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New Guns N' Roses Gets Right Back in the Jungle

 

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Fans began lining up outside the House of Blues several hours before the scheduled 1 a.m. show time, many of them proudly dressed in vintage Guns N' Roses T-shirts. Waiting patiently at the front of the line were a pair of Los Angeles 20-year-olds, Armen Gevorkian and Garen Garabidian, who bought their tickets online via EBay for $300 apiece.

Both first discovered Guns N' Roses as children, not long after arriving as immigrants from Iran, and they expect to attend the band's next gig, at the Rock in Rio festival later this month in Rio de Janeiro. Gevorkian had to skip work on Sunday to be in Las Vegas. "My boss was OK with that because he knows I'm crazy," he said with a laugh. "And I was going to quit the job."

Like many others in line, he said he was only slightly disappointed that the band on stage would not be the original lineup, saying, "Guns N' Roses is all about Axl."

That sentiment was echoed later in the show, when the crowd spontaneously began chanting: "Welcome back! Welcome back!" It was a disarming moment even for the notoriously strong-willed frontman, who could only smile and turn his head, seemingly speechless. "Now you're embarrassing me," he said.

Maybe so, but the most memorable aspect of Rose's long-delayed return to the stage is that the singer never came close to embarrassing himself or the legacy of Guns N' Roses.