[Rick]

From HTGTH:

01. Welcome To The Jungle
02. It's So Easy
03. Mr. Brownstone
04. Live And Let Die
05. Robin Guitar Solo
06. Sweet Child O' Mine
07. Madagascar
08. You Could Be Mine
09. Knockin' On Heavens Door
10. Chinese Democracy
11. Think About You
12. Richard Fortus Guitar Solo
13. Out Ta Get Me
14. November Rain
15. Bumblefoot Guitar Solo (Don't Cry)
16. My Michelle
17. Patience
18. Better
19. Nightrain
20. Paradise City

No The Blues or IRS.

R.

[narc0l3pt]

They played the blues. Thats for sure. Just got home from the gig. Some inside news from a friend of mine who works on the band security in the arena:
1. Tour manager has quit yesterday
2. Nothing related to the word slash cannot be said in the backstage area
3. About 20 girls were selected from the crowd to the backstage.
4. Show after partys only organised to the venue backstage. Security personel bought from local company.

Tomorrow, more news to come as i get it. And few clips as well.

Tired.

God Fucking Night

ps. The show was brilliant!

[Gunner]

01. Welcome To The Jungle
02. It's So Easy
03. Mr. Brownstone
04. Live And Let Die
05. Robin Guitar Solo
06. Sweet Child O' Mine
07. Madagascar
08. You Could Be Mine
09. Knockin' On Heavens Door
10. The Blues
11. Think About You (intro jam about sweden)
12. Richard Fortus Guitar Solo
13. Out Ta Get Me
14. November Rain
15. Bumblefoot Guitar Solo (Don't Cry)
16. My Michelle
17. Patience
18. Better
19. Nightrain
20. Paradise City

Replaced CD with the blues... Now it looks more correct. Good night.

Edit: Also Finck played a little Finlandia and Dizzy played a full Hanoi Rocks song - of which I don't know the title of - with a piano before The Blues. Axl's voice was fucking good... Better than ever. Some versions kicked ass... I think Out Ta Get Me was best version I've heard since... Ritz '88 I think. Anyways... Should go to sleep now.....

Hope someone made a bootleg.

This post has been edited by Gunner: 05 July 2006 - 07:39 PM

[Colt 1911]

cool tay is back maybe for godd. izzy wasnt there right?

[Mark0FI]

Quote

and Dizzy played a full Hanoi Rocks song - of which I don't know the title of - with a piano before The Blues. Axl's voice was fucking good... Better than ever. Some versions kicked ass... I think Out Ta Get Me was best version I've heard since... Ritz '88 I think. Anyways... Should go to sleep now.....

The song Dizzy played was Don't you ever leave me by Hanoi Rocks.

Great gig, nothing more to say..

M

[Jack77]

Just got back from the gig and I have to say that there is a lot more to expect tomorrow because this only made something like 7 out of 10. The opening three songs got the people going but after that It just wasn't like the old days anymore (and this was rudely borrowed from the Smiths). I was standing just next to the mixbooth and for my opionion they could have turned the volume up but they only did it for the last 30 minutes or so. Volume was was quite too quiet all the time, just can not get why. Also Axl's great voice could not be heard properly, I hope they do something about it tomorrow.

Obviously somebody has done some homework because Finlandia was played by Finck and Dizzy tried to play something that sounded like "Don't you ever leave me" by Hanoi Rocks. Should stick with the original tempo, Andy got it all right mr. Reed (with all respect). Everybody played great, have to say that also the new stand-in drummer is a one hell of a player.

Main thing for my opinion is that the feel of danger which is so essential to rock'n roll wasn't there at anymore. Seeing it from 50m away it was more like a Las Vegas show. entertaining but not something that you would consider a great gig. I made my way to the front row during the paradise city but it did not get any better.


Some touble also during the gig, couldn't quite get the reason but Axl got pissed off cos somebody was tellin' him to fuck off. If I can remember he told them to fuck off cos all the others were havin' great time. Also a small rant about what happened in Sweden but could not get it cos the volume was so fuckin' quiet. You really should have a pro behind that mixbooth.

Glad to see that people are quite familiar with the new songs, saw people singing along with all of them. Strange but those who were even not in the standing area seemed to know the lyrics.

Can not quite put my finger on it but something is missing from the band at the moment. And I don't mean the guy with the big black hat.

