Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins discussed watching Axl Rose play in Guns N’ Roses with Buckethead in a new LiveXLive interview, calling it a ‘weird’ night for both bands. Kind of creepy! Alternative Nation transcribed his comments. Foo Fighters dropped a Dave Grohl quitting bombshell a few days ago.
This is going to be a little bit bigger than Kaboo. We played it back in 2001, when Guns N’ Roses first got back together without everyone. So Axl, and Buckethead, and all these [guys], that was a wild, weird night. That was wild, we were youngsters, so we were wild as well. Then we did it in Lisbon in 2005 as well, which was weird, going to a Rock in Rio that’s not in Rio. I think you said there’s going to be one in Vegas. Why wouldn’t they just call it Rock in Lisbon and Rock in Vegas? But I guess it’s the thing.
An Axl Rose ‘Fat Wreck’ photo was revealed yesterday. GNRFanJen posted a review of GNR’s ACL performance yesterday, “So Guns N‘ Roses is my all-time favorite band. I’ve seen them 3 times on this tour, last night being my 4th, on the rail no less!
Axl sounded amazing. He did the Jungle intro and it was vicious. Didn’t expect that one, so that was cool. Honestly, all throughout, he was strong. Band was tight, you could just tell. Axl was in a great mood as well. When Slash was taking center stage, he was off to the side watching, or laughing with Duff, etc.
No Seeker, no BHS, no Wichita, no pre-NR jam. What a significant difference that made. That might also have been because I was already exhausted, but still. Definitely made a difference to me and kept the flow going.
Couple of funny moments: during LALD when Axl usually throws his mic stand, he actually threw it to a tech guy on the ground just to the side of me. He had a good laugh at that because I don’t think the tech guy expected it. During Nightrain, when Axl blew the horn, when he tried to throw the chord, it got stuck and fell, he tried to kick it, failed again as it fell to the ground, so he picked it up, laughed it off and threw it. Then during PC, something apparently was wrong with Axl’s boot, so while he’s singing some of the song, he called over some tech guy to fix it for him. That was pretty funny.
Personal highlight: getting to hear Slither and Shadow Of Your Love for the first time. That kicked ass.
All in all I had a great time on the rail. This is my favorite band and I just adore Axl so really I didn’t expect any less. Hope the next time I see them, it’ll be with new music.” Axl Rose taking a nap at a GNR show was recently revealed.
