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    Guns N' Roses PLAY TROUBADOUR LOS ANGELES, FRIDAY APRIL 1, 2016: Axl, Slash & Duff Reunited

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

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    4 hours ago, ChineseIRS said:

    Posted this in the review thread as well:

    Okay just got home from work...idk how well written this will be, still cant really find the words to grasp how amazing this night was...to start the vibe was just really positive all around. The security was letting us drink outside the venue waiting for the doors to open. All they said was if the sheriffs come by just get rid of it so we dont get in trouble ha. Inside the venue the place just buzzing, it was electric. I ended up getting front row on Slashs side right in front of the monitor. Doors opened a little after 10pm and the lights when down a little before midnight. No intro (which i totally thought it was gonna be McBob) Slash walked out first and everybody followed, crowd erupted and Duff launched into Its So Easy. And from there the band didnt stop firing. Slash jumped up on the monitor during Easy for the first time and everyone around me lost it. Slash couldnt help but smirk at our reaction. The band was killing it and they knew it. They were all smiles and i just remember Duff looking up one point at Lenny Kravitz with a face like "yeah, we're back motherfucker!"

    Axl sounded the best he has since 2010. He had the fire in his belly and that look in his eye. Rasp was everywhere to be seen. The song i paid most attention to vocally was YCBM cuz i know thats one he hasnt done good on for the last 5 years and he nailed it. He slayed the "breakin down my back" section! He was in a great mood and was definitely slimmer than he has been and he was not out of breath. Slash was very focused but he was rocking out for sure. To see him rocking out HARD to the chorus of Better was so surreal! It was just mindblowing to see him playing these songs and standing on stage next to Axl, i really couldnt believe it at some points. He was in top form and nailed every solo. At first they didnt interact too much but by the middle of the set Axl was throwing his arm on Slashs shoulder, he leaned up against his back rocking out during some solos and they exchanged a couple laughs between some songs.

    As the setlist is out there, here is some highlights that stood out.

    -Axl lost his footing during Brownstone and ended up ripping his jeans in the crotch. During the solo he walked over to the side of the stage and pointed up at Lenny Kravitz and back down at his crotch and said "Penisgate" or somethin to that effect and they both started laughing.

    -Frank started a long countoff on the hihat and Slash launched into the Chinese Demoracry riff. I was like no way are they fucking playing this right now. It was very raw and punk rock sounding. It was pretty awesome and Slashs spin on the solo was great.

    -Double Talkin' Jive!! Holy fuck was it awesome to hear that live. The band killed it and Axl sounded mean!!! He did the "i got...lies" part just like he sounded on the record.

    -before the slide solo in Rocket Queen Slash did an extended talkbox solo, when he finished it Axl had a huge smile on his face and looked at us and said "you missed that, didnt you?"

    -Godfather Theme was awesome! Before he started it Axl said "Heres a man that needs no introduction, but gets one anyways. Ladies and Gentlemen, Slash."

    -Seeing Slash play the Sweet Child solo right up front and him and Axl doing that outro right next to each other was just insane. I remember looking back and Jim Carrey had the biggest smile on his face and i remember thinking "all is right in the world." Haha.

    -Better had a whole new intro. It was this really heavy riff that just kept building and we're in the crowd goin holy shit theyre playing a new song. The riff kept building until it somehow came to a crash with Duff starting "no one ever told me when..." It was epic and strange seeing Slash completely rocking out in the chorus. Again he did a killer solo and did a cool slide part in the last verse. Again Axl slayed the "i never wanted you to be so full of anger" section.

    -before Michelle Axl and Duff were talking and into the mic Axl goes "im goin by your guys' list tonight. Im follwing your lead" Duff starts laughing and Axl goes "thats very rare for me. I mean you guys know im an agreeable kinda guy. Im like Trump, i consult with myself." Funny moment.

    -Heavens Door was probably the most special moment of the show. Axl starts the first sing along section and then right when he looked like he was gonna start the 2nd he kinda stopped himself and looked around the stage and said "this is the first time in 23 years us 3 have been on stage together, 1993, July i believe it was" the crowd just erupted. He did another sing along section and after that one he said "we worked very hard with the city to make this show happen, and we worked hard with the sheriffs and that in itself took 24 years" and laughed. It was amazing to see him almost taken back and acknowledging the magnitude of the night. 

    -another cool moment was Nightrain when they kicked into the first verse. It was "Look out" and both Axl and Slash started the foot stomp, gliding across the stage, stoping for a brief second in front of each other, and spinning off. It was bad ass!

    -During Paradise City the crowd was getting crazy and after the first chorus Axl started yellin to the crowd "you guys gotta step back people in the front are getting crushed.... (crowd didnt really move).....i said you people need to step the fuck back now!" They finally did and Axl signaled the band to keep going and he jumped into the next verse. Reminded me of somethin that would happen back in the day haha.

