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I am excited to hear Estranged because I want to hear the solos by Slash live. 

I would like to enter for the Washington D.C. tickets.

I actually got ticketmaster to switch my seats last night. I was pretty surprised it worked. 

Are there any obstructions I should worry about If I sit in the section in the lower bowl straight back from the stage? Am I going to get blocked by the soundboard or anything?

1 minute ago, k12 said:

 

I am in the ticket industry, and I can assure you get a real feel for how a sale is going in the pre-sales, for the Vegas shows they were basically sold out after the nightrain and the citi-presales, and the on-sale there was almost nothing available

 

looking at some of these interactive charts you can tell they are holding back alot of tickets, and the tickets that are available are basically untouched

 

Good, maybe I can still switch out of my nightrain seats once the general sale starts. 

Lower level bowl at FedEx in DC are 130 each with fees included. 

2 minutes ago, CoBrA2168 said:

Does it make sense to just wait for Friday?  My buddy has a Citi card and get me a few tickets through that.

Citi has access to just about the entire stadium it looks like. 

I think it's premature to suggest the show isn't going to succeed when tickets haven't even gone on sale to the general public yet. 

I will be there as well.

Really disappointed in the Nightrain options. I could only afford lower level bowl seats and got stuck in a corner. 

Citicard has a much better presale with better seats at the same price points. I even tried to exchange mine and they wouldn't let me. 

2 hours ago, Iron MikeyJ said:

You can't replace Slash in Guns n Roses, and you can't replace Axl either. I'm not saying Slash tried replacing Axl (because it was a different band). But it does piss me off when people say things like "Myles sings gnr songs better than Axl." I firmly believe anyone that actually thinks this is A. a moron and B. Has NO idea what rock and roll is really about.

 

They will ALWAYS be better together than apart, these new videos prove that. Sure Axl can get another guitar player that can play the songs and Slash can get another singer to song the songs, but it's not guns n roses. It lacks the spirit, it lacks the feel, it's just not real.

 

I supported Axl through all the "lost" years, but I see the truth now. Sure both Axl and Slash can make good, perhaps great music without the other one. But THE ONLY way they can make timeless music is with the other one? Why? Because it's just the way it's supposed to be, it's fate. Jimmy Page needed Robert Plant, and vice versa. Axl and Slash NEED each other also, I just hope they both realize that now.

Absolutely. I saw NuGNR a lot and always had a great time. I really enjoy ChiDem. But I also like a lot of Lennon and McCartney solo stuff but they were never as good apart as they were together.

Also, as much as I love just about everything Axl has tried to do musically, I think he (and many others, including myself) perform better when there is someone else involved that can help focus him. 

It's been made pretty clear by both Axl and Slash in the past that it would take a lot of fence mending to be able to work together again. I highly doubt that they never talked or found some common ground, and only rehearsed once before walking out on stage Friday night, let alone planning a stadium tour. 

They're fine. If they weren't they wouldn't be working together. 

2 hours ago, mrw80 said:

I would've agreed before all the announcements and promotion that they would be sharing the bill with another notable act or two. Do you think the late start times would indicate that's probably not the case?  I know, I know. This band tends to go on late. But both shows closest to me (philly and ny) start at 8:30. Not much time for openers there. 

I think we will hear who the opening act is once the tickets actually go on sale to the public this Friday. All of the people who REALLY want to see GNR will buy tickets, and then if they announce a decent support act they'll get another wave of sales from that. IT makes sense to hold off for a bit.

If they start at 8:30 you could get 90 minutes from an opener and still have GNR go on at 11. 

Got mine for FedEx field. Section 128.

1 minute ago, SoulMonster said:

It's really cool that the band is actually doing something with this opportunity rather than just half-ass it as usual. Not the direction I would mostly have preferred, but what is happening now I can enjoy

I was relatively frustrated with the lack of promotion up until about a week ago. I can safely say I was wrong and they are doing a great job.

It's almost like professionals know more than I do about this sort of thing. Weird. 

2 minutes ago, tat2d1 said:

It's Guns N' Roses, you have to know by now anything can happen with this band. IF they even do a club show prior to Vegas, it's quite possible that Vegas was booked with the intention of being the first shows, then plans changed....

So, I stand by my previous statement : That seems like some spoiled brat mentality to me. " If I can't see the first show, I don't wanna see them at all ". Like a child not getting their way.

 

I remember similar complaints about how they announced the Hammerstein shows in 2006. It was whiny then and it's whiny now. 

3 minutes ago, tsinindy said:

Ok buddy....they did on the Illisions tour, but you can say different.

I thought they were half a step down? Or is that just on the albums?

So this is a touch off topic, but is there a thread somewhere to discuss what the reunion means to each poster as far as the emotions it brings? I feel like that would be a fun discussion but I don't see it here.

Thanks!

I get that they probably spent a TON of money on those billboards and the Star Wars promos, but I sincerely hope that someone involved with this understands by now that more promotion is going to be required.

Yeah, the idea that you'd spend a fortune on teasers at the movies and buy up a bunch of billboards and then go absolutely quiet for 3 months seems a bit absurd to me. I can't believe that we won't see more promotion once everything is in place.

He's either out or there is an actual lineup announcement coming that management doesn't want ruined.

Axl did confirm the appearance, but other than Slash and Duff tweeting out a picture no one else has said a word about the performance or who will be there.

I mean, there was a well documented near miss in 2006. Weiland was flipping out behind the scenes over if, I remember it was rumored that the OG GNR was billed for that download festival.

If timelines are correct, Todd Kerns said they were aware of it a year and a half ago, would t that put it around the time Slash and Perla split?

Bums me out to think of 2006 Axl with OG GNR.

I think part of the reason 2006 Axl was so great is that he was excited and motivated about finally getting CD out. I know they really pushed to get it done that year.

I'm hoping playing w/ Slash and Duff again puts the same fire into him.

I know people are cynical that this is a money grab. They will certainly make a ton of money, but I don't think there is a number big enough for Axl that would have put them back together without a real reconciliation.

So...press release yesterday and its not trending...

Maybe a little too late..?

If this was 2001 or 2006 would've been 1000 times bigger.

No quotes from any band members and no pictures together.

I think if we can get an interview with both of them together it would be a big deal.

The press release calls it the "most significant and anxiously awaited musical event of the century" and says that this lineup is "iconic". IT also goes on the highlight how long it's been since they've performed together and that it will be "explosive".

I think the hand-wringing over the wording of the press release is a bit much.

I'm quite amazed at how little attention and press this info seems to be getting. I used to get texts from people about e.g. New Guns tour announcements. Haven't heard from anyone.

Most bizarrely, Rolling Stone have NOTHING on their homepage about Slash returning! Their bit about Coachella has been dropped down. Rolling Stone used to have major headlines every single time ANYTHING happened in the last years whether a tour or lineup change or interview.

What's up with that?

Not much of a surprise at this point given the reporting by NY Times, Billboard, and so forth over the past couple weeks. Plus we technically do not have confirmation from GN'R itself that Slash and Duff are back. We have Slash and Duff posting the GN'R announcement on their Twitter feeds and it is pretty obvious that they're part of it, but the lineup has not been officially announced by GN'R. When that happens I think there will be more press coverage.

Regardless of a lineup, the fact that Slash and Duff confirmed surprises me its not getting more press. I work at a news station and was excited today to at least think we'd run SOMETHING about it and there has not been one word of it, which shocked me. I did expect this to be a little bigger.

The band hasn't made a statement about its lineup yet. I think once that occurs the buzz will be much bigger.

Erin Everly posted the Coachella picture as well

Is she friendly with anyone in the band these days?