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Re: July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago
29 years ago today we had the last show by the Axl / Slash / Gilby / Duff / Matt / dizzy lineup
At that time, for those old enough to have been lucky enough to live through those days, did you have any inkling that this would be the last time Axl and Slash shared a stage for 23 years and that it would be the last time Axl performed a whole show for 7 years?
Where did you see things going from there back in 93?
Re: July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago
Nobody had a clue although after the GNR/Metallica 1992 tour the last few 1993 dates got comparatively little attention.
“The Spaghetti Incident” seemed like another placeholder. Only when Duff and Slash released their solo albums did it start to seem like something was wrong, compounded when Duff seemed more committed to Neurotic Boy Outsiders. I don’t quite recall when a split was formally mentioned but probably in 1996?
Re: July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago
Nobody had a clue although after the GNR/Metallica 1992 tour the last few 1993 dates got comparatively little attention.
“The Spaghetti Incident” seemed like another placeholder. Only when Duff and Slash released their solo albums did it start to seem like something was wrong, compounded when Duff seemed more committed to Neurotic Boy Outsiders. I don’t quite recall when a split was formally mentioned but probably in 1996?
It was formally announced when Axl sent his fax to MTV on October 31st, 1996 announcing Slash was gone and had been gone since April 1994 outside of a brief period in the Fall of 1995.
- metallex78
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Re: July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago
Spaghetti Incident came out November 1993, so even though the band had stopped touring for UYI, I didn’t think it was the end for the band. And I still think it’s a damn shame we didn’t get an album of originals from that UYI tour lineup.
Re: July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago
In like 1994 the teen music magazines talked about the internal division in the band. They presented it as Axl/Duff on one side and Slash/Matt/Gilby on the other. In 1995 they were pretty much off the news and by the time I got into music in 1996 it was like it never happened. GN'R did not register on my radar until they released Live Era in 1999. There was no talk, nothing going on. A dead band.
- elevendayempire
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Re: July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago
In like 1994 the teen music magazines talked about the internal division in the band. They presented it as Axl/Duff on one side and Slash/Matt/Gilby on the other. In 1995 they were pretty much off the news and by the time I got into music in 1996 it was like it never happened. GN'R did not register on my radar until they released Live Era in 1999. There was no talk, nothing going on. A dead band.
Ironically the point at which I got into the band - despite having been about the right age when they were actively releasing material - was the release of Oh My God. Because it was just so intriguing - "Wait, he fired the entire band and replaced them with a bunch of different people? Won't that sound completely different?" Then came the RIR gig with Buckethead and Madagascar, and the rest is history.
Re: July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago
I'm not even sure I heard GN'R on the radio as a kid. Television in my country had nothing like that and the radio channels were very restricted too. I grew up rural, no elder brothers at my house or my friends houses. So seeing the Live Era promotion on TV in 1999 was my first introduction to GN'R music at all.
I would probably have gotten into them much earlier if I could only hear it. I didn't even know Oh My God existed until I started going on HTGTH in 00/01. At least for some parts of the world the mid to late 90s was a timeline where GN'R did not exist. I remember seeing those 80s hits album they advertised on TV, there was never any GN'R songs on them. My cousin had a poster on his wall at some point, and there was some talk at school when they toured here in 1993, so I knew about it but never heard it.
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