06/20/17 - Gdansk, PL - Stadion Energa Gdansk

[WestCoastStrutting]

2 hours ago, Derick said:

It seems he told the security guards did not pull a fan out of the crowd. After that "Hey" Gio went there and it looks like he said to leave the fan there.

 

Pretty amazing Nightrain,btw!!!

 

go to 3'14"

 

It sounds/looks like the security and Axl were telling the fan to take the sign they were holding up down. 

[Derick]

14 minutes ago, WestCoastStrutting said:

It sounds/looks like the security and Axl were telling the fan to take the sign they were holding up down. 

True! I watched again and he said "Put it down" pointing to the guy in the crowd

[AlexC]

27 minutes ago, Derick said:

True! I watched again and he said "Put it down" pointing to the guy in the crowd

Ah, I thought he was being honourable and defending a distressed fan for a minute. Turns out he was just being a dick. Good ol' Axl!

[Blackstar]

36 minutes ago, Derick said:

51 minutes ago, WestCoastStrutting said:

It sounds/looks like the security and Axl were telling the fan to take the sign they were holding up down. 

True! I watched again and he said "Put it down" pointing to the guy in the crowd

Yes, and the fan took it down. But it looks that right after that there was an altercation between another fan and security and Axl shouted "hey".

[Derick]

12 minutes ago, AlexC said:

Ah, I thought he was being honourable and defending a distressed fan for a minute. Turns out he was just being a dick. Good ol' Axl!

IDK..Maybe he wanted the fan not to be taken away by security guards or some trouble in the first row. When someone raises a sign or someone climbs on someone else's back, it blocks the view of who is behind. And to avoid some problem he said to the fan put down the sign...Makes sense to me.

[AFGnR]

Is it just me, or did Axl move more around the stage in Gdansk? I think he is hitting his stride, except that thin mid/upper voice.

 

Drop the hats and replace the boots, and he could move more freely around the stage.

 

Edited June 22, 2017 by AFGnR

[Tom-Ass]

46 minutes ago, AFGnR said:

 

Drop the hats and replace the boots, and he could move more freely around the stage.

 

And he wouldn't look as ridiculous... The jeans, tshirt and sneakers was a good look last summer.

[Dean]

I am burst from that experience.

What a show. The crowd were outstanding and the band were on top of their game. Has Axl had to tell the crowd to chill the fuck out yet in this 2017 run?

[Ratam]

33 minutes ago, Tom-Ass said:

And he wouldn't look as ridiculous... The jeans, tshirt and sneakers was a good look last summer.

This, 100%

[Tom2112]

6 hours ago, AlexC said:

You might be on to something there. When these guys get complacent, there's no one there to mention it because they're surrounded by yes men ha.

Oh they are definitely surrounded by yes men  nobody on payroll is coming up to the guys saying "The band was good not great, and your vocals were a bit weak" they may think that, but what they actually say is "That's the best I've heard you in years! did you lose some weight?" because they'd be on the first flight home  But that goes for every major band.

*mygnr admin set me up with that sit down, I'll be nice 

[colonizedmind]

17 hours ago, AlexC said:

Probably the best Patience in years. Even the "Woah, I need you" parts were great.

Fucking great version! Sometimes he feels a run, often not! Worked here ! 

[MrSoftie]

16 hours ago, AFGnR said:

Is it just me, or did Axl move more around the stage in Gdansk? I think he is hitting his stride, except that thin mid/upper voice.

 

Drop the hats and replace the boots, and he could move more freely around the stage.

 

I hate the boots but tbf I watched a video from the good old days (possibly Ritz?) and he was wearing them then... so it's not a new thing. He does look more bad-ass in the high tops he was wearing last year though. And the hats didn't really bother me until I saw him put them on at Slane... it looked weird.

[Slawko966]

Civil War in 360

[Asia]

Okey, so I'm finally home from Gdańsk.

First, I wanna say that after all the initial excitement I felt a bit dissapointed with the reunion tour having watched the you tube videos and before the show I was even regretting I didn't sell the ticket and go on some longer vacation instead or whatever. Well, what a mistake!

Starting from the beginning - I personally found the organization of the show quite horrible First, we took a taxi to drive us to the stadium. And although I kept telling the driver we needed gate 5, he was old and deaf, unfortunately, so he didn't hear me and drove us to the other side of the stadium, where the traffic was smaller. Well... It occurred that they won't let you into the fenced area around the stadium through any other gate than on your ticket so you have to walk around the entire block of streets to find the right gate. I think it was farther than if I had walked from the hotel - lol. Anyway, it took forever to get there, the people working at the show barely knew any whereabouts, fortunately the police were relatively well-informed and after what seemed an eternity we were at gate 5 which, unfortunately was already closed, cause in the mean time the early entrance people got inside. So we started looking all over again for gate 8. Making a long story short, we finally managed to get in, got the GCEE wristbands and walked inside.

