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All I know is that when they played November Rain in Jacksonville the other night is was absolutely amazing. Axl went OFF for the outro....he was playing 1 and 1/2 times the speed as what's on the CD......what a fucking amazing performance!@!!

Pretty cool pictures mate

nice pics man, was the concert as empty as people say?????

Thanks, I just used a pocket Canon Powershot S500 5 megapixel....nothing fancy.

Yes the Jax concert was very empty....and they were giving away tickets with a free flyer. My sister in law who worked the arena said only 2000 tix actually sold. The rest were freebies.

Anyway, I'm very happy with the pics..

http://adobe.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding...66_711308366107

I wasn't sure how to get these photos here on this post...so check out the link! I was front and center and got some good ones of the Man himself! What a show!!

With so little promotion, and no CD release date, or public hype, GNR is going to have to start from the bottom up, just like in the early days.

Someone called 'RR Mafia' (from another site) wrote:

I think what Guns n Roses are trying to do is let things happen organically. They seem to be acting like they are an underground band and when they drop their album they want the people to come to them, instead of trying to shove it down the publics throats. I think that is very commendible considering how big the Guns n Rose name once was.

You wrote "from the bottom up", RR Mafia wrote "acting like an undergroundband". At the end of the day, if that's the new approch, then Axl should have used a new band name and reverted back to his real name William.

The way i see it, Axl has kept the name Guns N'Roses to help the new band gain as much free press as possible. This has acted like a double edged sword. Sure the band has got their free publicity, and sure many have moaned that this is not Guns N'Roses. On the up side, for all the doubters, there's many who like the new band.

I know the guy. I think this *could* work and be very interesting - relaunch the band Appetite-style. But again there will be trouble even coming close to the original days of GN'R. The fact that this tedious version of the band is "the back-up plan" only makes matters worse, and if the tour is pulled, what will V3 of the band be like? Brain and Bucket gone; a bored band playing dated 1980s songs? (*Rumblings* have it that Stinson and Fortus would rather move on to the CD material: and probably others like Mr. Finck do too.) CD is the only thing that matters now.

The GNR I saw on Tuesday night DID come close to the GnR of old. I know because I've seen GnR live twice in the old days, and I was a hardcore fan who watched MTV's "GnR Live at Ritz" a thousand times over. And the old Appetite songs are NEVER dated....that is why they are true classics.

I went to the Jacksonville show using a free ticket flyer that was being passed around...they were literally GIVING AWAY tickets to this show. My sister in law does PR for the arena and she told me that the day before the concert (10-30) only 2000 tickets were sold.

I live in Jax and I will be the first to tell you this city is a cultural fucking WASTELAND. This place is pathetic.

I was at the show last night and let me say that I was fucking blow away!!!!

First off, the negative....

I agree completely that security and the overall way the arena handled ticketing was a fucking JOKE!!!

My sister-in-law has a pretty high up position in the arena, and she emailed me a voucher for free tickets. I went with a bunch of people at lunch and at 4 tix a person we secured a block of 44 tickets, not on the floor but on the first riser in the back.

Anyway, I had other friends who showed up right before the show with the SAME VOUCHER and they got Floor Tickets.....does that make ANY SENSE???

So when I tried to get on the floor with my friends explaining that I used the same exact voucher I was told to "get the fuck lost". Keep in mind all the while I am wearing a full BURGER KING costume! I mean, let the King on the floor, for Christ sake!! "Sorry King, can't help you" is what I had to deal with.

So I name-dropped my sister in law and they grudgingly let me in....I laughed at the fucker security guard on the way in.

ON TO THE SHOW ITSELF....

I've seen Guns N' Roses twice before....once with Metallica and Faith No More in Buffalo, NY, and once in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York.

This show I was literally 20 feet from Axl.

Axl is truly a ROCK LEGEND and to watch him perform that close up was un-fucking-believable!!!

The band sounded incredible....amazing musicianship!

The two guitarists did a solo duet based on the melody line of that James Blunt song "Beautiful"...and it was much more 'beautiful' than that piece of candy pop crap could ever be!!

Axl's onstage moves are just so amazing. I hate to say it but Axl wrote the damn book on lead singer rock showmanship. He has so many moves that he pulls out of his hat at will. The classic snake dance. The arms-flailing, head down, fake-run towards the edge of the stage (he did it twice....my favorite move!!!) The guy is just so fucking COOL.....there's no other way to put it.

The music was PHENOMENAL. AXL is a legend and it is so good to see him performing his heart out after all these years, regardless of the crowd size or any other external factors. He really put together an amazing group of musicians. As a lifelong GnR fan (I'm 31 and Appetite for Destruction was the album that rocked my entire world at age 14 in 9th grade), I'm so thankful for the opportunity to see Axl and Co. on top of their game like this. Axl, you are a fucking GOD.

I was at the show last night and let me say that I was fucking blow away!!!!

First off, the negative....

I agree completely that security and the overall way the arena handled ticketing was a fucking JOKE!!!

My sister-in-law has a pretty high up position in the arena, and she emailed me a voucher for free tickets. I went with a bunch of people at lunch and at 4 tix a person we secured a block of 44 tickets, not on the floor but on the first riser in the back.

Anyway, I had other friends who showed up right before the show with the SAME VOUCHER and they got Floor Tickets.....does that make ANY SENSE???

So when I tried to get on the floor with my friends explaining that I used the same exact voucher I was told to "get the fuck lost". Keep in mind all the while I am wearing a full BURGER KING costume! I mean, let the King on the floor, for Christ sake!! "Sorry King, can't help you" is what I had to deal with.

So I name-dropped my sister in law and they grudgingly let me in....I laughed at the fucker security guard on the way in.

ON TO THE SHOW ITSELF....

I've seen Guns N' Roses twice before....once with Metallica and Faith No More in Buffalo, NY, and once in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York.

This show I was literally 20 feet from Axl.

Axl is truly a ROCK LEGEND and to watch him perform that close up was un-fucking-believable!!!

The band sounded incredible....amazing musicianship!

The two guitarists did a solo duet based on the melody line of that James Blunt song "Beautiful"...and it was much more 'beautiful' than that piece of candy pop crap could ever be!!

Axl's onstage moves are just so amazing. I hate to say it but Axl wrote the damn book on lead singer rock showmanship. He has so many moves that he pulls out of his hat at will. The classic snake dance. The arms-flailing, head down, fake-run towards the edge of the stage (he did it twice....my favorite move!!!) The guy is just so fucking COOL.....there's no other way to put it.

The music was PHENOMENAL. AXL is a legend and it is so good to see him performing his heart out after all these years, regardless of the crowd size or any other external factors. He really put together an amazing group of musicians. As a lifelong GnR fan (I'm 31 and Appetite for Destruction was the album that rocked my entire world at age 14 in 9th grade), I'm so thankful for the opportunity to see Axl and Co. on top of their game like this. Axl, you are a fucking GOD.