07/15/17 - Tel Aviv, IL - Hayarkon Park

[alxgodfather]

 

[FabioRoses]

Best show of the leg for me, Axl sounded better than the previous concerts. 

[Silent Jay]

http://music-news.com/news/UK/106827/news

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Guns N' Roses have scrapped a sightseeing trip to Jerusalem ahead of a Saturday night (15Jul17) concert in Tel Aviv following a terror attack.

Axl Rose and his bandmates were planning to visit the holy city on Friday (14Jul17), but the rockers' walkabout plans have been derailed by a shoot-out between terrorists and police.

Reports suggest three Palestinians were shot and killed as they opened fire on police officers outside the holy site of Temple Mount. Two Israeli cops also lost their lives in the early morning incident on Friday.

Temple Mount was closed following the deadly shoot-out for security reasons, and all activities at the site were suspended.

Guns N' Roses aides felt a Jerusalem city tour following the drama would be insensitive and cancelled plans.

The band's Saturday night concert in Tel Aviv is also making headlines for the wrong reasons after a decision to start the show earlier upset local religious leaders, who claim Jewish fans would be forced to choose between making it to the gig on time or observing the Sabbath, which will now end as Guns N' Roses take to the stage.

Rose and his bandmates have also been criticised by their peers for refusing to boycott Israel on their ongoing world tour. Stars like Roger Waters and Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore have called on musicians to stay away from the country until leaders make peace with their Palestinian neighbours.

Meanwhile, the rockers aren't the first musicians who have had to scrap plans to tour the holy sites of Jerusalem in recent weeks - Britney Spears had to cut short a sightseeing tour of the ancient city on 2 July (17) when she was mobbed by fans ahead of her first gig in Israel on 3 July (17).

 

 

[alxgodfather]

[triad]

Review:  http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-balmy-tel-aviv-guns-n-roses-bring-sizzling-show-to-62000-fans/

[triad]

This guy loves them.    

Review Guns N' Roses Returns to Its Natural Habitat - and Doesn't Disappoint
There's Axl singing and playing the piano, and here's Slash playing his solo, and then a dramatic break - and then there it is, that fabulous outro. Live. It was great to be alive

Ben Shalev Jul 16, 2017 3:25 AM
read more:  http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/leisure/.premium-1.801502?=&ts=_1500186214706

