Guns N' Roses Reunite With Izzy Stradlin Onstage

Guns N'Roses' singer Axl Rose was reunited with estranged guitarist Izzy Stradlin at Download Festival's close on June 11.

Midway through the set, according to NME.com, Rose introduced original member Stradlin for three songs, 'Patience', 'Night Train' and 'I Used To Love Her'. It was only Stradlin's second show back with the band in over a decade, following a shock appearance in New York last month.

But that was not the only surprise instore; for 'My Michelle', the band were joined by former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach.

Guns N'Roses took the stage half an hour early, but Rose easily made up the time in a series of sensational walk-offs.

After slipping over during 'Sweet Child O'Mine', Rose annnounced that the band were experiencing "technical difficulties" and left the stage for five minutes while a guitarist played an instrumental version of 'Don't Cry'.

The singer had already abandoned the show once before, leaving the crowd with an instrumental version of Christina Aguilera's hit 'Beautiful'. And he threatened to leave the stage after 'Better' if the crowd persisted in throwing bottles. However, they did get to air 'new' songs 'Better', 'The Blues', 'IRS' and 'Madagascar'.

Guns N' Roses' set list can be found at NME.com.

Comments

[dcoyle4040]

Thats great He actually started the show early! Glad to see him stick it out and finish the show. I wish people would just eazup on the guy. Everyone knows hes a perfectionist and then the crowd expects perfection from him and that just makes things worse.

[wollie]

yeah izzy Hope he also comes to belgium.

[PlugOfDoom]

Izzy back with Gn'R...it's starting to get chilly down in hell.

[yogurt_overdose]

Yeah, Izzy also played Paradise City as well. Was awesome to see him again, he looks so different nowadays

[selloutpunx]

would be great if izzy rejoined. the rest dont really matter.

[yogurt_overdose]

....and it was the bassist who threatened to leave, after he got hit with a bottle of piss

[PlugOfDoom]

selloutpunx wrote:

would be great if izzy rejoined. the rest dont really matter.

If Slash doesn't matter you are very musically inclined

[tom-the-lawn]

This is great for Axl. They now have a chance of becoming even half of what they were for apetite.

[slash.hammett]

selloutpunx :
would be great if izzy rejoined. the rest dont really matter.

are you nuts? are you calling Slash REPLACEABLE?!?!?!
that's like saying you can put a different guitar player in Van Halen or restart the Jimi Hendrix Experience without Jimi!

[Tom Martin]

After slipping over during 'Sweet Child O'Mine', Rose annnounced that the band were experiencing "technical difficulties" and left the stage for five minutes while a guitarist played an instrumental version of 'Don't Cry'.

While 'a' guitarist? That was freakin' Ron Thal! Who I might like to add is an ever so slightly better guitarist than Slash...

I saw this gig, it was pretty damn good

Axl didn't slip over during SCOM, it was merely a little skid :P And the bassist got hit by a piss bottle, threw his bass on the floor and kicked it towards the crowd then stormed off. Only to come back at the end of the song and apologise and explain he doesn't need to have piss thrown at him :|

And he didn't keep walking off in fits, the whole band kept leaving the stage so that the guitarist (there were 3) could each take solo's (usually instrumental covers of pop songs). He wasn't pissed off, it was just part of the show damnit!

Great gig

[NFFC_1865]

I was there. It wa sthe ****ing bassist that threatened to leave not Axl! Sto ****ing blaming him! I heard someone shout "Get off the stage! We invited you!" What a twat. Would you stay on stage to have bottles of piss thrown at you? All he said was "If you stay and have a good time thats cool, but if you throw shit Im going home." Good on him.

[ngoma]

I hope that izzy comes to Norway...and that he rejoins the band!

[Slice N Dice]

Rock On Mr Stradlin!!! glad to see him back playing!

[faqu]

Checked.

[GnRrelease_it]

YES!!
FINALLY!!
izzy & axl buried the hatchet...anything is possible!

[Acoustic#3]

Who is the bassist for Guns N' Roses? Tommy Stinson of the Replacements? If it is, the idiot who threw the bottle needs to go suck an egg. What a stupid thing to do.

[Acorn]

Izzy is cool ,but its not Guns N' Roses without Slash

[OzZY-RuLE5!!!!!]

well done izzy and axl have fialy re-kindled their friendship. hope they come to canada. as for tommy walking of i think it would be justfible for me but for a crowd that would piss them off. as for hoever threw bottle go throw a bottle at yourself.

