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  1. Until we can hear The General... I've expanded my UYI tour collection. 3 (selfmade) microphones from 92/93 and 14 bootlegs. No one needs it, but hey... it looks damn cool!
  2. There Was A Time… … translated with Google from my tour blog 2010… https://ibb.co/LtDfWmS https://ibb.co/rKPkTGK https://ibb.co/8svMcNF https://ibb.co/v43mJxz Guns N' Roses 2010 live in London. Axl and Co. performed in the O2 Arena in the Millennium Dome on October 13th and 14th in one of the most visited arenas in the world. 23,000 spectators in the sold-out hall, a band "on fire" and acoustics - which you are looking for - made the first evening an indescribable experience. At 3:00 p.m., I joined the approximately 30 fans who were waiting in line and “waited” there until admission at 6:30 p.m. This patience paid off, my place in the front row was secured. Experiencing the concert in the first row is of course unique from the point of view of the closeness to the band and the stage, but also all the more exhausting. Damn tight, sometimes chaotic jostling and a bruised neck from the total rocking out in the front line. The concert on the first evening was just great. Axl's voice is brilliant. The sound is overwhelming and the fans are totally over the moon! Shortly after midnight it was over and the band thanked me and the rest of the audience for the great atmosphere that evening. Heading home by train and bus towards the city centre, a few hours of sleep, a quick detour to Arsenal London's Emirates Stadium and then back to the O2 Arena... Concert #2!!! I arrived at the O2 Arena around 8:00 p.m. very relaxed. However, the evening started with a bit of a disappointment (which I had to blame myself for). I wanted to record the concert with my HD camera. That's why I wanted to do a test recording beforehand - and so boldly - right next to a security guy... whereupon the security took away my camera (I could pick it up again after the concert)... stupid. But in the end it's not that bad... on the way to hand over the camera, Del James, a member of the Guns N' Roses crew, came towards me... The concert wasn't sold out on the second evening, but that didn't spoil the mood in the arena at all. And the band was once again more than "on fire"!!! An unbelievable evening started with "Chinese Democracy" and "Welcome To The Jungle"... As the guitars kicked in on "You Could Be Mine" something truly incredible happened... out of nowhere ex-Guns N' Roses bassist and founding member of the Appetite For Destruction line-up Duff McKagen walked onto the stage. This moment was indescribable! The spectators in the arena looked unbelievable and unbelievable at what was happening... After all the fights in the past, there was something comforting about this moment, and that was that Axl was "right" again with Duff and Izzy Stradlin (also a founding member; he was also a guest at a concert in 2006)... This surprise was a hit... and the audience was absolutely "blown away"... The last song "Nighttrain" was followed by 5 encores and after almost three hours of playing time an amazing evening and a bombastic concert came to an end! A perfect end to a perfect evening! You really can't top that anymore...! And yet... I've had some wonderful moments at Guns N' Roses concerts. Among other things, when Axl Rose sang Don't Cry in Tokyo for the first time in years in 2007 or the band played "Sailin" in London in 2006... but what came next was the AWESOME thing ever!!!! After the last song "Paradise City" and a "Good fuckin' night" singer Axl Rose threw his microphone into the audience as usual... and guess who "caught" it!!! Yeahhh..... WHAT TA FUCK!!! Damn, what a great feeling! Past a group of arms, between legs and feet, the microphone landed almost two meters in front of me... one look, one dive and Axl's microphone is mine now!!!! Boahhhhhhh... that's what I call a crazy memory of a crazy concert!
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