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Injured Axl Rose Will Perform In A Cast In Vegas, At Coachella

LAS VEGAS, NV – MAY 21: Singer Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses performs at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino during the opening night of the band’s second residency, “Guns N’ Roses – An Evening of Destruction. No Trickery!” on May 21, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Guns N' Roses will follow their surprise LA reunion kickoff with two arena shows in Las Vegas this weekend, and according to a fresh tweet from Axl Rose, it seems the frontman will be performing in a cast. Rose tweeted a video of Dr. Rachel Triche, a foot and ankle specialist from Santa Monica, explaining that he underwent surgery for a broken bone in his foot. (Per Rose's publicist, his left foot is the injured one.) "Right now he's in a cast, and we're limiting how much weight he's putting on it," Triche says, "so he's having his set designed for the stage so he can perform for everyone still." Triche says Rose will be recovering for four weeks, so it sounds like he'll be in a cast for tonight and tomorrow's gigs at T-Mobile Arena in Vegas as well as both Coachella performances, which is hilarious. Maybe he called Dave Grohl for some pointers?

This is what can happen when you do something you haven't done in nearly over 23 years,"Internal Fixation" (?'?-'?)? https://t.co/jFTz3MQw82

— Axl Rose (@axlrose) April 8, 2016

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