The hard-rocking Seattle quartet WALKING PAPERS released a Garage Sessions video in July already, been drafted too long so it's time to wake it up as its a pretty good tune.
WALKING PAPERS knows exactly how to forge the sounds that back up everything they want to be as a vibrant creative entity. The tune is taken from the latest release "WP2".
The low-end impresario bass player Duff McKagan (GUNS N’ ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER) has got so much going on with his other legendary successes that he certainly didn’t have the time to continue working with WALKING PAPERS, maybe he will be back when the other work settles down.
Current Line Up:
Jeff Angell - Guitars, Lead Vocals
Benjamin Anderson - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Will Andrews - Drums
Dan Spalding - Bass
Gregor Lothian - Saxophone
Tristan Hart Pierce - Guitar
Only a few days ago a real classic band entered Swedish soil for a concert at Friends Arena, a show that was way over my expectations. Axl Rose was in a very condition, good fit, loosed some wait, great song performance so my view point on this man got pretty wipe out since he has acted as a real dumbfuck latly. The expectation for the show was growing a bit since the stand in he did for AC/DC where he showed that he still is a performer and can act as a team member again, keep time and not fuck around. Well done Axl! The two other original members did a superb job, Slash is an excellent guitarist and Duff, wow what a bass player he is and what a persona he have. I could elect him as the star of the night. The others band members for the tour did an amazing job to keep the Guns name up! The opening acts during this evening was BACKYARD BABIES and THE DARKNESS,
So let's play a classic Guns song.
Today's tune "Paradise City" is a song by the American rock band GUNS N' ROSES, featured on their debut album, "Appetite for Destruction" (1987). It was released as a single in November 1988. It is also the only song on the album to feature a synthesizer. (It was Axl Rose's idea). It is most known for its iconic lyrics, "Take me down to the Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." It is also frequently played at sports stadiums during games along with "Welcome to the Jungle", also from Appetite for Destruction.
This was the first song that the original GUNS N' ROSES lineup of Slash, Steven Adler, Duff McKagan, Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin wrote together - all five members are credited as writers. According to McKagan, they started working on it during one of their first rehearsals, and it started with some lyrics he brought from a notebook.
On 93.1 WIBC FM, a radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana, Jake Query, who is a friend of Axl Rose, explained that the part of the song where they sing, "Where the grass is green, and the girls are pretty" is about when Axl Rose and his family would go down to Bloomington, Indiana.
GUNS N' ROSES' lead guitarist, Slash, states that the song was written in the back of a rental van as they were on their way back from playing a gig in San Francisco with the band Rock N Riders. He says that the band was in the back of the van, drinking and playing acoustic guitars, when he came up with the intro. Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin started playing along. Slash started humming a melody when Axl Rose sang, "Take me down to the Paradise City." Slash chimed in with "Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." Rose sang the first line again, where Slash shouted out "Where the girls are fat and they've got big titties." Rose finished with "Take ... me ... home!" Slash preferred his second line but the rest of the band felt differently. He was outvoted and they used the first line. The band then expanded upon the rest of the lyrics in rounds. Finally Slash wrapped up by coming up with the heavy riff that drives the song.
Much like "Welcome To The Jungle," this was inspired by Los Angeles, where the band was living. The verses deal with the rough life on the streets, but the chorus was based on Axl Rose's memories of the Midwest, with images of green grass, innocence and possibility.
Guitarist Andy McCoy has said that the song is copied from several riffs written by his band, HANOI ROCKS. He has said that the chorus is just a slower version of the riff in "Lost in the City". Axl Rose has often cited HANOI ROCKS as GUNS N' ROSES' biggest influence. HANOI ROCKS' original rhythm guitarist Nasty Suicide can also be seen in the music video for "Paradise City." The style of the main riff of "Paradise City" (involving an ascending chromatic riff) has also been used by many former GUNS N' ROSES members in new projects. This can be seen in Izzy Stradlin's "Bomb" and VELVET REVOLVERs "Do It for the Kids". According to Tracii Guns of L.A. GUNS and former member of GUNS N' ROSES, the riff was influenced by the BLACK SABBATH song "Zero the Hero" from the Born Again album.
