Guns N' Roses 2009

 

Slash and Friends at the Mirage

Courtney Love, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee, Rob Zombie and drummer Jason Bonham are among the many musicians who will join Slash for his all-star concert in Las Vegas on October 2.

The concert, billed Slash & Friends, celebrates the 20th anniversary of Las Vegas hotel and casino the Mirage.

Other guests include Matt Sorum, Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick, Rocco Deluca of the Burden and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. (Courtesy of Rolling Stone)


In other news, Slash is auctioning off an autographed top hat to benefit Hollywood Arts, a charity which uses performance, music and media-based education to help homeless, foster care and low-income, high-risk young people, 18 to 24, improve their sense of self-worth, develop thinking skills, master basic educational concepts and receive job-readiness training in a variety of creative disciplines.

A Modern Classic

"You know, we've only done one show before this, and already we have been criticized for playing the old songs, but I have no intention, and I never did, of denying you something you enjoy, and I thought it was only fair for you to see that this new band can play the fuck out of these songs.

It's very hard to ask a musician to learn to play the part or parts played by other musicians before them. These guys here have worked very hard.

As for you guys ... On lead guitar here we have Mr. Buckethead. You've already met my friend Mr. Paul Tobias. On keyboards once again Mr. Dizzy Reed. On the drums - Brain, and on the keyboards over here, Mr. Chris Pitman. You've met Mr. Robin Finck, and leading us through these rehearsals, General Tommy Stinson.

This is a new song, I hope you like it, this is called "Chinese Democracy."

Rolling Like a Square Wheel

Dizzy Reed has a new project called 'Empty V'
Starting this Wednesday, June 3, Empty V will be playing once a week at Dragongly in Santa Monica, California. Dizzy will be joined by Eric Dover (Slash's Snakepit), Scott Griffin (L.A. Guns), and Troy Patrick Farrell of White Lion. Empty V will play the hottest hits of the Eighties, everything from Huey Lewis to Prince.


Tommy Stinson and Soul Asylum have a couple of dates booked this Summer. July 2 at the Minnesota Zoo, and July 3 at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.


Chris Pitman was last seen on April 20 at the Key Club, where he played with his band SexTapes.

Richard Fortus recently recorded some guitar tracks for singer Anina Stang


Bumblefoot's played more shows with Duff McKagan than Axl Rose since the release of Chinese Democracy last November.

Frank Ferrer played at Don Hill's in NYC Fiday, May 22. Bumblefoot showed up and played with them too.



DJ Ashba hasn't been heard from since March 21 when he officially joined Guns N' Roses. Here he is in March 2007 with his buddies Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Slash.


"We have some exciting things in the works this year for GN’R, I’m looking forward to it." -Irving Azoff, March 4, 2009.