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C8 CALGARY HERALD Tues, June 11, 1991 A maelstrom of madcap mayhem --put i A. If 0 lead guitarist Slash, the Gunners staged an impromptu 2'2-hour marathon. There's a lot riding on this tour, as far as the band is concerned. For one thing, it's been four years since their only full-length studio album, Appetite For Destruction, was released and three years since G'N'R Lies, a combination live and demo P. That meant that the majority of material performed was a preview of their upcoming Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II albums, not due for release until August.

As if that weren't enough of a challenge, the band also decided to take the Grateful Dead approach to concert performance: Work without a set list and rhythm guitarst Izzy Stradlin and bassist Duff McKagan seemed electrified at best, inspired at worst. It's So Easy, Mr. Brownstone and You're Crazy were barnburners, sculpted by Slash's lengthy and plentiful soloing. Slash himself has become somewhat a master of his craft, demonstrating some excellent technique with the bluesy slide-driven Bad Obsession, and the Spanish malaguena-flavored Double Talkin' Jive Mother. Just for laughs, he threw in an unaccompanied version of Feelings (quick, someone hand him a Pepsi!) and Speak Softly Love, as featured in The Godfather movies.

As for Axl Rose, he turned out to be a lot more polite than I expected. As a singer, he's expand ed his range. There were the screamers, like Sweet Child O' Mine and Paradise City, but Rose also deepened his voice for Civil War, Dust And Bones. As a performer, he made good use of the crab-shaped stage. There was a lot of running, playing to each side of the platform, and his patented snakelike swivelling of the hips from side to side.

He surprised everyone midway through the set by sitting at the grand piano for a new ballad called November Rain, and at times his vibrato was so resonant he sounded like heavy metal's Anthony Newley. Guns 'N' Roses uncontrived impulsiveness, and willingness to take risks made the concert a joyful reminder of what rock 'n' roll is really about. make it up as you go along. Could they pull it off? The answer was evident shortly after Slash played the intro riff to Welcome To The Jungle, as Rose dressed in a T-shirt and tie-dye jeans ran screaming from sidestage, riding the microphone stand like a hobby horse a la Steven Tyler of Aero-smith. The effect was comparable to that of a maelstrom of madcap mayhem that whipped the audience into a frenzy in no time flat.

What was remarkable was how disciplined Guns 'N' Roses have become as musicians. Superbly and powerfully anchored by new drummer Matt Sorum, ex of The Cult, and tex-turized by keyboardistpercussionist Dizzy Reed, G'N'R's original lineup of Rose, Slash, Guns 'NT Roses show just what rock is all about By Nick Krewen (The Hamilton Spectator) BELIEVE THE HYPE. If you didn't think there was any substance behind claims that Guns 'N' Roses is currently the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world, think again. Two performances by the California-based bad boys this past weekend to a combined audience of 46,000 people at Toronto's CNE Grandstand convinced even the band's most arduous skeptics. Led by the rebellious tag-team of singer W.

Axl Rose and AXL ROSE: An impromptu 212-hour marathon War between U.S., Japan inevitable, argues book war, they predict, will be an American halt to shipments of key industrial materials bound for Japan. "As before the Second World War, the U.S. will use interference with raw materials as a means for controlling the growth of Japanese power," the final chapter concludes. "And, as before the Second World War, Japan will not accept quiet The natural hostility of the two economies has been muted by the Cold War, the authors argue. The United States needed an ally in the Western Pacific as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.

After the Second World War, Washington spent billions rebuilding Japan, protecting the islands and safeguarding the passage of vital materials to Japanese industry. Washington also opened the U.S. market to Japanese imports. "It was an old regime with unfettered trade between brutally competitive economies," the au-tors write. "Free trade was the economic dimension of the vast political and military alliance the United States created in order to By Dean Beeby (Canadian Press) "BULLETIN: The United States declared war on Japan today after Japanese forces launched a devastating attack on the U.S.

Pacific fleet at Guam. "The bloody assault, following months of skirmishes along key shipping lanes, comes more than half a century after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941." An imaginary news flash today, but a new book argues that another war between the United States and Japan is almost inevitable within a generation. "The coming war with Japan will not arise out of wickedness or mean-spiritedness," George Friedman and Meredith LeBard contain the Soviet Union." The end of the Cold War has driven a wedge into this strange, uneasy union, Friedman and LeBard state. Pressures are building in Congress to cut off Japanese imports and reduce the costs of the alliance as America nurses its ailing economy. Japan, facing ruin without new export markets, is again casting covetous eyes around the Western Pacific.

To protect its economic interests in the region, Japan is poised to become a major military power. The defence budget $33 billion US is already the world's third-largest, after the United States and the Soviet Union. "There is a popular notion that Japan either has no armed forces conclude in The Coming War With Japan. As with most great wars, it will occur "in spite of the best intentions of all concerned. And one suspects no matter who wins the next war it will not be the last." Friedman, an American political scientist, and LeBard, an Australian writer, pay scant attention to politicians and ideologies in their hard-nosed, cheerless analysis.

They focus on such factors as troop levels, geography and the flow of strategic commodities. They say the Japanese and American economies both want to dominate markets in Asia, and the attack on Pearl Harbor simply shifted this economic rivalry into a military mode. or that it maintains, at best, a skeleton force incapable of defending Japan or serving as an instrument of national policy," the authors write. But "the current forces are large enough and sophisticated enough that in an emergency they could rapidly be expanded into a world-class military force." The book examines the Japanese air force, army and navy, showing how quickly each could draw on high technology from the civilian sector. Article 9 of the Japanese constitution forbids the use of war as an instrument of public policy.

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