Paradise City Live @ Friends Arena - Stockholm Sweden 2017-06-29
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Tuesday, July 04 Letnany Airport Prague, CZ
Friday,
July 07
Stade De France
Paris, FR
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Monday,
July 10
Ernst Happel Stadium
Vienna, AT
Wednesday,
July 12
Goffertpark
Nijmegen, NL
Saturday,
July 15
Hayarkon Park
Tel Aviv, IL
Thursday,
July 27
The Dome at America's Center
St. Louis, MO
Sunday,
July 30
U.S. Bank Stadium
Minneapolis, MN
Wednesday,
August 02
Sports Authority Field at Mile High
Denver, CO
Saturday,
August 05
War Memorial Stadium
Little Rock, AR
Tuesday,
August 08
Marlins Park
Miami, FL
Friday,
August 11
BB&T Field
Winston-Salem, NC
Sunday,
August 13
Hersheypark Stadium
Hershey, PA
Wednesday,
August 16
New Era Field
Buffalo, NY
Saturday,
August 19
Parc Jean Drapeau
Montreal, QC
Monday,
August 21
TD Place Stadium
Ottawa, ON
Thursday,
August 24
Investors Group Field
Winnipeg, MB
Sunday,
August 27
Mosaic Stadium
Regina, SK
Wednesday,
August 30
Commonwealth Stadium
Edmonton, AB
Friday,
September 01
BC Place Stadium
Vancouver, BC
Sunday,
September 03
The Gorge
George, WA
Wednesday,
September 06
Sun Bowl Stadium
El Paso, TX
Friday,
September 08
Alamodome
San Antonio, TX
Saturday,
September 23
Rock In Rio Festival
Rio de Janeiro, BR
Tuesday,
September 26
Allianz Parque
Sao Paolo, BR
Friday,
September 29
Estadio Monumental
Santiago, CL
Sunday,
October 01
Estadio La Plata
Buenos Aires, AR
Sunday,
October 08
Wells Fargo Center
Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday,
October 11
Madison Square Garden
New York City, NY
Sunday,
October 15
Madison Square Garden
New York City, NY
Sunday,
October 22
TD Garden
Boston, MA
Thursday,
October 26
Quicken Loans Arena
Cleveland, OH
Sunday,
October 29
Air Canada Centre
Toronto, ON
Thursday,
November 02
Little Caesars Arena
Detroit, MI
Monday,
November 06
United Center
Chicago, IL
Friday,
November 10
Toyota Center
Houston, TX
Tuesday,
November 14
BOK Center
Tulsa, OK
Friday,
November 17
T-Mobile Arena
Las Vegas, NV
Tuesday,
November 21
Oracle Arena
Oakland, CA
Friday,
November 24
Staples Center
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday,
November 25 The Forum Los Angeles, CA
The Not in This Lifetime... tour is an ongoing series of concerts by hard rock band GUNS N' ROSES, featuring classic lineup members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, marking the first time since the Use Your Illusion Tour in 1993 that the three performed together.
After their last tour ended in 2014, there was some uncertainty surrounding the band, especially the guitarist situation. Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal had hinted during the last part of the tour that these would be his last shows with GUNS N' ROSES. However, after the tour ended, no official word on the situation was given, neither from GUNS N' ROSES nor Thal himself. During several South American shows on the tour, Duff McKagan had filled in for bassist Tommy Stinson, who fulfilled previous commitments with his other band THE REPLACEMENTS.
Almost a year after the tour ended, on May 7, 2015 Slash revealed in an interview on CBS This Morning that much of the tension that had existed between Axl and himself was gone, saying: "Well, we haven't really talked in a long time. But a lot of the tension that you were talking about has dissipated. We don't have all those issues anymore." When asked specifically about the chances of GUNS N' ROSES reuniting, he said: "I gotta be careful what I say there. I mean, if everybody wanted to do it and do it for the right reasons, you know, I think the fans would love it. I think it might be fun at some point to try and do that, but…it just starts to get into a whole complex thing. But anyway, it's really between the guys in the band." This sparked the start of what would prove to be a long period of speculation on the reunion subject by both the fans and the media.