[mishmoshtopher]

yeah i was there, it was like ohhh when one of the guitarists was playing tghe solo to november rain, he was holding his guityar and everything like slash and i was like ohhhh its not the same. yeah and Izzy actually came on stage for think about you rather than nightrain

[jabok]

saw them a week ago at "rock am ring". even though i didn't like gnr before, it was a massive gig, and believe me, i already saw a lot of concerts, but this thing was f***ing huge...

[ninja3]

PlugOfDoom wrote:

Izzy back with Gn'R...it's starting to get chilly down in hell.

haha, thats awesome.....Anyway, its cool izzy is doing shit with axl...its a start right?...I mean gnr began with just izzy and axl....izzy was the main riff and song writer....slash wasn't the main force behind it, he did mainly the solo writing and a few songs here and there like coma for example. Not saying slash is replaceable, but izzy is equally as important if not a little more than slash...so this is good. ANd now dont we see why all the axl bashing panzies knock axl...look at the article..it blames axl for everything...and now the idiot so called fans who say axl is this or that are going to have more fuel to there fire....its the media that makes axl look like a bitch..I doubt that he is even close to being one....its good that there were some people that were at the show to set the record straight.

[rygun091]

this year is going to be brutal for them..

[Kadaj]

I'm ****ing pissed off I didn't go now.

And I'm gonna miss em coming to Sheffield aswell.

[goon316]

Tom Martin wrote:

After slipping over during 'Sweet Child O'Mine', Rose annnounced that the band were experiencing "technical difficulties" and left the stage for five minutes while a guitarist played an instrumental version of 'Don't Cry'.

While 'a' guitarist? That was freakin' Ron Thal! Who I might like to add is an ever so slightly better guitarist than Slash...

I saw this gig, it was pretty damn good

Axl didn't slip over during SCOM, it was merely a little skid :P And the bassist got hit by a piss bottle, threw his bass on the floor and kicked it towards the crowd then stormed off. Only to come back at the end of the song and apologise and explain he doesn't need to have piss thrown at him :|

And he didn't keep walking off in fits, the whole band kept leaving the stage so that the guitarist (there were 3) could each take solo's (usually instrumental covers of pop songs). He wasn't pissed off, it was just part of the show damnit!

Great gig

Wow Ron Thal is awesome, I would have loved to hear that!!!

[jasonclarke]

seen GNR playin in dublin last friday gig was A1 axl sounded great good sound and good overall show.

[liam177lewis]

everyone keeps talking about it only being gnr with slash... im sorry, but duff ****ing mckagan? steven adler? wouldnt be any more gnr without them... it annoys me when people cant see past axl n slash with gnr, all the guys were so talented, duff was a shithot bassist, you cant deny it.... as much as it pains me to say this, i think gnr is well n truly dead. we gotta look to VR now, lets face it.

[emhaslam]

i hope izzy stays with axl, atleast until late July wen i see the so called 'gnr'.
maybe izzy will set an example for slash + duff (fingers crossed)

[nakki]

Izzy is back in GN'R?
Maybe he will get Slash, Duff and Matt to join GN'R again.
But i hope that even Izzy will be in Finland 6th July, but if Slash, Duff and Matt would be there that would be f*cking fantastic!

PlugOfDoom wrote:

Izzy back with Gn'R...it's starting to get chilly down in hell.

Hell is allready frozen. Finland won the Eurovision.

[GNR's Fan]

Why are they making axl look bad, giving him the blame ?




Wouldn't You be Pissed if put alot aoff efort, time and money into a sho w an a so called "fan" throws a bottle of piss at you ?

[rocket queen]

great! now i like new-guns n´roses a little bit more.....izzy´s solo-music isn´t very good.....not like the **** i listen to....doesn´t matter.....great, izzy, keep on rockin´!

[Kobrakai]

I was there, that was a great show, apart from all the ****ing walk outs. So many people left when he started doing that!

Nice to see Izzy back with them!

[Geekis_Khan]

everyone keeps talking about it only being gnr with slash... im sorry, but duff ****ing mckagan? steven adler? wouldnt be any more gnr without them... it annoys me when people cant see past axl n slash with gnr, all the guys were so talented, duff was a shithot bassist, you cant deny it.... as much as it pains me to say this, i think gnr is well n truly dead. we gotta look to VR now, lets face it.

I agree with you, they were all very talented, but Slash will always be my favorite. But face it, Axl couldn't (and still can't) sing. He's a good frontman and a good lyricist. Not a good vocalist.

And Velvet Revolver is better than Guns 'n' Roses anyway.

