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Guns 'n' Roses Play Slane
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This is Dedicated to Peter "I missed Guns 'n' Roses Play Slane" Byrne. Enjoy!!

It was a fairly normal but extremely Sunny Saturday morning as myself and my
brother walked towards Montjoy Square to catch one of the coaches that would
take us to the gig of the year,none only than the Guns and Roses Bash in Slane.

I remember thinking that I would remember this date for as long as I live, Ermm,
What was it again? Oh yes, It was Saturday the 16th May 1992. I immediately
started thinking about writing my memoirs and selling millions of copies of the
book and then making several major motion pictures based on the life of a
typical Eclipse member, (Rob Lowe can play me - Polaris) but that's another
story. Anyway, on with the expedition....

We arrived at slane at about 1:30 and wow what a day it was, the sun was beaming
downing from the heavens, God must have been smiling on Ireland that day, maybe
he's a secret Gun's and Roses Fan, or perhaps he has Irish relations, doesn't
half the Irish Football Team? No, sorry I promised I wouldn't be TOO
controversial in this article.

So, here we were gently baking under the hot sun and mostly just lying on the
grass (I said 'lying' not 'smoking' Okay?) doing nothing.I must mention here
that all of the VIP's seemed to arrive by Helicopter for the Gig, I would have
too only my Helicopter was Wheel-clamped the other day. But, the VIP's were
actually given a far poorer view than us the everage punter, coz they were up at
Slane Castle.

Slane is a pretty cool place for a concert because it's in a natural valley
that's acoustically amazing. Behind the stage there is a River, which was
constantly patrolled by blokes in canoes and Dinghies. Off to the right Hand
side of the stage and elevated a few hundred feet is Slane Castle and this is
were the VIP's were, granted they had to pay something like 50 Quid for their
tickets and they had Champagne to Drink, but overall I think we had the better
view and Atmosphere.

Well, there were about 30,000 Fans there when 'My Little Fun House', a shitty
Irish Rock Band, began to play. Snore..........   Well they were acceptable I
suppose... So must people just went to sleep in the sunshine and waited
Patiently for the Main Act.

Next at about 3:30, 'Faith No More' made an appearance, they are actually a
pretty good band, some would say brilliant, but I disagree, the only good songs
I think they have are 'We care a lot' and some other successful one, the title
of which I can't remember at the moment. But, It goes like this.....
Da Da Dum.. De Daa Dum....  Well, not really....

So, Faith No More finished their spot at about 4:30.

And then everyone waited and waited and waited..... under a sizzling sun,
luckily there was plenty to drink, lots of Coke, Orange, Vodka, Jack Daniels,
you name it, it was being consumed by the bucketful. Also, there were the usual
sorts of fast foods available.... Some rather dodgy Chips, I could have sworn
that one of my chips used to star in Doctor Who, I think It used to play the
Dalek Leader or someone like that, but I could be wrong I suppose. Anyway, the
food was plenty, but rather expensive, 1.50 for a hotdog and the same for chips.
And a Glass of Coke was 90p. Bloody scandalous but It was selling like there was
no tomorrow, which incidently there might not have been for some people lying
around the place doing very lifelike (deadlike?) impressions of corpses. I
reckon that either the chips didn't agree with them, or they had too much Lager
or Vodka, probably the latter.

Well, everyone was getting restless waiting, luckily they had some decent music
playing over the Amps, otherwise everyone would have been slightly pissed off.
Some blokes up near the middle of the stage decided to form Human Pyramids, Two
People would stand on the ground and then another person would stand on each of
their shoulders, then another one one that blokes shoulders, and so on until
they resembled something that looked amazingly like the leaning tower of Pisa.
It was bloody amazing, I think they must have thought that there were talent
spotters from all of the top carnivals and circuses in the audience, I suppose
there may have been, there were certainly a hell of a lot of weird blokes
wandering around, AND a lot of weird and also extremely sexy Women. Wow, thank
god for the Sunshine.

Just then a squadron of helicopters and what looked suspiciously like a Gunship
Helicopter flew overhead. Wow, this 'Guns and Roses' band are severely into
heavy arnament. It looked very like Vietnam, well OK, It looked like Vietnam
films that you see on TV or on Video, a group of helicopters flying right in
line behind each other. Awesome.

Then, at precisely 7:30 GMT, G+R hit the stage accompanied by the Clint Eastwood
Spaghetti Western Team Tune, It was really well done, and sounded Excellent
being blasted out over the fucking Enormous Amps.

By the way, If you don't like the Bad Language in this Article, then

FUCK OFF YOU KYLIE MINOGUE FAN!!!!!


Well, Ahem, Let's continue....

G+R blew the shit out of any Amiga Music that I've ever heard, but that's to be
expected really. They played Lots of songs from the 2 Use Your Illusion Albums,
and also several tracks from Appetite for destruction, their previous album.

They played a really stormin' version of 'Right night next door to hell', bloody
great song, and this got the crowd going no end.

They also played 'Live and Let and Die', which I always thought was a shitty
song whenever I heard it before on the Radio, but It was really different and
far better Live, maybe it should be 'Live' instead of 'Live', well you know what
I mean.....

They Played 'Don't Cry', which is defintely one of my all time favourite songs
(apart from Bachman, Turner, Overdrive, that right Harry?!), It's a fucking
excellent and melodic song with some really brilliant vocals by Axl and great
guitar riffs by Slash.

Speaking of Slash, he did a great Impression of Jimmy Hendrix syle of Playing at
the start and end of one particular song, I'm not sure but I think It was the
Classic Hendrix Song.... FUCKING EXCELLENT STUFF INDEED!!!

Then, 'November Rain' was played, and what a cool song it is too, I really love
the guitar solo at the end of it. Amazing.

They also played Polaris's favourite song 'Garden of Eden', and It was just the
thing to blow all of those cobwebs away from Metal Starved ears.

A really brialliant rendition of 'Welcome to the Jungle' was performed, I never
tire of hearing that particular song, the lyrics and changes in Tempo are just
'out of this Dimension'. It was accompanied by a huge inflatable Monster with
lots of Arms and Guts being blown up beside the stage, it looked really cool in
addition to G+R Stage Lights which are always excellent.

'Sweet Child of Mine' really got the crowd together. It's another one of my
all-time favourite songs (BTW, I do a lot of Work for Charity, but don't really
like talking about it ;-).

Anyway the show went on for ages, It was over 2 and Half hours, which was pretty
cool, great Value for money, and a great chance to listen to some cool music
but like all good things It unfortunately had to come to an end...
Guns and Roses played out with 'Paradise City', which they incidentally
dedicated to Dublin. And, at one point Axl mentioned that he had Dublin in mind
when he originally wrote the song, but somehow I can't really imagine that, but
stranger things have happened, right?

Anyway, Paradise City was just fucking amazing. No shit!


Well, so ends a concert Report from  Gazzer / EcLiPsE

I'm not a writer, which you no doubt noticed, and sorry about my English, It's
not soo good.  I'm actually an Irish Person.

-Well Thanks for the cool article Gazzer,but just how many all time favourite
 songs do you have???- X%X PoLaRiS X%X