[Blunoze]

Awesome setlist? With the exception of 'Think about you' and 'Anything Goes', every AFD song was played. You dont need me to tell you that the majority of those songs are over 20 years old.

I dont see what is 'awesome' about hearing a cover band. You have to remember that the musicians (Obvioulsy minus Axl and Dizzy) in the current line up did not write or have anything to do with 80% of the music they are playing, so this pushes them towards a tribute band rather than a cutting edge Rock Band surely? Why are this new band getting credit for playing other people's material?

If they want recognition as a real band, they have to play their own music! I thought this was called the Chinese Democracy tour?

After going to a few shows this year, it is obvious what is more popular to the crowd. How well does 'IRS' go down when compared to 'WTTJ'? Or 'Better' versus 'Its so easy'? The old material is much more appreciated than the new. Largely because the new stuff seems pretty alien to most GNR fans, and please remember that this forum is probably less than 0.1% of GNR fans in the world. So dont give me the argument 'the majority on this Forum thinks the new stuff is cool so your wrong'.

I remember hearing this set minus the new songs at Donnington in '88, so all they have added is a few new songs in eighteen years. What a shame the band never carried on what it started. The new songs are alright, but certainly nothing that will be listened to in twenty years time though.

[appetite for illusions]

Blunoze, on Nov 3 2006, 07:44 AM, said:

please remember that this forum is probably less than 0.1% of GNR fans in the world.

Not quite. A fan, and someone who likes a few songs so goes to see a show are completely different types of people.

Fa-nat-ic : a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm

[Spoon87]

Must've been an awesome concert! Great setlist!

[dobadog]

jc524, on Nov 3 2006, 02:17 AM, said:

awesome setlist!

It's the usual set list..
..which is pretty awesome. Although it would have been awesome'er if it included some new'er material

This post has been edited by dobadog: 03 November 2006 - 07:53 AM

[Frozen Inferno]

FinckFortus, on Nov 3 2006, 03:17 AM, said:

21. You're Crazy (AFD)


That should bring a smile to your faces.

just because they played another song from AFD? ... pshh.. go fuck a goat!

i could careless what they play, all i want is a fucking single.

This post has been edited by dark_future: 03 November 2006 - 07:57 AM

[slääsh]

just play one in a million, civil war or breakdown....and threats bashing the setlist are passé

[Blunoze]

slääsh, on Nov 3 2006, 07:56 AM, said:

just play one in a million, civil war or breakdown....and threats bashing the setlist are passé

x BAD_OBSESSION x, on Nov 3 2006, 07:59 AM, said:

Blunoze, on Nov 3 2006, 07:44 AM, said:

If they want recognition as a real band, they have to play their own music! I thought this was called the Chinese Democracy tour?

I really cant beleive Im even saying anything..
because I totally understand where your coming from..
but, in this case..they played most of the new songs they've been playing..
minus most notably T.W.A.T...

It'd be nice for some new songs..
or, even a few more illusion era tracks thrown in..

and, I've even made that joke..
it looks like the AFD tour..the sequel..

you even say in your post, that the crowd dies down because they dont know the new songs..
so..from a concert go-ers point of view...dont you think it'd be to much of a risk to play songs that the crowd isnt familiar with..occupying the set of more songs that they dont know..or, to slip in a few new tunes..and, play what a majority of what the people came to see...

Im sure this is why there doing what there doing..

Some good points, but I have to disagree. Every GNR fan I know has heard the leaks, and looking at the amount all the torrents etc. have been downloaded, then I'd say 80% of concert goers have heard the new material.

Do you not just think possibly the new material just isnt as good as the old stuff hence the reserved reaction at concerts? All I can say is how me and my friends reacted. We went absolutely mental to all the older stuff, yet found IRS and Better are not songs you can go mental to, as they dont have that depth and spirit to them. Just my opinion. I personally believe the new stuff is not accepted as well because it is simply nowhere near as good.

[Frozen Inferno]

yay?^

[dobadog]

From a raw power point of view, i think the tracks from AFD work best in a live setting. They are quite simple songs and were designed to be played by a few musicians. The material from CD contains more layers and will probably work better (than AFD) played from compact disc on audio equipment. I have a great set up including a pair of B&W speakers

This post has been edited by dobadog: 03 November 2006 - 08:22 AM

[tbizzle]

Awesome setlist, not that I ever had a problem with it.

[Chris Axl]

great set list, as allways

[Midnight Gunner2]

See, that was all they had to do, change it up a bit.

Thank you Axl and the rest of the band, we do appreciate it.

[D-GenerationX]

Some of you need a swift kick in the head.

"I'd like to hear 'Don't Damn Me', 'Coma' and 'Locomotive'"??

So you'd like to hear them do a tune that has never been played and 2 more that weren't played a COMBINED ten times??

Is that at all realistic?

[gd99]

Personally, I wish that they'd do kind of what Pearl Jam does....you go to a PJ concert, and you never know what you're gong to hear...different hits, different encore...tons of other songs off all albums...

I've been to two GNR concerts, and two PJ concerts, and as much as I loved hearing GNR, I loved hearing all the other non-hit PJ songs. I went to a Toronto concert, and my brother went to a Lodon concert the next night and the set was totally different, yet we both absolutely loved the sets. This happened two years prior with PJ as well. And, personally if I could, I'd go to PJ two or three times in the same tour because every show would be different.

now, if GNR did this, yes they could play all their hits, but then throw in a breakdown, a coma, dead horse, tons of others, and it's still be rockin.

I think that it would be great if you never knew what you where going to hear on any given night.

[artfromtex]

[sarcasm]fuck that set list sucks. i want them to play CD in full along with all my personal favorite album cuts. i'm not gonna say which ones they are, Axl should just know because i'm such a huge fan.[/sarcasm]

This post has been edited by artfromtex: 03 November 2006 - 09:29 AM