demoralization of women and then go ahead and name a street after this band??

Commissioner Mary Beth Scow, who represented the county at the ceremony commemorating the temporary name change, said she was unaware of the ad promoting the concert that the county was throwing its support behind.

?I hadn?t seen the advertising before the media event,? she said Tuesday. ?It?s clearly inappropriate. Maybe it?s the risk of doing business with a rock band, but I guess we?ll have some remorse over this decision. It?s a lesson learned.?

A spokeswoman for Safe Nest, a woman's shelter, said the county should rescind the street name change and that the Joint and the rock band should apologize and stop using the image because it promotes acceptance of violence against women.

"It?s very frustrating to see approval ? almost a celebration ? of rape and violence against women," said Lisa Lynn Chapman. "Our community has enough issues with domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and so many other violent issues that to have this being paraded around town on taxicabs and in advertising is very offensive."

Even the toned-down version of the ad reflects violence, because of the torn garments, and allowing that sort of image "makes it easier to perpetuate a culture of violence against women," Chapman said. Guns N' Roses "should not be rewarded (with a street name in its honor) for this kind of insult against our community."

A spokesman for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority offered an, ?Oh, boy? when told of the promotion's artwork and then deferred to county government officials for comment.

The county prepared a street sign for Paradise City Road for presentation to the group on the assurance that promoters would reimburse the county the $300 cost of making it. There were no plans to actually post the sign on street corners.

Scow said she thought she had done due diligence before attending Monday?s event, saying she even looked to the lyrics of ?Paradise City.?

She said she liked the song?s chorus: ?Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty ...?

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/30/commissioner-calls-poster-guns-n-roses-concerts-in/

Wow.... Isn't this Las Vegas ?  I could think of several more offensive things, I've seen in that city that aren't even close.  People need to get over this shit.  It's more of a cartoon drawing then anything.  

[axlrosegnr]

Haha. They hand out porn cards up and down the strip, and they're getting their panties in a bunch about this? Boo hoo. lol

[banachkevin]

Locomotive and sympathy for the devil please axl play these two on nov 10 also estranged lol thanks

[banachkevin]

What the he'll play them all fuck I can't wait

[banachkevin]

Locomotive would be fucking awesome tho

[cineater]

Haha. They hand out porn cards up and down the strip, and they're getting their panties in a bunch about this? Boo hoo. lol

No shit, who do they think they are fooling?  Dress it in bright lights and glam it up, you're still out to take people for all you can and sell what you can.  Isn't this just a ploy to get a donation?  They don't want the street unnamed, they want money.

[russtcb]

Haha. They hand out porn cards up and down the strip, and they're getting their panties in a bunch about this? Boo hoo. lol

I just finished saying that to my room mate. I said "Maybe the commissioner was too busy looking at the porn cards on the strip or perhaps she couldn't see the GN'R ads with the "HOT BABES DIRECT TO YOU" truck in the way?"

[D]

Well it does depict a violent Rape or battery

that is a lot worse than a Legal venture in Las Vegas.

[Ali]

Well it does depict a violent Rape or battery

that is a lot worse than a Legal venture in Las Vegas.

That's debatable, though.  There's no bruising or bloodiness indicating any physical violence.  Beyond that, the art in and of itself is not illegal.  Additionally, you are mistaken.  Prostitution is not legal in Clark County, NV.

Ali

[HBK]

Cry me a river...haha.

A Clark County commissioner said she regrets the commission?s decision to temporarily rename Paradise Road to Paradise City Road to promote Guns N? Roses concerts because an ad for the iconic group?s concerts depicts what appears to be a sexually assaulted woman beneath the ?Welcome to Las Vegas? sign.

?Paradise City? is among the band?s best-selling songs. Guns N? Roses will be resident artists at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel through Nov. 24. Paradise Road runs alongside the Hard Rock.

The ad is a revised version of the group?s banned cover of its first album, ?Appetite for Destruction.? The cartoon-like drawing depicts a robotic monster lurking over a skeletal robot, with a disheveled woman sprawled on a sidewalk, her underwear pulled down below her knees and her blouse opened, exposing a breast. The ?Welcome to Las Vegas? sign, and another that reads ?Welcome to Paradise Sin City? have been added to the drawing for the current concert promotion.

The artwork appears on the group?s website selling tickets to its shows at the Joint, and a somewhat sanitized version ? no exposed breast and no underwear ? is used in mainstream advertising including newspaper promotions and taxicab placards.

When the Sun posted the story Monday about the street name change, a reader responded, ?So with this ad, do you really think violence against women doesn?t resonate? Why would the county commissioners not recognize this demoralization of women and then go ahead and name a street after this band??

