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I think the consensus on GNR generally has changed since the NITL tour started and that includes CD to some small extent. But I don't think the casual fan know the difference between UYI deep cuts like Coma, or even stuff regularly played in the 90's like DTJ and Estranged, to songs off CD. I know plenty of casual fans who went to the concert in Stockholm, and the only songs they really know are the hits like Sweet Child, Jungle, Paradise City, Don't Cry, November Rain, Knocking and perhaps Patience. I'm pretty sure my friends don't even know nightrain. But some of them do know This I Love and really like it.

I think that is something which is easy to forget on a forum like this, where most of us (I assume) listen quite a lot to GNR. 

But even here on the forum, I think the concensus on CD has become slightly more positive. It feels like there is more positive threads about it, more interest in the band playing CD songs, people (like me) hoping for more CD songs in the setlist.  

I prefer the album version. Not sure if any of the other demo-versions are better (it's been so long since I've listened to the demo versions), but I prefer the album version to the Brian May-version. 

I am really fond of Bumblefoot's solo at the end. 

9 hours ago, AFGnR said:

Rough

 

I think it sounds great!

Bumblefoot!

I don't think I have seen this before. Amazing. Love the production (the videos on the screen). Love the voice. Love the guitar solo's by Buckethead (on songs, not his own solo).

I wouldn't mind seeing more CD songs in the setlist. Otherwise the only UYI songs I'm interested in seeing is Perfect Crime and Bad Obsession. 

Madagascar sounds great! I wish they would have played it in Stockholm, it's always been a favorite of mine.

I think he did a pretty good job on it. I did not like his solos in TIL and Better, so that if anything made me feel weird.

Amazing show, so happy we got sorry, Michelle and Rosie. 

They sounded great, but I did not like Slashs take on better or TIL solo. He was great on sorry though.

Also great to finally hear estranged, coma, DC and CW. Miss madagascar and street of dreams, maybe next time ?

The Darkness was a blast!

Darkness goes on soon, hope they play "get your hands off My woman" ?

Hope we get an extra CD song tonight.  TWAT, Prostitute, Catcher or Sorry ???

When CD was released I never liked Sorry, but then I saw them play it in 2010 and it blew me away, so I wouldn't mind a repeat of that as well.

Would love Madagascar, it's been missing for too long imo. IRS and SoD would be cool too.

I think it's a shame they seem to have stopped playing a CD-song at the beginning of the encore. I am hoping for TWAT, prostitute or catcher in Stockholm next week. 

11 minutes ago, Loot Man said:

FUCK this is horrible, but makes me laugh 

It is good for a laugh

2 hours ago, IncitingChaos said:

yea Glad you spoke up! I would hate for Axl to take the full responsibility for this abysmal performance 

Yes, this is awful. I wish it never happened. But it did. And it was the 2012 lineup of GNR who played. 

4 hours ago, gnr5 said:

1. Who Cares, really?

2. They responded at the bottom of the article "CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misspelled the surnames of Eddie Vedder and Tom Waits, and incorrectly implied that Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses had performed at the benefit solo."

2. Yeah, look at that, they did change it

1.  I wouldn't say I care that much about wether people think It's GNR or Axl solo, I have my opinion but I know others disagree and respect that. I just think it's important for media these days to try and be as clear as possible. Had they written more about the GNR performance they could have called it an "Axl Rose solo effort" and explained why they consider it to be a solo act and not a band, and I would have disagreed with their point of view but not with their right to have that opinion or put it to print. The way it was written now just stated it as a fact, which made me slightly uneasy. 

I read an article on Huffpost about Neil Young no longer hosting the Bridge School Benefit after 30+ years and they listed some artists and bands who have played the benefit throughout the years, and on that list they had written Axl Rose instead of Guns N Roses. It might seem like a small detail, but I think in this day and age it is especially important for newspapers to try and be as clear and correct as possible so I sent them this suggestion for correcting the article:

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It was actually Guns N Roses that performed and not Axl Rose as a solo artist. Perhaps a small detail, but slightly misleading and among the Guns N Roses community it is common for fans who were not a fan of the Chinese Democracy album or the line-ups between 1999-2014 to use the term Axl Rose solo band in a somewhat demeaning manner.

It will be interesting to see what their response (if any) will be. 

Here is a link to the article.

No matter what one thinks or feels about the 99-14 line-ups they were billed and performed as GNR at the brigde school benefit and I think that is what the article should reflect.  What are your thoughts about this? 

If CDII is anything like CD, then I choose that for sure. 

If there's new recordings coming with the current lineup I hope it's a continuation of CD and not an attempt to make another Appetite for Destruction. 

Watching the stream and it looks and sounds like a blast, however I'm a bit worried that we have not had any CD songs in the encore since Bilbao. I really want my fair share of CD when the band rolls into stockholm later this month 

I would love to hear more songs from Chinese Democracy. I hope they keep that extra CD song in the encores for the rest of the leg (especially Stockholm). I would be extremely happy to see Catcher, Prostitute or TWAT. And while I'm dreaming why not add Street of Dreams, Madagascar and Shacklers to the set

I love the old songs and I am very happy that Coma, Estranged and Civil War is in the set now (which it wasn't when I last saw them in 2010) but given the choice I would probably swap them out for CD songs (not sure about estranged, but the other 2 for sure).

I'm guessing more dates. Might be a dvd. Hoping for new album (the rest of the CD material with or without Slash or Duff). 

For the moment I'm pretty happy with all of it. 

I'm more than happy with the Darkness. Saw them once in 2005 (I think) at it was awsome! I belive they disbanded for a while due to the singer's drug problems, but they have been back together for a while so it would be stretching the truth quite a bit to say they reunited to support GnR...     A Skid Row reunion would be pretty cool as support.

No. I want new music. Or at least the chinese leftovers. 

I always found it, and Oh My God, quite interesting and was disappointed they were not released on CD. I just hope it will be released someday along with other songs from the CD-era.

On 2017-03-16 at 3:25 PM, PsychoKiss344 said:

Am I the only one that finds Adler annoying as shit?

No.

I'm not to keen on Matt Sorum either, but that's another thread