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38 minutes ago, Stiff Competition said:

scored 2 tickets in pit 1 through the presale.

Yeah, me too.  They didn't even come up when I tried at noon, btu I tried again at about 12:45 just for shits and giggles and got em.  I think they might still be available now

Had a great seat in row 5 of section F5 in my cart for the Citi presale, BUT I was at work and left the card at home, and couldn't remember the security code!  Man it was painful to let that go...at least I got pit for San Francisco

Using my Nightrain code I couldn't pull the same seat or anything close.  What a waste of money that was. 

My number one dream was for a GNR original lineup reunion tour.

My number two dream was for Axl to do a solo piano tour, like what Prince was doing before he died.  Obviously without the dying part

He'd be introduced more than once sometimes.  He got a special shoutout before Bad Obsession

1 hour ago, xBrownstonex said:

Give me body count

Ice-T tweeted a photo today of Duff playing a bass with a Body Count sticker on it!

I would love to find out that the new live intro to Better is actually taken from a brand new song.

Heh, the middle part of Again was crystal clear - the part with no bass

20 hours ago, NineInchGun said:

If the tickets sell well, it will probably be no opener or a relative no name.

Fiction Plane, Sting's son band IIRC, opened The Police reunion tour. Those were sold out arenas, not stadiums obviously.

Van Halen/DLR reunion in 2008 had Bob Marley's kid I had never heard of open an arena show.

Not a reunion, but AC/DC Black Ice tour was opened by what seemed like a local band in 2009. 

Pink Slips?  They're actually not a bad band

More of a wish list, but most of these are possible I think

Iggy Pop

Body Count 

Social Distortion - legendary, but they've opened for other bands like Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters

Silversun Pickups

Gary Clark Jr. - Musically a good fit, but more as the opener and not the main support act, if there's more than one.

For credit card presales, the promo code is usually either the first several digits of your card #, or the customer service phone number on the back of the card.  I think for Amex it's the latter, but not sure.  

I got Pit 1 through the Citi presale!

1 hour ago, Lowrlder54 said:

Had a weird but good experience with the Citi presale. Originally it said PIT was sold out for San Diego, so i got seats in section B. I then checked 10 minutes later and PIT was open, so i bought that too.

Similar experience for San Francisco, except that the first time I searched it said no tickets were available at all.  I put my search in again, and after about 10 minutes in the queue (during which time, I was ready to give up) it came back with pit tickets.  I'm happy.  Much better choices than Nightrain.  I guess I just bought an expensive t-shirt.

This was on the TM mobile app, BTW.  Thanks to those who suggested using it.

Only Axl could cancel a show that's already taken place

9-11pm

A Man Needs a Maid

I just want Axl to play the piano. Even if he borrows Neil Young's old time piano, like a lot of the bands do.

They were consulted on the use of dolphins in the Estranged video. Wait, we are talking about the World Wildlife Fund, right?

Axl Rose in India? What could go wrong?

By the way, if anyone is still looking for tickets for either show that are not on the lawn, a whole bunch popped up on Ticketmaster. In some cases it looks like whole rows of seats

What time is gnr set to take the stage on Sunday? And Neil young? Anyone know?

Sunday's show starts and ends earlier, usually done by around 9-930pm So assuming GNR and Neil are the last bands up, maybe GNR at 7:30 and Neil at 8:30?

looks like it's a 2 day event, i wonder if guns plays on both days.

Unless otherwise specified, all bands are playing both days.

I want Axl to sing a song with Neil Young.

"old man" please

That would totally work!

They do a big jam thing with all the performers at the end, sometimes on one of Neil's songs, sometimes a song by Dylan or someone else. It would be perfect time for KOHD, and they would have to let Axl take one of the verses if they did that oe

Excitement over a Facebook post? I thought that we had all figured out that whoever runs the Facebook page is a complete moron. Maybe it's just because this one makes so little sense.

The Facebook post is worded so strangely, it sounds like it was written by Axl himself

I live in the Bay Area and have been to 7 or 8 of these benefits. It is, in my opinion, the greatest annual concert event anywhere. It's been a dream of mine to see GNR (whatever lineup) play. Or even Axl by himself on the piano. But I still didn't see this coming AT ALL.

It's such a great show with such a positive vibe, that I hope Axl doesn't fuck it up somehow. I think he'll do fine.

Duff is friends with a couple of the guys in Pearl Jam (Stone and Mike), stemming from his days in Seattle.

I remember reading some article where they talked to Doug Goldstein (I think) about whether GNR was going to play at Woodstock 94, and Doug said that Axl wanted to do it if Pearl Jam was playing. Of course, neither of them ended up playing.

nevermind, someone answered it..