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Originally Posted by anythinggoes78  Ill try not to raise to the bait....
I love the current line up of the band, having met and spoken to many of them on different occasions they are a great bunch of guys, and to me musically they play better than the original band, i would of liked to have seen the original line up but alas i was too young but i followed everything they did, on the plus side i have seen Izzy and Duff play with GN'R as guests and i have seen the other band members in other bands except Steven Adler |
Being ancient (41) i was lucky enough to see the original line up at Donington in 88. It was my very first gig -
Helloween were the very first band i ever saw live.
To be honest the gig itself was ruined by a poor sound due to a swirling wind and the many stoppages for crowd control. (We had no idea anyone had lost their lives during the set until we got home). You could tell they were a raw hungry act at the time. I and my mates who went are actually briefly on the video to
Paradise City which was partly filmed there. You have to pause it and really look at the crowd to spot us
The next time i saw them was at Maine Rd, Manchester on the
Use Your Illusion tour in 92 supported by
Faith No More and
Soundarden. I then saw them at Milton Keynes Bowl on the same tour, a year later, then called the
Skin n' Bones tour supported by
The Cult,
Soul Asylum and
Blind Melon. By then the dynamics of the band had changed dramatically and they sat around on sofas for several songs
.
I've not seen Axl and co since. I really didn't rate
The Chinese Democracy bar a couple of tracks. For something that was something like twenty years in the making it really is piss poor.
I saw
Velvet Revolver a couple of times too. They were good.
I posted a pic of my
GN'R singles collection in this thread last year.
http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/musi...lection-5.html. But it's posted below as well to save you looking.