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They play the same thirteen-fourteen songs every show. More than half the setlist. The idea of a constantly revolving setlist is myth.
If you interpret "constantly revolving setlist" to mean "exchanging all songs gradually", then yes, it is a myth and you are a bit unrealistic
Why is it unrealistic?
IMO you have the popular singles (WTTJ, SCOM, PC, NR, DC, YCBM) , plus the solid tracks off CD (Better, SOD, Maddy, maybe CD) and rotate everything else.
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As simple as it sounds, couldn't Axl have just made a contract stipulating what happens when Slash or Duff dies, instead of using it as an excuse to get hold of the name, and effectively become everyones boss.
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Someone post the pic of Axl wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt.
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Wouldn't mind hearing if you could add an Appetite feel to non original GNR sounding songs like Shacklers and ITW.
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I never understood the thing: "Only about the music".
Ones personality and image has a big effect on how I perceive their music (how could it not?)
Why would it?
How is the music not the most important thing?
Let's say that Estranged is your favorite song. It really touches you. Saved your life when u were thinking about suicide after a painful breakup.
Would you stop loving the song if in an interview tomorrow Axl said "lol, I was high all the time while writing it. I figured writing one long song would be easier than writing two songs. At that point I was broke and needed cash, so I wrote a cheesy song with lyrics inspired by a coke high. That song has no personal meaning to me other than it bought me a new house."
I don't get why you would care why an artist wrote a song. Their reasoning shouldn't be as important as to how the song sounds to your ears, and how that song effects YOUR life.
To each his own though. I like bands for their music. Celebrity worship seems weird to me.
I think you've gone off the tangent a little
Pretty sure if there wasn't Estranged, and Kim Kardashian suddenly came out with Estranged, I don't think i'd connect to it as i'd have doubts about the sincerity of it, since KK is pretty much an airhead fame whore.
Part of the reason a lot of people like GNR music is the background behind the music.
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To be honest, I don't care how many people showed up or how much any show grossed. I just hope everybody there had a great time.
I think it is funny how people always have excuses for Axl now - and twist the numbers/situation around to make him look good - no matter what. 2,800 a night is NOT good, and we don't know how good a 250,000 gross is - without knowing the costs of the show.
Exactly
2800 out of 3300. Around 85% capacity. Sounds pretty good to me.
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I'd assume that GNR would be getting paid the same whether they had 85% attendance or 50% attendance.
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At least DJ f'n up takes the heat off Axl
Yeah, why would you bother getting everything perfect when the front man who everyone comes to see and hear cant be tip top for even the first show.
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His voice is weak as hell, Jesus Fucking Christ. The band, on other hand, is nailing...
Axl's just inconsistent. Nailed it in parts during some songs, but embarrassing on some and generally bearable on the rest. Really needs to drop YCBM and try not to go high, except on songs that really require it.
Also, is this setlist the same as Wednesdays?
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Hopefully they can keep Estranged, Civil War, CITR and TWAT, and mix the rest up a bit, to stop it being a rerun of the last times they've been here.
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Melbourne missed out last time eh?, but i take it they'd have to be doing other capital cities if they came down.
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Axl at the end of November Rain and YCBM is getting there but a lot of it really is Mickey Mouse in the house.
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The way he's singing Sweet Child O Mine sounds like bad karaoke
Quality stream
I wonder if the "it always sounds worse on youtube" types will come to defend Axl.
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WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF? Is that You Could Be Mine?
Could be..
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Goretorium!!!! (since i'd already be out of my mind)
No Legend of the Red Panda option
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Maybe he was forced to get face painted
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How the original band might have lasted: "Maybe if we could have worked together in the way Appetite was put together. I was really naïve. I thought the success of that record would bring everyone together more. It did the exact opposite. They got success and wanted to run in their own directions. I thought they'd go, 'Whoa, it did work.' But they wanted to do their own huge bigger success off of Guns."
So they wanted the keyboard player, back up singers, ballads, pianos, 10 minute songs?
