what to expect at dubai’s guns n’ roses reunion concert
Last Updated : GMT 06:49:16
Arab Today, arab today
Arab Today, arab today
Last Updated : GMT 06:49:16
Arab Today, arab today

What to expect at Dubai’s Guns N’ Roses reunion concert

Arab Today, arab today

Arab Today, arab today What to expect at Dubai’s Guns N’ Roses reunion concert

Slash performs on stage during the Guns N’ Roses
Dubai - Arab Today

The title of the Guns N’ Roses reunion tour, "Not in This ­Lifetime", indicates just how unlikely most fans – and even the band members – thought it was that they would ever see the chief protagonists, frontman Axl Rose and guitarist Slash, together again on stage.
But defying all expectations, and overcoming no little animosity ­between the infamously egotistical singer and the famously gifted axe man, the lead Gunners duo are together again, 21 years after Slash quit the band. ­Classic-era bassist Duff McKagan, who departed soon after Slash, is also in tow.
After a run of gigs that started in their native United States last year, before moving through Central and South ­America, their world-gobbling run of shows continues at Autism Rocks Arena in Dubai on Friday.
It’s the final date of an Asian and ­Australian tour, ­before the hard-rock juggernaut turns its attention to Europe in May.
We slipped on our skintight jeans to check out the first of two recent GN’R shows at Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo to find out what we can expect in Dubai.
The production
With sweeping stairs at the back, modest protruding wings for guitar-solo posing to the left and right, and a centre section for Axl to strut his stuff, if you squinted at the Tokyo show, you could almost imagine the stage was ­falcon-shaped – which would please plenty of people in the UAE.
The stage is certainly big enough to ­necessitate a certain level of fitness for the band to cover all its extremities.
Accordingly, perhaps, "Fatxl" is a little trimmer now compared to his much-­derided excesses while gigging in the early noughties, during the overly long gestational period leading up to comeback album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008.
A huge screen at the rear of the stage and projections onto floor-to-ceiling drapes mean that regardless of his ­reduced bulk, you can’t miss Axl.
Confetti cannons explode paper fragments into the air during the final number, a joyous rendition of Paradise City.
The performance
They are older but, on the whole, in ­Tokyo GN’R blasted out the hits with the verve of men half their age.
Axl’s voice is just about there, if a little higher, behind pearly-white teeth.
His clean-shaven appearance, meanwhile, coupled with nods to his 1980s dress sense – most notably a bandana – suggest he is attempting to recreate the drama of a time when GN’R were ­labelled "the most dangerous band in the world".
Axl gets to have a little sit-down while indulging his Elton John-­esque, ivory-tinkling whims – but when this includes the mighty November Rain, which results in a sea of phone lights, who even cares.
Slash is unchanged from the GN’R heyday: spray-on-snug trousers, tight T-shirt, top hat balanced atop his shock of black hair.
At 51, the British-born six-string-slinger can still shred, wielding a Gibson Les Paul snarl that nobody else can replicate and finishing the show ­soloing behind his head.
But while it is life-affirming to see Axl and Slash perform together again, there is the feeling that even if old grudges have been put aside, the pair probably do not have the kind of rapport they enjoyed during the band’s early last-gang-in-town days, when they lived together in less-than-salubrious areas of Los Angeles.
It’s also incongruous watching Slash and Duff gamely play along on a smattering of forgettable material from what we’ll call "The Wilderness Years", when they were not in the band.
The songs
The set list is by turns magnificent and confusing. Everything from Appetite for Destruction sounds world-endingly sleazy, particularly when Nightrain is dusted off pre-encore.
Axl even avoids asking for "some reggae" midway through the Bob Dylan cover Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (check YouTube for evidence of his past obsession with adding unnecessary "riddim").


Source: The National

arabstoday
arabstoday

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

what to expect at dubai’s guns n’ roses reunion concert what to expect at dubai’s guns n’ roses reunion concert

 



Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

what to expect at dubai’s guns n’ roses reunion concert what to expect at dubai’s guns n’ roses reunion concert

 



GMT 13:42 2015 Saturday ,04 April

Libyan warplane targets camp in Gharyan town

GMT 15:14 2017 Wednesday ,01 March

UN documents nearly 1,500 child soldiers in Yemen

GMT 07:24 2017 Sunday ,01 October

Mexico unlikely to find more quake survivors

GMT 16:15 2015 Wednesday ,11 November

German intelligence 'spied' on Fabius, FBI, UN bodies

GMT 01:32 2017 Saturday ,15 April

Russia's Putin earns about 157,000 USD in 2016

GMT 16:30 2017 Saturday ,15 July

Minister of planning gives priority

GMT 19:45 2017 Wednesday ,05 April

President of Senegal Meets Attorney General

GMT 05:18 2017 Thursday ,21 September

Over 80 missing after migrant boat sinks off Libya

GMT 19:22 2017 Saturday ,01 April

UN: Number of Syrian Refugees Tops 5 million

GMT 15:16 2016 Thursday ,29 September

FBI to put up database on police use of deadly force

GMT 05:06 2016 Friday ,30 September

Indian markets open flat

GMT 01:57 2017 Tuesday ,10 October

Twin suicide bombs kill 13 near Mogadishu airport

GMT 02:25 2017 Friday ,08 September

UAE celebrates National Day at Expo 2017 Astana

GMT 06:19 2017 Sunday ,08 January

Bleaching poses the gravest threat to coral reefs

GMT 12:35 2017 Monday ,18 September

Elham Shahin happy for “Day for Women”

GMT 09:46 2017 Thursday ,22 June

US existing home sales unexpectedly rise in May

GMT 02:36 2017 Tuesday ,10 January

US embassy condemns Al-Arish suicide attack

GMT 10:34 2017 Sunday ,26 November

czar faces graft probe
Arab Today, arab today
 
 Arab Today Facebook,arab today facebook  Arab Today Twitter,arab today twitter Arab Today Rss,arab today rss  Arab Today Youtube,arab today youtube  Arab Today Youtube,arab today youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday
arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday
arabstoday
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
arabstoday, Arabstoday, Arabstoday