Suddenly, on July 27, 2015 the news broke that GUNS N' ROSES’ second lead guitarist, DJ Ashba, was leaving the band. He wrote a letter explaining that he was going to focus his work on his other group, SIXX:A.M., which he had formed with bassist Nikki Sixx and vocalist James Michael in 2007. At the same time he thanked Rose for the opportunity he was given by playing with GUNS N' ROSES and it seemed like they had left things on good terms. While this news story was picking up, it was at the same time confirmed by a representative of GUNS N' ROSES that Thal was officially out of the band. The leaving of both Ashba and Thal, combined with Slash’s comments on a reunion only a couple months before, further fueled both the media’s and the fans’ speculation about a reunion being in the works.
Furthermore, on August 22, 2015, Slash stated to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, that Axl and he had spoken recently. This was considered a big news story because it was almost common knowledge that the two of them had not spoken together ever since he left the band in 1996. When asked about the re-connection with Rose, Slash commented "It was probably way overdue". Rumors of a reunited GUNS N' ROSES started to pick up more and more during the fall of 2015. More reports came in claiming to have a confirmation that a reunion would happen, but no official statement was made during this period. One of the questions on people’s minds was if this was going to be a full reunion of the "classic line-up" or if it would be just one or two people from that line-up returning to the band. Steven Adler (the drummer from GUNS N' ROSES "classic line-up") admitted during a radio interview with Eddie Trunk that he had not heard anything from GUNS N' ROSES about a reunion. Classic-era member Izzy Stradlin later confirmed to Rolling Stone that he will have no involvement with the new lineup. Former drummer Matt Sorum stated he was not asked to be part of the reunion, while departed guitarist Ashba claimed he was asked by Rose to be a part of the lineup but had turned it down, citing his commitment to SIXX:A.M. Stradlin explained his absence of the tour stating "they didn't want to split the loot equally".
In late December 2015, the GUNS N' ROSES website was updated, scrapping much of the content and displaying the classic GUNS N' ROSES bullet-logo. The logo had not been used in official promotion since the Use Your Illusion days. Then, on Christmas Day, a teaser trailer debuted before the new Star Wars movie. The 15-second video showed black and white shots of a concert audience with the opening words of "Welcome to the Jungle" played. No additional narration or text accompanied the trailer.
On December 29, 2015, Billboard reported that Slash was set to rejoin the band and a "reunited" lineup would headline Coachella 2016. Rose was set to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the following week to talk about the future of the band, but his appearance was cancelled due to "unforeseen circumstances". GUNS N' ROSES were officially announced as the headliner of Coachella on January 4, 2016, with KROQ reporting Slash and Duff McKagan were rejoining the band. The Coachella festival then confirmed via press release that McKagan and Slash were rejoining. April concerts in Las Vegas and Mexico City were announced subsequently.
The full tour announcement came on April 1, 2016, when the band announced 20 cities as part of a North American leg of the tour dubbed "Not in This Lifetime...". The tour's name is a reference to a 2012 interview in which Rose, when asked about when a potential reunion would happen, responded "not in this lifetime." The reunion was billed as a "regrouping" by the band instead of a full reunion, since Slash and McKagan were filling empty spots in the existing band lineup. Additional dates in Chicago, New England, New York, and Los Angeles were announced on April 25 due to shows selling out. On May 18, ALICE IN CHAINS and LENNY KRAVITZ were announced as openers for select shows of the tour. Two weeks before the tour began, THE CULT, CHRIS STAPLETON, BILLY TALENT and SKRILLEX were announced as additional openers for select shows. On June 30, WOLFMOTHER and TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN were announced for several shows. ZAKK WYLDE was added as an additional opener to the band's August 15 show in Glendale, Arizona.