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it's not about how interviews work. it's about what the guns n roses fans want to know.
so, let's get this straight.
axl (rightfully) is criticized for two decades for not doing proper TV interviews. people (including myself) accuse him of being too surrounded by yes-men to put him in a situation to be interviewed by a leno, letterman, or kimmel.
then, after 23 years, he does an interview on kimmel to promote his new live show. he gives credit (finally) to all his band members, including people like stinson, who have been there longer than the original members.
and you get on here and complain that he isn't addressing the gn'r fans' concerns. even though this interview was arranged to appeal to a general audience; an audience who hadn't seen axl interviewed in 23 years.
excuse me if i politely tell you to fuck off?
Don't waste your time with this clown. If the focus of GNR is on anything other than on the years Robin Finck was in the band he bitches and complains.
Not sure if Finck6 noticed, but while this interview was playing there was maybe 150-200 members logged in seeking updates. There aren't thousands of fans world wide clamouring for answers to questions that he wants answered. His goal with this interview isn't to please people like him but to sell tickets to a show that's meant to appeal to casual fans. If this band had to solely rely on the hardcore fanbase for their livelihood Axl would be forced to sell his house tomorrow.
But guys like Finck6 don't get that and they never will.
what i don't get is why axl rose didn't talk about CD2. since it is the topic guns n roses fans want answers on. internet and worldwide
and robin finck was the lead guitarist of guns n roses from 1999-2008. so excuse me if i think axl rose should give a straight answer on whether the unheard chinese songs robin's recorded as the lead guitarist of guns n roses will be on cd2 or not
excuse me for having a brain and wanting answers from axl rose on CD2 this year. not 2013. not 2014. this year. 2012
You're not wrong to want answers for those questions, you're wrong in the vicinity in which to ask them. Going on a late night talk show to plug an important run in Vegas is not the forum to get into questions that very few casual GNR fans want to know about. HEAR MY WORDS: THIS INTERVIEW WASN'T MEANT FOR ANYONE WHO BELONGS TO A GNR FORUM! It's meant for the people of Southern California and people who might be traveling to Vegas in the next few weeks. His priority is moving tickets, not enlightening GNR fans about the status of GNR and when he thinks we'll hear the next great Finck/Axl masterpiece.
Seriously dude, look up the term context. Then apply it to why Axl was on the show and what the band has on its calender. That's what this was about. You're a fool if you think otherwise.
More of a nothing interview than trying to move tickets
Glossed over it briefly, said it was a different sort of challenge - could've said how it would be different to other shows, any new songs, any songs that haven't been performed in 20 years...
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Axl will probably also mention the release of the concert in cinemas/dvd/blu ray
Well, maybe.
if he knows about it.
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Rants, lots of them. Barely says anything these days.
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"Once we clear the Pumpkins’ first era, then I have about 65 unreleased Zwan songs, I have a ton of unreleased stuff relating to my solo album ‘The Future Embrace,’ and then there’s a ton of ‘Zeitgeist’ demos, probably songs I should have put on the album, that are pretty interesting and well-done. Also I have two unreleased acoustic records, plus an unreleased acoustic soundtrack — three albums worth of acoustic albums from the mid-2000s that are totally unreleased. So I’m hoping to just do everything chronologically."
wowzers, take note Axl.
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top 25 songs?
oh...give me a fuckin break!
You only have to list 8 buddy
.1. Estranged
2. Welcome to the Jungle
3. Coma
4. Civil War
5. There Was a Time
6. November Rain
7. Sweet Child o mine
8. Better
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Vegas residency roundup
in 2012
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Very gradually, which is why if you've been to 2 different GNR shows in different years, they still feel like deja vu.
Not many artists can get away with not having their most popular songs played, so I don't think the hardcore fans begrudge the singles being played, it's just keeping things fresh. A core list of (not more than) 10 songs sound good, and rotate classic song for classic song, and CD song for CD song, and mix the order up. The band should know how to play nearly anything in the back catalogue when requested, and if not, it wouldn't take them too long.