Commissioner Mary Beth Scow, who represented the county at the ceremony commemorating the temporary name change, said she was unaware of the ad promoting the concert that the county was throwing its support behind.

?I hadn?t seen the advertising before the media event,? she said Tuesday. ?It?s clearly inappropriate. Maybe it?s the risk of doing business with a rock band, but I guess we?ll have some remorse over this decision. It?s a lesson learned.?

A spokeswoman for Safe Nest, a woman's shelter, said the county should rescind the street name change and that the Joint and the rock band should apologize and stop using the image because it promotes acceptance of violence against women.

"It?s very frustrating to see approval ? almost a celebration ? of rape and violence against women," said Lisa Lynn Chapman. "Our community has enough issues with domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and so many other violent issues that to have this being paraded around town on taxicabs and in advertising is very offensive."

Even the toned-down version of the ad reflects violence, because of the torn garments, and allowing that sort of image "makes it easier to perpetuate a culture of violence against women," Chapman said. Guns N' Roses "should not be rewarded (with a street name in its honor) for this kind of insult against our community."

A spokesman for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority offered an, ?Oh, boy? when told of the promotion's artwork and then deferred to county government officials for comment.

The county prepared a street sign for Paradise City Road for presentation to the group on the assurance that promoters would reimburse the county the $300 cost of making it. There were no plans to actually post the sign on street corners.

Scow said she thought she had done due diligence before attending Monday?s event, saying she even looked to the lyrics of ?Paradise City.?

She said she liked the song?s chorus: ?Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty ...?

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/30/commissioner-calls-poster-guns-n-roses-concerts-in/

County Clark:

You' re Fired

 

[D]

Well it does depict a violent Rape or battery

that is a lot worse than a Legal venture in Las Vegas.

That's debatable, though.  There's no bruising or bloodiness indicating any physical violence.  Beyond that, the art in and of itself is not illegal.  Additionally, you are mistaken.  Prostitution is not legal in Clark County, NV.

Ali

He didn't say people were passing out fliers in Clark Co either but if u guys can't tell the difference in prosititution and sexual assault, i feel bad for ya.

[asdf gunner]

Well it does depict a violent Rape or battery

that is a lot worse than a Legal venture in Las Vegas.

That's debatable, though.  There's no bruising or bloodiness indicating any physical violence.  Beyond that, the art in and of itself is not illegal.  Additionally, you are mistaken.  Prostitution is not legal in Clark County, NV.

Ali

He didn't say people were passing out fliers in Clark Co either but if u guys can't tell the difference in prosititution and sexual assault, i feel bad for ya.

There is a huge difference between prostitution and raping, but... it's only a picture, it's not like the guys are raping women on their free time 

[Ali]

Well it does depict a violent Rape or battery

that is a lot worse than a Legal venture in Las Vegas.

That's debatable, though.  There's no bruising or bloodiness indicating any physical violence.  Beyond that, the art in and of itself is not illegal.  Additionally, you are mistaken.  Prostitution is not legal in Clark County, NV.

Ali

He didn't say people were passing out fliers in Clark Co either but if u guys can't tell the difference in prosititution and sexual assault, i feel bad for ya.

What? Where are you pulling that BS from? There is a difference between a painting, the content of which is subjectively interpreted, and an actual illegal, violent act. If you can't distinguish between the two, and get your facts straight while making your argument, then I feel sorry for you.

Ali

[liesl9]

Well it does depict a violent Rape or battery

that is a lot worse than a Legal venture in Las Vegas.

Yup. And the artwork has always been colloquially known as the "rape scene" so I never thought that was under debate. I always thought it was actually condemning rape -- the monster is jumping the fence to kill the robot rapist -- but I can see how it would completely trigger someone who has been sexually assaulted. Painting, photo, whatever, an image of a woman who has been violated in some way can be really upsetting. That's not a judgment on the image; it's not a judgment on the quality.

I'm sure I'll get roasted for this, but I wish, all things considered, that they had chosen a different image for the residency. I get why they did it, it's the original AfD cover and all, and it's a very evocative painting, but I wish they'd gone with something else. Or, since they've altered the original painting as it is, they could have replaced the beaten woman with a happy/sexy one. Or turned the table and had the woman kicking the shit out of the robot.

[crthiel]

So yeah, first show tomorrow!  Who's stoked?!

[Loaded NightraiN]

GNR video if you scroll around

http://www.fox5vegas.com/video

[AxlsMainMan]

So yeah, first show tomorrow!  Who's stoked?!

Me!

Where is the pre-party goin' down? Everyone meeting up at the Hard Rock?