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| Rock
in Rio III - Guns N' Roses performance
14 Jan 2001,Rio De Janeiro,Brazil |
| The amassed crowd of
200,000 at the Rock in Rio on Sunday (Jan. 14), which waited until
the late hour of 2 a.m. for confirmation that reclusive Guns N'
Roses singer Axl Rose is indeed among the living, got more than it
bargained for.
Not only did Rose appear, but throughout the two-hour and fifteen-minute, 22-song set, he quite possibly reclaimed the rock and roll crown he abandoned eight years ago as well as used the time to make several speeches. "Welcome to the Jungle" commenced the band's triumphant return to Rock in Rio, a festival they also played in 1991, sparking a crowd eruption rarely rivaled in rock and roll today. Clad in trainer pants and an open shirt, Rose didn't skip a beat from his control-freak Use Your Illusion days. Midway through the song, Rose demanded of security, "Get that guy out of here. Are you listening to me Mr. Security guard? That guy. Out." It wasn't clear what sparked the outburst, but clearly one man's Guns N' Roses dream ended after a mere two minutes. For the rest of us, it went on until nearly sunrise. Rose's revolving-door band -- currently consisting of Buckethead, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Paul Tobias, Dizzy Reed, Chris Pittman, and Brain -- was spot-on musically, proving that the band's triumphant Las Vegas show was not a fluke full>> |
| A few Axl
speeches "Get that guy out of here. Are you listening to me Mr. Security guard? That guy. Out." "I know that many of you are disappointed that some of the people that you came to know and love could not be here with us here today. Regardless of what you have heard or read, people worked very hard -- meaning my former friends -- to do everything they could so I could not be here today. I say fuck that. I am as hurt and disappointed as you that unlike Oasis, we could not find a way to all just get along...so much for the past. This is 'Live and Let Die.'" "We've done one show before this and already we have been criticized for playing old songs. But I have no intention and I never did of denying you all something you enjoyed. And I thought it was only fair for you to see that this new band can play the fuck out of these songs. It's very hard to ask a musician to learn to play the part or parts played by other musicians before that. These guys here have worked very hard." "I used to go on the Internet but the Internet seems to be the big garbage can so I don't read the things that they say on the Internet anymore," "I love you. I will be back here next summer with a whole bunch of new songs. Be good to each other and we'll see you later."
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