10 Most Infamous Guns N' Roses Moments

2. Axl Rose On Eddie Trunk 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6iTjYmYmgE Picture the scene. Eddie Trunk is hosting his popular Friday night radio show live from New York with guest host, and wrestler/musician, Chris Jericho. His guests that evening are Anthrax's Scott Ian and singer Sebastian Bach, both of whom are there to talk about a new VH1 reality series they've just completed filming, focusing on the lives of five metal musicians working together in a super group. Since Trunk and Bach have already been filming some material for VH1 classics the night beforehand, Bach has been telling everyone that Axl Rose is sending him text messages, the first time he's heard from the singer (whom he claims was a good friend and touring buddy) in 14 years. About an hour into the programme, Bach gets a text, which supposedly comes from Axl - asking if he's on the air right now....Bach phones back, live on air, getting Axl's permission for the studio to call him. As Jericho, Ian and Eddie Trunk laugh in disbelief it is in fact Axl Rose who then appears on the phone and speaks about auditions for the bands forthcoming New York residency over four nights at the Hammerstein. He then says that if someone passes them the address he'll be happy to come on down to the studio and say hello. When the phone goes down, the men are overjoyed, they don't know whether it's real or whether it's part of something both Bach and Rose have conspired on. Bach swears he hasn't seen Rose in almost a decade and a half and that he only heard from him for the first time, via text, earlier this week. As Jericho jokes about Axl actually turning up and what that would mean the show continues. Trunk gets permission from the station to allow the show to remain on air for as long as needed if Rose walks in before the show ends, and sure enough, Rose walks in to stunned silence with an hour of broadcasting left. Radio silence mixed with stunned disbelief means the group are literally speechless as Rose sits at the table and answers candid questions on his whereabouts, the upcoming shows and the (then forthcoming) album 'Chinese Democracy'. Sadly Rose doesn't accept calls when the idea is presented but this is probably a good thing on reflection. Any possibility this moment was scripted or planted is completely dis-proven when Rose walks into the room. The men are literally stunned and Bach stands up to give his friend a hug while the microphone literally goes dead for a few moments. Truck composes himself enough to describe the scene and slowly thousands of people tune in from around the globe as news of this event spreads, with Internet servers in the station actually collapsing towards the end of the broadcast because of Rose's appearance. Although Axl appeared, via phone interview, on a US radio station in 2002 this is the first time that he has given an in person interview to a media source (at this point) since 1994. If you ever have a free evening to sit and listen to the most colourful radio broadcast of your life, I encourage you to listen to this show, a show which quite seriously proves the majesty of Axl Rose and which honestly makes you have such faith in live radio in the 21st century. The spontaneity and the moments in that room can never be recreated, doubtless they ever will be, with such an incredible experience for both the participants and the fans.