Excerpt from review:
I never got to see Guns N’ Roses at the height of their Appetite For Destruction days or the riot filled multi-year long Use Your Illusion tour. Lots of reasons, lots of stories, one revolves around running a car off a highway, another was stopping at a casino; ALL ended in not having enough money (this part of my life was sponsored by Busch Light beer ) or finding that all the tickets were sold out. As the years passed by, Axl and the new band spent most of their time away from the states, until recent months when Guns N’ Roses embarked on a North America tour. Now it was a matter of seeing the “new” band in a large stadium or arena. I just wasn’t feeling it. Then I heard Guns was returning to The Ritz....
....It was 11:58p.m. when the opening chords from “Chinese Democracy” hit, followed by the appetite trifecta mentioned earlier. Something was very clear early on and it was a surprise to me. BREAKING NEWS: Axl Rose can still sing his ass off!....
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David S. Grant is the author of BLOOD: The New Red. Follow David on Twitter: .david_s_grant