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Welcome Back to a Defoliated Jungle; Revamped Guns N' Roses Returns, but Seems Out of Sorts
2006
Overview
From originals like \"Welcome to the Jungle\" to covers such as \"Live and Let Die,\" [Axl Rose] brought back the hunched-over rain dance, the slithery snake and the mike-stand toss, the latter of which he executed with casual fury, carefully aiming at a target behind him so it didn't hit anybody. Melodramatic rage is still Rose's favorite pose. On songs like \"Sweet Child o' Mine\" and \"Out ta Get Me,\" he nailed the spirit of louche, middle-finger defiance that made GNR so appealingly nasty. You could also detect some restlessness in the audience. These Axl-free interludes began to seem like timeouts. That, plus the occasional moments when nothing happened onstage, made the show feel a bit like a dress rehearsal. Or maybe the new GNR is still becoming a band. Bumblefoot, Rose announced, joined the group less than a week ago. Rose played a couple of tracks from \"Chinese Democracy,\" the album he's been tinkering with all these years -- the most talked- about long player you can't buy, now that Brian Wilson has released \"Smile.\" Of the new tracks, only \"Better,\" with its alarm-like guitar riff, stood out. The title track sounds shockingly like a Nirvana song, mimicking a beat that so clearly belongs to Kurt Cobain & Co. that it might be a tribute. Which is strange, since Nirvana really ended the career of GNR, making the vanity, excess and exhibitionism of metal seem out of touch.
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WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post
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