A couple of weeks ago, Axl Rose posted a rant on his twitter, denying rumors that Guns would play in Central America. Apparently things have changed, Guns N’ Roses’ official facebook page has published events such as:

Guns N’ Roses live in Panama City, Panama
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, April 7th
Location:Estadio Figali

Guns N’ Roses live in San Jose, Costa Rica
Time:7:00PM Friday, April 9th
Location:Estadio Ricardo Saprissa

Guns N’ Roses live in San Salvador, El Salvador
Time:7:00PM Sunday, April 11th
Location:Estadio Cuscatlan

Guns N’ Roses live in Guatemala City, Guatemala
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, April 13th
Location:Estadio del Ejercito

Guns N’ Roses live in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Time:7:00PM Thursday, April 15th
Location:Roberto Clemente Coliseum

The last Guns N’ Roses show in Brazil for the South American leg of the Chinese Democracy was MAGIC. Magic is the word  i can find to describe what happened on March the 16th at Fiergs in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

DJ Ashba (wrapped in a 'Rio Grande do Sul' flag) & Axl Rose

Getting There
After what happened in Rio on Sunday i was a tad nervous about how they would get everything ready to go for the Porto Alegre show. There was also the fact that the venue chosen to hold the gig was never used for a concert before. It turns out it was the perfect place.

It took us about 2 hours to get to the venue by car, traffic was slow because Fiergs is located in a very busy avenue that is an alternative entrance to the city of Porto Alegre. After getting our tickets from the box office we had to walk about two miles to get to the beginning of the huge line formed by about 6 thousand fans who were still outside waiting to get in. It was 9 PM and i was already tired, the line was moving slowly due to the tight security at the entrance of the venue, beer, cigarettes and a cheap hot-dog… Call that my dinner.

Inside
We finally went  in at around 9:50 pm, by then, according to the original schedule, Sebastian Bach should be at the end of his show and we would have to wait around 10 minutes for Axl and Co to get on stage and start the show. That wasn’t the case though. No band had played by then and the crew on stage looked nervous, probably with problems related to the incidents in Rio. The wait started.

The venue was great. Very well organized, beer price was alright, Guns N’ Roses merchandise was awesome too but, what impressed me the most was the amount of beautiful women hanging there, met many friends there. The atmosphere was magical! i have been to many big concerts in my life but i had never felt like that night. The proximity with the airport was a nice touch, those big airplanes flying over our heads, i can only imagine how amazing it must have been for those up there seeing the crowd at Fiergs as they fly by. PERFECT!

Axl Rose During 'Nightrain'

People seemed impatient with the wait, there was no information on what was hapening and, of course, rumours started spreading, canceled show, Axl still in Rio among other stupid things.

At midnight the first band that was supposed to play gets on stage, they get so booed and receive such hostility from the crowd that they had to leave stage after 3 songs. (continue reading…)

Guns N’ Roses leader, Axl Rose arrives at Rio one day before the opening show in Brasília, the capital of Brazil.

Axl Rose Arrives at Rio for the South American Tour

Discretely, the singer and leader of Guns N’ Roses, Axl Roses arrived at the International Airport Tom Jobim on the morning this Saturday, the 6th. Pushing his own luggage car followed by a few security men and friends, Axl walked across the lobby with a serious face. From there he went to the Sheraton Hotel in São Conrado, a southern neighborhood in Rio, where he will stay overnight to then, head to Brasília on a private jet for the first concert of the South American Tour, on Sunday the 7th.

Guns N’ Roses last show in Brazil was in 2001, when they played in Rock in Rio 3. This time, the band will do 5 shows across the country, starting with Brasília on the 7th then Belo Horizonte, on the 10th; São Paulo on the 13th, Rio on the 14th and closes the Brazillian leg of the tour in Porto Alegre on the 16th, where gunsnrosesfans.com will be for the coverage of the gig.

GN'R South America Tour

The Chinese Democracy South America Tour starts tomorrow in Brasilia - Brazil. Here’s the complete list of confirmed gigs. Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Porto Alegre are already sold out, most of the other venues have only a few tickets left, so if you want to be part of this, you better hurry!

Santiago(Chile) location is still uncertain due to the earthquake that destroyed part of the ‘Club Hipico‘ where Guns N’ Roses were supposed to play at.

Well played, Axl. Well played.

New York Post gossip column, Page Six, reports that Axl Rose and Scarlett Johansson sure are spending a lot of time in the same places. The aging rocker and sultry actress were spotted at an after-hours spot in NoHo a week ago Wednesday, the Box on Thursday, and the Boom Boom Room on Sunday until 3 a.m. On Tuesday of this week, after the curtain of “A View From the Bridge,” Johansson was seen playing pingpong with Rose at SPiN.

“They were laughing the whole time,” says a spy.

“They looked like they were having fun.” The Guns N’ Roses frontman later turned up solo at celebrity haunt Avenue. A different source said, “He swaggered in wearing jeans and an unbuttoned T-shirt, showing off his chest, and wearing lots of bracelets and rings. He had a pingpong paddle in his hand . . . He was in a good mood drinking vodka . . . He even danced on the table for a while.” Johansson’s new husband, Ryan Reynolds, is in New Orleans filming “Green Lantern.”

Source: New York Post

Gigantinho, Porto Alegre

After Buenos Aires, Porto Alegre, the second sold out show in South America. All fifteen thousand tickets are gone twenty days prior to the gig.

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Axl Rose is back on war against the press and the internet, the man CLEARLY doesn’t care for/like the 140 characters limit on twitter.

Fuck!! The NY shows were insane!! Love the free form laid back vibe n’ both were completely different from r view. The fans were AMAZING!! John (Varvatos) was really great! And to keep CBGB’s rockin’?! Badass!! Goin’ into Rose Bar was rough on some. Lotta best left memories from the old hotel. The gig helped w/some o’ those. Felt really good on stage. (We actually “LIKE” playing together n’ I absolutely agree some things should b a lot less complicated than others made them in the past that’s why we’re together n’ other’s by their own accord ain’t here.) We all had a great time, it was a madhouse!! Thanks to everyone who came out (continue reading…)

From Sebastian:

We are so unbeleivably honoured to go to BRAZIL with Guns N’ Roses in March! How great it will be to play in this beautiful country again where it is HOT out man I can’t wait to hit the beach & rock out stadiums & arenas all across the country! The tour keeps rolling along thank you so much Axl Rose & Guns N’ Roses & Crew! Next up after tour we will hit the studio & record the next record ! See ya soon BRASIL I can’t wait !!

Guns n' Roses in Nyc

Flashbulbs popped, tequila flowed and a cool crowd including Russell Simmons, Dita Von Teese, Mickey Rourke, Adrian Grenier, Chloë Sevigny, Strokes‘ Fabrizio Moretti and other assorted models and musicians let loose last night at swanky Nur Khan’s Rose Bar in New York’s Gramercy Park Hotel, where Guns N’ Roses played a secret, invite-only show.

The surreal soirée was GN’R's second unannounced New York Fashion Week appearance in the past few days. (Thursday they played the John Varvatos store, former site of CBGBs).

Hitting the stage after 1:30AM with ‘You’re Crazy,’ notorious frontman Axl Rose and his new GN’R musicians bedazzled the small, jam-packed room with an hour-and-a-half of classics, as well as newer material from ‘Chinese Democracy.’
Songs like ‘Welcome to the Jungle,’ ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,’ ‘Mr. Brownstone,’ ‘Patience,’ and ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ jetted us into a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, where booze is the fountain of youth, cigarettes are good for you, and sex is the engine of everything. (It was a good place to be for a night.)

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