What’s an aging rock star to request for his Israeli hotel room? According to The Jerusalem Post, Axl Rose asked the Dan Tel Aviv hotel for an exercise bike, a piano, full sound- and light-proofing for the room — oh, and 40 suites to accommodate his 70-person entourage. NBD, NBD. Guns N’ Roses will be…
There’s a new biography of Guns N’ Roses out and it confirms what we already know: the musicians led some crazy, crazy lives. An excerpt from the Amazon description of the book reads, “Guns N’ Roses has always been a band out of time, the Last of the Giants. They are what every rock band…
Axl Rose and his newest iteration of Guns n’ Roses brought down the house in Tel Aviv when lead guitarist Ronald Jay Blumenthal, better known by his alias Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, did an abbreviated solo version of “Hatikvah.” Blumenthal, who adapted his stage title from a colorfully named bacterial infection, had performed the national Israeli…
Axl Rose, the lead singer of American legendary hard-rock band Guns N’ Roses arrived in Israel on Monday, ahead of the group’s one-off performance in Hayarkon Park on Tuesday. Rumors of an Israeli stop of a GNR tour have been circulating nearly annually since the band’s last Israel show – their now legendary 1993 show…
Essayist Phillip Lopate ponders “Scribble, Scribble, Scribble” a new miscellany by historian Simon Schama. Has Paul Simon been getting the attention he deserves? The Canadian Jewish News profiles former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler. Two synagogue restoration projects in Poland have won awards, one of them for “façade of the year.” Bryna Wasserman, artistic…
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