Brownstone” - by then, already hard-rock classics - from Appetite for Destruction, an album currently celebrating its 30th anniversary. The band played through “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Mr. GNR was firing on all cylinders back then, with Axl, Slash, Duff McKagan and even Izzy Stradlin in the fold. The show - which lasted for nearly a full concert before the trouble started - was terrific. Neither of us were covering the show, per se, but habit forced me to bring a notebook and a pen, just in case something newsworthy happened. I attended the show with a colleague, staff writer Thomas Crone. I know I won’t.Īppetite for Destruction: Read the Author’s Original Report on the RiotĪt the time, I was an arts editor at the Riverfront Times, an alternative weekly. A generation has passed and both the city and the band - as well as their fans - seem willing to let bygones be bygones.īut while it’s possible to forgive that evening’s transgressions, or simply get beyond them, it’s unlikely that anyone who was in the thick of the chaos and destruction of the concert’s aftermath will ever forget.
Now, 26 years later, one would presume that all such legal matters have been put to bed. He and the band also faced numerous civil suits stemming from the incident. Rose himself was charged with four misdemeanor counts of assault and one misdemeanor count of property damage.
The band’s Jconcert at the then-brand new Riverport Amphitheatre (now known as Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre) in nearby Maryland Heights, Mo., erupted into a violent and bloody riot, injuring 65 people - including 25 police officers - and resulting in dozens of arrests and hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage.
That’s where the two parties left off more than a quarter century ago.
But will Guns N’ Roses - and more importantly, frontman Axl Rose - welcome St. Louis is a day away from welcoming Guns N’ Roses back to town for the first time in 26 years.
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