

Back in the day, Guns N’ Roses leader Axl Rose was the king of the onstage freakout. If something was happening that wasn’t to his liking, Rose would sometimes stop the entire show, to the point where multiple GN’R concerts broke out into riots. That hasn’t been the case in recent years. Instead, Guns N’ Roses have been functioning as an ultra-professional act on the global stadium circuit, even as they’ve continued to say vague things about supposedly-incoming new music. But at a Buenos Aires show on this past weekend, the world got to see a flash of the old Axl.

Back in the day, Guns N’ Roses leader Axl Rose was the king of the onstage freakout. If something was happening that wasn’t to his liking, Rose would sometimes stop the entire show, to the point where multiple GN’R concerts broke out into riots. That hasn’t been the case in recent years. Instead, Guns N’ Roses have been functioning as an ultra-professional act on the global stadium circuit, even as they’ve continued to say vague things about supposedly-incoming new music. But at a Buenos Aires show on this past weekend, the world got to see a flash of the old Axl.