     

    Im probably missing a bunch of stuff and its really hard to convey my emotions throughout the night. But this show will go down as the best show i have ever seen in my life. Just to see the first time Axl and Slash back together and have it be in such an important club to the bands history and to be right up front is just magical. I truly feel so lucky to have witnessed it. Im so looking forward to Vegas next weekend! See you guys there! You will not be dissapointed!!!

    And for celebrities i saw: Lenny Kravitz, Kate Hudson, Nic Cage, Jim Carrey, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Kushner, John 5, Colin Hanks, Norman Reedus, Sean Kinney, Bubbles, Bradley Cooper, the sports guy in Anchorman. Im sure there was way more, hard to make out everyone in the VIP section.

    This made my day...no wait, this made my month!!! Thank you SO much for sharing, this is priceless!!!

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    Slash's Demeanor Last Night At The Troubadour

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted

    Get a fricking life, will ya. My god, if I read shit like this, or the 'Axl wears a Mickey Mouse, must mean something' comments, I really think you people spend way too much time outside of the real world. Seems to me everyone was focussed on delivering a great warmup show, nothing more. And the fact that Axl wears a Mickey Mouse shirt has no meaning. It's a USD380,- P. Plein designer shirt and he has the money to buy it, that's why he's wearing.

    Ashba almost killed, advised to start smoking again

    in 2013

    Posted

    This is a simple case of 'I am gonna quit a bad habit and want the whole world to compliment me on it, by posting it on Facebook', followed by a 'oops, I did not succeed in my good intensions to quit the bad habit, and now I need to do some damage controll because I told everybody I would quit, however erveryone will know of my failure eventually'.

    We had the most dangerous band in the world living on the edge by doing sex, drugs, & rock n roll....who turned into the band advertised as the most dangerous in the world by doing red bull & jaeger, hot sauce, and Marlboro LIGHT. Dear Darren Jay, you don't need to act up against the old GNR image of the '80/'90.....it's even considered uncool nowadays to harm your own health the way they did back then. Be yourself instead of a PG13 rated version of '80/'90 GNR. Hell, even Slash quit smoking.

    Has it ever rained so heavily that you just felt like jumping over a table and into a cake?

    in 2013

    Posted

    Don't get me wrong. I fucking love the November Rain video. But I've always wondered why the guy decided to jump over the table while aiming straight at the cake? Couldn't he have just hidden under the table? God knows how much money that cake was worth. :no: Of course, we could be talking about a storm of biblical proportions.

    6:58 :laugh:

    Or Slash playing electric guitar without electricity or amp? Or the church from the outside dessert scene being way too small to be the church from the inside scenes? :shades:

    Dj, Dizzy In The Studio Yesterday

    in 2013

    Posted

    Awesome!!! Finally a sign of actual studio work being done. This is good news, and I'm actually looking forward to new and recent material rather than 13 year old material from a 'Nu Metal Limp bizkit Korn family meets papa Marylin Manson & mama Elton Johns hurt love NIN baby' era. I love CD as a hardcore GNR fan, but it is too far away from reality and from what Guns N Roses actually should be in order to be relevant. Bring it back to the wicked fun & controversial good times of 'take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the girls are pretty' and 'Welcome to the Jungle, we got fun and game' lines with an occasional love song. If I want to experience feeling depressed, hurt, and sad I'll register at HTGTH instead.

    Tommy Stinson: 'My goal for the new year is that there's going to be a Mats record, and a Guns N' Roses record.'

    in 2013

    Posted

    Frank indicated he is too busy signing off the Better video right now. As soon as that mission is accomplished, he will then focus on acquiring the rights for using an Obama speech sample for the CDII song 'Downhill Willy'. Then he will ask Axl to sign off on the re-recorded CDII vocals by Beta who turned out to be a kick-ass leadsinger. After that they're all set to meet on royalty shares, re-do the CDII booklet design & text, change manager, finalize Dizzy's new Hookers&Blow concept opus, send Axl on a 80-day global teeny clubbing tour, re-record CDII's guitar parts with flutes, change producer, re-record CDII's flute parts with violins, master CDII, go on a CD World Tour, get back into the studio to eat some hamburgers, get into the gym to promote Bumblefoot's Hot Sauce, go on a CD acoustic Club Tour, get back into the studio to re-do the re-done re-do's of the re-done violin parts, go on a Appetite for Illusion beach towel promo tour, fire team Brasil, hire team Uruguay, fire team Uruguay, hire back team Brasil, visit Canter's Deli to eat delicious Ruben's sandwiches, get back into the studio to add Fernando's magic triangle shredding to the CDII song 'Sell yourself if the Universe catches a one in a million Easter showers', Re-master CDII, meet with Rolling Stone Magazine on the non-promotion marketing strategy for CDII, fire all band members, sell the GNR name to Disney, have Mickey Mouse & friends release the mastered CDII songs on their greatest hits album 'Ducktales & Pills' in 2026. Soon is the word!!!

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