It has been a blasting holiday for us!

New years eve in Las Vegas was fantastic, really exciting!
In the afternoon we went to get the tickets at the Hard Rock Hotel and while waiting we met Duff who was going upstairs with his wife, he was nice and friendly and we shot a pic with him (SIGH the only one in 5 films to be bad!!!), then also David passed along but he gave us no attention…

We very much hoped to see SLASH but he didn’t show up.

So let’s go back to new years night, after celebrating the new year on the strip, with a lot of people just having fun and joking and counting down 9,8,7,… and all the spectacular fire works it was time for the after party at the body English where Velvet Revolver were hosting!

We had big troubles to get there, we waited ages for a taxi that never came (even if in the morning at the hotel they assured us there wouldn’t be troubles) and, at last we had to give up and RUN from the Luxor to the Hard Rock Hotel to attend the party!

We got there at 3.00 a.m. o’clock, VR were securely hiding into the VIP room and a big guy was outside the door, he asked us for 200$ to get into the room, then, seen that we wouldn’t have give him so much asked for 100$ … we stayed out.

We had the chance of meeting Matt when he went to the bathroom, he was so very nice, very excited to hear that we went from Italy to see them and he told us that the concert on the day after would have been better then the previous!

Thanks Matt for being so sweet!
Then we met Perla, even she was very nice, we just had a short talk, shook hands and we mind for not having asked a picture together!!!

A few minutes after talking to Perla she and SLASH surrounded by very many security men went out of the VIP room in a hurry I guess, I tried to call SLASH but a security guy stopped me hardly and I gave up, even because I had the bad sensation that someone wasn’t feeling well … (later, when back to Italy I read that one of SLASH’s cat was in life danger)

So let’s go straight to the night after, to the concert!

At 4.00 p.m. we got the tickets and started to wait in row!
At 8.00 p.m. they opened the doors and at 9.25 (they were a bit late) the show began!!!!!!!

No words would ever be enough to describe it!
It was a blast!

It was the best concert ever!

The band was at its best, they all rocked hard and looked happy and at ease!

SLASH was smiling and talking and joking… so cool!

The set list was very long, all the contraband songs but headspace and loving the aliens were played plus 3 GnR and 2 STP covers and Surrender too!!!

17 incredible songs!
The solos for Illegal I and Slither were superlative and the acoustic Used to love her was so cool with that intro…

What to say about Dirty little thing played for the first time live?

And You’ve got no right?

People got out of their mind when SLASH played it with his double neck!!!!!!!!!

The end was also too cool!

SLASH (then followed by Duff) left his Gibson on feedback laying on the monitors and all the band went away…

2 things more I have to point out, the first are the 2 new tattoos SLASH showed up, the CASH writing on his paunch and the contraband silhouette on his right forearm, and the other one is that SLASH is again the undiscussed star of the band, everybody there noticed it! He is the man!

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