[niall the nail]

Great night it has to be said, the walk offs were a pain though

[_TheWorst]

A sheer sign that Izzy is desperate, when he jumps back on the GnR bandwagon to get notoriety. Any publicity is good publicity in this business I suppose, but it doesn't make me want to see this version of GnR anyways.

[faqu]

Checked.

[INNOCENT VICTIM]

Did they say if this was the original GnR line up?

[Jdwannabe]

I am sorry but yesterdays performance was unacceptable. bring back slash. he wont come unless axl quits. i dont care axl is a dick. he smokes too much he is so far up his own arse he has a mouthfull of intestine.
On sunday the 11th i witnessed the worst performance i have ever seen. the solos were all messed up. the drummer actually went wrong in paradise city and if a drummer does that he is not a drummer anymore. he also arsed up you could be mine. one of my favourite guns n roses songs.
I regret to say that they were the shitest band of the whole festival for me. Total Garbage performance.

[Rattlehead.90]

Izzy, now all we need is slash and duff

But don't underestimate Izzy - he's just as important imo, since he wrote a load of their material.

[slashnduff4eva]

whoah, i think izzy is rapidly becoming my favourite member of (original) gnr. off topic, all the shitty papers and gossip magazines are trying to claim the new guns n' roses. This isn't good...at all. slag off axl rose, i used to like you..stop doing this!.

[Crookedjon]

Izzy rocked back in the day, he had some good riffs up his sleeves.

[ZeppelinZed]

Am I insane for preferring Gilby Clark over Izzy Stradlin? I mean, I realize that Izzy wrote a HUGE amount of the material GnR uses, but onstage he just appears so shy and introverted whereas Gilby really has some stage prescence and charisma. Just a thought.

[welshy1991]

Izzy was an awesome songwriter, it's great that he's back.
The New GNR may now have a great songwriter, a great frontman, now they just need slash back. Slash is an awesome guitarist because he was so cool. I mean him rising out of the sea in the video for estranged was the coolest thing ever. If izzy persuaded slash, duff and matt to rejoin it would truly be a miracle.

[welshy1991]

welshy1991 wrote:

Izzy was an awesome songwriter, it's great that he's back.
The New GNR may now have a great songwriter, a great frontman, now they just need slash back. Slash is an awesome guitarist because he was so cool. I mean him rising out of the sea in the video for estranged was the coolest thing ever. If izzy persuaded slash, duff and matt to rejoin it would truly be a miracle.

I said he's back, just realised that's not true...yet

[chinesechipmunk]

Best. Gig. Ever.

Tommy threatened to leave, not axl, which is fair enough anyway - if some tit is throwing stuff at you, you shouldn't have to put up with that sorta stuff.

That article doesn't tell half the story of that show. It was incredible. And anyway, they didn't start early - they started bang on time, which was better than metallica, who were 45 minutes late the day before.

[GNR's Fan]

I agree with you, they were all very talented, but Slash will always be my favorite. But face it, Axl couldn't (and still can't) sing. He's a good frontman and a good lyricist. Not a good vocalist.

And Velvet Revolver is better than Guns 'n' Roses anyway.

Exscuse me VR better than the old GNR's are you out of you're mind.

And then axl vs Scott weilland i know who's better and still is and it's not scott he's a bad songwritter and singer axl is way better and talented but then thats just taste and thank the heavens everyones different !

[Mini_Izzy]

Woo, its great Izzy's back, everyone underestimates his importance to G n R! But G n R can never be as great as they were again, and I honestly think Axl should give up

[kamikaze_74]

I am sorry but yesterdays performance was unacceptable. bring back slash. he wont come unless axl quits. i dont care axl is a dick. he smokes too much he is so far up his own arse he has a mouthfull of intestine.
On sunday the 11th i witnessed the worst performance i have ever seen. the solos were all messed up. the drummer actually went wrong in paradise city and if a drummer does that he is not a drummer anymore. he also arsed up you could be mine. one of my favourite guns n roses songs.
I regret to say that they were the shitest band of the whole festival for me. Total Garbage performance.

shittest? you cant even spell it. surely they were better than korn they didnt even have a frontman

[ArcherTheVMan]

liam177lewis wrote:

everyone keeps talking about it only being gnr with slash... im sorry, but duff ****ing mckagan? steven adler? wouldnt be any more gnr without them... it annoys me when people cant see past axl n slash with gnr, all the guys were so talented, duff was a shithot bassist, you cant deny it.... as much as it pains me to say this, i think gnr is well n truly dead. we gotta look to VR now, lets face it.

why can't people see that like me and you can?

[ArcherTheVMan]

chinesechipmunk wrote:

Best. Gig. Ever.

