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- Slash McKagan
- Rep: 11
Re: GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience'
GUNS N' ROSES are offering a "Signature VIP Experience" at their upcoming Las Vegas shows for $2,500. According to The Pulse Of Radio, the package does not include a meet-and-greet opportunity with Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan. It does include one ticket in the first ten rows, a signed, numbered, limited-edition tour poster, a photo on the stage before the show, a backstage tour, pre-show cocktails, access to a VIP hospitality lounge, a dinner buffet and drinks, prizes, private merchandise shopping and other "perks."
Customers will also get the "Essential Guns N' Roses VIP Gift Bag," including special merchandise and a commemorative VIP laminate and matching lanyard.
GUNS N' ROSES will play on April 8 and April 9 at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas before headlining California's Coachella Music And Arts Festival on April 16 and April 23. A summer tour is also rumored for the reunited group.
Meanwhile, longtime GUNS bassist Tommy Stinson, who was in the band from 1998 until 2014, says that a partial reunion of the group's classic lineup "will be a healing thing" for the musicians involved.
Stinson told The Pulse Of Radio a while back why he stayed with GUNS N' ROSES for so long. "I had doubts at certain points, and the thing that kept me going every time is that I would talk to Axl about this and that, his ideas about what we're doing and what we're gonna do and stuff like that," he said. "And every time, I just kinda had to stop and go, 'You know, he really knows exactly what he wants to get.' Every time I had a doubt, I would talk to him about stuff, and totally be back in it."
Asked how he feels about the recently announced reunion of Axl, Slash and Duff, Stinson told The Current: "I think everyone kind of knows where I stand with it all. I left it in a good way… So I think it worked out. And I think they'll have fun. It will be a healing thing for 'em, if it works out good. It will be good for them."
Other members of the lineup that Stinson was in — including drummer Frank Ferrer and guitarist Richard Fortus — are said to have been retained for the reunion.
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- tejastech08
- Rep: 194
Re: GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience'
I would pay $2,500 for a time machine trip back to see 1986-1988 GN'R in concert or 1969-1970 Led Zeppelin in concert. No way in hell I would pay that kind of money for anything related to current GN'R.
Re: GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience'
Bitched about this earlier in the Vegas show thread. I have nothing against pricey VIP packages as long as it includes fans getting to meet band members. Anything less is just gouging hardcore fans and I feel that way about ANY band/artist doing it.
Having said that, the backstage tour could be interesting(who will you run in to?) and pretty cool that you get drinks and food included but that is just too steep. the "VIP hospitality lounge" most certainly sounds better than its really going to be.
The pic onstage with nobody is something Jovi pulled years ago and it was ridiculed everywhere. I wish they would at least drop that from the package.
Any chance that what is offered in these packages will change once the lineup has been confirmed? I can understand Axl, Slash, and Duff not wanting to stand there and greet a line of fans but certainly Dizzy could actually be a draw to this and even hardcores would love to meet Fortus, Frank, and Pitman.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience'
Don't mean to be negative but I've done a few VIP type packages and reading between the lines this seems a pretty poor offering.
IMO this is overpriced considering you don't get to meet the band.
By way of comparison this is around four times the price I've seen for packages which included:
*Front row at wrestling and meeting Hulk Hogan (before that whole racist thing that devalued his brand)
* Meeting and Photo with Joe Perry and Steven Tyler (and early access to Gen Ad area for the show without lining)
Looking at what you get here:
*It does include one ticket in the first ten rows - that's what you're paying for - would be cool if row 1-3 or so but row 8 and so on is harsh for $2.5k
*a signed, numbered, limited-edition tour poster - I suppose some would be into that but to me if you are into autographs there's better for this kind of price.
*a photo on the stage before the show, - cool if with someone but alone it's a bit like just do a stadium tour one day.
*a backstage tour, pre-show cocktails, access to a VIP hospitality lounge, - these always amount to getting shuffled into a little room and having a single beer.
* a dinner buffet and drinks, prizes, private merchandise shopping and other "perks." - again will turn into nothing close to what you could buy for thousands of dollars else where.
Bottom line to me: Rip off without either guaranteed front row/fence or some type of meet and greet.
$2.5k for beer and 10 rows back is kinda absurd to me.
- Me_Wise_Magic
- Rep: 70
Re: GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience'
Hell no. I would only ever do a VIP meet and greet if I got a guarantee of meeting band members and maybe a signed gift. Even then over 2K is high way robbery.
- Me_Wise_Magic
- Rep: 70
Re: GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience'
I find the notion of paying money to meet somebody insulting. I'm not paying money to meet anybody, go fuck yourself.
Agreed.
- Me_Wise_Magic
- Rep: 70
Re: GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience'
BUT YOU GET A SUPER EXCLUSIVE POSTER, GUYS.
If you figure out the puzzle on the poster, you get a secret link to download CD II.
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You know that is so crazy that even Axl and TB would do something like that.