Additional legs of the tour were announced throughout the year, including a Latin American leg and a leg in Asia and Oceania Babymetal was announced as openers for the Japanese shows in 2017. In late November, commercials started airing in the United States with footage from the tour with the tagline "They're back for more in 2017", teasing a return to North America for 2017.
AC/DC guitarist Angus Young jammed with Guns N' Roses during their show at Coachella, while former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach joined the band on April 9 in Las Vegas. Former drummer Steven Adler joined the band for two songs at 5 shows of the tour.
Tour Personnel:
Keyboardist Dizzy Reed, drummer Frank Ferrer and guitarist Richard Fortus remain from the 2014 lineup, while keyboardist Melissa Reese joined the band in 2016, replacing Chris Pitman
GUNS N' ROSES
Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano
Slash – lead guitar, rhythm guitar
Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals
Dizzy Reed – keyboards, piano, backing vocals, Percussion
Richard Fortus – rhythm guitar, lead guitar, backing vocals
Frank Ferrer – drums, percussion
Melissa Reese – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
Guest appearances
Sebastian Bach (performed "My Michelle" during the April 9 concert.)
Angus Young (performed "Whole Lotta Rosie" and "Riff Raff" during the April 16 concert.)
Steven Adler (performed "Out Ta Get Me" and/or "My Michelle" during the July 6, July 9, August 19 and November 4 & 5 concerts.)
TAIT Towers was brought in to produce the stage and show itself. They have previously built and designed world tours with artists such as THE ROLLING STONES, TAYLOR SWIFT, U2 and MADONNA. The set was designed by Phil Ealy, previously the light designer on the Use Your Illusion Tour. TAIT built a 71 ft. wide main stage including band risers, LED staircases made with their P9 LED video tiles, LED fascia and amp stacks, and a self-climber piano lift used for Rose’s performance of “November Rain.” Additionally, they developed an 80 ft. automated video track truss system installed with power transmission units to automate Screenworks background video screens. TAIT Navigator, a proprietary automation platform, operated and controlled the self-climber piano lift as well as automated Screenworks’ video screens into variations of three to six columns.
The stage had staircases on each side as well as in the middle, leading up to the drum-kit. There was a walkway extending all the way around the drummer and two keyboardists, with staircases implemented into the riser, allowing the band members to freely move up amongst the keyboardists and the drummer during the show. At the center of the stage, there was a catwalk extending 28 ft. into the audience pit area hosting the self-climber piano lift. This catwalk was not assembled for the first seven shows as a result of Rose’s foot injury and he was subsequently forced to have a seat on the main stage instead. An extensive lighting rig was assembled in the ceiling of the center stage area and each side of the stage had big LED video screens, primarily used to show close-ups of the band during the concert. Roughly 250 professional and local crew members (125 of each) were needed to set up the staging, speakers and video boards. The setup process took three days and more than 20 production trucks to transfer from each city. Additionally there were 3 x 16 steel trucks carrying the skeleton of the stage, making them able to set up the basis of the stage in three different venues at any time.
The intro to the show featured either the classic GUNS N' ROSES bullet-logo made to look like a neon sign, blinking on the big screen on center stage, or an animated bullet-logo with the revolvers firing shots. The "Merrie Melodies" intro tune was heard, and then the whole venue went dark while the theme from The Equalizer was played over the PA system for a few minutes before the band then started the first song of the set. The show ended with a considerable amount of pyrotechnics on stage, and confetti was shot out over the crowd during the ending of "Paradise City". When they played outdoor venues, an extensive fireworks display was added.
Leg 1
North America (warm-up) – April 1, 2016 — April 23, 2016
Leg 2
North America – June 23, 2016 — August 22, 2016
Leg 3
Latin America – October 27, 2016 — November 30, 2016
Leg 4
Asia / Oceania – January 21, 2017 — March 3, 2017
Leg 5
Europe / Israel – May 27, 2017 — July 15, 2017
Leg 6
North America – July 27, 2017 — September 8, 2017
On June 29 they will play in Sweden at Friend Arena, Stockholm
Today's tune "The Garden" is a song by the hard rock band GUNS N' ROSES released in 1991. It appears on the album "Use Your Illusion I" and features alternating lead vocals between Axl Rose and Alice Cooper.