Tommy threatened to leave, not axl, which is fair enough anyway - if some tit is throwing stuff at you, you shouldn't have to put up with that sorta stuff.

That article doesn't tell half the story of that show. It was incredible. And anyway, they didn't start early - they started bang on time, which was better than metallica, who were 45 minutes late the day before.

on time, for axl, is early.

[p2fyre]

i was there last night and izzy looked like he was in a mood all the time. Obviously just paid to do it!!

Axl was an absolute c**t and the crowd boo-d him so much he threatened to go home. How technical is falling on his ass on stage? He just acted like a little kid.

I don't know if anyone noticed, but he called a few members of the crowd f***ing ****s.. and they're his fans!! jesus!

The rest of the band played their hearts out (probably to make up for axl) so my utter most respect goes to them for putting on an amazing show.

p.s. metallica on the night before completely owned

[faqu]

Checked.

[slash_015]

I see G n' R on June the 17th. YEAH...in five days. I can't believe it. I'm so ****in' happy!

[ArcherTheVMan]

ZeppelinZed wrote:

Am I insane for preferring Gilby Clark over Izzy Stradlin? I mean, I realize that Izzy wrote a HUGE amount of the material GnR uses, but onstage he just appears so shy and introverted whereas Gilby really has some stage prescence and charisma. Just a thought.

yes, you are.

[ArcherTheVMan]

PlugOfDoom wrote:

selloutpunx wrote:

would be great if izzy rejoined. the rest dont really matter.


If Slash doesn't matter you are very musically inclined

your vocabularly isn't perfect is it?

[TURNIP]

This is sweet.

[BluesHombre]

Gilby Clarke rocks my sox

But Izzy's rhythm owns

Slash's rhythmic style blows, but lets face it: it ain't that cat's bag bag anyway.

[slashnduff4eva]

ArcherTheVMan wrote:

liam177lewis wrote:

everyone keeps talking about it only being gnr with slash... im sorry, but duff ****ing mckagan? steven adler? wouldnt be any more gnr without them... it annoys me when people cant see past axl n slash with gnr, all the guys were so talented, duff was a shithot bassist, you cant deny it.... as much as it pains me to say this, i think gnr is well n truly dead. we gotta look to VR now, lets face it.


why can't people see that like me and you can?

i think i like the way you people think. izzy stradlin'.....he's just a complete legend.

[souprman]

ZeppelinZed wrote:

Am I insane for preferring Gilby Clark over Izzy Stradlin? I mean, I realize that Izzy wrote a HUGE amount of the material GnR uses, but onstage he just appears so shy and introverted whereas Gilby really has some stage prescence and charisma. Just a thought.

[joshsirjoshules]

Izzy...he was the only cool and smart one in GNR. He got out before Axl truely went Axl. I hope he doesn't join the band again, I just don't want him to.

[Wceleazpetron]

ninja3 wrote:

haha, thats awesome.....Anyway, its cool izzy is doing shit with axl...its a start right?...I mean gnr began with just izzy and axl....izzy was the main riff and song writer....slash wasn't the main force behind it, he did mainly the solo writing and a few songs here and there like coma for example. Not saying slash is replaceable, but izzy is equally as important if not a little more than slash...so this is good. ANd now dont we see why all the axl bashing panzies knock axl...look at the article..it blames axl for everything...and now the idiot so called fans who say axl is this or that are going to have more fuel to there fire....its the media that makes axl look like a bitch..I doubt that he is even close to being one....its good that there were some people that were at the show to set the record straight.

Finally someone knows something about G n R. Rock on Ninja3

[GNRrockslife]

Jdwannabe wrote:

I am sorry but yesterdays performance was unacceptable. bring back slash. he wont come unless axl quits. i dont care axl is a dick. he smokes too much he is so far up his own arse he has a mouthfull of intestine.
On sunday the 11th i witnessed the worst performance i have ever seen. the solos were all messed up. the drummer actually went wrong in paradise city and if a drummer does that he is not a drummer anymore. he also arsed up you could be mine. one of my favourite guns n roses songs.
I regret to say that they were the shitest band of the whole festival for me. Total Garbage performance.

You, sir are a grade A idiot. For starters, Axl never smoked or drank or did drugs. He was the only one in the band that was clean. Second, Brain didn't mess up Paradise City or You Could Be Mine, he just plays them different from Steve and Matt. Third why are you complaining? You got to see Izzy ****in Stradlin, even if the rest of the band sucked (Which they don't), that would make the show more than worth it.

