mikeman5150

2 minutes ago, Cosmo said:

Five:

1- Rio (Praça da Apoteose, 2010)

2- Rio ( Rock in Rio, 2011)

3- Curitiba (Estádio Vila Capanema, 2014)

4- São Paulo (Arena Anhembi, 2014)

5- Rio (HSBC Arena, 2014)

 

ONE of those was worth it, though 😂

Rock in rio seems like it would’ve been cool, just because of the environment and the cool yellow raincoat lol

On 10/2/2020 at 1:29 AM, mikeman5150 said:

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2002 Pittsburgh 

2006 Hammerstein Ballroom

2006 Cleveland 

2011 Orlando 

2011 Wilkes-barre PA

2011 Youngstown OH

2012 Silver Spring MD

2013 Brooklyn Bowl

2014 Bethlehem PA

2016 Vegas 

2016 DC

2016 Pittsburgh 

2016 Philly 

2016 East Rutherford 

2017 Hershey PA

2017 Buffalo

2017 Philly 

2017 DC

2019 Louisville (Louder than Life)

also seen Axl/DC, VR, and Slash with Myles Kennedy a few times. 

I had tix for philly this summer, but we all know what happened there. 

 

I can now add Hershey 2021 to the list and upcoming Atlantic City, and Baltimore

12 minutes ago, axlvai said:

That was Sorum

Yeah it was dizzy too 

Literally one day I was playing clubs in L.A.; and then the next day, it seemed like, I was on stage with Guns N' Roses in front of 100,000 people. Rock in Rio was my first show down in Brazil, and it was quite the whirlwind.

1 hour ago, Gunner Gilby said:

Well Dizzy joined in 1990 but played his first Guns show in 91 right.

Yeah I’m pretty sure it was in January of 91’ at rock in rio

Baz was probably the best opener I’ve seen. 06’ and 11’ he was great. Also dug the suicide girls in 06’

worst for me was bullet for my valentine. Just stood there and stared at their shoes the whole time. Was also disappointed by kenny kravits. He didn’t play some of his biggest songs. I’d think as an opener, you wouldn’t be afforded the opportunity to play your deep tracks, but rather the few that the crowd may actually know

10 hours ago, mingsubu said:

That was my 2nd gnr show! A great performance for that short lived tour!

Lol, my mom made my older brother take me. 

Yeah it was the same for me, my first GNR show and my older brother took me. Great night. I remember thinking a riot was going to happen because people started  booing because they were so late. Of course I later realized that was just par for the course haha 

7 hours ago, Underhardy said:

Slash would rip that shit up. That song will always be criminally under rated due to the chorus. Although, it never bothered me. I mean that first verse is just fucking insane, building and building to those killer power chords. Such a rocker

Totally agree!

2 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

I like IRS but I’m okay with it staying gone. I’d like this lineup to focus on “new” songs or deep cuts from the old days. They’ve done a lot of ChiDem during the reunion as is. 
 

That being said, I’d be happy to personally get TWAT or Catcher at a gig I’m at 

I always try to get twat when I’m at a guns show, well after the show

2 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

When was the last one that came up? 2010?

I think so

Was listening to IRS and wondered why they haven’t played it in forever. To me, that one sounds more like classic guns than most of the other CD songs. I’d love to hear Slash’s take on it. I know it may be challenging for Axl at this point, but I’d still love to hear it. 

10 hours ago, mingsubu said:

This was my 1st Guns concert, and 1st overall concert too.

Any bootlegs of this around?

None that I know of, but there is a soundboard for the 2002 pittsburgh show. Live and let die from that show and 02’ tour in general, has probably the longest Axl screams I’ve ever heard

4 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Damn. Very sorry to hear that. 

Thank you. Yeah it sucks. He was a dirt track race car driver and another guy on his crew also passed, he was in his early 50’s. I’m in a rural area and it has started creeping up again the last few weeks, it was 0-3 cases a day for most of the summer. 2 weeks ago we had the county fair (again I’m in a very rural area) that was heavily attended. I think that was a super spreader event. For the last 2 weeks we have been averaging 25 new cases a day. Our county has a population of roughly 50,000

I just learned that one of my friends I played baseball with passed away from covid. He was only 38 and in good health. Leaves behind a wife and 2 kids. Wasn't vaccinated. 

