As you might know, Izzy joined GN'R on stage at the Download Festival in Donington Park, UK on Sunday night.
He's also appearing at the GN'R shows that take place between June 11th and 21st.

The shows taking place between those dates are as follows:

June 13th, 2006: Prague, Czech Republic @ Sazka Arena
June 15th, 2006: Warszawa, Poland @ Stadion Legii
June 17th, 2006: Burgenland, Austria @ Pannonia Fields II (Novarock)
June 20th, 2006: Paris, France @ Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
June 21st, 2006: Zürich, Switzerland @ Hallenstadion

What?! I didn't know that Izzy played with them. That's awesome.

Yeah, cool huh?

What do you think of the chances of Izzy playing on July 30th? It's the last show of the European tour something cool has got to happen.

John Atkin reflects on Sunday @ Download as Guns n' Roses headlined the festival with their appetite for self-destruction turning into a masterclass.

There's a moment when it all hangs in the balance.

For 30 minutes, Guns 'n Roses have singed the eyebrows and eardrums of the Download crowd. After being over an hour late on stage at Hammersmith earlier in the week, Gn'R are on-time and on-form, opening with flashbombs and the one-two-three suckerpunch of Welcome To The Jungle, It's So Easy and Mr Brownstone.

Live And Let Die and Knockin' On Heaven's Door follow, before guitarist Robin Finck picks out the signature riff to Sweet Child O'Mine.

But you can tell from the giant screens flanking the stage that all is not well on the braided, goateed visage of Axl Rose. He's been carping about the stage being too slippy and, during a front-of-crowd walkabout, appears to aim the 'c' word at an over-zealous steward. As the band's most famous song dies, he abruptly announces: "We're having some technical problems, so we're gonna take a break."

I was on this Leicestershire soil in 1988 when the over-exuberant response to Guns' debute Donington appearance led to the fatal crushing of two fans. With tonight's restless crowd, semi-delirious on three days of booze, guitars and 30-degree heat, this could all turn nasty. Just as it seems as though Axl's well-documented appetite for self-destruction is about to consume another comeback appearance, guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal saves the day, appearing alone, stage front, to crank out a guitar-only version of Don't Cry which quells the bottle-fight in the crowd enough for normal service to (almost) be resumed.

You Could Be Mine claws back more ground but then Axl's gone again, leaving Finck and Richard Fortus to widdle their way through a (frankly excruciating) guitar instrumental version of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful". That's followed by the night's first new song (The Blues?) in which the level of chatter in the crowd, followed by booing and chants of "sort your f****** head out" , have seasoned Axl-watchers on alert yet again. When bassist Tommy Stinson grabs the vocal mic and threatens to go home if he's hit by one more flying bottle, the rainclouds gathering above Download for the first time all weekend seem an apt, if ominous, portent of a coming storm.

Maybe Axl needs this danger, this threat of impending violence, to really get the adrenaline racing. And as the band rips defiantly in to Out Ta Get Me, the whole dynamic shifts. Dizzy Reed's solo piano version of Ziggy Stardust is warmly received, another new song (Better?) sounds loads, erm, better.

The tide has turned, and it's time for Axl's coup de theatre: "I'd like to welcome a very good friend of mine…Mr Izzy Stradlin…" and out trots his former sidekick to roars of approval. There are now as many members of prime-time Guns n' Roses in this band as there are in Velvet Revolver, and the performance of Think About You that follows throws down a gauntlet for all pretenders.

"Can I get a piano out here?" asks Axl and seated, drink in hand, there's only one way he's going now. November Rain is nothing short of a masterpiece, the band firing, finally, on every single cylinder as the main man, in his own words, "beats the hell out of that old love song."

Another "old friend" is welcomed onstage in the shape of ex-Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach, possibly one of the few frontmen who can give Axl a run for his money in the helium-scream department. The pair trade lines through My Michelle, before Stradlin's recalled for a run through Patience and a punked-out, four-guitar version of Nightrain which, to coin a phrase, rolls like a freight train right through the middle of this dusty field.

The encores, bravely, begin with another newie, Madagascar, before Brian Mantia kick-drums the seven-piece into a masterful version of Rocket Queen.

