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08/17/2002

08/17/2002 WHEEZER ON GN'R IN TOKIO

WEEZER.COM

Thanks to Loise@gnr bar

As Rivers announced late in the weezer set, "I just got one thing to say: Guns And Roses!". We later learned that Axl himself was watching and enjoying the weez set from the wings, and heard that weezer is just about his fave band these days! Now thats pretty damn cool.

We took up our positions to watch the 4th GnR show in the last 3 years take shape [they did Rock in Rio 2 years ago, Las Vegas last year, and Hong Kong a few days ago]. As it got darker the scheduled showtime came and passed with no rock music started. Everyone started to worry, was this another notorious delayed start? The stadium had a 9:30 noise curfew, and the last train home for many patrons was at 8:45, so G-n-R didnt have much time to burn. As it turned out, one of their fog machines was mounted way up high in the lights, and it had blown up right before showtime, showering the stage with slippery fog oil. They ended up being 40 min late, while tech guys used just about every towel in the stadium to make the stage safe for rocking out again. And rock out they did! While Axl is now the only orignal member left, the band he has assembled has the chops big time, and they were tight and aggro, tearing thru all the classics! Axl ran around like a madman, and the crowd was in a ballistic state for the whole set. Amazing stuff. And at one point, Axl said to the crowd something like "...[Well here we are] playing with weezer...I never thought i'd [have the opportunity to do] a show with weezer, after [all I went thru] for the last 8 years..."