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Post by Papillon78 on Mar 16, 2010 13:58:40 GMT -5
From Bob's video you can have an idea of the madness in that place!!! I was in the middle of a freking tornado or something...terrible experience!!! Did you see how fast and hard the pieces of the stage fell??? Imagine if this happend in the middle f the show... disaster for sure!!!! We were lucky!!! I saw that video! Horrible! Good that everyone is ok!! |
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Post by Dogface on Mar 16, 2010 17:48:59 GMT -5
From Baz:
Sebastian Bach 6:02 PM 3/16/2010 Porto Alegre Brasil
You just can't make this stuff up. All the reports u have heard are true. I dont know where to begin this update! After what was certainly one of the best gigs of our career, Sao Paulo, things got completely crazy, only this time it was none of our fault! I spent the afternoon of t...he Rio concert on the beach getting some sun. I noticed some foreboding clouds forming in the sky around this time, but thought nothing of it; we've played in the rain before. Then I had dinner at 5pm & got ready for the show as usual. Abour 7pm I got a call from our tour manager saying "you have a night off tonight" . WHAT??? The tornado that hit Rio de Janeiro completely demolished the stage. On top of that, on the way to Rio from Sao Paulo, our truck carrying all our equiptment drove off a cliff & rolled down the hill. Thank God I am able to report that the driver is ok. Not so with the stage collapse.... many local crew guys were hurt but thank God there are no fatalities to report. Which might not have been the case if this tornado hit Rio an hour later; the crowd would have been in the venue at that time. As evidenced by the pictures , there most certainly would have been massive carnage had the crowd been in the venue at the time of the stage collapse. I thank God yet again for the timing of this incident... we missed it happening while we were onstage by about only an hour. Obviously we feel totally rotten for the fans who bought tickets to the show that didn't happen. I have heard we are trying to reschedule the show & I sure do hope this goes down! We are dying to play for you Rio de Janeiro! Which brings us to tonights show in Porto Alegre. When our truck rolled off the cliff, all the drums were smashed. Bobby's 'Angel Down' custom bass drum heads do not exist anymore (total bummer). Worse yet, when the truck was at the bottom of the cliff, locals came out & raided the scene, stealing whatever they could. All of Johnny Chromatic's guitars are missing right now. The airlines lost Johnny's luggage as well on the way to Rio. Johnny is right now on tour in South America with literally no instruments & no clothes. All he has right now is the shirt & shorts he is wearing. Lucky for him it's warm down here! We all feel like total shit for Johnny. Guns N' Roses have been kind enough to offer us use of any equiptment we need for the rest of the tour. Which means we can play the gigs! As I write this at 6pm local time, we have no idea what time we're going on tonight. GNR's backline is still not on the stage due to the 19 hour drive from Rio to Porto Alegre. We are shooting for a 9pm set time but it could be later. It has taken us all everything we got to pull off tonight's show... the show must go on! See you in a couple of hours Porto Alegre! Bobby Jarzombek had the balls to capture all of the Rio madness on film.
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Post by ember on Mar 16, 2010 18:57:24 GMT -5
What a sad post. Poor Johnny.  |
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Post by Leanne on Mar 16, 2010 19:57:18 GMT -5
i watched bobbys video.....FREAKY im so glad the damage was only to the stage and not to any of my favorite singers
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Post by Lou on Mar 17, 2010 7:10:47 GMT -5
This looked like it was scary as hell... Glad everyone got out ok! It could have been a lot worse!
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Post by jojo711 on Mar 20, 2010 10:49:29 GMT -5
Wasn't sure where to put this at but for those of you who missed the show in Rio due to the tornado, looks like they are trying to reschedule it for April 4th plus added a few more shows but not certain Sebastian will be playing those or not. On Saturday 20th March 2010, axlrose said: reply Attention!! Important Notice!! We can now say officially we will be coming to Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Puerto Rico. Our shows in these countries were originally announced without our knowledge n' dates were put up for sale that weren't confirmed. We're also attempting to reschedule Rio for Apr 4. We'll let you know asap when this is confirmed. Now that some of the confusion has been sorted on our end these are the dates: Apr 4 - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Apoteose Apr 7 - Panama City, Panama Estadio Figali Apr 9 - San Jose, Costa Rica Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Apr 11 - San Salvador, El Salvador Estadio Cuscatlan Apr 13 - Guatemala City, Guatemala Estadio Del Ejercito Apr 15 - San Juan, Puerto Rico Roberto Clemente Coliseum Hope to see you out there!! Our apologies for any inconvenience. All the best!! Axl- jojo |
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