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    April 6 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted

    I'm about to go to sleep but I'm starting to think it's gonna be tough tonight. Just arrived from the show. It was amazing.

    Of all three times I've seen GNR (2010, 2011 and tonight) this has been by far the best. Axl sounded amazing, there was no Mickey at all, he looked good, and he was in good humor. He reached the highs with no issues.

    And Duff... what an awesome guy. Despite the weirdness of being invited into your own band to play the songs you helped create and of which you know their whole history with a bunch of guys who play them nowadays under your band's name, he looked like he was having an awesome time playing those songs again live, with Axl, and to a cheering crowd.

    Looking at him, making all his signature gestures, and playing the song's bass lines like he knows how to do, with Axl running along like in the old times, was amazing.

    After Used To Love Her Axl asked him "Having fun, Duff?", it was a great moment. They hugged a couple of times at the ending too.

    The whole band did an excellent job.

    To see how explosive the show was, just take a look at the first nine songs of the setlist. I had a blast.

    The only thing I would change of the show would have been The Seeker or Abnormal for So Fine.

    I love this band

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    The OFFICIAL Buenos Aires Thread - March 22, Argentina

    in 2010 Tour Dates

    Posted · Edited by mfragola

    I said it this morning and I'll say it again: more than half the people in the concert couldn't hear Axl... AT ALL!!! I think I heard Axl only four times. We all went to see him, and listen to him sing, and we left empty-handed! Therefore, I have the right to say the show sucked big time.

    Why I said Axl is an asshole? For not attending to the sound check, for having such an idiot as the sound engineer, for not talking to the audience (well, he talked, but only to threaten us). In 1992 and 1993 he was much cooler despite all the problems with the audience. Baz should give him a lesson about being nice to the audience. I don't like Baz as a musician but he was a very cool guy on stage, he seemed really happy.

    It is sad but I think this is the last time Axl sells out a show in Argentina. Many people left dissapointed.

    ...not Axl's fault IMO

    The OFFICIAL Buenos Aires Thread - March 22, Argentina

    in 2010 Tour Dates

    Posted

    I’m going to write my own kind of review from yesteday’s show.

    Baz did great. He played everything you would expect him too, a mixture of Angel Down and Skid Row’s greatest.

    He seems to be in good shape and was pretty energetic and did some usual demagogic “Te amo Argentina” (I love you Argentina) way too many times. It was cool though, as he read what he was supposed to say from something he had written on the monitors or the flour itself.

    His voice did good, but he uses some kind of “echo” effect (don’t know how it would be technically called) that made most of his Baz Signature® screams seem to last almost as double than they really did (you could tell from just wathing him lower his mic and the voice going on for a while).

    He’s got a 19 year old lead guitar player that really is part of the “Youth gone wild”: he played great.

    Sound was good at the time.

    About an hour later (don’t know exactly how much), the lights went off and the intro to CD started.

    I was almost getting to the fence at the time and, when DJ hit the first notes and the pyro blew and Axl appeared, it was a weird feeling. I was wathing Guns N’ Roses live for the very first time. (Now that I think about it, if I get to see Izzy I will have already seen every member of the original lineup, all separated, though).

    The song went on and everything seemed great. WTTJ came, and so did It’s so easy and Brownstone.

    By that time, people were already getting pissed at the lame sound: the band was sounding great but you could not hear Axl at all – Yet he was giving his best.

    The set continued and Axl stopped it and called an interpreter a couple of times in between songs so as to get people to stop throwing things to the stage, as anyone might get injured.

    People were going mad: You couldn’t hear Axl’s voice and after every song we would all sing “No se escucha, no se escucha” (we can’t hear, we can’t hear).

    It got worse by If the World. Everyone on the first “rows” of the field would be giving Axl “negative” gestures with their hands and, when it finished, the whole stadium was booing.

    The entire situation seemed pretty bad: the crowd was not going to let it continue like that and, in my mind, Axl wasn’t either. Everything looked as if it would be ending in no time and not fine at all.

    Axl left the stage after this song in a way that didn’t look like “happy” at all.

    He was, however, trying to be nice and easygoing and came back really shortly after that and introduced Dizzy and let him do his piano solo.

    When he came back, and as Street of Dreams was going, his voice started to appear from whithin the other instruments and, after one or two successfully heard screams, the crowd cheered and Axl gave us the finger. I was delighted.

    After the “sad” moments before that song, it all kept getting better and better.

    The set went on, we were pumped, the show wasn’t interrupted ever again and I was already at the fence. I could see perfectly from there: middle of the stage where they would all stop and play just a few meters away from where I was standing.

    DJ has done his homework really well and learned all the solos perfectly. All of the classics sounded a lot more “appropriate” to me than they used to do in the 2006/2007 tour. He’s a great player and has good stage presence.

    YCBM and SCOM were a great party. November Rain, especially the second part, rocked. You should YouTube it.

    Bumble went into his Pink Panther solo, which in my opinion was great, and after that started playing Don’t Cry as he would do in ’06. He was standing quite close to where I was, and I could see Axl behind him from the main screen taking a sip of water. I don’t know why, but I knew he was going to come and sing it. And he did, and it was awesome. He even sang over the solo, as it was noted somewhere along this thread.<br style=""> <br style="">

    KOHD kicked off, it was going really well, and sometime during the song a tech guy came and changed Axl’s mic. His voice was loud and clear now and the crowd responded excellently to his “I’ll sing one then you sing one” game.

    An excellent Nightrain with an outstanding Bumblefoot solo came and we were off to the encore.