Also, that article was absolutely off on everything. First of all, it wasn't a "reunion", it was Izzy jamming with them for 5 songs. Izzy actually did 5 songs, not 3. Izzy IS NOT in the band, he did the same thing at the 4th show in NYC. Don't expect Izzy when you see the band, you'll be let down. My Micelle with Bach wasn't a suprise for Download, they've done it at all but one show so far, both NY and Europe. They actually went on 5 mins early according to most people, not a half hour. The band actually was having technical difficulties. Axl didn't call anyone in the crowd a ****, that was directed at the sound guy for ****ing up. "A guitarist" has a name, it's Ron Thal. The Beautiful solo is actually quite emotional and heart filled. I wouldn't mind being "left with it". It was Tommy Stinson who threatened to leave if the crowd didn't stop throwing piss bottles, not Axl. Aside from those 4 new songs mentioned, they alos played Chinese Democracy

[acrocks]

^^yeah it was five minutes early because i was watching lordi's last song when they started playing
I actually wonder if the people who wrote the article went to download

[keefywoo1]

Hey, i was at download and yeah ok, things didn't start so comfortably for axl but once they overcame those difficulties, then they were on form and oh yes, fantastic!!! If those idiots who obviously weren't true GnR fans hadn't have been so f*****ing stupid in the first place, then there wouldn't have been all the controversy....anyway bad publicity is still good publicity. Don't Cry solo by the hugely talented lead man.....absolutely bloody amazing. Ron thal too,, plays incredible lead work aswell., both extremely polished!! Big up to GnR, they rocked bloody well, and its been a hell of a long time coming....the 4 new songs were very good too!! Its not there fault the front of the crowd was full of arsholes!!

[Tulkas]

dcoyle4040 wrote:

Everyone knows hes a perfectionist

Nice term/excuse, but perfection doesn't take that long. He's a screw up. He's nowhere near perfect!!!! When you want to be perfect you show up on time and finish shows/tours.

[winterburn69]

Velvet Revolver is definatly not better than GN'R, Izzy was the last original member to leave other than Axl, so if anyone should come back, it should be Izzy, cuz Slash is really over-rated, and is definatly replaceable, cuz he's been replaced like 3 times now and everyone puts way too much emphasis on Slash in GN'R anyways, he WAS important to GN'R 13 years ago, during the Use Your Illusion era, but not anymore, sure they play songs he did, but thats it, and it's freaking awesome that Izzy played with GN'R again, and perfection can take that long, and so what if he's late or doesn't show up at all? lots of artists have done that

[Odd1]

You may say alot about Axl Rose, but he is on hell og an artist!
Actually Axl has never released a bad original-material album!

[555666]

ummmmm.....who the hell is that in the picture? is that axl rose.....with his 80th facelift?

[Farkwaa]

Shame i couldnt go to Downlaod yesterday and see GNR cause i went to see Bon Jovi instead which was sweet! Was in the golden circle which we got the tickets for free. winterburn69, you say Slash is over-rated? You obviously dont know much about him and GNR. He has been replaced a few times..but has the band been better or as good wihout him? I dont think so. I would definetly say AXL and Slash are the most important or were the most importand assets of GNR. Slash has a unique style of playing the guitar which created that unique sound which we all know and love. And same goes for AXL to. Without slash the sound of the band is different which you can immediately notice. As with most bands, the only thing people notice and give a damn about is the Frontman and the lead guitarist. (AXL, Slash). Unless you have a band were the bassist or drummer is extremely good like Paul Entwistle who was very important for me in The Who. But the other members of GNR were not so much important because of their unique abilitys, but just because thats the line up we are all so fond of.

[Farkwaa]

555666 wrote:

ummmmm.....who the hell is that in the picture? is that axl rose.....with his 80th facelift?

He has got older like most people do. It has been quite a few years since he was performing.

[Geekis_Khan]

Exscuse me VR better than the old GNR's are you out of you're mind.

And then axl vs Scott weilland i know who's better and still is and it's not scott he's a bad songwritter and singer axl is way better and talented but then thats just taste and thank the heavens everyones different !

Whatever you have to tell yourself to help you sleep at night, man.

[winterburn69]

U

MTVget0FFtheAIR wrote:

hey winterburn wanna shut the **** up???
izzy was not the last original member to leave. he left 91 or 92 i believe...slash duff and matt left in 96? yeeeeeah so basically your gay.