Were any of the 60,000 people who filled Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Saturday night for the Guns N’ Roses concert among the 60,000 who filled the park two weeks ago for Britney Spears? If there were, other than the various people enjoying their free tickets, Britney may have crossed their minds for a split second at the beginning of the show, when Axl Rose shouted at the audience, “Welcome to the Jungle Tel Aviv!” - or something similar. Like Axl, Britney yelled at the crowd at the beginning of her show. But there was a huge difference between the two screams. Britney’s was strange, disconnected, hysterical, and most of all, completely different from the voice in her playback. Axl Rose’s scream, on the other hand, was just like the voice he used for the (more than) three hours that followed.
Not that his voice was the best part of the show. It wasn’t supposed to be. The star of the excellent concert wasn’t Rose, and certainly not him alone. When he appeared in this same park five years ago with a band of hired guns, without a single original band member, less than 15,000 people showed up - and what they saw was a mediocre performance at best. The reason that more than 60,000 fans streamed to the park on Saturday was for the band Guns N’ Roses, complete with its charismatic lead singer, great guitarist and excellent musicians. That, more or less, was the band that performed on Saturday. And it sounded great. It’s not GnR without Slash, the lead guitarist, who played wonderfully on Saturday, except for a few slipups here and there. The sweet howl that, in the rock world, has his name on it, plus raising the guitar at a 79-and-a-half degree angle, were heard and seen again and again on Saturday. At one point in the middle of a solo, a string of saliva dripped painfully slowly from his mouth and sat suspended on his curls. While it wasn’t very aesthetic, that moment reflected his and the band’s efforts. Nobody played on automatic pilot. For three hours.
And Slash isn’t the only one who deserves praise. Bassist Duff McKagan played great, performed a punk-like song (a necessary time-out during a bombastic hard rock concert), and when the cameras focused on his bass, you could see that he had stuck Prince’s purple logo on it. That deserves respect. The second guitarist, the guy who looks a little like Ron Wood from the Rolling Stones but sometimes sounds a little like Keith Richards, was good. And the drummer was killer. The keyboard-singer-accompanist sang well and kind of recalled the legendary program “Headbangers Ball” on MTV, where we first saw Guns N’ Roses in 1990.
Another great thing about the concert was its musical context in terms of space. Guns N’ Roses was born, died and resurrected to play in stadiums. That’s their natural habitat and they haven’t forgotten how to do it. In fact, not only was GnR - and still is - an excellent stadium band, you could say that it’s the last stadium rock band, a species that became extinct in the early 1990s. But at the park on Saturday, we saw the last monster of the species and it was sensational.
Because the show was unusually long, there were moments when GnR’s stadium-style rock was overdone. But not too much. We could have done without the outro of Eric Clapton’s “Layla,” but hold on, that ornate outro could have been the most magnificent outro of the 1990s, “November Rain,” of course. There’s Axl singing and playing the piano, and here’s Slash playing the solo, and then a dramatic break - and then there it is, that fabulous outro. Live. It was great to be alive. To tell you the truth, Slash messed his solo up a little. But after two and a half hours of a great performance, we won’t hold it against him. We didn’t have to use our imagination to enjoy this concert all the way. And now we’ll reinstall our IQ, excuse me, our intellectual glasses, and start counting down to the Radiohead concert.
 

[marlingrl03]

11 minutes ago, triad said:

This guy loves them.    

Review Guns N' Roses Returns to Its Natural Habitat - and Doesn't Disappoint
There's Axl singing and playing the piano, and here's Slash playing his solo, and then a dramatic break - and then there it is, that fabulous outro. Live. It was great to be alive

Ben Shalev Jul 16, 2017 3:25 AM
read more:  http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/leisure/.premium-1.801502?=&ts=_1500186214706

Were any of the 60,000 people who filled Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Saturday night for the Guns N’ Roses concert among the 60,000 who filled the park two weeks ago for Britney Spears? If there were, other than the various people enjoying their free tickets, Britney may have crossed their minds for a split second at the beginning of the show, when Axl Rose shouted at the audience, “Welcome to the Jungle Tel Aviv!” - or something similar. Like Axl, Britney yelled at the crowd at the beginning of her show. But there was a huge difference between the two screams. Britney’s was strange, disconnected, hysterical, and most of all, completely different from the voice in her playback. Axl Rose’s scream, on the other hand, was just like the voice he used for the (more than) three hours that followed.
Not that his voice was the best part of the show. It wasn’t supposed to be. The star of the excellent concert wasn’t Rose, and certainly not him alone. When he appeared in this same park five years ago with a band of hired guns, without a single original band member, less than 15,000 people showed up - and what they saw was a mediocre performance at best. The reason that more than 60,000 fans streamed to the park on Saturday was for the band Guns N’ Roses, complete with its charismatic lead singer, great guitarist and excellent musicians. That, more or less, was the band that performed on Saturday. And it sounded great. It’s not GnR without Slash, the lead guitarist, who played wonderfully on Saturday, except for a few slipups here and there. The sweet howl that, in the rock world, has his name on it, plus raising the guitar at a 79-and-a-half degree angle, were heard and seen again and again on Saturday. At one point in the middle of a solo, a string of saliva dripped painfully slowly from his mouth and sat suspended on his curls. While it wasn’t very aesthetic, that moment reflected his and the band’s efforts. Nobody played on automatic pilot. For three hours.
And Slash isn’t the only one who deserves praise. Bassist Duff McKagan played great, performed a punk-like song (a necessary time-out during a bombastic hard rock concert), and when the cameras focused on his bass, you could see that he had stuck Prince’s purple logo on it. That deserves respect. The second guitarist, the guy who looks a little like Ron Wood from the Rolling Stones but sometimes sounds a little like Keith Richards, was good. And the drummer was killer. The keyboard-singer-accompanist sang well and kind of recalled the legendary program “Headbangers Ball” on MTV, where we first saw Guns N’ Roses in 1990.
Another great thing about the concert was its musical context in terms of space. Guns N’ Roses was born, died and resurrected to play in stadiums. That’s their natural habitat and they haven’t forgotten how to do it. In fact, not only was GnR - and still is - an excellent stadium band, you could say that it’s the last stadium rock band, a species that became extinct in the early 1990s. But at the park on Saturday, we saw the last monster of the species and it was sensational.
Because the show was unusually long, there were moments when GnR’s stadium-style rock was overdone. But not too much. We could have done without the outro of Eric Clapton’s “Layla,” but hold on, that ornate outro could have been the most magnificent outro of the 1990s, “November Rain,” of course. There’s Axl singing and playing the piano, and here’s Slash playing the solo, and then a dramatic break - and then there it is, that fabulous outro. Live. It was great to be alive. To tell you the truth, Slash messed his solo up a little. But after two and a half hours of a great performance, we won’t hold it against him. We didn’t have to use our imagination to enjoy this concert all the way. And now we’ll reinstall our IQ, excuse me, our intellectual glasses, and start counting down to the Radiohead concert.
 

