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Topic: Axl Rose/GNR Stuff Return to archive
11-12-02 11:17 AM
Street Fighting Man

Axl Blows Out Throat, Dons Chicken Bucket
For Glitchy Guns Tour Launch

Band plays to half-full venue, faces annoying technical obstacles.





Axl Rose performs in Tacoma, WA on 11.8.2002
Photo: MTV News



TACOMA, Washington � Crawling from the wreckage of their noisily aborted tour kickoff in Vancouver the night
before � which ended in a fan riot and a bloody, club-wielding response by local police (see "Fans Riot After Guns
N' Roses Tour Kickoff Canceled: Kurt
Loder Reports") � Guns N' Roses came
charging into the Tacoma Dome, about
45 minutes outside of Seattle, with
considerable pent-up energy on Friday.
Unfortunately, there wasn't quite
enough of it to entirely overcome some
annoying technical obstacles that laid in
wait.

The Dome is a boomy place at best; with
only about half of its 22,500 seats
occupied, as was the case with this
show, the resulting sonic wallow often
obscured the band's remarkable
precision. On top of that, singer Axl
Rose's microphone line slowly
deteriorated throughout the course of
the two-hour-plus set: By the end, his
trademark wail was jabbing in and out of
the mix so erratically that he started
overcompensating, and finished the
night (we were told) with blown vocal
cords.

These sound problems obscured some of the best efforts of an impressive band. The new Guns N' Roses is a big
group � three guitars and two keyboards along with bass and drums � and the level of its musicianship is
unusually high. One-time Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson and ex-Primus drummer Brian Mantia propel the band
with the requisite bottom-end muscle, but with rare agility, too. Chris Pittman is extraordinarily flamboyant for a guy
who traffics in keyboards. And former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck, who tempers his screaming leads with
soulful control, is also a maestro of pure, string-ripping noise.

And then there's Buckethead. You know that a guy wearing a deadpan white mask and a fried-chicken bucket on
his head is becoming a serious cult star when a couple dozen fans turn up in the audience sporting KFC headware
of their own. And you definitely know the news is out when Axl Rose himself, midway through the old Guns hit
"Patience," straps on a little mini-bucket, too. But the really riveting thing about Buckethead � who's a veteran of the
avant-funk-fusion scene � isn't his get-up; it's the jaw-dropping precision with which he can tear through a
finger-blurring solo. He's super-fast and lyrical at the same time. He also does a robot-dance interlude that has to be
witnessed to be fully appreciated.

All of the band's instrumental fireworks (and the show's explosive, old-school pyrotechnics) serve to illuminate the
charismatic presence of Axl Rose, of course. His inimitable shriek remains ... well, inimitable � and he can still hold
those keening notes beyond what might seem to be normal human ability. He also probably racks up as much
non-stop sprint mileage onstage as most frontmen half his age.

Chinese Democracy, the new Guns album Rose has been promising for the past decade, won't be out till February.
(Yes � so they say!) Therefore, the new band's repertoire is heavily studded with vintage tunes: "Welcome to the
Jungle," of course, and "Paradise City." And everybody gets to sing along to "Sweet Child O' Mine," too, and
"November Rain," "Live and Let Die," and "Mr. Brownstone." Even "Oh My God." (Well, maybe not.)

But the future of Guns N' Roses lies in the direction of the handful of new songs the group is currently playing: the
gorgeous ballad "Madagascar," the gut-shaking "Rhiad" and the monumentally riffed-out "Chinese Democracy" itself.
These songs, largely composed by Rose and the whole band (there are "probably hundreds" of others, according to
keyboardist Dizzy Reed, probably exaggerating a bit), could sustain the ongoing GN'R project into a new creative
era. It'd be nice to have them stick around.



�Kurt Loder

This report is from MTV News
11-12-02 11:21 AM
jb Macca and Stones only played to about 17,000...so 11,500 for a cover band is pretty respectable IMHO.
11-12-02 11:22 AM
nankerphelge This buckethead character sounds like a real piece of work. The Rock & Roll equivalent of the Unknown Comic!

11-12-02 11:31 AM
Maxlugar If you were in that band wouldn't YOU grab a bucket and put it over YOUR head before going out there?

That man seems pretty talented. I'm sure he doesn't want Axl bringing him down with him.

MAXY!!
11-12-02 11:34 AM
sirmoonie Remember when Steelie put that bucket over his head and kept saying he was a Buckingham Palace guard.

That was weird, I thought.
11-12-02 12:22 PM
Maxlugar Yeah but he forgot to take the chicken out first and when Joey got the munchies he was licking Steelie's head all night.

At least that's what they told me........

YoooOOOOOooo HoooOOOooooOOOoooOOOooooo!!
11-12-02 12:24 PM
nankerphelge That explains why Joey kept moaning "I love it extra crispy" all nite -- I couldn't figure out what that was all about. See, once ya have all the facts, it makes perfect sense!
11-12-02 12:26 PM
Maxlugar Yeah and then he was all like "Lets hide the bones! Lets hide the bones".

It's all much clearer.........