Slash, Duff and, Matt were not original members, so you obviously don't know much about GN'R, the ORIGINAL BAND consisted of Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Ole Beich, Tracii Guns, and Rob Gardner, so go learn about GN'R before you start saying I'm gay and telling me to shut the **** up

[SlashNX]

NOOOOO I soooo wanted to go to Download to see them, and Izzy joining them on stage just makes me more upset we missed it!!!!

[l3xbi]

It wasn't the whole band, it was the two guitarists playing it, one playing chords, other was soloing and playing what would be the vocals notes on the guitar. I'll just say when GnR first went off because of technical difficulties (because the back screen had a loose connection and was ****ing up) that solo was incredible, it was so mellow I wish he played more for a futher 20mins. any body know his name?

[Malakian=God]

I WAS THERE, IT ROCKED, END OF STORY!

[ThePartyBoy]

Ron Thal's over-rated.... his solo wasn't all too impressive.

SlashNX wrote:

winterburn69 wrote:

UMTVget0FFtheAIR wrote:

hey winterburn wanna shut the **** up???
izzy was not the last original member to leave. he left 91 or 92 i believe...slash duff and matt left in 96? yeeeeeah so basically your gay.

Slash, Duff and, Matt were not original members, so you obviously don't know much about GN'R, the ORIGINAL BAND consisted of Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Ole Beich, Tracii Guns, and Rob Gardner, so go learn about GN'R before you start saying I'm gay and telling me to shut the **** up


Stop being pedantic, hardcore GNR fans are pathetic when it comes to this, the band was finalised with Izzy, Slash, Duff n co! Tracii and people werent in the finalised guns n roses, so actually YOUR wrong!! Stop trying to be a smart arse just because the band before them with Axl Rose in was called GNR too!

Word dude. And to the first person saying Slash wasn't in the original Guns N' Roses, you're kind of retarded. GNRs first album with Geffen = Appetite. Who was on it? Slash, Izzy, Steven, Duff, and Axl. Tracii Guns and Ole Beich were NEVER in Guns N' Roses. Your history of GNR is weak man. Embarrassing dude. Embarrassing.

[BlueZephyr]

Wish I was there.

[chinesechipmunk]

ThePartyBoy wrote:

Ron Thal's over-rated.... his solo wasn't all too impressive.

SlashNX wrote:

winterburn69 wrote:

UMTVget0FFtheAIR wrote:

hey winterburn wanna shut the **** up???
izzy was not the last original member to leave. he left 91 or 92 i believe...slash duff and matt left in 96? yeeeeeah so basically your gay.

Slash, Duff and, Matt were not original members, so you obviously don't know much about GN'R, the ORIGINAL BAND consisted of Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Ole Beich, Tracii Guns, and Rob Gardner, so go learn about GN'R before you start saying I'm gay and telling me to shut the **** up


Stop being pedantic, hardcore GNR fans are pathetic when it comes to this, the band was finalised with Izzy, Slash, Duff n co! Tracii and people werent in the finalised guns n roses, so actually YOUR wrong!! Stop trying to be a smart arse just because the band before them with Axl Rose in was called GNR too!


Word dude. And to the first person saying Slash wasn't in the original Guns N' Roses, you're kind of retarded. GNRs first album with Geffen = Appetite. Who was on it? Slash, Izzy, Steven, Duff, and Axl. Tracii Guns and Ole Beich were NEVER in Guns N' Roses. Your history of GNR is weak man. Embarrassing dude. Embarrassing.

You wanna know what's really embarrassing? The fact that this has degenerated to petty insults. Retarded? "So basically your gay" And anyway, Ole Beich and Tracii Guns were in the band. The only reason I can see why you can say that they were never in GnR is because they weren't in the famous lineup. In which case, you can't criticise his knowledge of it, because it comes down to opinion. So stop patronizing, and trying to make yourself seem like the oh-so-wise one... His knowledge of GnR seems stronger than yours.

And Ron Thal is NOT overrated!!

[SUICIDAL_PRINCE]

Ok no offense and im not trying to be mean. But is it not obvious that Tracii Guns was a contributing member of the band at one time when his last name plays prominent in the bands handle? but thats just what i think. bye.

[theguitarist]

Woah. Calm down. Or you'll be warned. No flaming please.


Checked/Deleted.

[tigerbum]

izzy freaking rox dude!!!!...

[Twist of Cain]

Kool

[Vinura]

yay..izzy joined....now if only slash duff and matt did the same....

[Nirvana_RATM2]

izzy did not jaoin , he was with them only on stage.

and that's old news he played with them at hammerstien a couple weeks ago.

[Nirvana_RATM2]

ok TRACII GUNS played a gig with GNR , he was in the band as was the other guy so get it straight. Izzy is more important then slash , but slash is bad ass.

