Guns N’ Roses detained at Canadian border for gun possession
Ten years ago, if someone had told me that in the year 2016, I would be driving a Toyota Prius to a Guns N Roses show, I would have assumed that you were on some sort of heavy drugs.
“They were very nice”, the singer said of border patrol to the 50,000-person crowd at Toronto’s Rogers Centre Saturday night.
‘They were very nice. He jokingly said that stuff like forgetting that you have a gun happens.
The band was headed from Philadelphia to Toronto for their one stop north of the border on this tour, when they ran into a little issue.
The video above starts in the middle of the story, with Rose recalling the conversation with the customs officials.
Diehard Guns N’ Roses fans might remember this incident which involved him and his stun gun.
Guns N’ Roses were released after they couldn’t conclude who was the owner of the gun. He said that after border patrol searched the bus, they found a gun in the tour bus.
Later, in a candid interview in June, the frontman went a little more in-depth about what’s to come for Guns N’ Roses, hinting at new music coming soon, according to Pitchfork. “They know what they want, they want a good show, and they want to serve their fans and give it to them”. “We were all pretty positive that that would never happen so it’s still sort of blowing our minds”, Slash said of his bandmates.
But the reunion tour launched in April has been going smoothly, with the band even proving punctual.