Guns N' Roses - Jan 1 2001 - House of Blues comeback show

[Twinaleblood]

the same for me from Italy!!!

Nice to see another italian user around here!

Back in topic: this is one of the bootleg dvds I like the most and my fav GNR line-up from 2000 on hands down. 2002 with Fortus replacing Huge could have been as good as this, but Axl sounded much worse then.

EDIT: i was talking about RIR3 dvd, not HOB, of course. For whatever reason I thought the conversation had steered to RIR

Edited January 21, 2016 by Twinaleblood

[Twinaleblood]

Depends: their "value" might actually increase, as an official release of that material after the reunion might become less and less likely (I mean the songs. I don't think VMA rehearsals would have seen an official release anyway).

[Twinaleblood]

Me too, definitely. I was listening to a 2011 bootleg the other day and it started with The General intro. It made me wonder if we're ever going to hear the full song (and all the others, of course)

Edited January 21, 2016 by Twinaleblood

[6lake sa66ath]

the same for me from Italy!!!

Nice to see another italian user around here!

Back in topic: this is one of the bootleg dvds I like the most and my fav GNR line-up from 2000 on hands down. 2002 with Fortus replacing Huge could have been as good as this, but Axl sounded much worse then.

So there's people out there with complete footage of this show besides Axl?

[Italian girl]

the same for me from Italy!!!

Nice to see another italian user around here!

Back in topic: this is one of the bootleg dvds I like the most and my fav GNR line-up from 2000 on hands down. 2002 with Fortus replacing Huge could have been as good as this, but Axl sounded much worse then.

Ciao!

[smoking guns]

This show is really cool to hear.. I like how in the intro to NR they he played some TIL...

[Matt13]

Wow, thanks for taking me back. I used to check in on GNRonline message boards all the time, along with the other sites like CD.com and 2000 Intentions. I was 14 then. That is crazy. "Make Haste." haha

I was a kid who was so excited to see Axl back. I thought the new songs were so cool, and was very excited by the totally new direction Axl was taking his band (whether or not it was really GnR didn't interest me in the least - at least there was progress.) I remember downloading the show and thinking that the old songs sounded pretty cool, but it was the new stuff that I was way more interested in. After the cancelled tours and the overall dictatorship vibe coming from Axl, I gave up. Life is way too short, and there was way too much good music out there to waste my time caring about this sad excuse of a band. By the time Chinese Democracy was actually, begrudgingly, released in 2008 (with many of the key players from 2001 already having left the band), I had lost all interest, but I do still like to peek in and see that the madness continues.

But for a little while in 2000-2001, it really seemed like Axl and his new band were really doing something cool.

Funny how fast it all fell apart...

And that 15 years later, as a grown adult, I still want to see where it goes next.

Thanks for the great post

Make haste, indeed! Cool to see some people from that era still floating around. Thanks for sharing!

the same for me from Italy!!!

Nice to see another italian user around here!

Back in topic: this is one of the bootleg dvds I like the most and my fav GNR line-up from 2000 on hands down. 2002 with Fortus replacing Huge could have been as good as this, but Axl sounded much worse then.

So there's people out there with complete footage of this show besides Axl?

That has to be a misquote. He must have meant "CD" and not "DVD". From what I know, there isn't any video of that show (rumor has it the band had it professionally shot, though).

[fernandoGNR]

From what I know, there isn't any video of that show (rumor has it the band had it professionally shot, though).

Yeah, there was even a presale in HMV and Amazon Japan.

Check mygnr news archive:

http://www.mygnr.com/news/2001/011111_1.html

http://www.mygnr.com/news/2001/010806_2.html

http://www.mygnr.com/news/2001/010913_1.html

AMAZON Japan is offering "pre-prders" for the DVD and VHS copies of the "Live in Vegas 2001" concert with a release date of December 5th 2001.

The price of the DVD and VHS videos is 4,900 ?YEN ( about 40.00 $US ) plus shipping. The video runs 140 minutes and features the 20 track set list, including four new songs from the GNR's forthcoming new album, Chinese Democracy.

Sale date is 2001/12/05

At present it is in reservation acceptance.

Performance: Live In Vegas 2001 and other things

Edition:

. DVD (2001/12/05)

. Region 2 (for Japan, Europe and Middle East)

. Universal music - ASIN: B00005NRUL

Concerning specification please click here.

