Axl Rose rides the Night Train
After delivering a high-energy performance with Guns N’ Roses at the Vive Claro Arena on October 7th, frontman Axl Rose surprised fans by quietly riding in a bus at Bogotá’s El Dorado Airport.
A photo that surfaced on social media shows Rose smiling, holding onto the yellow support bars inside a vehicle that closely resembles the buses used in Bogotá’s TransMilenio system.
Initially, many users on social media speculated that he had boarded a public mass transit bus, but further details clarified that the bus was part of the El Dorado airport’s shuttle system — used to transport passengers between terminals and aircraft.
In the image, Rose is wearing a black sweatshirt and dark glasses, with multiple rings visible, and his posture suggests he was traveling light and blending in. He appears relaxed and engaged with the moment rather than maintaining the usual rockstar persona.
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Axl Rose, vocalista de los @gunsnroses, fue visto montando en @TransMilenio pic.twitter.com/8PlBQwxhj3
— Colombia Oscura (@ColombiaOscura) October 10, 2025
Slash talks Guns N’ Roses’ Sweet Child O Mine
Guns N’ Roses’ classic song “Sweet Child o’ Mine” is timeless. If you attend rock cover band performances, there’s a good chance you’ll hear it. It seems impossible to escape: it’s played on the radio, sung in karaoke bars, and often featured as young guitarists test out their new instruments in guitar stores. However, it’s interesting to note that Slash, the band’s guitarist, was never the song’s biggest fan.
“Yeah, I have to admit I did have a thing with it,” Slash revealed in an interview with Guitar World. “It was a riff I came up with, and I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I wasn’t really thinking about it at the time, but it inspired the whole song.”
Slash noted that the band was supposed to write heavier music than “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” so he found the sudden shift to playing a ballad jarring:
“I always say this, but to me, we were like a Motörhead-type hard rock band, so any kind of ballads were sort of uncongressed,” he said.
“But it really became part of our set. We played it one time opening for Ted Nugent, and when it was time to play that song, I was like, ‘Oh, fuck…'”
“And, of course, I had to remember how to play the riff accurately by myself in front of everybody every time we played, which, at the time, I was a little drunk, and you never knew what was going to happen.”
Slash’s opinion about his own song would be agreed upon by some of his guitar colleagues. Recently, Lorna Shore guitarist Adam De Micco had some colorful words to say about GN’R’s classic track, but noted that it’s still as popular as ever:
“I was at the gym once and heard Guns N’ Roses. ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ is a terrible song – I hate Axl’s voice and don’t even like Slash’s playing, but it stands the test of time. Nowadays music comes and goes in less than a year, yet there are bands from 30, 40 years ago, and people are still excited to hear it, and I’m like, ‘How?'”
