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10/14/23 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena
koldbeer2 replied to downzy's topic in 2023 Tour Dates
That solo section was amazing from Paradise City, they were both totally in the zone. Great watch! -
Perhaps – Official Music VIDEO
koldbeer2 replied to jamillos's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
I was legitimately thinking this. They made the video because Axl isn't fat anymore. -
Perhaps - New Guns N' Roses Single - Discussion
koldbeer2 replied to downzy's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
An actual legitimate video as well with this one. I'm guessing Axl is happy with how he looks now. An OK song, nothing special but it's easy enough listen so it may gain more traction than the others simply due to that. -
Out of their tiny f****** minds to give that a 5 stars. I think its been fairly unanimous that the AM set was boring, with shocking vocals (regardless of cause,on that night its not different to Axl being from his old best) and just a total lack of energy. Yet 5 stars. GnR even taking away Axl issues had more energy in one song than AM entire set qnd had a very engaged crowd. 2 stars. Its absurd, and perhaps they need a hard skool to teach them how to review properly because that shit isn't it.
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I'd imagine they would rank it at a similar level to Rock in Rio/Coachella, though perhaps more like the latter due to having done rock in Rio now several times whereas previously having never done Coachella. I think its really the final major festival they've never done. They also know this will get millions of watches just from the BBC alone, yet alone the probable 10s of million cumulative views it will get on youtube for better or worse. They won't get a bigger platform than this. Plus its age as a festival and history brings with it something very few festivals have got as well. I'm not sure if its the highest or not, but this is clearly not a normal gig for this band like your making it out to be. You don't release a 2 and a half minute trailer on youtube for the concert if it isn't a big deal.
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Yeah thats a fair point, its huge on the British media and the BBC itself is a bit of a famous institution which lends some extra weight to the festival. In many ways its an extension of the BBC itself. I think alot of people are only starting to now know the hugeness of this festival. It absolutely sits alongside the likes of Coachella, etc at the top elite level of festivals. As much as your Downloads, Rock am Ring, etc are big festivals for the genre, this is another league up again.
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I'd say three main reasons: 1: History, its been going on and off for well over 50 years now, so its a bit of a grand daddy of festivals that are still going today. 2: Size of the festival, 210,000 people last year, it has been even bigger in the past as well (300k in 1994). Those 210,000 tickets all sold out in 33 minutes last year, before any acts were announced. For context, Download this year sold out its 100k tickets a ,month before the event. So Glasto sold twice the amount in a teeny tiny fraction of the time of a large metal festival. I'd imagine Download is comparable to most other festival gigs Guns would do globally. 3: Cultural element. Someone was right earlier when they said its such a massive site that you could literally spend the 5 days there and not see a single music act. Its absolutely a cultural event, and is now far beyond just a music festival. Probably Woodstock is the best comparison I could make to it, though there are other music festivals like Coachella which are probably in the same league as Glastonbury. But this festival really is an elite festival, beyond the norm even for a stadium band like Guns.
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Yeah I've no idea where people ate getting the idea that this isn't a big deal. When you've got foo fighters doing a 'secret set', a band that normally easily headlines festivals in their own right, happy to do a set in this position in itself should tell you why it's so big. It's equally as important as coachella, rock in rio, etc...