Ragnarok

Wow, finally a song I can instantly connect to.

Wasn't too impressed by Hard School and Atlas Shrugged (but they are improving on repeated listens), but I really like Perhaps (and to a lesser extent State of Gracel).

This really takes one back to the exciting times 2006, with the big batch of leaks back then. I still remember how blown away I was, when I first heard Better. No one knew if Axl still had "it" (the rasp, the power, whatever) and it was just awesome to hear him belt it out like that.

The leaks back then had really good quality, and partially I even preffered the leaked versions to the final album. The current leaks sound a bit rougher to me, but who knows - haven't heard them hundreds of times yet.

2006 all the way for me. Saw them live in the summer that year and it was just incredible. The whole year was magical for Guns'n'Roses fans:

• First we had the leaks, and I was really nervous before hearing them, because I was not sure if Axl still had his voice. Then I head Better for the first time and was blown away.
• Then we suddenly had the Guns'n'Roses name come up on European festival posters (first one was I think Novarock in Austria =)) and at first no one was really sure if it could really be happening. No one had seen Axl for such a long time.
• And then we had the NYC shows, and everyone was following the live threads listening to the lucky few who were there. Wondering how Axl would sound, how he would look, who was in the band. And then the messages came: Axl looks great and the rasp is back and everyone was happy
• I think the whole year just really had something new to it, we had changing setlists (not too much but still), we had new music in the sets and a new album to look forward to (although no was yet really sure if CD would ever release)

So much nostalgia thinking about that year. Really, really great.

When I saw them in 2010 everything sounded more refined, but it was also already getting a bit boring. 2006 really had a lot of fire for me.

@gnrkoncerti,@janrichmond,@Kula2006

Thanks for the Info! Looking forward to tonight. Saw them 2006 and 2010. Both strong performances, although the buzz around those 2006 shows just made them so extra exciting.

So tomorrow's finally the day =)

Haven't really been following the live threads of the other shows because I wanted the setlist to be a bit of a surprise (last time I saw them I knew pretty much the whole order beforehand).

Can any of you guys tell me when Guns normally entered the stage?

19:30 as start sounds mighty early.

As so many people are naming short covers here:

here is one from novarock:

Axl sang one line from "fire,water,burn" from the bloodhoundgang

and didn´t Sebastian Bach sing "nice boys, don´t play rock´n´roll" at inland invasion?

Nice fotos but i have a totally different question

whose boobs are we looking at? Is it just some random girl, or someone else

.............I´m a man i gotta speak about something other than Axl looking hot

............. no I´m not homophobic, and i know that this whole thread has nothing to do with homosexuality

So someone erase this topic.

I found a nice instruction to do it myself, last time i tried to do it nothing worked, but now everythings fine

So, I´m sorry to bother you all, but i was there at the RHCP concert on the 6th an John played this amazing cover. I now want to burn it to CD, but as I´m not that much someone who knows everything about PCs, Iask if someone could help me.

I just need the audio file, help would be appreciated.

Here´s the link:

Another gunner who needs to burn some CDs so he can wait another three months for the real CD (pun intended) to come out

I've seen tons of Rock shows, and when I saw the newGNR I though 3 guitar players were absolutely unecessary. It's superficial. It just doesn't work, it's too much. One guy starts a solo and then stops, and another guy continues the same solo...WTF? are 2 guys REALLY necessary to play the 1st nightrain solo? Let Fortus do it entirely! dawn it!

There are too many guitarists in this line-up, Bumblefoot isn't necessary, he is useless, really.

I don´t wanns write about the whole gitarrist situation now, but you sir don´t knowwhat you´re talking about.

Yeah for sure the first nightrain solo can also be played by one person, but hey bud take look at nigthtrain from 88 (with izzy playing the first part) or 92 (with gilby playing that part), this particular solo has always been played by two different people.

It´s not somethin the "freaky" new GNR came up with

I´m not tooo sure actually.

I don´t know why everbody finds ritz 88 so great. OK i know why, the band has it´s afd-lineup, the still have the cool-as-fuck street attitude, it´s all how it schould be. But then again , the setlist isn´t that great, and axl missing at the end of rocket queen really destroys a nearly perfect performance.

I sometimes get the feeling although Rotz 88 was great, it was more of a weaker show of that decade, hell don´t cry wasn´t even played (very sad). I thin a full pro shot of the marquee 87 for example would kick ritz´ass.

For me two other great shows are chicago 92 and Argentinia 93.

Although the 92 gunners shows seemed a bit too "perfect" for me, they really were great, and chicago for sure has the best rants i ever heard, and it has coma. Enough said.

Argenitinia 93 is just cool because of the acoustic section and the general mood. It all seems like much fun, and the whole show is less bloated and more kind of laid back than the year before.

BTW: In the uncensored Garaffa version of Argentinia you can see Axl ans Slash hugging after the show, they really looked like two good friend who are happy to be on stage together. Makes you wonder what happened.....

