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DJ ASHBA On GUNS N' ROSES Reunion: If SLASH Is Back, There's No Reason I Need To Be There

Willy Tyler of the Billings, Montana radio station 96.3 The Zone recently conducted an interview with former GUNS N' ROSES and current SIXX:A.M. guitarist DJ Ashba. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On leaving GUN...

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AXL ROSE's Reunion With SLASH Wasn't Motivated By Money, Says GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist RICHARD FORTUS

Guy "Favazz" Favazza of the St. Louis, Missouri radio station KSHE recently conducted an interview with GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus. You can now listen to the chat in four parts using the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether money wa...

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WOLFMOTHER And ROSE TATTOO To Support GUNS N' ROSES In Australia

Homegrown rock icons WOLFMOTHER and ROSE TATTOO will support GUNS N' ROSES on the Australian leg of the "Not In This Lifetime" tour. The trek will kick off in Brisbane and make its way through the major cities across the nation. The Angry Anderson-led ROSE TATTOO, which previously supported GN'R on...

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GUNS N' ROSES Announces 2017 Tour Dates In Europe, North America

GUNS N' ROSES has extended its "Not in This Lifetime" tour well into 2017 with 35 new stadium dates in Europe and North America. The European trek kicks off May 27 in Dublin, Ireland and concludes July 12 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. After playing in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 15, the group will retu...

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DJ ASHBA: Why I Turned Down Chance To Be Part Of GUNS N' ROSES Reunion Tour

Former GUNS N' ROSES and current SIXX: A.M. guitarist DJ Ashba says that he walked away from GN'R after a six-year stint with the group because he wanted to focus on doing what he "really love[s] to do." Ashba, who joined GUNS N' ROSES in March 2009 following the departure of Robin Finck and stayed...

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AXL ROSE Settles Lawsuit With Former GUNS N' ROSES Keyboardist CHRIS PITMAN

According to TMZ, former GUNS N' ROSES member Chris Pitman has settled his lawsuit against the band's lead singer, Axl Rose, over an unpaid debt for services the multi-instrumentalist provided to the group. Pitman claimed that Rose wrote him a promissory note for $125,000 that he was owed for over a...

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GUNS N' ROSES Teases More U.S. Tour Dates In 2017

A newly released GUNS N' ROSES commercial on that aired on Friday (November 25) on AT&T's Game Show Network appears to suggest that the band will return in 2017 with more U.S. tour dates. The 30-second clip, which can be seen below, contains footage from GN'R's summer 2016 "Not In This Lifetime"...

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AXL ROSE Condemns DONALD TRUMP's Choice Of JEFF SESSIONS For Attorney General

GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose has condemned president-elect Donald Trump's selection of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general in his upcoming administration. Sessions, who has been a key adviser to the Trump campaign from very close to the beginning, has distinguished himself in the Senate...

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Legendary Drummer KENNY ARONOFF Releases 'Sex, Drums, Rock 'N' Roll!' Autobiography

"Uncommon" is the name drummer Kenny Aronoff chose for his Los Angeles recording studio, and there could be no better word to describe the life and career of the man who, through boundless drive, creativity, and energy, has established himself as one of the most influential — and in-demand — drummer...

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AEROSMITH Announces 'Aero-Vederci Baby!' 2017 European Tour

AEROSMITH will embark on a European tour in May. Dubbed "Aero-Vederci Baby!", the 17-date trek will launch in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 17 and wrap up in Zurich, Switzerland, on July 5. Frontman Steven Tyler says: "AEROSMITH just got done ripping through South America like true ambassadors of rock. T...

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SIMONE SIMONS On EPICA Sound: 'The Orchestration, For Me, Is As Important As The Metal Aspect'

Mike Bax of Lithium Magazine conducted an interview with vocalist Simone Simons of Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA on November 6 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. Asked if she would agree with the opinion that EPICA has gone from being a symphonic band with metal element...

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GUNS N' ROSES Pop! Vinyl Figures Coming In December

Funko will release Pop! vinyl figures of GUNS N' ROSES members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan in December. Mark Robben, the toy company's director of marketing, told Fuse about its über-successful Pop! line: "This is now no longer just a collecting thing that is really kind of niche. Now it's hitt...

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GUNS N' ROSES Keyboardist DIZZY REED: AXL ROSE 'Could Fire Me Tomorrow'

GUNS N' ROSES keyboardist Dizzy Reed, who's not a founding member but has been part of the band for 27 years, says that he tries to give Axl Rose his "best, [his] all, all the time" because the GN'R frontman is "the one that presented [him] with this gig." In his first interview since a ...

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RICHARD FORTUS: I've Rehearsed More In Last Year With GUNS N' ROSES Than In Previous 14 Years Put Together

In a wide-ranging interview seen in the video below, GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus shares his long history with Gretsch guitars and discusses his involvement in the band's current "Not In This Lifetime" reunion tour. Fortus, who joined GUNS N' ROSES in 2001 and became the band's longest-ser...

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Video: GUNS N' ROSES Performs In Santiago, Chile

GUNS N' ROSES played the second show of the South American leg of its "Not In This Lifetime" tour Saturday night (October 29) at Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. GUNS N' ROSES will next play on November 1 at Estadio Rosario in Rosario, A...