Support bands. Jesus Almighty - they were just horrible. Doda I won't even talk about, I have no idea who let her in there - probably Slash fancied her boobs or something. This bitch is more than emabarassing. Fortunately, she stayed really short. I was hoping for Killing Joke to be a bit better but no... It was awful. The guy was screaming like a madman about the beauty of life, trees, forests and rivers and I was covering my ears thinking where the fuck am I - is this some goddamned environmental conference or a rock show? Then he started appologizing for Brexit and screaming about the beauty of the European Union, at which point I seriously wanted to die. The bad thing is this was much longer than Virgin and it was a true exercise in patience, especially that the sound for the support bands was quite bad. I actually was pushing pieces of a hankerchief into my ears, since I had no earplugs. What seemed quite extraordinary to me is that both bands had almost the entire space of the stage for themselves (except the back with the drumset and shit) and none of them moved their fat assess to either side or whatever. They just stood there in the middle, waving their naked, gelly assess or thumping their feet, respectively. Pathethic. You're opening for Guns N Roses and you don't even bother to take a few walks, let alone run around.

Luckily, it did end, to my greatest relief. Some more waiting (the waiting was much better than the support acts) and THEY came on! It was like magic. Suddenly the stage was full, Axl ran around like crazy, so did Slash and Duff, the sound was amazing, Axl sounded great and within minutes I realized how stupid I was considering the selling of the ticket and that I'd rather sell a kidney to be here.

I was in a good spot, at the very right side of the stage, at the rail, right in front of the right end-of-stage barrier so that I had them really close while they came there and still saw them very well at the "cat walk" at the center. I was positively surprised with the quality of Axl's voice. After all the discussions in the forum I really tried to hear the horrible Mickey sounds but I couldn't, cause they just weren't there. He didn't rasp all the time but in real life his clean voice is not as clean as on the recordings and it is strong, melodic and really good. I didn't make any recordings but my friend did. And what I can tell you is that all these sounded really good on the phone and still do. But as soon as I uploaded those files on the computer, the processing somehow smoothed them and flattened them out and took a lot of edginess from Axl's voice and Slash's guitar. And while with the guitar it is not tragic - though I like the raw sound much better than the smooth, velvet one, it harmed Axl's voice mercilessly. Taking away that sharpness and rawness and some little raspy finish from it, it changed the voice so that it sounds flat and Mickish. I can imagine many of you won't belive me but if so, you're heartily invited, the flights are cheap these days, you can come to me and I will personally show you the difference.

Axl. Axl was great. He was extremely energetic, runnng like crazy, smiling, looking at us all excited and behaving like idiots and mimicking our gestures and laughing. I realized that some of the strange faces he makes and some of the stupid gestures is just him mimicking the excited and crazy fans, which is funny. And he does it in a friendly and pleasant way, so it's really fine. He pays attention to particular people, they all do. They react, try to understand what we scream, try to answer and this is so great. Most other bands play for the audience as some undistinguishable mass, these guys play for the particular individuals. Axl doesn't talk shit about the beauty of the forests but reacts to what is happening there and responds. Duff does the same, he actually talks to people. It creates an amazing feeling of being with them as people, not just some unreachable stars that come, do their thing, bow and leave. It's more like being personally invited to their party and it makes this so special. The atmosphere is really amazing.

Coming back to Axl though - he seems very much at ease, very happy and really pumped up with this and just in the right place. I was at the show in 2006 and to me he's like a different man. He is finally the Axl I know instead of a guy who's not sure for the most part of what the hell is he doing on that stage. As for him and Slash. He looks at Slash a lot. Very often he stares at him when Slash is soloing, keeps smiling and you can see he is really enchanted with what he is hearing and just happy to have him there. I also saw him smiling wide or saying some few words here or there while running past him, passing him or whatever. There were quite a few moments when he approched Slash, embraced him, leaned on him etc. The feeling between them seems really warm, easy and fine. There was no tension there watsoever, to the contrary, there was a lot of friendliness and warmth. One of my favourite moments were when they stood next to each other - all three of them - during the slow fragment of Coma. I always liked this even on video but live it's even far more impressive.

Slash. Slash is very focused. He is concentrated on the guitar, hidden behind those glasses, so you can't tell whether he's looking at you or not, I guess he really is shy, most of all, though, he is so focused, he is in his own world for most of the time and only once in a while he sort of comes back, smiles and you can see hes back in your world and happy. But he's so concentrated it happens rarely, sometimes Axl just pulls him back to earth, lol. This is no boredom though, has nothing to do with boredom. One needs to be an idiot to consider this boredom, the guy is just focused beyong belief and he's making those sounds that make you have the greatest musical high or orgasm or whatever you call it but it is totally unequalled experience, God I want to hear this again. Duff, on the other hand, he waks in his characteristic way and looks at the audience, makes worried face expressions when he sees too much moshing and pushing, shakes his head with concern, or he talks to people, answers their questions, tries to hear what they say or encourages them to be more active, depending on the situation - he's such a serious, responsible, warm father figure these days or so he seemed to me. Slash was more like naughty child a little too engaged in his toys but, other than that, very happy while Axl was this crazy, running, happy kid, going nuts and enjoying himself to the fullest.

The rest of the band I barelly noticed, Richard came to the right of the stage only once, I believe, and what I noticed mostly, was that he's very small somehow. Melissa bounces like an idiot but I only looked at her for half a minute altogether probably. Dizzy I didn't even notice, lol, but he played nice, I have to admit.

