Not the Guns N Roses, you understand....

Wake Up! Time to Die! You know where the fuck you are? You’re in the Jungle baby! You’re gonna die!"(Axl Rose, Live Era introducing Welcome to the Jungle)

Now, This is uncanny. With the bloke who did Axl Rose on Star In Their Eyes as a singer for this tribute band, they could have been terrible.In fact, they’re not.They’re probably one of the best tribute bands I’ve ever seen.And the funniest too.

Why? Because they are so damn good. Every adlib, every song intro, is word for word taken from GNRs own live shows.Someone heres been watching too much of the live videos and live tapes: For example the intro to Welcome to the jungle is faithfully recreated every word. The likeness is uncanny too – someones obviously put a lot of thought into this. The stage get up –Identical. Every last detail of the costumes is spot on; down to Axl's baseball cap and tight leathershorts, the string vest and the Mikestand with the bottom made from a steering wheel.

Every aspect of the show, (huge stadia excepted) is faithfully recreated, down the circular logo as a backdrop. The only thing missing is the tattos. With Axls’ (Garry Crowley);accent somewhere between Indiana and Coventry, though, some of it isn’t quite right – but the rest is so slavishly copied as to be genuinely  worrying.

The guitars are the same, the intro to Out Ta Get me is word for word from the New York 1988 concert broadcast on  MTV (and later, BBC2). The Drum solo and bass solo is note for note perfect with the Tokyo live video available in the shops.The spoken intro is Sweet Child is identical to the 92 tour version - and note for note perfect.

“You fancy a bit of Arnold?” says Axl before launching into You Could Be Mine (again, same as Paris 92 and Tokyo 92). Despite the bass player (Duff McKagan) pulling the lead out of the amp halfway though.

 I don’t know what’s sadder – the fact that they copy this so slavishly or the fact that I know this. Nonetheless, come Paradise City, (despite knocking 3 songs out of the set), the back of my neck is aching like hell.This headbanging shit ain’t so easy when you’ve got short(er) hair y’know…

The verdict? Funny as hell,Slavishly authentic, and this was night for all you true hair metallers.Nice. The saddest thing is, after having taking a setlist to get signed, the signatures are even identical to those seen on the album sleeves.How dedicated is that eh?

Tastes good, don't it?

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