Gn'R name all over lisbon

[grabaraxl]

the rock in rio promotion is now on with the headliner's names, and it's everywhere! and i mean everywhere!
the whole city is infested with this big posters.

it's so cool to be in traffic and just look ahead or to your right, or to your left and....bam: "guns n'roses"

[John Daniels]

sounds great! but how long GNR will wait for making it official  

can you get somehow a photo of that poster on this board?

[Evil Ash]

Is GnR top of the bill ??
If not, which band is and on what place is GnR?

Cuz i remember with pukkelpop GnR being top of the bill!

[oneway23]

Nothing insightful to add to the post, just wanteed to commend evil ash on the name...great stuff

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Is GnR top of the bill ??
If not, which band is and on what place is GnR?

Cuz i remember with pukkelpop GnR being top of the bill!

If i am not mistaken RIR is a three day event and gnr are headlining the 2nd day.

[Kiki]

Actually RIR4 is an 6 days event now and GN'R is headlining day 3

[just_one]

this is the right order

Paul McCartney
Peter Gabriel
Guns N Roses
Metallica
Britney Spears
Sting

[Captain P?l]

this is the right order

Paul McCartney
Peter Gabriel
Guns N Roses
Metallica
Britney Spears
Sting

is this for real?!?

GNR is consider bigger and more popular than both metallica and britney?!? i mean, they havent realed any album in over 10years! this is awesome

[Cristina]

Those are the headliners for each night...

You can check it out here:  http://rockinrio-lisboa.sapo.pt/

[grabaraxl]

it's order by the date they'll play. McCartney on 28th, Peter Gabriel on the 29th, Gn'R on the 30th, etc...

and since when does any has to confirm a show to know they're playing? has metallica confirmed it? did britney confirm it?
it's the promoters obligation to promote a show once they book a band. the band doesn't need to promote it - the only thing they do is to put on the tour dates on their website, but as we all know, gn'r doesn't have a website! (you can't call gnronline.com a website, it's more like a cemetry, every link is dead).

[horsey]

glad to hear something possitive.very KOOL !

[MeanBone]

that's funny, i live in lisbon and haven't seen shit... lol, and GN'R are not that big here, but the promoters wanted them to headline, GNR isn't a "Big" name since 1992 after their concert here that was  ruined not only by some audience members who were complete jerks and the biggest jerks of them all called the press wich ripped a new Ass hole on Axl the day after the show calling him names and whatnot. still, i think the GNR day in Rock In Rio is selling quite good, not as much as  Metallica, Paul Mccartney or Sting but its selling. and well, if Gnr are seen by the majority of the people around here, as a group of forgotten Hard Rock legends its because the band failed to put out any new material since 93, so that didn't help much. as izzy would put it " Once there was this Rock N Roll band, time went by as it became a Joke" pure reality, this is how they're seen here, RIR may change that or may confirm the Press's opinion that Axl simply is a "Long Forgoten Loser". so its tough being a GNR fan in here. One thing though, no one seems to hate the old guys, Slash Duff and Matt and Izzy, they just pick on Axl, and they like to call Guns N Roses as Axl Rose's Supporting Band and they just pick on the new guys for every reason they can. the biggest or most popular jornalist in hard rock and heavy metal here, Antonio Freitas, for one, just loves to pick on Axl, and every time i hear him talkin about Axl is how he's such a loser, and the new guys suck, and yes, Gnr was greatbut GNR Ended long ago... well but this is form a Guy who thinks St Anger from Metallica is a Great cd. so go figure. but he does get a lot of influence since he writes just about everywhere, and has his own tv show, and appears on several others as well.

[kupirock]

the whole city is infested with this big posters.

Take some photos and post them here

[HoldenCaulfield]

MeanBone = bs.

[Cowboy Buddha]

pictures?  I want to see pictures!

[MeanBone]

MeanBone = bs.

care to be a little bit more elaborate on that stupid remark?

[gueli]

Unfortunately what my friend MeanBone (aka fassen larens) said  is true dude. Portugal ain`t a gnr nation. The saddest thing is to check that the persons who nowadays listen shitty music were once as fans of gnr as we are and will ever be. That`s depressive

[kockstar99]

Antonio Freitas, for one, just loves to pick on Axl, and every time i hear him talkin about Axl is how he's such a loser, and the new guys suck, and yes, Gnr was greatbut GNR Ended long ago... well but this is form a Guy who thinks St Anger from Metallica is a Great cd. so go figure. but he does get a lot of influence since he writes just about everywhere, and has his own tv show, and appears on several others as well.

who the fuck is this fuck? Some fuck who thinks hes a bad ass with a voice in Portugal?
My god does he think that he will influence people about Axl Rose with his shitty opinions.  id like to tell that fucker to worry about his portugal music and not to worry or comment about Axl Rose or his new band.  
If you dont have anything nice to say dont fucking say it then asshole.  I hope Axl calls this dipshit small dick mother fucker a big fat cunt on stage.

[John Daniels]

MeanBone = bs.

umm..it seems to me that grabaraxl isn't telling a truth. The guy has disappeared with no answers.

