Here's Slash talking about writing the riff on Sweet Child O' Mine - perhaps the best Gun N' Roses song on their debut along with Welcome to the Jungle. We've reached a tipping point - when bands get back together now, it feels like we're being conned. James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem was forced to explain his band's reformation on Facebook after it was announced they would be co-headlining Coachella after just five years of retirement. Many ordinary Guns N' Roses fans are being priced out, and there's a wider point here. He was, Bild claimed, waiting for proceedings be finalised so that she wouldn't receive 50 per cent of his income from the reunion.Īmerican music industry mag Billboard reported the band could be making as much as $3m per show on their tour, resulting in ticket prices that have been called 'outrageous' - $79.50 to $350 for general admission to two Coachella warm-up shows at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

In September 2015, German newspaper Bild reported that lawyers had been sitting on an agreed contract for two years, and Slash's divorce from his now ex-wife Perla was causing a delay. As recently as 2009, Rose said: 'Personally I consider a cancer and better removed.' So you'd be forgiven for thinking this reunion is just about money.

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