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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
April 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Second Best Guns N’ Roses Album: “The Spaghetti Incident?”
It’s the second best Guns N’ Roses album – after Chinese Democracy, naturally. Alright, I might be kidding about that, so hear me out. “The Spaghetti Incident?” – even with its daft in-joke title, annoying question-mark and appalling cover is an amazing album; an important album even. It’s peculiar – it sits out on its […]Archive
January 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Banding Together By Branding Together: On Band T-Shirts
What is it with wearing T-shirts of bands to gigs by other bands? We know you like music. You’re at a live concert! Relax and be happy – sing the words that you do know (poorly and out of tune) back in the direction of the guy or girl who wrote them and knows them […]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