[wonderall]

It is obviously something Axl loves to do.  I wish I could go, it sounds like a really good time.  
I am still waiting for an invite  , YA.  I hope everybody stays safe.

I would like to hear-"Bring me to life", I love that song, aside from Nov. Rain.  It is interesting.  

Life just keeps passing me by.

[MeanBone]

hey, i didn't say that there weren't any posters on the walls, i just said i haven't seen them yet, but if grabaraxl said there were posters, then they're out there, and its not strange at all cuz every day Gnr is in commercials to the RIR festival. i'm goin to college now, so i'll keep my eyes open.

and i wasn't also voicing my personal opinion on Axl or the New band, i'm a die hard Axl fan and i love the new band, the problem is most people don't think that way. but hey a lot of people didn't even knew that Gn'R was still alive and that they had new members, so i guess RIR 4 is such a good time as any to Axl prove every one wrong.
and Yes that Journalist is awful, he even tears VR every chance he gets. a few months ago on a Led Zeppelin Special, with la few people here in the music business they were saying that very few bands got to where Led Got, but to name a few they said GNR and The Black Crows, he turned the discution into GNR and basicly tore Axl apart, i couldn't believe the BS the guy was saying. he basicly see's Axl as an accident waiting to happen and a total loser who got lucky in 80's and destroyed a great band he once had. and it's sad, cuz, IMO, Nothing could be further away from the truth. and worst of all, is, if someone gets to interview the band when they get here, he's the one! Axl should kick his ass. that would be public service

[grabaraxl]

Mean Bone, i have to disagree with you.

first of all, the posters are everywhere in lisboa's center. if walk across the new avenues and the whole area between marques de pombal, pra?a de espanha and campo grande.

it's cool that you mentioned A.Freitas. i'm a big friend of his he just invited me for a gn'r special on his television show! yes, he thinks that gn'r without slash isn't gn'r, but he hasn't seen the new band yet.

and as far as gn'r not being a known band in portugal, i don't know where you get that idea.
"Live era" was #2 on our charts, that's the highest rating it got in the world, you can't pass a day without hearing a gn'r song on the radio (this morning "you could be mine" was blasting on mega fm), and if you go to the target between 25-35, they know all the gn'r songs.

younger people, that are used to nowadays bands - the flavour of the week -  don't understand the power that older rock bands have in their audience.
kids today are used to like one band for 2  albums, then pretend they never liked it and just get a different haircut and wardrobe and listen to whatever new band is around.

one example: limp bizkit sold out 2 nights in lisbon 2 years ago, they had 30.000 people. 2 weeks ago, they had 3.000 people watching their new show, and the new album isn't that bad!

bands like pink floyd, stones, U2, Metallica, Gn'R, have a really strong fan base, and you can't see that in your high school, because that is just one part of their target audience.

if you look at your window and see a 30 year old guy in suit, walking around in his BMW, you may think of him as a norah jones or jazz fan, but that guy can be pretty much a die-hard gn'r fan, or metallica, since he grow up listening to them.
Appetite was released 17 years ago! and it had an impact by that time that you can't imagine!

[MeanBone]

yeah, you're right on all that, basicly, my point of view was from someone who's 19 and basicly since the 6th grade i haven't seen more then 10 gnr Fans that i actually knew, and the majority of kids my age do like the flavour of the month band, without having a particular taste in music in general, they like what everyone thinks its cool to lilke. yet there have been many surprises, mainly at the Iron Maiden Show that sold out here in Lisbon and i didn't expect it to, the way i saw it fans just came from the most unexpected places, from 30 year old excutives to 14 year old kids who knew just about every single song. that was a surprise and i'm hoppin' the same will happen, and maybe i don't see that many GNR fans. cuz people my age just don't seem to be their actual taget for now at least. cuz i do hope that will change. i truly hope for a strong fan base At rio, both national and international since many of the Posters here will be attending as well.

and just one thing since Freitas is your friend, and i already knew that cuz he even mentioned you in a show here in television as a die hard fan of the new band. is that show he's thinkin of doin on "Hipertens?o" on sic Radical or is it in Antena 3 Radio? and can you show something from the new band other than Rio? like Pukkepolp's nightrain, the NYC MSG show or any other thing since they're all bootlegs?

[badapple81]

Years ago here in Sydney, there used to be these government road safety billboards for taking breaks every couple hours of driving.. they had an actual crushed up car sticking out of them.. with the sign saying "Even listening to Guns N' Roses at full volume couldn't keep this driver awake"

[Evil Ash]

Years ago here in Sydney, there used to be these government road safety billboards for taking breaks every couple hours of driving.. they had an actual crushed up car sticking out of them.. with the sign saying "Even listening to Guns N' Roses at full volume couldn't keep this driver awake"

come on, there got to be pictures from this!!!!!!

[grabaraxl]

that sidney sign is hillarious!

and mean bone, it'll be on the tv show. i'll keep you posted on the date. i'll try to show some bootlegs, but i don't know if it's legally possible. he'll decide what to do with them. i'll try to do a song there too with my gn'r tribute band.

oh, and for all you Manchester United fans...good luck next year on the champions league!!
as Axl would've said himself: Alex Fergusson can suck my dick!