Appetite for Destruction
Rocks Off Presents: Appetite for Destruction
Fri June 16; Boarding: 10pm, Departure: 11pm
Skyport Marina: 23rd St, at the FDR
$25 at RocksOffEvents.com

Welcome to the jungle! G&R tribute band Appetite for Destruction is returning to NYC. And because they rock too hard for dry land, they'll be playing on a boat.
This is a much bigger event than the Slash-less engagement "Fat Axl" just closed at the Hammerstein. A taste of the action:

The Band: AfD is so disturbingly spot-on they even perform the borrowed intros G&R used to segue into their own material live -- e.g., a few strains of Grand Funk Railroad leading into "Sweet Child O' Mine". For this show, they'll burn through 25 tunes, likely opening with "Nightrain" and closing with "Paradise City". Their one inauthentic note: unlike F'Axl, lead singer Bill Shores won't storm offstage prematurely -- a good thing, since he'd drown.

The Cruise: You'll be headbanging aboard the Half Moon, a double-decker with a full bar below and a stage up top. The trip spans three hours, steaming down the East River under the Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, with spectacular views of the Statue of Liberty -- whose torch of freedom will be burning for an encore of "Mr. Brownstone".

Tickets are already on sale, and since capacity's obviously limited we suggest ordering now, before this Metal Ship sets sail and you're stuck watching a landlubber has-been instead of this brilliant, floating knockoff.

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GAW sent this to me and I just wanted to say that G 'n R cover bands are a GREAT time. I think we should all go, the tixs are cheap, we can pregame and save money on booze while on the boat. Let me know what people are thinking and I'll get some tickets.