On 8/7/2021 at 11:26 PM, RussTCB said:

They'll never play that song with Slash in the band since it's directly about him. 

I was just listening to hard school and it really seems like that one could be about Slash too. What are your thoughts? The part “ I would’ve thought you would be more of a man, but you had to do it your way...had to throw it all away” that line makes me think it’s not about Stephanie. It could also just be about old guns in general? 

12 hours ago, Gimpy Hewitt said:

In terms of screams, HOB 2001 is unmatched

Pittsburgh 2002 is also one of the best screams

Pittsburgh 02’ was awesome! My first ever GNR show

15 minutes ago, MaskingApathy said:

I don't mind the Seeker and they do a good job on WL, just wish they would make DH, PTU, TAY staples of the set. Shorten KOHD and you can fit all of them in there. And then rotate some of those other alts.

Yeah those are good choices too. I don't see why they can't do both Patience and Don't Cry.

Yeah they are all really into it when they play the seeker. And WL is a great moment for Axl to really belt it out. Honestly that song has stole the show for me just about every time I’ve seen them play it

10 minutes ago, MaskingApathy said:

That's always the trade-off isn't it? He sounds better now but he could've sounded better before too.

100%

6 hours ago, The-Jungle83 said:

OK, so first I will introduce myself, I was a member of this very forum many years ago... having joined out of sheer excitement that I was about to see the band for the first time ever having been a fan for so many years prior, yet never having the chance to see them - at last it was finally happening, and I'd found a forum to vent that excitement on! I lost access to that account (under a similar name) in the following years, so here I am with a new one, to vent my excitement at seeing the band again... next year.

My apologies, but this will be a long post, as I'm in a reminiscent mood and I would just like to revisit my feelings and memories of that first live experience with GNR, and what it means to me, even all these years later.

The year is 2006.
I am 22 years of age.
Long-haired and carefree.

I have just managed to secure tickets for the Chinese Democracy World Tour, the closest location to me was then known as the Metro Radio Arena, in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. I secured 2 seated tickets, to the right of the stage, roughly 10 seats back, 6 rows up... the gig was months away, on the 19th July, and I could not have been any more impatient for that date to arrive. During that time in my life, I lived and breathed GNR, I listened to little else on my Sony Ericsson W810i phone, as well as on my new-fangled 8 CD hi-fi, I could regularly be found earphones in, with some kind of GNR related reading material in hand on the bus to work every morning, so to say my acquisition of tickets to actually see them was mind-alteringly exciting for me would be a huge understatement.

I went to collect the physical tickets (which I still have) from the arena's box office not long before the gig, they were black tickets, featuring the GNR CD-era logo, and that of their support act, Bullet For My Valentine ,(Sebastian Bach also supported that night, as well as joining GNR on stage if memory serves), I felt like I had a priceless artefact in my hand - I was going, finally, I WAS GOING. I met a couple of friends at a bar near the arena after picking up the tickets, and I sat there the whole night with the tickets on the table while everyone drank their drinks - in hindsight a bit OTT, but I did not want to take my eyes off the tickets, and wanted everyone to know I had them too.

Time passed, slowly... slowly... slowly...

Days felt like months, hours felt like weeks, but finally the day came.

July 19th 2006.

I was in the prime of my life, I had no worries to speak of, I had a job that I loved, and I set off for work that morning knowing I had an early finish booked in that day in order to prepare for the night's festivities... as much as I enjoyed my job, and bizarrely, the commute to it every morning, the GNR fanboy ruled that day - I was immersed in what was to come, to me nothing else mattered in the world.

I was booked in for a 3pm finish, for a gig with a door opening time of 6:00 (if I remember correctly)... and I'd forfeited my lunch break as well as exercising some flexi-time in order to get said early finish, and believe me - I was counting the hours. And then, the time came...

I logged out of my workstation, said goodbye for the day to my workmates (one of whom was also going to the night's gig) and I swaggered out of the door, into the almost blistering heat of the mid afternoon (that day would go on to become the hottest on record at the time for where I lived). I put my earphones in, and leisurely wandered through the village in which I worked, without a care in the world... and all the hope in the universe, on my way for the bus home. It was hours before, but it was time... the sun was blazing, and the song in my ears - Paradise City, never before or since has a song fitted a moment in my life so seamlessly and perfectly.

