Post by Faridbak on May 29, 2009 1:49:43 GMT -3
First Tour
The band didn't want to play just single gigs . They managed to book a tour with the aid of Duff. The tour stretched from L.A. to Seattle, where Duff lived at the time. On their way there, the car that they were driving in broke down, with a long way to go. They hitch-hiked on a truck a bit of the way but they couldn't stand the driver so they ditched him and got a ride with two girls. They made it to the final gig in Seattle. What was supposed to be the last gig in their tour turned out to be the first Guns N Roses show played. It was in a club called Gorilla Gardens.
June 8th, 1985 - GN'R plays in Seattle with The Fastbacks.
This is from Clark Humphrey's book "Loser The Real Seattle Music Story":
Fastbacks-Silly Killers-Vains-Fartz-10 Minute Warning vet Duff McKagan returned from L.A. to perform one show at the Omni Room. It was the first show on the first tour by his new band, first called Hollywood Rose but by then known as Guns n' Roses (the Fastbacks opened). The band hitchhiked part of the way when its van broke down on Interstate 5; the guys only received $50 of their promised $250 fee for a gig only 13 people saw.
GN'R rehearsed for a couple of days and started The Hell Tour. The trip to Seattle wasn't a success. After driving 100 miles their car broke down. They had to hitchhike and when they arrived in Seattle no one cared about them. Most of the shows had been cancelled and they only got $50 a show instead of the promised $250.
GN'R went back to Los Angeles and continued to rehearse. Their "home" on Sunset Boulevard was called The Hell House. They hadn't money so they lived on cheap wine and biscuit
The band didn't want to play just single gigs . They managed to book a tour with the aid of Duff. The tour stretched from L.A. to Seattle, where Duff lived at the time. On their way there, the car that they were driving in broke down, with a long way to go. They hitch-hiked on a truck a bit of the way but they couldn't stand the driver so they ditched him and got a ride with two girls. They made it to the final gig in Seattle. What was supposed to be the last gig in their tour turned out to be the first Guns N Roses show played. It was in a club called Gorilla Gardens.
June 8th, 1985 - GN'R plays in Seattle with The Fastbacks.
This is from Clark Humphrey's book "Loser The Real Seattle Music Story":
Fastbacks-Silly Killers-Vains-Fartz-10 Minute Warning vet Duff McKagan returned from L.A. to perform one show at the Omni Room. It was the first show on the first tour by his new band, first called Hollywood Rose but by then known as Guns n' Roses (the Fastbacks opened). The band hitchhiked part of the way when its van broke down on Interstate 5; the guys only received $50 of their promised $250 fee for a gig only 13 people saw.
GN'R rehearsed for a couple of days and started The Hell Tour. The trip to Seattle wasn't a success. After driving 100 miles their car broke down. They had to hitchhike and when they arrived in Seattle no one cared about them. Most of the shows had been cancelled and they only got $50 a show instead of the promised $250.
GN'R went back to Los Angeles and continued to rehearse. Their "home" on Sunset Boulevard was called The Hell House. They hadn't money so they lived on cheap wine and biscuit
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