[tunskies]

without slash its nothing special

[guns_n'_roses]

Why are they making axl look bad, giving him the blame ?




Wouldn't You be Pissed if put alot aoff efort, time and money into a sho w an a so called "fan" throws a bottle of piss at you ?

so true man....what did u expect,to say thanks cause those *******s were throwing bottles????
anyways great news!!!!!first new york,now this...ohhhhh i'm sooooo happy!!!!!

[demonic_fishie]

Axl is a diva and an *******. The other guys don't seem to be much better. I love GnR but I was pretty disappointed with their performance.

[vanceboy]

tunskies wrote:

without slash its nothing special

yep...but izzy is okay too. but still, why would he want to rejoin that douche? oh well...

[Fuzzz]

THe GNR lineup with Axl, SLash, Izzy, Duff and Steven is not gonna come back again, no matter media says... Steven is NEVER coming back, cause if I recall (please correct if I'm wrong) Steven got kicked out of the band for raping Axl's girlfriend while being under the effect of drugs...
Izzy is more important to GNR than Slash, since he met Axl in their hometown Lafayette, Indiana WAYYY before even Tracii GUns was in the picture. BUt it was the whole lineup on the Appetite for destruction -album that made them such a great band: everyone was in good balance(although I think Steven was a bit simple behind the drums) and the songs ****ing rocked!
And stop ****ing around you guys! Nobody cares which one of you is right or wrong about "what was THE original lineup?!" It's just ****ing childish; so argue about it somewhere else and leave this place for talkin about the actual ****ing column!!(even though this isn't quite right either)
Axl kinda looks like Mark Wahlberg with a wig, in that picture... lol!

[Fuzzz]

nakki wrote:

Izzy is back in GN'R?
Maybe he will get Slash, Duff and Matt to join GN'R again.
But i hope that even Izzy will be in Finland 6th July, but if Slash, Duff and Matt would be there that would be f*cking fantastic!

PlugOfDoom wrote:

Izzy back with Gn'R...it's starting to get chilly down in hell.


Hell is allready frozen. Finland won the Eurovision.

Nakki jumalauta mää repesin tälle sun postaukselle! hahaha! SUOMI PERKELE!
FINLAND! FINLAND!

[rocket queen]

i want to see them live...****...can´t see them

[gunner_011]

Theyre all as important as each other. thats what made them such a good band.

[musicfreak003]

hahaa slash is "replacable" thats gay

[desimate]

Tom Martin wrote:
Axl didn't slip over during SCOM, it was merely a little skid :P And the bassist got hit by a piss bottle, threw his bass on the floor and kicked it towards the crowd then stormed off. Only to come back at the end of the song and apologise and explain he doesn't need to have piss thrown at him :|

he didnt throw his bass on the floor then kick it, he ****in launched it at the camera man, but he did apologise for it soo...

[metallicman]

i was there- they were great, so what if slash or duff wasnt there. yeh it would better if they did play but just because they werent doesnt mean that the new gnr suck, they were pretty amazing i thought, apart from the walk offs but hey at the end of the day i just wanna hear the music. axl was great...only one part i didnt understand at the download- during one of the songs axl said something like "are u going to sort that out or should i stop singing" something like that, was he talking to the sound people cause he also gave them the finger? lol made me laugh

[Logz]

checked

[jaymyvendetta]

Sigh..axl gets blamed for everything once again.
From what i've heard the status with Izzy is going to be much like it was in the early days of VR. He's gonna be there in the background, helping write songs but won't be going on full tours with the rest of them as Izzy hates touring. He'll probably make more one off appearances in the future but at least his craftsmanship will be there.
AlsoRon Thal is a great guitarist, he's not Slash (obviously) but he matches slash in technical ability AND writing ability. So it should be interesting. I'm getting more and more excited about this =]

[ninja3]

THe GNR lineup with Axl, SLash, Izzy, Duff and Steven is not gonna come back again, no matter media says... Steven is NEVER coming back, cause if I recall (please correct if I'm wrong) Steven got kicked out of the band for raping Axl's girlfriend while being under the effect of drugs...

You were close but what happened aside from his inability to quit heroin was that he gave erin everly a bad hit..she OD'd and was rushed to the hospital...that was pretty much the final straw for axl than steven was fired....As for who was in the line up at what times..it went like this...Izzy and axl started off in Indiana under the name A.X.L.....Izzy moved to L.A. then Axl followed shortly after...he regrouped with Izzy and started Hollywood Rose with Chris webber...that was it...Chris webber left, in came tracii guns...now you got guns n roses....meanwhile slash and Steven were in a band called "road crew" or road dogs I cant remember. They hooked up with guns n roses...but slash wasn't the official lead guitarist right away. Slash just showed up for rehearsels and when tracii would not show up, slash would fill in...eventually tracii split and slash took over...then Duff who was the last member to join...joined....now you got the infamous appetite line up.....the end.