The link you posted wouldn't let me read the whole thing, so thanks for posting it. Great review! 

[Carburetta]

Thank you Gn'r for the tour of a lifetime, I think it's fair to say that they've been incredible and kicked a serious amount of ass. Couldn't imagine that they'd be this good, the Euro leg has seriously surpassed expectations.

[Gavin82]

Was last night the longest set on the EU run....??? 30 tracks according too Setlist fm 

[Sunset Boulevard]

FANTASTIC Show! Better than the Paris one. Axl sounded better in TLV than in Paris. 

[Gavin82]

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/guns-n-roses-2017-not-in-this-lifetime-tour-was-out-of-this-world-for-sure/2017/07/16/

 

Last nights getting the best reviews from everyone

[Italian girl]

So sad european tour is over

Hope the come back soon

[mlzzz]

3 hours ago, Gavin82 said:

Was last night the longest set on the EU run....??? 30 tracks according too Setlist fm 

No the Nijmegen (Netherlands) show was their longest set this Euro-tour, has 32 songs on it and lasted 3:22hrs.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guns-n-roses/2017/goffertpark-nijmegen-netherlands-53e46fd1.html

[nikosgnr]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[EricA]

 

[slitherz]

Most raspy BHS up to date?

 

[rollandf]

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Guns.N.Roses.In.Israel/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1397794433637403

[Projected]

Does anybody have a video of the curtain call?

Edited July 16, 2017 by Projected

[IncitingChaos]

3 hours ago, slitherz said:

Most raspy BHS up to date?

 

I haven't listened to a version since the beginning of the leg but I like that he changed the high notes to add more rasp. It sounds much better imo 

[janrichmond]

@Projected this?

[marlingrl03]

[Hollywood Gunner]

14 hours ago, alxgodfather said:

cocaine's a hell of a drug

[Projected]

1 hour ago, janrichmond said:

@Projected this?

Ahh fuck I need to see Dizzy and Slash obscures him. Thanks.

[janrichmond]

1 minute ago, Projected said:

Ahh fuck I need to see Dizzy and Slash obscures him. Thanks.

Can i ask why?

[Projected]

Just now, janrichmond said:

Can i ask why?

He points at me and laughs because I made TM's Dove Hands.
You can see him point right as Slash walks in front of him.