Amazon.co.jp sale ranking: 308

Release information:

Selling agency: Universal music

Sale day: 2001/12/05

Time: 140 minutes

[Twinaleblood]

That has to be a misquote. He must have meant "CD" and not "DVD". From what I know, there isn't any video of that show (rumor has it the band had it professionally shot, though).

I wish that i was talking about the DVD!! I was talking about RIR not HOB, sorry for not clearing it out. For whatever reason I thought the topic had steered to RIR. I swear i was not drunk, lol. Sorry again!

Edited January 21, 2016 by Twinaleblood

[Janabis]

I went to this show. I was 19 years old and flew down from Canada. It was New Years Eve and the doors were scheduled to open at 1am. People were lining up along the walls inside the Mandalay Bay casino where the House of Blues is located for hours before that. Once we got inside everyone just stood around waiting until around 3:30am when the show started. There was a camera crew in front of the stage filming the crowd before the show. It was a small venue and the floor was really packed. I remember being really curious about hearing new songs and being surprised that they were playing all old stuff for the first half of the show. The Blues was the highlight out of the new songs for me but I thought they all sounded pretty good. I still like those performances and arrangements more than what ended up on CD. Show ended at around 5:30am and I remember walking out of the casino as the sun was sarting to rise. Probably my most memorable concert experience. I was running a GNR website at the time called the GNR MP3 Exchange, and later gnrlive.com, which were the first websites devoted to sharing live GNR mp3`s back in the 90`s. The guy who bootlegged the show got in touch and hooked me up with his recording of the Blues, which I put on the website and traffic went crazy. He released the full show a bit later on. RIR3 was a week later so hype for new Guns was at an all time high. That was the best time I can remember as a GNR fan.

[DizzyReed63]

I went to this show. I was 19 years old and flew down from Canada. It was New Years Eve and the doors were scheduled to open at 1am. People were lining up along the walls inside the Mandalay Bay casino where the House of Blues is located for hours before that. Once we got inside everyone just stood around waiting until around 3:30am when the show started. There was a camera crew in front of the stage filming the crowd before the show. It was a small venue and the floor was really packed. I remember being really curious about hearing new songs and being surprised that they were playing all old stuff for the first half of the show. The Blues was the highlight out of the new songs for me but I thought they all sounded pretty good. I still like those performances and arrangements more than what ended up on CD. Show ended at around 5:30am and I remember walking out of the casino as the sun was sarting to rise. Probably my most memorable concert experience. I was running a GNR website at the time called the GNR MP3 Exchange, and later gnrlive.com, which were the first websites devoted to sharing live GNR mp3`s back in the 90`s. The guy who bootlegged the show got in touch and hooked me up with his recording of the Blues, which I put on the website and traffic went crazy. He released the full show a bit later on. RIR3 was a week later so hype for new Guns was at an all time high. That was the best time I can remember as a GNR fan.

To you and Matt - I remember those days pretty vividly, too. I used to run GnRForum dot com, which was another hot bed of constant action. Matt's right, every other band's forum was dwarfed by us GnR fans and the crazy shit and stories floating around. Fun fact: We used to run stories by Dizzy Reed's aunt in a private section of the forum, to confirm certain rumors. haha. People didn't really post songs in the forums yet, as you'd get most of them on Napster. I also was the source of the "phat boy" story, where Axl brought a CD of new tracks to a bar in LA late one night and invited people out to his car to listen. Blues, Riad and Madagascar. True story.

As for video, I think I remember seeing a few shots of this show in an MTV report way back then. Might be wrong, but I have an image in my head

Janabis - jealous you got to go to this. I was in the same boat where I just didn't have the funds and was just starting out in my low-paying career. This gig was annc'd last minute, if I recall, too.

Crazy to think so much has changed since then. Shit, I remember downloading my first digital GnR bootleg from Mrice's gnrunlimited dot com, sp1at dot com with "pepper" and trading cassette tapes with people.

This band had us fans and the music world so curious back then. Axl sort of had a window there of a free pass to try something new and get a fair shake. Like Matt said, I'd think you were crazy in '01 to say it'd be '08 w/ a bunch of a new players before this thing came out.

Thanks for posting this though, brings back some pretty cool memories, and that same feeling of excitement I think everyone who's a long-timer is feeling again right now.

