Guns N’ Roses to play New Year’s Eve in Vegas

[Slash9595]

It's getting really interesting...Awesome
Check it out...

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/nov/15/guns-n-roses-play-new-years-eve-vegas/

[blueheart]

Las Vegas' upcoming New Year's Eve celebration just got a lot louder.

Veteran hard rock band Guns N' Roses has announced it will close out its 2011 U.S. tour with a December 31 show at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel. Tickets start at $95 plus fees and go on sale Saturday, November 19 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and the Hard Rock box office.

Guns N' Roses went 15 years between albums before releasing the long-awaited Chinese Democracy in 2008. Along with leader Axl Rose, the current GNR lineup includes: DJ Ashba, Richard Fortus and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on guitar, Tommy Stinson on bass, Chris Pitman and Dizzy Reed on keyboards and Frank Ferrer on drums.

The release accompanying today's announcement promises "a two and a half hour show with all of their hits." Guns N' Roses' best-known songs include "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child o' Mine," "Paradise City," "Patience," "Don't Cry" and "November Rain."

Other scheduled Las Vegas New Year's Eve concerts include Stevie Wonder at the Cosmopolitan and John Legend at the Pearl. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band play Mandalay Bay on December 30.

[blueheart]

http://thejointlasvegas.com/Home/Events/Event-Details.aspx?id=183

[ripper1]

Thats cool.Axl seems to like Vegas or ending the year in Vegas!

[Slash9595]

Thats cool.Axl seems to like Vegas or ending the year in Vegas!

So as Ashba...(Jager)...Ahm..hm.hm lol

[Beanie]

Wow exciting! This is gonna be one awesome gig.

[vegascleopatra]

Yay! Can't wait...it's the perfect way to ring in the New Yr!

[BF4]

Should be an awesome show! Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band and Stevie Wonder!

[ripper1]

How many times have they now played New Years in Vegas?

[machinegunlotus]

How many times have they now played New Years in Vegas?

Twice.

January 1st, 2001 - The new GN'R line-up plays their first show together at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Democracy_Tour :
Axl Rose, Buckethead, Robin Finck, Paul Tobias, Tommy Stinson, Brain, Dizzy Reed, Chris Pitman. first performance in seven years, praised as "a triumphant return" by music magazine Rolling Stone. The band performed a number of new songs, including "Oh My God" (released as a single in 1999), "Riad N' The Bedouins", "Chinese Democracy", "Street of Dreams" [Then known as "The Blues"]

December 31st, 2001 - GN'R plays at The Joint in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Slash wanted to see the show, but was not let in. Doug Goldstein, GN'R's manager, said: "We didn’t know what his intentions were. If nothing else, it would have been a distraction. Axl was really nervous about these shows. We decided on our own not to take any risk." Setlist included Oh My God, Madagascar, Silkworms, Chinese Democracy.

Both pretty historic and eventful shows...

[antonyrose]

I was at the Dec 29th show of the Joint in Hard Rock hotel...  I didn't like it..  And then of course I heard the Dec 31st one they killed it.  It was still fun though and Vegas during New Years is a blast in itself.

[Chase the Ace]

2000 and 2001?

[antonyrose]

2000 and 2001?

No, that was the House of Blues show.   Why does no one remember these shows?  There were two, one on Dec 29 2001 and the other on Dec 31 2001 playing into Jan 1 2002 at the Hard Rock Hotel/The Joint.  I was at the Dec 29 show, on the 31st I hung out on the strip to ring in the new year.

Here is a link showing pics from those shows. 

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=162676

[lispingwiseone]

Would love to be there!

[Robbie]

Would love to be there!

if i could afford it i'd be there

[ripper1]

Guns N’ Roses at the Joint is a lesson in ‘risk managment’ and understanding the rock business;

By John Katsilometes

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 | 12:45 p.m.

As a live act, Guns N’ Roses has long been the Judy Garland of hard rock: Classic but unsteady. Classically unsteady, even.

Even in its late 1980s and early 1990s heyday, Guns N’ Roses was not known for its punctuality or dependability onstage. Famous for showing up hours late for concerts frequently marred by riots, and punctuated by the between-songs rants of frontman Axl Rose, Guns N’ Roses has always represented a wild card among rock acts. This is a band whose lead singer -- Rose -- once got into a scuffle with Tommy Hilfiger at a New York nightclub. Not a guy wearing Tommy Hilfiger clothing, but the real Tommy Hilfiger.

And if you find yourself in a dust-up with Tommy Hilfiger, the possibilities for conduct are boundless.

Even on its current U.S. tour, Guns N’ Roses has roused some discord. The band has had to win over fans who have waited up to 3 hours after the posted start time for the musicians to charge onstage.

GN'R walked onstage at 11:30 p.m. for its show in Hartford, Conn., on Saturday. Tuesday in Chicago, they hit the stage at 11:10 p.m. In each instance, fans grew restless, and the growling audiences have been turned over to such GN'R contemporaries as Sebastian Bach to extend opening-act segments to appease the impatient.

Accounts of those shows are typically qualified by the band’s tardiness, with reviewers gauging the performances not on their own merit, but if the shows were actually worth a 2 ½- or 3-hour wait.

Fortunately -- and here is where the current incarnation of GN'R prospers -- the band has soared in its current live performances. Betting on the band’s resurgence as a fulfilling-if-tardy live act, officials at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel have signed Guns N’ Roses to play New Year’s Eve.

A roll of the dice? Maybe. But Hard Rock Hotel Vice President of Entertainment Paul Davis says the risk (calculated) is worth the reward (a terrific show to usher in 2012).

“On this tour, I’ve heard about a lot of shows and gotten some good, good reports,” Davis said during an interview last week. “They’ve been playing for 2 ½ and 3 hours. Word of mouth is really good. The candid reports I’ve been getting back are good.”

Davis is relying primarily on his colleagues with AEG Live, which is producing and promoting the Guns N’ Roses tour.

“People with AEG have been telling me the shows are coming off with no issues,” Davis said, but did add, “Axl is Axl, and we understand the rock and roll business.”

Before Davis’ arrival as an official at the hotel, Hard Rock hosted a Guns N’ Roses show at the old Joint in 2001. “Most of my staff who was at the hotel then said it was a great show,” Davis said.

The concert will be one of New Year’s Eve’s more fascinating events in Vegas, regardless of the outcome. The current lineup is loaded (musically), with Rose in fine voice as the band’s only remaining charter member. DJ Absha is a “crazy, crazy” guitarist, as Davis notes. The band is expected to play all the hits you’d want to hear at a GNR show (“Mr. Brownstone,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Welcome to the Jungle,” all of those), along with covers of such hard-rock classics as AC/DC’s “Whole Lotta Rosie.”

It’s a great idea -- on paper.

“Part of my job is risk management and mitigation,” Davis said. “We understand what we’re getting into. But I feel really good.” It’s such a feeling worth waiting for.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/kats-report/2011/nov/22/guns-n-roses-joint-lesson-risk-managment-tantalizi/

[2NaFish]

ticket says show starts at 8, so with an opening act the band can't be 3 hours late unless they go on at midnight. still, its less of an article if the underlying assumption isnt nonsense.

[FallenRoses]

I might go, pretty stoked.

[Robbie]

It really still is that with GNR these days... you may get nothing or you may get the greatest gig to in music history

[blueheart]

GNR will be also playing at the Joint in Las Vegas on Friday Dec 30

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/2C004771C2A55333?artistid=735218&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1