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Guns’n’Roses / Sebastian Bach / Rose Tattoo

Tuesday, 26 June 2007

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Photo: Madeleine Marx-Bentley

BEC - Tuesday June 19

Veteran bombastic Aus rockers Rose Tattoo capably open tonight’s flannel and leather extravaganza before an audience largely comprised of conservatively dressed yuppies, rather than the drug addled, alcohol fuelled, outrageously clad, high haired throng that one would picture attending such an extravaganza as this ‘back in the day’. The Tatts unleash a rousing performance of bombastic pub rock, marred only by singer Angry Anderson’s embarrassing between-song banter about ‘love’.

Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach is up next, ripping out a flooring set that is far and away the highlight of the night (and the year so far on the Brisbane stage, I might add). The man still has all the rock moves of a young Dave Lee Roth, the Skid Row elements of the set list are to die for and most of the new songs are every bit as good as the Skid Row songs they sit alongside, with a cover of Blue Oyster Cult’s Godzilla really providing the iron cherry on the heavy metal cake. The night feels like it is over when Bach strides off the stage, but sadly this is not so.

Photo: Madeleine Marx-Bentley

To be frank, the Axl Rose Band incarnation of Guns'n'Roses are bloody awful. The voice of Axl Rose (who now looks like a cross between The Cowardly Lion and a bullfrog) has not weathered the sands of time well and the rent-a-musos are quite sloppy in certain places. Most of all, the monumental hubris of getting these no name, second rate musicians who nobody cares about to do extended solo after extended solo (after the audience has already suffered through a 45 minute wait while Rose was getting exfoliated or finishing Chinese Democracy backstage or whatever) is just beyond endurance. This is not 1992, Guns’n’Roses’ 15 minutes was up long ago and we do not need to wait for W Axl Rose anymore. The new songs are poorly conceived and sound like an out of touch ‘80s rocker’s conception of ‘modern’ rock music. If this is Chinese Democracy, I’ll stick with Chairman Mao.

SHAUN NANCARROW

Comments (53)

51. Written by Jessica, on 14-12-2007 16:29 , IP: 165.228.54.171
Yes Slash rocks but so does Axel infact he has done one better and made a come back tour!! Too bad the other originals weren't up to doing it cause they are without!!

52. Written by chrissy fit, on 04-04-2008 22:07 , IP: 61.69.253.48
chinese democracy starts now

53. Written by 69, on 09-08-2008 16:01 , IP: 121.79.65.109
axl can wipe his big hairy poon all over my face any day

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