1985.06.06 - The Troubadour, Los Angeles, USA

by **Soulmonster** Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:37 pm

June 6, 1985 - The Troubadour, Los Angeles, USA

Date:
June 06, 1985.

Venue:
The Troubadour.

Location:
Los Angeles, USA.

Setlist:
01. Reckless Life
02. Shadow of Your Love
03. Jumpin' Jack Flash
04. Think About You
05. Move to the City
06. Don't Cry
07. Nice Boys
08. Back Off Bitch
09. Anything Goes,
10. Heartbreak Hotel.

Line-up:
Axl Rose (vocals)
Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitarist)
Slash (lead guitarist)
Duff McKagan (bass)
Steven Adler (drums).

Flyer:
1985.06.06 - The Troubadour, Los Angeles, USA Untitled-1

1985.06.06 - The Troubadour, Los Angeles, USA Untitled-1

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Notes:
This is the first Guns N' Roses concert featuring the Appetite for Destruction lineup, this is also the first GN'R show we know the setlist to. Slash replaced Tracii who disn't show up for rehearsals while Steven Adler replaced Rob Gardner who had been fired. The lineup changes were abrupt and Tracii Guns and Rob Gardner are still in the flyer for this show.

Quotes:

We played our first show at the Troubadour and it was sold-out. It was like we were rock stars, but just in Hollywood [The Days of Wine and Roses, Classic Rock, April 2005]

On Thursday, June 6, we played our first live show with the Appetite for Destruction lineup. The bill at the Troubadour included Fineline, Mistreater, and, at the very bottom, Guns N' Roses. Slash's high school friend Marc Canter, - he turned out to be part of the family that ran Canter's Deli - came and shot pictures. He made prints f each of us the next day so we'd have head shots to put up in the places we played on our tour [the Hell Tour]. That was Friday [Duff's autobiography, "It's So Easy", 2011, p. 70]

Talking about the AFD lineup coming together: We had a show together, I think it was at the Troubadour, [...] the audience comprised of a bunch of our friends[Ultimate Classic Rock, September 2014]

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by **Soulmonster** Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:26 am

Dizzy probably saw this show:

I went and saw them at the Troubadour for the first time. The loudest thing I'd seen at that point, I couldn't really hear the vocals. But I looked up on stage and, "I want to join that band." Absolutely.

Sirius XM Trunk Nation, May 7, 2018

by **Soulmonster** Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:00 am

I think I'd known the guys for a long time and I know I remember the first time I saw them at the Troubadour, I just said to myself... I mean, a lot of people were, you know, jealous or hating on the band cuz they were doing something different. I saw them play, I went, "I need to join that band. I gotta get out of the band I'm in, I gotta join that band."

Rock Talk with Mitch Lafon, June 10, 2018

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