Just read Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes will be covering Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" for this album.

I'm assuming it will be excellent.

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The warship is named the USS Patience. Sounds like 'Patience' is being sung in the background as well.

The Howard Teman story has come up before, probably years ago on some other site. It was basically GnR had finished their Alice Cooper tour. Fred Coury was off with Cinderella again & Adler was still 'injured'. They decided to play a little benefit show...like that day...and Howard was just Mr. right place, right time. He was a musician/artist/t-shirt/rock poster designer that was friends with the band.

I remember in some interview he gave about it(can't find it anywhere)...that basically the band taught him the parts on the drive down the hill to the show & he just manned up and pulled it off.

I posted this in the mygnr tour rumor thread, so I'll post it here as well. I have a couple hometown friends that now work events at Soldier Field in Chicago. They had a facebook post a couple of weeks ago about how much fun it was going to be working the GnR shows over 4th of July weekend because they love 80's music. Again, that's about as rumory as it gets...

Another clue from Duff?...

http://www.alternativenation.net/reunit … sal-photo/