Sunday, time for a classic tune, today we play "Electric Eye", a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, from their 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance, and released as a single later that year. It has become a staple at concerts, usually played as the first song.
Benediction and Helloween, amongst many other bands, have covered this song.
Musically, the song is in the key of E minor, and its guitar solo is played by Glenn Tipton.
"Electric Eye" is featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories for PSP and PlayStation 2. It is also a playable track in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s as a master track, including "The Hellion", and it also appears on Guitar Hero Smash Hits. Additionally, it is available for download on Rock Band, as of 22 April 2009, as part of the entire Screaming for Vengeance album download, or as a single song. It was also featured in the second trailer for the video game Brütal Legend.
This song is referenced in the movie Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, in the song "Break in-City (Storm the Gate!)".
"Electric Eye" is an allusion to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, in the use of the name of the pseudo-omniscient satellite that watches over the community at all times. In this dystopia, the form of government, Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism), is utterly totalitarian, and if citizens are caught rebelling in any manner, they "disappear". The song has been called "prescient" for its depiction of a modern surveillance state.
The song is usually played right after the album's intro "The Hellion" during live concerts. An exception is during the tour for the album Demolition, in which the band went straight into "Electric Eye" with no intro, which can be heard on their live album Live in London. "The Hellion" was recently used for a commercial for the 2011 Honda Odyssey.
The song was played live at the 2011 Revolver Magazine Golden God Awards show by Duff McKagan's Loaded, with vocals by Slipknot and Stone Sour's Corey Taylor and guitar by The Sex Pistols' Steve Jones.
Todays tune "Electric Eye" is taken from the eighth studio album "Screaming for Vengeance". The album, considered the band's commercial breakthrough, sold in excess of 5 million unit worldwide and has been certified double platinum in the United States and platinum in Canada.
Jane's Addiction was one of the most hotly pursued rock bands when they received notice in Los Angeles in the mid 80's, with record companies at their feet. The artist with the undeniable charisma and frontman Perry Farrell who had an interest in provocative art (he designed the band's album covers) and Jane's Addiction played a hybrid of rock music: metal with strains of punk, folk, and jazz. The Quartet, made up of Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, drummer Stephen Perkins and guitarist Dave Navarro.
The records "Nothing's Shocking" 1988 and "Ritual de lo Habitual" 1990 where after the split of the band and made the way for other bands, Farrell and Perkins formed Porno for Pyros, and had some success with Their two albums, Porno For Pyros in 1993 and Good God's Urge 1996, meanwhile, Avery and Navarro formed Deconstruction and put out a self-titled one-off album in 1994. Dave Navarro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993. 2003, Jane's Addiction woke up again and released the album "strays" and went out on tour, soon after it they split up again.
With many trips back and forth on Jane's Addiction's future with both defection and split ups, so in 2008 they reunited Jane's Addiction once again, this time with the original lineup including bassist Avery, who had performed with the band since 1991. The band went with Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails on tour. The lavish box A Cabinet of Curiosities appeared in 2009. In 2010, Avery left the band and was replaced by former Guns N 'Roses bassist Duff McKagan and the band began working on new material. In May 2010, premiered the new look Janes Addiction with McKagan on bass and the new song "Soul Mate" for a Cinco de Mayo concert in Hollywood. McKagan left the group the following year and was replaced by TV on the Radio multi-instrumentalist Dave Sitek baby boomer generation, who also appeared on the band's fourth proper studio album, 2011 "The Great Escape Artist", to be released on October 18, 2011
Todays tune "Irresistible Force" is the first video and the tune is the second single to be taken from the band’s upcoming album "The Great Escape Artist". Watch the video below and don’t forget to tell us what you think in our comments section, enjoy!
Listen to "Judas Priest - Electric Eye" on Spotify 