[Carburetta]

Out of interest how easily obtainable were tickets for this show?

It's definitely the one that holds the most mistique for me anyway.

[sonofnazareth]

where did the time go? I was so hopeful for this band back then.

[DarkLotus1111]

Out of interest how easily obtainable were tickets for this show?

It's definitely the one that holds the most mistique for me anyway.

Yeah can someone explain this?

[6lake sa66ath]

From what I know, there isn't any video of that show (rumor has it the band had it professionally shot, though).

Yeah, there was even a presale in HMV and Amazon Japan.

Check mygnr news archive:

http://www.mygnr.com/news/2001/011111_1.html

http://www.mygnr.com/news/2001/010806_2.html

http://www.mygnr.com/news/2001/010913_1.html

AMAZON Japan is offering "pre-prders" for the DVD and VHS copies of the "Live in Vegas 2001" concert with a release date of December 5th 2001.

The price of the DVD and VHS videos is 4,900 ?YEN ( about 40.00 $US ) plus shipping. The video runs 140 minutes and features the 20 track set list, including four new songs from the GNR's forthcoming new album, Chinese Democracy.

Sale date is 2001/12/05

At present it is in reservation acceptance.

Performance: Live In Vegas 2001 and other things

Edition:

. DVD (2001/12/05)

. Region 2 (for Japan, Europe and Middle East)

. Universal music - ASIN: B00005NRUL

Concerning specification please click here.

Amazon.co.jp sale ranking: 308

Release information:

Selling agency: Universal music

Sale day: 2001/12/05

Time: 140 minutes

Awesome info thank you.

No doubt there's copies out there somewhere.

[Janabis]

Out of interest how easily obtainable were tickets for this show?

It's definitely the one that holds the most mistique for me anyway.

Yeah can someone explain this?

There wasn`t a lot of notice before the show. It was announced in early or mid December if I remember correctly, but there had been some rumors floating around for a while. Axl had done an interview by phone with Kurt Loder of MTV at one point and gave a vague answer when asked if he`d surprise fans with a show on New Year`s Eve. Tickets went for $150 on the floor and $250 on the balcony, which was a lot of money at the time. I don`t think it was too tough for hardcore fans to get tickets because they were the first to hear about it on the forums and probably the DustnBones mailing list (no idea if that`s a thing any more).

[Matt13]

That has to be a misquote. He must have meant "CD" and not "DVD". From what I know, there isn't any video of that show (rumor has it the band had it professionally shot, though).

I wish that i was talking about the DVD!! I was talking about RIR not HOB, sorry for not clearing it out. For whatever reason I thought the topic had steered to RIR. I swear i was not drunk, lol. Sorry again!

No worries! I had a copy of RIR too. Although exciting to watch, I still felt indifferent about the whole thing. Buckethead was truly bizzar. Axl wasn't in top shape either (physically or vocally). Was still cool none-the-less.

[Matt13]

I went to this show. I was 19 years old and flew down from Canada. It was New Years Eve and the doors were scheduled to open at 1am. People were lining up along the walls inside the Mandalay Bay casino where the House of Blues is located for hours before that. Once we got inside everyone just stood around waiting until around 3:30am when the show started. There was a camera crew in front of the stage filming the crowd before the show. It was a small venue and the floor was really packed. I remember being really curious about hearing new songs and being surprised that they were playing all old stuff for the first half of the show. The Blues was the highlight out of the new songs for me but I thought they all sounded pretty good. I still like those performances and arrangements more than what ended up on CD. Show ended at around 5:30am and I remember walking out of the casino as the sun was sarting to rise. Probably my most memorable concert experience. I was running a GNR website at the time called the GNR MP3 Exchange, and later gnrlive.com, which were the first websites devoted to sharing live GNR mp3`s back in the 90`s. The guy who bootlegged the show got in touch and hooked me up with his recording of the Blues, which I put on the website and traffic went crazy. He released the full show a bit later on. RIR3 was a week later so hype for new Guns was at an all time high. That was the best time I can remember as a GNR fan.