"I don't wanna go home," says Axl, before admitting: "that's different to how I felt an hour ago."

Two more new songs – IRS and Chinese Democracy – are aired, both of them whetting appetites for the new album, before Izzy Stradlin comes out once more for the final two-step, a ramshackle, Stonesy version of Useta Love Her and a thunderous reading of Paradise City which lights up the sky with pyrotechnics and ticker-tape cannons.

Guns n' Roses were once proclaimed The World's Most Dangerous Band. On tonight's evidence that danger is still there, which – while at one stage threatening to derail the whole show - has instead focused Axl and the band into delivering one of the all-time great Donington performances.

Yes, Metallica were unstoppable on Saturday night, but they didn’t face the pressure of a world waiting to see them put a foot wrong. What Axl delivered in the face of that expectation was a two-and-a-half-hour masterclass in the light and shade of rock'n'roll.

The new album, Chinese Democracy, is reportedly ready for release. If it lives up to tonight, then Guns n' Roses will once again be the biggest band in the world.

I've read that reivew a few times, it's the best piece of journalism on a new GNR gig that I've seen.

[QUOTE]"I'd like to welcome a very good friend of mine…Mr Izzy Stradlin…" and out trots his former sidekick to roars of approval. ...and the performance of Think About You that follows throws down a gauntlet for all pretenders.[/QUOTE]
Oh dear god. I wish I would've been there. That moment would have made up for all the crazy people I'd have to deal with.

[QUOTE]Maybe Axl needs this danger, this threat of impending violence, to really get the adrenaline racing. And as the band rips defiantly in to Out Ta Get Me, the whole dynamic shifts.[/QUOTE]This is the bit I'd like to see.

Tonight's GN'R show in Zürich, Switzerland has been postponed, here's the press release:
Guns N' Babies!

Guns N' Roses have been forced to postpone their show in Zurich at the Hallenstadion this evening the 21st of June, 2006. Their drummer Brain aka Bryan Mantia has had to return to San Francisco earlier than scheduled to be with his pregnant wife. The band have been travelling with understudy drummer Frank Ferrer and he will be ready to step in when the tour continues as scheduled on Saturday with their next show at Belgium's Graspop Festival.

It is expected that Brain will return to the tour in approximately 2 weeks time. The band had a phenomenal show at Bercy in Paris last night which they consider to be the best of the tour to date. During the exuberant performance guitarist Robin Finck pulled his hamstring but will benefit from the extra day of rest and will be ready for Saturday. The Hallenstadion show in Zurich will now take place on the 1st of July and all tickets are valid.

Guns N' Roses apologise to their Swiss fans for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing them in a couple of weeks.


Source(s): Sanctuary Group

How things have changed, I remember when they skipped shows for reasons rock and roll.

yep. at least they are re-schedualed their show so they can't disapoint their fans. hopefully they will come canada

Where in Canada are you

35 days til' GNR....:)

8 days til' RHCP, 9 days til' Alice in Chains :D I'm one happy kid right now!

RCHP sucks now. So does GNR ... they're no longer 'truly' GNR. I can't say much for AIC.

I must say I'm looking forward to seeing them on the 19th.
Should be great.

[QUOTE=Kyle]35 days til' GNR....:)

8 days til' RHCP, 9 days til' Alice in Chains :D I'm one happy kid right now![/QUOTE]
Mars Volta with RHCP? That should be awesome if it is. Not big on RHCP but Mars Volta are awesome.

I'd love to see GNR now days even with only Axl.

[QUOTE]I'd love to see GNR now days even with only Axl.[/QUOTE]
same

yeah, I hope I get to see GNR.. hopefully with Izzy there or something.
[QUOTE=Kyle]35 days til' GNR....:)

8 days til' RHCP, 9 days til' Alice in Chains :D I'm one happy kid right now![/QUOTE]ih8u

3 months till RHCP, 2 months till Tool and a few weeks till Bodom, Slayer and blah.

SOP I want a full report on AFI set list and how well they played. Seriously.

Is Slash's Snakepit or whatever worth a look into?

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Is Slash's Snakepit or whatever worth a look into?[/QUOTE]If you're a big fan of Guns and Roses then I'd say yes, but there not really anything special. In saying that they do have a few really god songs. I havn't got the CD with me here at my Dads, but if I go back to my mums anytime soon, then I'll upload their first album for the mailing list.

