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August 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 22: Guns N’ Roses, Auckland 1993
My son asks me about Guns N Roses these days. Quite often actually. He is getting hooked on hard rock – KISS, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, selected Beastie Boys, that sort of thing. And he’s always been into the Appetite For Destruction album – because it’s one of the few CDs I still own, and round […]Archive
November 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 13 – Guns N’ Roses, “Chinese Democracy”
Guns N’ Roses, Chinese Democracy, 2008 Obviously I was the perfect age to be a Guns N’ Roses fan – you can be a fan of any music at any age, but it was my timing to be getting turned onto the band at a time when I was learning so much about rock and […]Archive
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