The bus moved too slowly, but at the same time just at the right speed for my relaxed mood, I was soaking up the scenery, absorbing every note and lyric in my ears, drinking everything in, and using it to fuel my excitement for everything that lay ahead that night.

The gig that went down in history as the night Axl kept us waiting for hours on end, inside an arena, on the hottest day on record in Newcastle, only to end up being bottled (or pound-coined) off stage by some moronic idiot in the middle of Nightrain... "we came here to do the show, and one of you is a f**king c*nt...".

Newcastle was deprived of Paradise City that night, but I have nothing but amazing memories of that show, and the days and hours leading up to it. I still have the tickets, the tour shirts I bought, as well as a printed card featuring a braided Axl alongside the words 'I Was There - Guns N' Roses, Metro Radio Arena 2006, these were given to us all as we filed under the bridge towards the arena stairs, I still have it all, even the red paisley bandana I wore that night.

I returned to see GNR when they played the same venue in 2012, where we got our Paradise City at the end of an epic show, and I will be at Glasgow Green next year, but I will always carry memories of that summer's day in 2006, when I felt as if, in my life... nothing else mattered.

❤ Always GNR, the soundtrack to some of the greatest times in my life. ❤

We had very similar experiences with GNR. I too was 22 in 06’ and most of what you described is how I felt about going to the Hammerstein Ballroom. Yep, not a care in the world, GNR was a massive part of my life back then. Still is, but not as intense as it was then. That was when I still believed 100% in Axl’s vision and that Chinese democracy was going to bring rock back to the mainstream and be one of the biggest albums of all time. That didn’t turn out to be the case, but damn I still love that album, and it’s definitely one of my all-time favorites 

13 minutes ago, MaskingApathy said:

Good to know, if I buy one I'll order up a size.

Yeah for sure. Also, make sure you wash it in cold water. Otherwise you’ll end up looking like Garth from Wayne’s World, after he did his own laundry lol

I just heard a clip of nightrain, he does sound like he’s getting stronger. So hopefully it’s just as always, it takes a few shows to get warmed up. However, I wish he would’ve did that on his time, and could’ve sounded great at Hershey. 

In 2016 I ordered one of the skyline shirts from their website. It looked like it was an iron on print. Total waste of money. 
Also, I agree with you guys about the new tour shirts, they are way smaller than usual. They are like the slim fit style and the material is way too soft. 

1 hour ago, GoBucky said:

Yep, that Denver one is awesome 

Where are you seeing these? 

2 hours ago, Coma16 said:

Apparently there's behind the scenes issues between an artist and Management over something or other. Columbus, Denver, and Baltmore designs all look great, hopefully they are released.

Is there somewhere where we can see these? 

13 minutes ago, fantomas said:

Make your friends pay for their damn tickets upfront! You shouldn't be on the hook for that.

Yeah I talked to them yesterday, they are both going to pay me next week and then they can do what they want with their tickets 

What’s the deal with the song called “Back in action” I mean it’s pretty obvious it’s not guns, but it’s on the VEVO and says official video. Anyone else seen this? My question is how is it on their VEVO? 

59 minutes ago, Draguns said:

I  read this evening  that It's Greek To Me in Ridgewood, NJ will be requiring proof of vaccination if you want to eat indoors. It's the first NJ restaurant that will require proof.  My opinion that there will be more NJ establishments to follow since this restaurant broke the ice. 

Yeah you’re probably right 

53 minutes ago, GnR Chris said:

Just be careful not to wait too long, brother. I paid full price for my floor seats at Wrigley. But yesterday, day-of show in Detroit, they slashed prices from $250 to $59 for Comerica Park. You're not gonna get your money back the longer you wait. Put the onus on them to sell their ticket(s) if they don't want to go. You did them a solid by purchasing because they said they wanted to go.

48 minutes ago, Top-Hatted One said:

Yea definitely don’t wait til closer to the show. Sucks! They should pay you now regardless and they can deal with the re-selling if they don’t go

Yeah I just talked to both of them. Told them I needed the loot either way and that they both need to create a Ticketmaster account so I can send the tickets to them. Then they can do what they please. I told them what you guys have said about ticket prices. It does suck for them because they want to go, but are unsure if they will be allowed to. So they want to hang on as long as possible and see what happens. Hopefully there’s an announcement soon.