[QUOTE]Mars Volta with RHCP? That should be awesome if it is. Not big on RHCP but Mars Volta are awesome.[/QUOTE]nope :upset: I would love to see that too, but I still get !!! and Ben Harper supporting.

Axl and the new guys are playing so well right now, from the bootlegs I have heard, and the setlist is mainly AFD. That' the show I'm looking forward too most, it's the last show on the european tour, so something special is bound to happen.....Hopefully Izzy.

I thought someone uploaded a Snakepit album already?

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Is Slash's Snakepit or whatever worth a look into?[/QUOTE]Yeah, I like them a lot.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1_Bo5fAYQ&search=guns%20n%20roses[/url]

^haha, look at Axl going nuts.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYoy5PPwt2Y&mode=related&search=guns%20n%20roses[/url]

^^Also, this is a pretty funny interview. Especially Izzy's response at the end.

hah, Izzy's awesome. I heard this one interview where Izzy was talking over everyone. I can't remember where I found it though.

That first video is pretty nuts.

It was amazing to see Axl doing his hip swaying at Download, I've been loving his stage presence ever since I saw the Use Your Illusion DVDs, which I still don't actually own.

UYI and Welcome to the Videos are the only dvds I own by them. Axl has too many short shorts.

everyone likes short shorts. >:[

[QUOTE=Apocalyptic Raids]everyone likes short shorts. >:[[/QUOTE]yes jono, we all know you like short shorts, on guys.

lol

I just downloaded a live video of Civil War where Axl has a go at the people in the crowd for throwing fire. I think he calls them fukkheads. Then he threatens to go home.

[QUOTE=blue3]yes jono, we all know you like short shorts, on guys.[/QUOTE]
just you wait till i get all glammed up

[QUOTE=blue3]Where in Canada are you[/QUOTE]
british columbia.

GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose was released from a Swedish jail at approximately 7:00 p.m. (local time) Tuesday (June 27) after paying 50,000 Swedish kronor (approximately $6,800) in fines in connection with an incident early Tuesday when he allegedly bit a security guard in the leg at his Stockholm hotel.
Axl admitted attacking and threatening the guard, as well as causing damage to the Berns Hotel where the alleged scuffle took place, according to prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad

Guns N' Roses W. Axl Rose was released this evening after having been arrested at 8 a.m. this morning in the lobby of his hotel in Stockholm. The arrest followed an altercation with a hotel security guard. Guns N' Roses had just played a triumphant show to a sellout audience of 15,000 at the Globen Arena and had enjoyed the city's hospitality until the morning hours when the incident occurred.

Axl Rose commented, "We had a great gig in Stockholm and I am not going to let this incident spoil that. My assistant Beta and I were talking in the lobby of the hotel when security started to give us a hard time. My only concern was to make sure she was ok."

Axl Rose is now in Oslo, Norway and the Swedish authorities are no longer pursuing this matter

Haha wtf, he bit him in the leg.

/Cringes

Bless Axl, now he's bitten a few legs and walked off stage at download, we know we have the old Axl back.

[QUOTE=Apocalyptic Raids]just you wait till i get all glammed up[/QUOTE]with short shorts!? hahah...

no seriously, do it.

defently looks like were getting the old axl back.

probley doing to help premote new album

I don't care what he's up to anymore. What Slash and Izzy are doing is much more interesting.

Izzy is playing with GNR, so......

Why is it that Guns N' Roses management have a way of reporting every incident like they're the victims?!

[QUOTE=Kyle]Why is it that Guns N' Roses management have a way of reporting every incident like they're the victims?![/QUOTE]
they dont want people looking at axl like hes a psycho

[QUOTE=Overdrive666]they dont want people looking at axl like hes a psycho[/QUOTE]But he is a psycho, they should try warning people off him.

Hey SOP, these puns are getting old, it's like beating a dead horse now!

He even looked pretty crazy back in the 80's. I watched a few live videos last night that I have and he's going overboard on that hip swaying thing, I'm suprised he didn't snap his ankles.

And hearing about him biting that guys leg...doesn't make him psycho but it certainly sounds funny.