As for the songs. CD songs, at least in Gdańsk, were no buzz killer at all. They were well received, well cheered and nobody was going for any piss. Also, they sounded much better and more interesting live than on the video. Chinese was a real energy booster, the intro to Better is absolutely great, TIL was probably the weakest, this one I enjoyed more on some of the past videos. Coma was a song I almost died at, since I love it so much and it sounded just godly. Axl live did it really amazingly well, the guitars were an orgy, the mood, the atmosphere - I have no words to describe it. I was in heaven. Generally hearing the real sound of the guitar on songs like Coma, Estranged or NR is just... no words to describe it, sorry.

All the songs to me sound much better live than on the album, so I was totally amazed. I loved the covers - BHS was amazing, I totally loved Layla and Wish You Were Here, also I didn't mind the seeker at all.

All in all it was paradise. I finally even managed to get Axl wave back at me, lol. It was the best of the best evenings of my life and couldn't compare to anything I saw before. Just a different league. I could still write a million things but I guess I have to finish somewhere. If anyone ever reads through this shitloads of text, thank you for your endurance and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask!

Oh, and coming back to the organization - well, after the show we walked another few kilometers to find the nearest gas station where we spent two hours in our thousands trying to reach any taxis by phone which was almost impossible cause there were like 10 thousand too few of them. I finally made it back to the hotel which was 3 km away (had I only known in which direction, I would have walked) well past 2 am, though the show finished at midnight. But that was some good laugh as well, just to look at those freaked out faces of the gas station employees, lol.

 

 

 

[Axl_morris]

Why would Axl tell a guy to put a sign down? What did it say?

 

 

[EricA]

1 hour ago, Asia said:

Okey, so I'm finally home from Gdańsk.

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If i could i would give you all my 10 likes from today, thank you for such a nice review

[marlingrl03]

4 hours ago, EricA said:

 

If i could i would give you all my 10 likes from today, thank you for such a nice review

Agree! That kind of review makes even more pumped up for my show in SA. Didn't think that was possible!!! Thanks for your review @Asia

[Asia]

3 minutes ago, marlingrl03 said:

Agree! That kind of review makes even more pumped up for my show in SA. Didn't think that was possible!!! Thanks for your review @Asia

Keep getting excited and just be happy you're going to experience this. Honestly, I didn't think I was even capable of experiencing something like that, of getting so lost in the moment and in the music, of totally forgetting myself and finding myself in such a state of bliss, I thought I was far too old, cynical, down to earth, critical bitch for that to ever happen again in my life and there I was totally taken by surprise. I'm just happy nobody there next to me knew me so I won't ever have to talk to people who saw me bahaving like no amount of alcohol or other substances could ever make me I think I pretty much sang every single song or rather screamed it out and I totally cannot sing, so whoever heard that, I'm sorry

[Asia]

Found a really good quality recording of the entire show (though, unfortunately, someone cut out some of Axl's talking, I'm afraid).

 

[morselis]

@Asia sorry it's Munich not Gdańsk. From 0:30s you can see , this video is from Gn'R show in Munich.

Very good quality from Gdańsk is here.

Edited June 24, 2017 by morselis

[Asia]

8 minutes ago, morselis said:

@Asia sorry it's Munich not Gdańsk. From 0:30 you can see , this video is from Gn'R show in Munich.

Very good quality from Gdańsk is here.

Yeah, I just watched Coma and realized it wasn't from Gdańsk, hell, that was misleading with the title Thanks for the link. That's a relief actually cause I was beginning to think I saw things that weren't there

Edited June 24, 2017 by Asia

[Slawko966]

Full show 

[andy_rose]

My video of Patience

[Politania]

On 20.06.2017 at 9:31 PM, ChristmasFnatic said:

Why are recent concerts not in Warsaw(Poland's capital). Not GNR, not Aerosmith. No good arena in Warsaw?

they couldn't play in Warsaw, because the Cold Play had a gig 2 days before GNR show in Gdansk.

[bassplayer1993]

Hi guys, I know this is an old thread and nobody will care, but just for archival purposes, I was in front of the stage on the right side, near Slash's talkbox, around the 5th-8th row of people and want to explain the rant.

It was not a Rant. It was a "Stop" because people were getting VERY hurt in front and a bunch of "stereotypical metalheads" with greasy hair who have never had a shower in their life started getting aggressive. The audience was pushing.

I talked to Richard the next day and he acknowledged the wild audience, but said it was a high-energy show and definitely a great one. Talking to Richard made it so much better.

I truly, honestly, being in the middle of the worst part of the audience, let go and though that I was about to die there. Axl stopped the show and then threatened to stop it again and the audience chilled out a little bit, though I was pushed back to around the 15th row by force.

There were a few aggressive guys there and Axl must've noticed. The people in front were getting squished horribly.

 

I am thankful that Axl stopped the show. People were getting badly hurt. My chest hurt for a week because I was pushed and squeezed so hard by people trying to get closer to the stage.

I'd been waiting at the venue since 10 A.M. to get where I was.