    I remember hearing a guy saying “OMG they can’t leave without playing Paradise City” and feeling like he should already know that they were coming back and PC has been their main ending song since way before the first Argentina concert in 1992…

    They were back with Madagascar and it was probably the song that sounded the best. Patience, some good old ACDC and finally we were taken down to the Paradise City and it’s little flying red papers. It was over.

    After the unhappy beginning, it turned out to be a great show.

    Axl’s voice is still great and I got to witness the best frontman ever. Thanks Axl & Guns N’ Roses for this wonderful evening. It complied with all expectations (OK, taking the sound issues apart).

    In the comments of the youtube vid someone posted that Axl said something ad the end of the show . He couldn't hear it well , but said that Axl was very emotional . Anyone picked this up ?

    Axl said something like it had taken them some time to return since that last show of the Skin N' Bones tour and that it had been complicated for them all the while, but that at least to him, it was all well worth it.

    I don't remember him saying anything else... but he really did it in a very emotional way

    Guns n' Roses sold out in Argentina

    in 2010

    Posted

    Oh yes and I´ll be there. We´ll be YouTubing everything as soon as it gets published after the show. Probably radio stations will cover it so at least we´ll have a full audio bootleg.

    Too bad Baz isn´t coming. I wonder who will be supporting...

    Rumored Album Release Dates

    in 2006

    Posted · Edited by mfragola

    Guys let's not forget Axl mentioned the album still exists on the songs with Bach announcement:

    "[songs with Bach had] different approaches and styles from each other and from material I have on the upcoming Guns N’ Roses record."

    LOL

    06/05/07 Mexico City, Mexico Discussion Thread

    in 2007 Tour Dates

    Posted · Edited by mfragola

    yeah i think they would be fewer..

    and in my opinion the setlist is ok as long as they don't go back to places they've been to last year with it..

    Velvet Revolver use the "you wanted the best... well they didn't fuckin' make it" (at least they did it when they played in argentina).. does GNR still do it?

    Your favorite GN'R Moment of '06

    in 2006

    Posted

    the day the harley ad apperarde on the net.

    that they i really thought it was finally happening

    i was even more excited than when the leaks appeared

    it was like. the single's coming, and there's still time for an 06 release..

    the open letter was great also

    and watching the KROQ webcast and think "they're fuckin back"

    unfortunately no shows near south america this year so no live concerts for me :(

    Audio guitarist comparison '92, '02, '06

    in 2006

    Posted

    You Could Be Mine

    1. Slash

    2. Buckethead

    3. Bumblefoot

    Not even close. Slash's solo is clearly the best. Buckethead's is way too melodic and calm at times, whereas Ron's is the worst he does in GN'R. Still cool, nonetheless.

    November Rain

    1. Bumblefoot

    2. Slash

    3. Buckethead

    Pretty close between Ron and Slash, but I think the flashy sound of Ron's guitar sounds really great in November Rain. Slash's the shit though. Buckethead's is just plain bad, sounds way too clean for GN'R.

    Nightrain

    1. Slash

    2. Bumblefoot

    3. Buckethead

    Very, very close again between Ron and Slash, but the latter has the edge on this one. Just unbeatable. Both his and Ron's sound great, aggressive, adrenaline pumping - and that's what Nightrain is supposed to be. Buckethead's approach just doesn't do anything for me. His sound is way too clean (once again) and the solo is too melodic at times, which destroys the atmosphere of the song. It doesn't get me pumped up one bit.

    Overall

    1. Slash

    2. Bumblefoot

    3. Buckethead

    No surprise for me here. Slash is the one and only, the man who wrote the songs, the most charismatic of them all and a true guitar hero. Ron Thal is one hell of a guitar player and sounds great in GN'R - the perfect replacemente for Buckethead. And speaking of Buckethead, it's a good thing he left - his approach to the GN'R catalogue just doesn't do anything for me. I don't think he got what was special about GN'R, or at least I don't feel he did.

    I was going to write the same

    Hopefully I kept on reading..

    YCBM: I don't feel like Ron's in his game, and Bucket didn't suit the song either. So.. Slash, by far.

    NR: Ron just blows the fuckin' shit away. Slash is awesome too, but there's sth that makes me go with Ron.

    On Bucket, all I could say was.. WTF??? That ain't NR!!! That SUCKS!!, etc.

    Night: I've always thought Slash's work on this song was one of the best he ever made. I liked what Bucket did here (the best I ever heard from Bucket I guess), but it simply wasn't nightrain's solo. Ron almost got it right but no-one outbeats Slash here.

    You're more than welcome Ron.

    And before bitching him just go and download the masterpiece called There Was a Time live @ Madrid.

    HMV gets shipment of album titled "Blue Tree's and Greem Grass"

    in 2006

    Posted

    Finally I got through all the reading.. and I personally have my hopes up and feel like it really makes sense..

    It is happening..

    I don't know why but this poorly sourced rumour but still a VERY believable rumour has really made me get excited

    by the way, that ROCKED :shades: :

    272 users browsing this thread... heh heh. Guess we got all the traffic from htgth

    For what it's worth, and this would only make sense to my movie viewers, someone told me something earlier this year that had to do with "Google Stumping" or something like that. And at the time he was telling me, I was like, "What the fuck is this guy tryin' to do?" (Cuz I thought he was fucking with me)

    Anyway, it has to do with using a phrase of common words in quotes that result in "0" search results at Google. Which is supposed to be rare.

    http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num...and+green+grass

    Again, this is just "for what it's worth" for people with open minds.

    and btw; trees has no apostrophe in it. So when testing the Google Stump theory, it should be "blue trees and green grass," all spelled correctly to prove the stump.

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