Further BTW: Novarock was agreat concert too, but i don´t want to include it in the above, cause i was there myself. and you can´t compare a show you were at with other shows.

yeah, here in austria albums also get released one fridays, it will be so unreal to actually hold this album in my hands, i cant really picture it.

I really really love this song

anyone who´s curious for some of Imsorry remasters (of course not the twat remaster )

check out this site

http://gnrnews.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=3

what a fucking great idea.

Cover songs would be great, but i´d also really enyoy some of his solo stuff.

Hearing "I hate me more than i love you" live must be killer

somehow it´s funny

i mean all men who do not get horny when they´re drunk shall throw the first stone

I really don´t think his 2002 show was shot, please people listen to "The Blues" from Pittsburgh 02 and tell me that is not amazing. His voice doesn´t has the rasp, but he seems like he has infinite breath, i don´t think he holds the screams as long now as back in 02.

but overall it was terrible in 2002 there are exceptions

Yeah and i don´t want so defend him, i really thought Rir 3 was a great concert for the atmosphere, but i so much dislike axl´s voice.

In 02 it was better, but i don´t have many boots from that, just some single songs from different shows.

He just seems like a totally different singer in 02, in rio it was weak, but i think 02 there were other things goings on. Inidianna Rose, who I really resepect for his good posts, did even say that Axl did sing without the rasp on purpose which might be true. I don´t know, although i can´t see his reasons for it.

I really love the chicago 92 concert, i think his voice is just spot on, although some songs like sweet child could have been a bit cleaner sung.

I also love his 06 voice but sometimes he sounds a bit too "weak" (don´t know how to describe it) to me, there would be one verse where he sings very high pitched, and then in the next one it´s full with strength.

For me it seems like he can now decide how much power he wants to put into a scream and thats ok, even great if it gives us a whole great tour.

my take on this whole thing is this:

i reckon that the record company told axl and his management that if they are to play any part in this new gnr and chinese democracy era the way axl wants it....axl has to deliver one of two things immediatelly:

1. a succesful tour (i.e. complete the 2002 tour like it was meant to happen)

2. deliver the fucking album already.

so, in order to buy himself more time for the album, he goes on the road, to finish what he was supposed to have done in '02....and is just making sure that nothing (or no one) stands in his way....this may explain Frank being on standby most of the time, as it was known that Brain would be taking time out...

better that than to cancel shows, and bring the '02 sentiment back.

i also think this is the reason why we haven't heard much about the album yet during the shows, or anything else new from what we know already.....he's just finishing off what he started in '02.

stupid, i know, but it made sense at one point.

omg that somehow makes sense

you scare me

no no no no chinese dem will come out this year

I really really dig it, but what funny is that when i heard it the first time i was like "what the fuck, i can´t even hear if someone is singing"

I don´t know why, now i have no problem hearing axl, but it just was that way at first listen.

I really don´t think his 2002 show was shot, please people listen to "The Blues" from Pittsburgh 02 and tell me that is not amazing. His voice doesn´t has the rasp, but he seems like he has infinite breath, i don´t think he holds the screams as long now as back in 02.

I think many things that da illest said in this thread are really very very sad.

And i don´t mean the attempt to show us all how washed up Axl is, and that he just can´t sell tickets anymore. Oh thank you my dear, you opened my eyes, i really regret going to novarock, now that i know that it´s not cool anymore to be into G´n´R or into Axl, i should change my point of view.

You seem so fucking xenophobic that i can´t believe it. You offend other people, people from Nebraska, and us "Eurids" (sorry i don´t know this term), so what´s your point?

You live in a better city than the rest of us? Good for you, so go out and have fun in you real cool city, where there´s so much fun to have, Why do you bother us people who live in washed up countris and can´t have fun without being on the internet.

PS: Love Austria, and am really looking forward to when the snow will fall, snowboarding yeah

I just saw my mail i got when i registered on gunsnroses.com and in one of the last paragraphs ot says

For questions about tompetty.com, please click here: http://www.gunsnroses.com/about/faq.jsp

Thank you for supporting Guns N' Roses.

the link is not working btw

isnt that whole thing strange?

many will probably bash it (like kerrang, which will bash without even having a copy of it).

But i think it will get fair reviews too, for example form the rolling stone, they really seem to like axl, and a RS title story is for sure good promotion

The spot with the chinese people seems a bit far stretched but who knows?

For the other spot, it seems that that might really be true, and that would be fucking awesome, and it´d to be a madagascar studio version in the background doesn´t it?

Where is this pic from?

dont know the original source, but it was posted originally on HTGTH a while ago.

ahhh tommy. so smooth

thanks for the quick help, and no her legs aren´t fat

Where is this pic from?

You know if they just wrote daisydukes i think that means that even they didn´t know the name of the girl.

She´s just a random groupie maybe?

It must be one hell of life to be a rockstar

And Izzy looks really young.