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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]