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February 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

The Redemption of Rocket Queen

I loved Appetite for Destruction, right from first listen, such a visceral thrill. It was naughty as…well, naughty-as-fuck. We were probably too young to be listening to it but the unwritten, unspoken agreement seemed to be that if we didn’t copy the language – at least at home, anyway – it would be allowed. You […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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August 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Slash: Made In Stoke 24/7/11

Slash Made In Stoke 24/7/11 Shock Here the former Guns’n’Roses guitarist looks the same, dresses the same and attempts to sound the same. But there’s two giant flaws – no one really wants to hear the non-G’n’R material (this includes Velvet Revolver, Slash’s Snakepit and material from the recent solo album with Myles Kennedy of […]