Correct, I forgot about that. But in the past 15 years they didn't play too much together.

I think the Godzilla vs. Giant Snake GN'R rehearsal sessions hurt their friendship. I can't recall them playing together since that.

I don't think GNREvo would heading to the HTGTH territory. But unfortunately the "be happy with what you get and don't care about what you don't get"-mentality seems to be less and less tolerant with other viewpoints. Like people who aren't fans of *that particular album* or aren't happy with the tribute band status they're reaching (have reached) wouldn't be fans and should go to other bands' sites they *actually like*.

I understand that one album in 20 years can cause a "get on board or f:flame: off" attitude, since it's the only reference point in a long time. But you can see it from another viewpoint: people can be a fan of a particular artists even when they don't like or aren't fans of one particular album and think that the lead singer is weak live or liked previous line-ups better. Deal with it.

But as crazy as Axl is, and as bad as his hangers-on are, they made it into a religious battle, where Good fights against Evil, and you must take a side, or you are Evil, of course, like Kid Rock learnt his lesson (and Zakk Wylde will probably do that, too). I could make a huge list how Axlism is similar to the Christianity of the Middle Ages. Maybe later.

Anyway, I like this site, otherwise I would have quit online GN'Rism years ago.

Seems like Tommy, the Man contradicts himself.

Here it is:

Will you prepare for a 12-show residency any differently than you prepare for a tour?

Probably a little bit, because I think we’re going to have to alternate sets and do different things. Whereas when we tour we kind of tweak the set as we go and then kind of get in a mode of it being a certain way, with a few audible changes as we go along. I think with the Vegas sets, we’re going to try and make some different things happen to kind of keep each show a little bit different.

Like, keep a basic set and mix in a few songs? Or will you have multiple setlists?

I think we’re really going to have to think about that. And as you just say that … (pauses) … an idea came into my mind … to really, drastically change the set. I can’t share it with you, but I think would be really good. I think there’s a couple different ways we could go about all this, and I think we should.

Is there you’ll be able to do, production-wise, to make these shows special since you won’t have to tear it all down every night?

I’ve got a couple of ideas, and I think everyone is going to have to use their noggin to try to figure it out. I know Axl [Rose] is going to try and make every show different from one to the next. I think that would be the way he thinks.

Sounds like there’s still a lot up in the air. Do you think it will mostly happen spontaneously?

Ya know, I don’t know. I think that we’re probably going to have to talk about how different we want to make the shows, then once we do that and we all get on the same page it’ll be easy to say, “Hey, how ’bout tonight we do it this way?” That way, people aren’t gonna go, “Wow, I saw them last week, and I saw that set.” It would be good to have them see a different set each time. To make people go, “Wow, that was totally different.” It might be totally acoustic for half the set tonight. Or maybe we’ll do half the set on f*cking kazoos! (laughs)

The residency is called Appetite for Democracy. Does that mean it will mostly draw from Appetite for Destruction and Chinese Democracy?

I just think somebody came up with a cute term (laughs). I don’t really know where that came from, but it is definitely going to be more than just Appetite and Chinese Democracy. It’s going to be a lot of things—as much as we can throw out there.

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2012 … residency/