MY PREDICTION: It'll RULE, or it'll SUCK: Axl & Slash to reunite G'n'R and headline Coachella

[Miles Archer]

Guns N' Roses to Reunite for Coachella, Possible Stadium Tour: Sources

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6828129/guns-n-roses-reunion-coachella-stadium-las-vegas



Guns N’ Roses, with founding 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.

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.

[JackInGreen]

1. ...

Popcorn either way.


I'm either going to cry, or give myself a vertigo episode.

[darkangel218]

2. I can't stand GnR for some reason.

[Initech]

12. I've always thought Axl is a gigantic douchebag.

Whether or not this has a happy ending remains to be seen. I do like Slash though.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. Izzy Stradlin was the real talent in the group

GNR did nothing but covers after Axl lost his co-writer, then the band imploded.

As the quiet one, Stradlin never gets his due. He contributed more to the GNR sound and gave it a foundation, far more than Slash's noodling and flourishes.

If they're making new material, they need Izzy

I saw Axl's new GNR a few years ago. His voice was shot all to hell. Dunno if it's improved.

[underpants]

6. Yep he wrote all the songs. A friend was standing next to him at a GnR show....

My friend is in the retail area of music. He was at a Slash of GnR show and looks beside him and Izzy is standing there. They struck up a conversation and Izzy says "Great band on stage. Totally dysfunctional off. "

[Miles Archer]

8. I though "Dust 'n' Bones" was the most interesting track from BOTH "Illusion" CDs

His post-G'n'R album Izzy Stradlin & The JuJu Hounds was pretty tasty too.

I wonder how things would have played out if they had a stronger personal dynamic, if they went from "Appetite" to "Illusion" (as a STRONG SINGLE CD) and then on to a third album of original material.

I really enjoyed the first Velvet Revolver album...I can easily see that if drugs and drama hadn't interceded, that could have been the third G'n'R disc.

[stevil]

9. I agree about Izzy

But to me it was all five of the original core that made them what they were. Slash and Axl were signatures but not the foundation.

[Nailzberg]

10. i saw GNR in 1991. Axl's voice was already shot to hell then.

I'm morbidly curious to hear how much worse its gotten. I mean, hes a throaty screamer type and chain smoker (or at least was), not exactly taking care of his pipes.

Right on about Izzy. He was the engineer on that train. Look at how long it took to write an album without him.

[Nailzberg]

4. Get tickets for weekend 1. They'll break up before week 2

[underpants]

5. Lots of faded tattoos at those shows.

Great band for two albums. The Replacements Tommy Stinson is currently the bass player.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. Stinson is said to be out

.

[underpants]

11. Color me depressed

[Warren DeMontague]

13. I vote "suck", but then I was never a fan.

Now, Lemmy... that dude will be missed.