[slashnduff4eva]

jaymyvendetta wrote:

Sigh..axl gets blamed for everything once again.
From what i've heard the status with Izzy is going to be much like it was in the early days of VR. He's gonna be there in the background, helping write songs but won't be going on full tours with the rest of them as Izzy hates touring. He'll probably make more one off appearances in the future but at least his craftsmanship will be there.
AlsoRon Thal is a great guitarist, he's not Slash (obviously) but he matches slash in technical ability AND writing ability. So it should be interesting. I'm getting more and more excited about this =]

good point yo', it gets boring with people just taking the same side on every 'axl story' and all having the same negative opinions on someone they all secretly love.

[Panny180]

yogurt_overdose :
....and it was the bassist who threatened to leave, after he got hit with a bottle of piss

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Hahaha, that was funking hilarious. Should have used that idea for Fightstar.
I was near enough first row and I could see Axl having arguments with everybody. 30 minutes in, I was thinking they wouldn't last another song.
Getting Izzy on stage was amazing, though. Made everything better and eventually, the new band sort of won over the crowd.

Axl's an abominal singer, though. He just can't do it anymore.

[Fuzzz]

yeah it was road crew...I heard they wrote Welcome to the Jungle on their way back to L.A. from one of their firsti gigs... but anyway thanks for correcting me on the thing about Steven Adler there, ninja3! \o

[Jonny_marshall]

Everyone who didn't like guns n' roses at download can go **** themselves for being awkward. Everyone is just jumping on the band wagon against axl again, when he played a blinding show, as did all the other memebers of the band. Have you played to over 60,000 people at donnington? No? then shut the **** up

p.s i love slash

[shezzababe92]

woh - too much male ego in this room

anyways...no effort required to know whose side the journalist is on. They are always so biased with "axl rose" stories.
Can u blame him, if u were doing a gig do u think u would take it when someone chucks a piss bottle at u?

I wouldnt be there long!!!

[robk_21]

Thats not what happened. When he slipped at download they put mats down. They came on 7 minutes early not 30 mins. He said nothing about throwing bottles. it was the bassist. He got hit by a bottle of piss n threw his bass across the stage hittin the camera man. then threatened to go home if anyone threw anything else.
I was there. Bell Ends.

[Skuzzmo]

I was there too (download).
I didn't think the show was that good. It just seemed to come across as a G'n'R cover band or the Axl rose travelling circus. Yeah the music was ok, they played the songs well but I saw G'n'R years and years ago which was very very good but this time around it wasn't the same at all. If you watch them and enjoy them, nice one, happy you did, but they are shadow of their former selves.

[darthbuttchin]

i saw this on the t.v.
i thought it was izzy but i was like nah it cant be
but now i know it was. that is so cool.

[Guns n' Roses]

Slash is the best ****in guitarist ever. if anyone else cant see that there either deaf or stupid!

[-Led-Zeppelin-]

lol i love the old and new Gnr to death but throwing a bottle of piss at someone is ****ing classic lmfao

slash = ****ing good
ron thal = ****ing good
duff = ****ing good
rest of gnr=****ing good

[GunsN'Roses]

That is awsome that izzy rejoined with gnr. If only slash,duff, and matt could come back to GNR where they really belong, it would make alot of GNR fans happy. It sorta pains me to see the new GNR and all the ****ing **** people are giving them, absolutely no respect, at least axl is still trying even though all of the original GNR walked out on him.

[Northcalpc]

Fuzzz it wasn't Road Crew who wrote welcome to the jungle it was axl.

[Defyant1911]

Geekis_Khan wrote:

I agree with you, they were all very talented, but Slash will always be my favorite. But face it, Axl couldn't (and still can't) sing. He's a good frontman and a good lyricist. Not a good vocalist.

And Velvet Revolver is better than Guns 'n' Roses anyway.

lol i wish you have never spoke >.>
There is no GnR without Axl and Axl's vocals are outstanding.

[jhymadesh]

I think that Guns N'Roses should return without Axl. However Axl has an realy tipical voice but I'm sure Slash, Duff, Izzy and Steven could find a much better singer/songwriter. 'cause most of the people I know don't like Guns N'Roses becouse of Axls voice.