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November 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Remembering GnR in ’93
So Guns n’ Roses (featuring three-fifths of the original line-up) will play two New Zealand shows in February 2017. It will be 24 years – almost to the day – since the band’s previous New Zealand show (we’re not counting the Axl-only version) and in celebration of this week’s news I thought I’d reminisce about […]Archive
February 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Slash (Feb 18, Wgtn)
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators TSB Bank Arena Wednesday, February 18 Slash (b. Saul Hudson) found fame a quarter-century ago as the top-hatted guitarist in Guns N’Roses, his oily riffs and greasy hair so much a part of that band’s sound and look. Almost inexplicably he continues to hold on to that fame […]Archive
February 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators: World on Fire
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators World on Fire Dik Hayd Records/Universal Slash is the Bogan Eric Clapton – a handful of truly wonderful guitar moments early on in the career and then a life time of free passes. Endless lifetimes, too, it seems of personality-less, post-addiction dribble/drivel. In the last half decade we’ve […]Archive
October 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 1 – Guns N’ Roses, Auckland, 1993
I haven’t kept all of my ticket stubs, but one of the first gigs I went to was Guns N’ Roses – a road-trip from Hawke’s Bay to Auckland. There was a strong Hawke’s Bay contingent there – so much so that Axl actually named Hawkes’ Bay in his list of thanks, from memory it […]Archive
June 9, 2011 by Simon Sweetman