To you and Matt - I remember those days pretty vividly, too. I used to run GnRForum dot com, which was another hot bed of constant action. Matt's right, every other band's forum was dwarfed by us GnR fans and the crazy shit and stories floating around. Fun fact: We used to run stories by Dizzy Reed's aunt in a private section of the forum, to confirm certain rumors. haha. People didn't really post songs in the forums yet, as you'd get most of them on Napster. I also was the source of the "phat boy" story, where Axl brought a CD of new tracks to a bar in LA late one night and invited people out to his car to listen. Blues, Riad and Madagascar. True story.

As for video, I think I remember seeing a few shots of this show in an MTV report way back then. Might be wrong, but I have an image in my head

Janabis - jealous you got to go to this. I was in the same boat where I just didn't have the funds and was just starting out in my low-paying career. This gig was annc'd last minute, if I recall, too.

Crazy to think so much has changed since then. Shit, I remember downloading my first digital GnR bootleg from Mrice's gnrunlimited dot com, sp1at dot com with "pepper" and trading cassette tapes with people.

This band had us fans and the music world so curious back then. Axl sort of had a window there of a free pass to try something new and get a fair shake. Like Matt said, I'd think you were crazy in '01 to say it'd be '08 w/ a bunch of a new players before this thing came out.

Thanks for posting this though, brings back some pretty cool memories, and that same feeling of excitement I think everyone who's a long-timer is feeling again right now.

Very cool! I totally remember that story about Axl bringing the CD to a bar. From what I remember, it was a strip club or something and he had the DJ play it over the house system after hours. Could be a different incident but definitely brings back memories. I remember your forum too! And the GNR unlimited site.

Crazy times. The download times back then killed me! Speaking of downloading... it pissed Axl off so much he even called all of us 'download mother fuckers' at shows. And he clearly followed the forums back then. Xozi's claim to fame was Axl calling her out at a concert! Talking about ass hole forum people spreading false rumors and thinking they know stuff when they know nothing at all. It was GLORIOUS for me... since I always trashed Xozi every chance I got. We eventually became friends when it became clear GNR wasn't amounting to much by 2002 or so. That's around when the old CD.com went offline briefly before being brought back by new people who still run it today I presume. That was the same time this forum started... it kind of took the place of the old CD.com. A lot of it's members came here. Xozi started a forum in South America somewhere... Brazil was it? Her home country. Wonder if she's still running it! I have no idea what the link is anymore.

And I wonder if Queenie is still there making haste.

[xBrownstonex]

I think she was from Argentina.

[Matt13]

I think she was from Argentina.

We have a bingo! That's definitely it.

[gnr157]

This is, without doubt, the greatest concert I have ever been to.

While I would like to see the Axl / Slash reunion, I do not think anything could recreate the energy that went into and lead up to the HOB show. A little of that has to do with me being 15 years older.....but this concert was mind blowing on every level.

[Dazey]

The Bucket, Brain and Robin incarnation of NuGnR could've been great. When Bucket left that was it for them as anything more than a glorified cover band.

[Teroz]

Oh these shows remind on how good Buckethead was/is, and how crappy his replacement was compared to him - althou of course Bumble was a superb player, his playing just does not have the X factor that Bucket has. Yeah he had a bucket on his head, but he brought something new to the sound without crapping on the legacy, unlike Ashba for instance.

Bucket highlights for me: Nightrain and November Rain outro.

[ToonGuns]

The Bucket, Brain and Robin incarnation of NuGnR could've been great. When Bucket left that was it for them as anything more than a glorified cover band.

Yep. This was a stand-alone band, with a unique sound and style, and I loved it. All subsequent incarnations were cover bands of both the original band, and this one. The real shame was they couldn't get the album out in time or a tour sorted in order to be able to play more of their own songs live.

Oh these shows remind on how good Buckethead was/is, and how crappy his replacement was compared to him - althou of course Bumble was a superb player, his playing just does not have the X factor that Bucket has. Yeah he had a bucket on his head, but he brought something new to the sound without crapping on the legacy, unlike Ashba for instance.

Bucket highlights for me: Nightrain and November Rain outro.

Yep. Edited January 22, 2016 by ToonGuns

[11dayempire]

Buckethead was fucking magical. As good a player as Ron is, and as nice a person as he is, he just wasn't on the same level.

I do find myself wondering if, with the return of Slash and Duff, the floodgates will open on all that hoarded material that's been in circulation among a limited circle for years. Surely the CD remix album, VMA 2002 rehearsals and the Vegas '01 proshot aren't going to be worth anything to hoarders now.