08/06/2021 10:48
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Updated 08/06/2021 10:48
The reactivation of musical shows in the United States is advancing at a redoubled pace, and in that dynamic,
Guns N 'Roses
contributed its grain of sand with
the start of a new tour, on July 31
, in Pennsylvania, before some 30 thousand people, after a year and a half without going out on the road.
Once again, the band led by Axl Rose and Slash
puts their stainless classics such
as
Paradise City
,
Civil War
,
Sweet Child O 'Mine
and
November Rain
, among others, to the test, and their unbeatable ability to take on covers like
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
and
Live and Let Die
.
But, in addition, this time the Guns included a new title to their repertoire,
Absurd
, the first song that the group has premiered in the last 13 years
, and that this Friday, August 6, already has its studio version on digital platforms.
Actually written in 2001
, the song was born under the title
Silkworms
during the days of preparation for their sixth studio album,
Chinese Democracy
(2008), which is so far the last album with their own and new songs offered by the band.
Chinese Democracy
, the sixth album of the group formed in Los Angeles in 1985, had marked on November 2, 2008 their return to the record format after a silence of 15 years, from the publication of
The Spaghetti Incident?
, the last act of the "first era" of the Guns before the debacle that saw Gilby Clarke leave first, and shortly after Slash and Duff McKagan.
The beginning of the return
Somehow,
Chinese ...
can be taken as
a first step in the reactivation of the rock machine
that shook the second half of the '80s and the first of the' 90s, with only Axl Rose and Dizzy Reed as the only two. original members of the group in its formation.
Guns N 'Roses at River Stadium in 1993, on the band's second visit to Argentina.
Photo Pepe Mateos
Even so, we would have to wait until April 2016 to see Axl again on stage with Slash and company, the combo that made the band great, which in November of that same year returned to Argentina, as part of the tour
Not in This Lifetime
, 23 years after his second visit to the country.
The result of that return could not be better:
more than 563 million dollars collected in the ticket machines
, which places it in the third position of the highest grossing companies in history.
The South American landing would be repeated in October of the following year, to play at the Estadio Único de La Plata on a date shared with The Who, which with the legendary duo made up of Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend at the helm ended a wait for their fans. of almost five decades, at the same time that it
showed his imperishable energy
.
In 2017, the Guns rocked in the rain at the Único de La Plata.
Photo Martín Bonetto
More of the same, but we like it
Absurd
is a prototypical product of the Guns factory, which attacks from the very beginning with
an unusual forcefulness by dint of insistent riffs
that from time to time give way to the pyrotechnics of the group's star guitarist, and with Axl Rose offering
a good dose of his mythical treble
.
The Guns tour continues with
25 shows from here to October 12
, in different locations in the United States and Mexico, to then continue through Oceania until the end of November, and later, in mid-2022, resume the route in the European continent.
South America, for now, does not appear on their radar.
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