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Yep, really not too interested. Will be the same setlist as the last few nights and Axl won't get onstage before midnight. We've seen this all before.

Last nites concert was amazing! Robin tore the place apart wit his amazing solos and awesome riffs..he is sooo great and doesnt det alot of credit on this forum so c'mon show some luv

Yep, yep. Finck is the shit. Too bad he doesn't get to play songs he has participated in writing very often. What....one, two, maybe three songs per setlist? Sad, sad, sad. He gets relegated to playing Slash and Izzy's old material. I hope this band is just sitting on an incredible back-catalogue of material that they are going to unleash all at once. But what the hell is the likelihood of that?

It's official.....if the tour continues in this fashion, then it is total bullshit. Waiting until 1:00 AM to get onstage? WTF?! There are so many other great bands that have no difficulty getting onstage by 10:00pm everynight, why does GNR get to wait until 1:00 AM? This bands is not out there to play for their fans. There are other motives and money is obviously the most likely answer. They're playing the same setlist.....surprise, surprise. I've got absolutely no interest in this tour unless they start playing new, unheard material and Axl and the boys can get their shit together and start showing respect for the people that spend their hard-earned money on purchasing tickets to see these GNR shows. Axl may think that he doesn't need fans and, personally I believe, if he continues to act disrespectfully towards them, then he SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY.

Dude, Go away.

Dude, Go away? Haahaa. Just not liking what you don't want to hear.

Sorry man, I think I was trying to respond to another Axl Hater, it just gets under my skin how all these supposed fans have so much to say hateful about the Axl and the Band, it's such Bullshit, this is The Democracy Tour, he's on stage, it's very exciting to me, I believe he has a Plan.. I'm just personally satisfied that he showed up.. so sorry,, Peace. I guess they could be a little cooler to us though..

No, no. That was me hating on Mr. Rose. Don't get me wrong.... I love the new GNR but Axl is really holding these guys back from releasing some kick-ass music. It's cool that you are happy with Axl actually meeting his tour obligations. Personally, I expect more from bands I like than for the frontman to simply show up to the show. I expect that he/she respects his/her fans and realizes that the fans are the reason that he can get his ass up on stage and play rock concerts and release albums for a living.

It's official.....if the tour continues in this fashion, then it is total bullshit. Waiting until 1:00 AM to get onstage? WTF?! There are so many other great bands that have no difficulty getting onstage by 10:00pm everynight, why does GNR get to wait until 1:00 AM? This bands is not out there to play for their fans. There are other motives and money is obviously the most likely answer. They're playing the same setlist.....surprise, surprise. I've got absolutely no interest in this tour unless they start playing new, unheard material and Axl and the boys can get their shit together and start showing respect for the people that spend their hard-earned money on purchasing tickets to see these GNR shows. Axl may think that he doesn't need fans and, personally I believe, if he continues to act disrespectfully towards them, then he SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY.

Dude, Go away.

Dude, Go away? Haahaa. Just not liking what you don't want to hear.

.... I've got absolutely no interest in this tour unless they start playing new, unheard material and Axl and the boys can get their shit together and start showing respect for the people that spend their hard-earned money on purchasing tickets to see these GNR shows....

Does this mean you'll stop writing posts to diss the band in concert threads that you're not even attending? If so - good!

As others have mentioned many many times in this thread already - the band had not played in Mexico and the fans there had not seen this show. They would want to see the the band play the classics. If Axl's new band had never played in NYC - and decided during his first visit here that he'd only play a bunch songs nobody had ever heard and would not play any of the old classics, I would have been annoyed. People want to hear the classics.

Also, Axl can't really add a bunch of new songs to the setlist until the album drops. If he did, the songs would be recorded and posted as MP3s on the Net before the band even left the stage. Also, people wouldn't recognize the songs, which would make it tough to keep the energy and momentum going at the show.

However, I do agree with your comment about the late start and how it's not very respectful toward the fans.

I don't live in Mexico and I'm not going to spend the money to go see GNR there. As a matter of fact, I'm not going to spend the money to see GNR unless they change the way they handle their touring. I love the new music and I still like some of the old material but the fact remains that Axl persists with his incessant touring for an album that has NO RELEASE DATE in site and primarily plays songs from an album(s) that has long since passed. This is the 'Chinese Democracy Tour' III. There have been too many fits and starts with their touring. 2002 was a joke. The MTV VMAs in 2002 were a joke. And the funny thing is....it was never about the new band's ability to handle playing the material. It was always about Axl's inability to handle the vocals properly. He sounded like a winded 40-year old during the VMAs and at many points during the 2002 tour. Don't get me wrong, he did sing some memorable concerts in '02 and again in '06, but this guy is RARELY SPOT-ON.

As to your comment about fans recording mp3s and uploading them to the internet....who gives a shit? Ever heard of the Smashing Pumpkins? They are encouraging their fans to record audio and VIDEO on their current tour. The band has stated that they will play unheard material (that does not appear on their forthcoming album) at certain dates along the tour and may play material that was written THAT EVENING for the show. GNR will obviously NEVER do something like this. In addition, the Smashing Pumpkins are playing most of the material off their new album that will not be released until July.

Axl prefers to persist with the GNR name and play old hits that were co-written by the likes of Slash, Duff, and Izzy. Rose continues to ride on the coattails of his old successes and refuses to acknowledge the skill and talent of this new band to write and perform their own material.

It's official.....if the tour continues in this fashion, then it is total bullshit. Waiting until 1:00 AM to get onstage? WTF?! There are so many other great bands that have no difficulty getting onstage by 10:00pm everynight, why does GNR get to wait until 1:00 AM? This bands is not out there to play for their fans. There are other motives and money is obviously the most likely answer. They're playing the same setlist.....surprise, surprise. I've got absolutely no interest in this tour unless they start playing new, unheard material and Axl and the boys can get their shit together and start showing respect for the people that spend their hard-earned money on purchasing tickets to see these GNR shows. Axl may think that he doesn't need fans and, personally I believe, if he continues to act disrespectfully towards them, then he SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY.