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Guns N' Roses News: Appetite for Destruction Turns 29!

258 views · Published 23 July 2016 · 1:11 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Rock N' Roll True Stories 2 · 2016 · Music

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FOXBORO, Mass. — In this world of uncertainly and doubt, there is always one thing that rings true in rock 'n' roll. Certain singers and guitarists — despite their ego clashes, bad blood and backstage drama — are meant to play together and are better together than they are apart.
Axl Rose and Slash are a prime example. While it only took 23 years to get Axl and Slash back on stage together again, in the end, a lot of patience (and frustration) from the fans certainly paid off.
From being "the world's most dangerous band" to becoming the world's most dysfunctional, Guns N' Roses is once again a rock 'n' roll force to reckon with, as evident at Tuesday night's unrelenting and blistering two-hour-and-45-minute set at Gillette Stadium that consisted of nine songs from “Appetite for Destruction,” four songs each from “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II”; four from “Chinese Democracy”; four full-fledged covers (not recorded or associated with the band) and a single shot from “G N’ R Lies.”
Not only was it everything a G N’ R fan could wish for, if the laws of physics held any weight, there should be nothing more than a crater or a parcel of scorched earth where Gillette Stadium once stood.
Fully cocked and loaded, Guns N’ Roses were fierce and ferocious from the get-go with the one-two punch of “It’s So Easy” and “Mr. Brownstone,” two choice cuts from its 1987 debut, “Appetite for Destruction.”
Although looking a little heavier and puffier, Rose still has his spine-tingling serpentine voice and unabashed swagger intact.
Wearing the first of many black, illustrated T-shirts (My favorite tee of the evening promoted John Carpenter’s “The Thing”), plenty of bling including a pair of silver crucifixes dangling from his neck, plaid shirt strategically tied around his waist, tattered dungarees and black sneakers, the fouled-mouth (but, surprisingly, not fouled-mood) singer made up for lost time and actually showed up on time.
And, in case Slash’s shirt depicting Cenobite leader “Pinhead” wasn’t a dead giveaway, Guns N’ Rose was out to raise some serious hell. Sporting his signature top hat, dark shades and curly long locks, Slash's look is still iconic, but it’s his guitar prowess that makes him a rock legend.
Slash did some serious shredding on the six-string almost immediately and throughout the evening and the audience was in awe of this bonafide Guitar God and the arguably the best rock ‘n’ roll guitarist to emerge out of the '80s. Slash’s scorching riffs were so incendiary, I’m surprised his guitar didn’t burst into flame during the performance.

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