[paajis]

interesting.. i was in maybe 7th row and imo the sound was good, at some points it went really bad but it was fixed fast.. often when you go to a gig in finland and the sound is bad in the beginning it will remain bad or get even worse.. so i think the soundguy did a great job.. the volume could maybe had been a bit higher but imo its good to not play too loud when you play a 2 hour set...

and.. axl got pissed? naah.. i would have done the same.. he was in great mood and was smiling.

what else? hmm.. the blues was great!

This post has been edited by paajis: 05 July 2006 - 10:42 PM

[coolio GNR]

Was Izzy there?

[axlfuck]

finish girls are really easy,I hope every man of the band got his sandwich sex time,hahahaha

[New Rose]

My friend was there, and she said the gig was 2hours late.

[Mark0FI]

coolio GNR, on Jul 5 2006, 11:39 PM, said:

Was Izzy there?

No, Izzy wasn't there.

The show started around 23. I think the sound quality was good overall. It was loud enough for me, earlier in the set 105dB, during Paradise City 112--115dB. I noticed that when I put plugs to my ears I could hear the rants very clearly. The swedish rant was something about the arrest and the conclusion was something like " I am not into Swedes' taste but at least I got a taste of Swedish women" (sorry for the bad interpretation, hope you got THE POINT ;-)). The first rant was something about Flying Finns..

For me the gig overall was a great experience. I think rock music always suffers from big venues, it is best in small clubs. But Axl and the boys did a great job entertaining the crowd. And that Hanoi Rocks song with Dizzy playing the piano was a very special moment for me.

Waited for long, didn't let me down.

M

This post has been edited by Mark0FI: 06 July 2006 - 01:19 AM

[narc0l3pt]

The sound was good in the sitting section 109 too, only few times when it turned bad but the sound guy did great job and fixed it immediately. Getting ready for the 2nd gig right now with more excitement than ever!

[Gunner]

I used earplugs from my work, which are supposed to make me hear people well but eliminate most of the machine noise present (I work at a loud machine in an amusement park). Anyways they worked very well in the concert... I heard Axl and the music so much better with the plugs than without. Heard everything very well actually... The rant and all.

And no the concert wasn't two hours late. GnR started at 23... Only an hour "late", but what else is new.

This post has been edited by Gunner: 06 July 2006 - 02:58 AM

[Gunner]

Jack77, on Jul 6 2006, 05:02 AM, said:

Glad to see that people are quite familiar with the new songs, saw people singing along with all of them. Strange but those who were even not in the standing area seemed to know the lyrics.

The tickets went in eight minutes. So it was mostly about luck if you could get in the standing area. Which pisses me off because we arrived (as late as) 19:30 or something and I swear I could've still got in the front row if only I'd had the ticket to the area...

[makkonen]

The tickets went in eight minutes. So it was mostly about luck if you could get in the standing area. Which pisses me off because we arrived (as late as) 19:30 or something and I swear I could've still got in the front row if only I'd had the ticket to the area...
[/quote]

True...standing area was VERY empty...maybe half full...DAMN! ... i wanted to jump in and join them but i was pretty high (i mean altitude...)
Great gig anyhow. New songs didn´t go well for people around me (specially Madagascar was confusing to most of them). GN`R SHOULD play ChiDem, that´s simple enough for "1st-timers"...
Axl and co. really should put more effort to new songs if they wanna make "not-GNR-people-already" to believe their new stuff. New songs are awesome but they need to play those songs VERY clearly that people could find out the melodyline of the song. Just opinion. Or put the record out (best choice)...
When/if GNR comes back after ChiDem is out, people know stuff better and it´s easier to dig the songs.
BUT... i enjoyed the show very much and recorded it with my N70 (mp4)...battery died halfway to Paradise City...so i got it pretty much recorded. Sound is great (i mean for a cellphone recording) and some jerk sung loudly over some songs (yeah, that jerk was me...), but picture would have needed SOME zooming...it don´t really give much for a people who weren´t there. But sound is very good, i wanna make audio-boot of it, is mp4 easy to transform to mp3?!?!?!? Help needed...
ps. tonight is the night that i can fully enjoy the show (yesterday i was pretty sober...) See you all there!!!

ps. that replace-drummer-guy Frank Ferrer was AWESOME!!! Maybe he should join the band...just kidding...but he was great and i wanna congratulate BRAIN for being "fresh" daddy!
pps. Melrose was pretty fucking good (Izzy would have loved them)!!!

This post has been edited by makkonen: 06 July 2006 - 04:40 AM