1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
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1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
Date:
September 5, 1987.
Venue:
Long Beach Arena.
Location:
Long Beach, USA.
Setlist:
01. It's So Easy
02. Anything Goes
03. Out Ta Get Me
04. Mr. Brownstone
05. Nightrain
06. Welcome to the Jungle
07. My Michelle
08. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
09. You're Crazy
10. Paradise City
11. Nice Boys
Line-up:
Axl Rose (vocals), Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitarist), Slash (lead guitarist), Duff McKagan (bass) and Steven Adler (drums).
Quotes:
Duff: The next tour stop [after Seattle] where any people came early enough to see Guns play our set was at the Long Beach Arena; it was a homecoming show for us after not playing there much that year [Duff's autobiography, "It's So Easy", 2011, p. 128].
Next concert: 1987.09.07.
Previous concert: 1987.09.04.
September 5, 1987.
Venue:
Long Beach Arena.
Location:
Long Beach, USA.
Setlist:
01. It's So Easy
02. Anything Goes
03. Out Ta Get Me
04. Mr. Brownstone
05. Nightrain
06. Welcome to the Jungle
07. My Michelle
08. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
09. You're Crazy
10. Paradise City
11. Nice Boys
Line-up:
Axl Rose (vocals), Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitarist), Slash (lead guitarist), Duff McKagan (bass) and Steven Adler (drums).
Quotes:
Duff: The next tour stop [after Seattle] where any people came early enough to see Guns play our set was at the Long Beach Arena; it was a homecoming show for us after not playing there much that year [Duff's autobiography, "It's So Easy", 2011, p. 128].
Next concert: 1987.09.07.
Previous concert: 1987.09.04.
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Re: 1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
From Raz' biography:
About two-thirds into Guns N' Roses' set, the free Heinekens caught up with me. I stashed my current Heineken on top of a stack of Peavey power amps and headed for the pisser. Just as I exited the restroom, the music stopped on a dime. Except for the murmuring crowd, the house was silent. I hurried back to the stage and almost bashed into an ultra-pissed Axl as he hit the bottom step. After he stormed past me, the rest of the guys were not far behind. I asked someone, "What happened?" Apparently, the PA had quit. Later, I heard someone from the crew guessing that a jealous Cult had ordered the sound guy to shut G N' R down. Remember that Heineken I set on those power amps? Don't ever do that shit, because it might get knocked over. If beer spills into a power amplifier, not only must you procure more beer, a protect circuit will shut it down. From the stage monitor's failure onward, it was all a chain reaction toward a total PA failure. I almost fessed up later during a little after-show get-together inside an Embassy Suites room, but didn't want the party supplies cut off. Besides, G N' R were almost finished with their kick-ass set before... Oops! For those of you who attended the show, no worries. I managed to find another beer[Raz Cue, "The Days of Guns, & Raz's", 2015, p. 248]. |
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Re: 1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
From the "L.A. Dee Da On The Streets" column in L.A. Weekly, September 11, 1987:
And since Billy Duffy loves this column so much, here’s the dirt: Guns 'n' Roses are whining over the fact that the Cult supposedly pulled the plug on them at the Long Beach show on Saturday night. Billy claims that they are nowhere near desperate enough to stoop to such measures. So Firearms ’n’ Flowers are pouting until they see the alleged burnt-out fuse that shorted their set.
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Re: 1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
So I was watching GN'R from side stage and I got about five or six Heinekens in me and I decided to go take a piss. So I set my beer on top of the stack of power apps in a road case. And I'm in the bathroom and like GN'R's like rocking out and all of a sudden it's just silent, so I was like, "Fuck, let me go back out there." So I go out and right as I get there, Axl's like the first one off the stage, he's at the bottom step and he storms past me and then, like, the rest of the guys kind of straggle past. And I go to Steven, I go like, "What happened?" And it's like "I don't know, PA went out so his monitors went out." So I look and my beers are like sideways and, I guess, they spilled on the power app or something and it just caused like a chain reaction of like shutting down the circuit. And then later we were at the Suites, or whatever, those suites where we used to do drugs, where Nikki OD'ed, I can't remember... Embassy Suites, over in Hollywood, GN'R had, like, some rooms over there. We're hanging out drinking, doing maybe other stuff, and there's somebody, like, surmise that The Cult had cut the power to the PA because they were jealous with GN'R and I was like, "I don't think they did that, I think it was probably the..." But I didn't want to tell anybody- [...] I was like trying to let them know, don't be mad at the [?] Yeah, but somebody had got it into their head maybe like that The Cult was jealous and it was the GNR's home crowd, and that they had done that, and I was like sitting there, like, "Oh man, I got my favorite band in trouble" [...].
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Re: 1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
There was a weird vibe in the air that night. Like I read in "L.A. Dee Da" to the extent of us whimpering about how the Cult fucked us, and it wasn't like the Cult fucked us. But that show was the only show where the managers and everything decided, right before the show, to change all the passes—change all the laminates. [...] There wasn't really any reason given; it was just that this was Guns N' Roses territory and right now we were like big heroes. And it was more the management than the band. And it wasn't like fucking us, it was everything just got completely uncomfortable. It was a really weird aura. Even [the Cult) felt kind of weird.
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Re: 1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
Izzy being asked about them being "dressed down" for this show, "in contract to their earlier glam image":
It's probably from touring. You wash your clothes once a fuckin' month. You just wear what's the least dirty.
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Re: 1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
Commenting on the rumour in L.A. Weekly that the Cult had messed with their PA out of jealousy:
That's a fucking ugly rumor. We blew the PA out. We had it going at half power. "L.A. Dee Da" [in the L.A. Weekly] is fucked. All they've ever written about us is shit anyway.
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Re: 1987.09.05 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, USA
Talking about the homecoming show:
It was nerve-racking to me in a sense. [...] The night before we played, I went out with one of our roadies until like six in the morning, then we walked about eight blocks to get breakfast at Denny's, and on the way there, you could just see the [Long Beach Auditorium). And I remember like all the times I'd gone clown there scalping tickets and stuff. Five o'clock in the morning, getting sick and stuff, getting tickets for Aerosmith. And the times I've been there for AC/DC and stuff. And then all of a sudden, we're playing there. I just looked at the place and it's just sitting there. It was a trip .... Enough of that sensitive bullshit!
Actually, it was hell for me, too, but those were personal reasons.
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