|Montana Bengal| Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6828129/guns-n-roses-reunion-coachella-stadium-las-vegas?cnn=yesGuns N’ Roses, with original members Axl Rose and Slash, will headline the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., set for April 15-17 and April 22-24, according to multiple sources. The reunited band is also negotiating with promoters to play as many as 25 football stadiums in North America in the summer of 2016, and is scheduled to be one of the first acts to play the new Las Vegas Arena, set to open April 6. Guns N' Roses is said to be asking as much as $3 million per show, with tickets topping out in the $250-$275 range.The last show Axl Rose and Slash played together was on July 17, 1993 at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires. Guns N' Roses' most recent tour, which only included Axl Rose from the original lineup, took place primarily in South America and The Joint in Las Vegas, grossing $15.2 million.Representatives for the band, as well as Coachella producer Paul Tollett and agent Ken Fermaglich at United Talent Agency, could not be reached for comment. Executives at AEG, which will operate the new Vegas arena, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The band's first album, Appetite for Destruction, is the biggest-selling debut in U.S. history, with 18 million sold. It spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and launched the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single "Sweet Child O' Mine." They have sold 44.5 million albums total in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Association of America.Billboard's confirmation comes on the heels of two rumor-inducing hints dropped over the past week, the first a cryptic update to the Guns N' Roses website and the second during screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, where footage of a concert crowd was shown with GN'R music overdubbed. Though longtime fans may be understandably wary after the decade-plus wait for Chinese Democracy, which became a totem of sorts to frontman Axl Rose's sometimes unpredictable behavior, this reunion bears no sign of that record's bumpy road.Coachella has a pedigree for coaxing much-loved acts out of retirement, or being the linchpin to plans that had already been simmering. The fest has previously hosted the reunions of Rage Against The Machine in 2007, My Bloody Valentine in 2009, Pulp in 2012 and Outkast in 2014 -- not to mention Tupac's posthumous return to the stage in 2012. Guns N' Roses will arrive a year after two other legendary acts, AC/DC and Steely Dan, headlined the 2015 edition. Last year's edition drew 198,000 to the California desert, generating $84.2 million in revenue, according to Boxscore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted December 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/12/30/original-lineup-guns-n-roses-reuniting-report-says/Welcome back to the jungle.At least three-fifths the original lineup of Guns 'N Roses -- singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash, and bass player Duff McKagan -- are reuniting to headline Coachella 2016, according to multiple reports.Billboard also reports that the band will headline a stadium tour.Who will play rhythm guitar and drum for the band remains unclear.The reunion would mark an about face for the band. When asked by FOX411 in 2012 if he and Axl would ever get onstage together, Slash said: "I don’t know why everyone is so obsessed – it is not going to happen."But earlier this year, after more than a decade of not speaking to Rose, and rarely even speaking about him, Slash told Aftonbladet TV that the lines of communication had recently reopened.“It was probably way overdue, you know,” Slash said. “But it’s…you know, it’s very cool at this point. You know, let some of that, sort of, negative … dispel some of that negative stuff that was going on for so long.”Reunion rumors were also sparked earlier this week when the music video for the band's hit "Welcome to the Jungle" played ahead of some screenings of the new "Star Wars" movie.Guns 'N Roses put out five albums with its original lineup, and one with a new lineup fronted by Axl Rose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|BengalsFREAK| Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 This has train wreck written all over it. Axl is still Axl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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