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Now EE for GA seems to be a thing too. Why would you pay a lot extra to get in early and stand behind everyone in the golden circle?

8 minutes ago, Nicklord said:

I don't see any point in going to big solo shows (arenas and stadiums) to see anyone really. Huge European festivals cost like 300€ for 4 days and have a ton of huge bands that would cost like 1000€ to see. They're not really for young kids anymore, there a ton of options even for 50+ people.

Let's say I wanted to see only Kiss, Motley Cure, Iron Maiden and Slipknot. Standing for their shows are 70-100€ and that's already 300€ worth at least

It's true. I don't really love festivals anymore, but the same goes for shows in a big field, like GNR always seem to do in Holland. If you compare, I pay 119 EUR for one day of Graspop and see lots of bands. In Landgraaf, I would pay 100 EUR for GA and 180 for golden circle to see just GNR. And it's basically the same, standing in a big field. At least at Graspop I can get to the front without paying (a lot!) more.

I loved the system for 'golden circle' they had for Axl/DC in 2016. People who got there early, could just go in and got a bracelet. That's only fair, I think. Diehard fans who want to be in the front, don't have to pay more, they just have to get there early.

1 hour ago, SoulMonster said:

I am not sure what you are struggling with here. It is absolutely possible that someone could have disliked a show yet at the same time someone else could have liked it, with the former being a member of this forum and the latter being a newspaper reviewer. But when it comes to how well a tour is received in general, I would very much more listen to newspaper reviewers than hardcore fans. I think the reviewer is more aligned with what most people attending a show would think, because the vast majority is made up of "casuals". And when the general consensus of newspaper reviews are favorable, especially when compared to other legs of the same tour, then my conclusion is clearly that this was a great leg.

As fot your claim that the reviews did not praise Axl: Really, is that your final word on the matter or will you now admit to not actually having read the reviews but are just trolling? Even in the very review I posted, this sentence was included:

"Do I need to even compliment Axl Rose? No, he was everything you could imagine him to be when you’ve waited two years for this one night. He didn’t disappoint, still the charismatic front man he has perfected since day one."

So seriously, what is your problem?

The problem is only the person who shares your opinion is right. Everyone else is a moron.

People nowadays seem to have a big problem with varying opinions and only want to read their own.

1 minute ago, ChristmasFnatic said:

Damn. Oh well.

When will we know the prices anyway? When it goes on sale?

I suppose tomorrow, when the presale goes on?

4 minutes ago, ChristmasFnatic said:

Thanks again. Like you, it is front row or never!!! lol. Might get EE if the price difference is not crazy.

From past experience, German EE is always very expensive. Or it was in 2018 anyway.

6 hours ago, Shacklermyrye said:

I remember Tommy talking about this

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/russian-oligarchs-guns-n-roses-robbie-williams-jennifer-lopez-1349163/

 

LOOKING BACK ON his years with everyone from the Replacements to Guns N’ Roses, Tommy Stinson admits he’s played some “strange places.” But a 2010 show with GN’R — a private gig in Moscow for a Russian energy company — still leaps out. “I can’t even believe we did it,” Stinson says. “It was like, ‘What the fuck are we doing here?’”

The 2010 Guns N’ Roses show, held at the Moscow movie-studio complex Mosfilm, was paid for by Alexander Chistyakov, then deputy chairman of the management board of the Federal Grid Company, Russia’s largest state-run transmission grid firm. “It couldn’t have felt more awkward,” says Stinson. “They were a bunch of drunken party people who were glad to have us play. I didn’t see any fucking gold-plated toilets, but I’m sure they were there somewhere.”

While watching I couldn't help but wonder how many of those partygoers have fallen out of the window since

8 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

More live music to be released? That's cool 

Too bad they make it impossible to buy stuff like that for a normal price. We can't buy the bluray dvd as is and now we can't buy this as is. I find it rather annoying.

Plus there's no way to know what's on there? Annoying too. (Sorry, maybe I'm having a half empty cup kind of day.)

Gosh, so those Glastonbury guys must be big morons. Organizing the most important and biggest festival in the world and obviously having no clue that Axl will suck and be a total asshole. Or do they just want to piss the concert goers (and all tv viewers around the world) off and ruin the reputation of the best and greatest festival in the world by scheduling a washed up misogynistic hasbeen who behaves like an utter diva and is a nightmare to work with?

Maybe someone here should alert whoever's in charge and warn them of the mistake they're (possibly) making.

Happy birthday, Axl Hoping to see you again this year, so bring it on with the tour dates!

29 minutes ago, Oldest Goat said:

I wasn't rocked to my core like some people seem to be. But it's a deceptively simple sardonic film which achieves what it set out to do.

5/5 small quirky film not a 5/5 all time great.

But I agree on the casting. I don't like the main actress.

I liked the film too, found it very funny in a very absurd way. I agree it's not a film that will stay with me for ages, but it was a fun watch.

I loved the main actress, but I've only seen her in The Queen's Gambit and now The Menu and it seemed to me she played it in a similar way.

We saw All Quiet on the Western Front last weekend too. What a depressing watch. Being from Belgium, I have visited the WWI museums and cemetaries, I know how awful the trenches were, but jesus, just imagine sitting there for years, now and then running out and trying to advance to the next trenches, how hopeless and pointless it all was, on both sides.

It was an impressive movie, and I love that there's none of the hero BS we usually see in war films. (Granted, hard to have German heroes in any world war movie.) But it shows that in a war everyone loses and every soldier is just a pawn in an evil game played by assholes. Ugh. And German soldiers were just misguided boys for the most part too, just the same as the 'good ones'.

Also a very valuable lesson that's worth repeating: if you want to gloat too much as the 'winner' or punish the other party too much, you only create a country of (mostly innocent and powerless) people who will see nothing but enemies and have nothing to lose, and that's very dangerous. Looking at the world today, we still haven't learnt.

44 minutes ago, PatrickS77 said:

Does it matter what notice?? It's not like you can pay for tickets in installments. Either you buy them or you don't.

For me personally, it's about holiday plans. GNR seem to always tour in the summer months and I would assume most people have planned out their holidays by now.

1 hour ago, Towelie said:

He's sounded bad on NR for years. I actually thought his rendition at the LMP memorial was an improvement to some of the NITL performances I've heard of NR. 

I agree. The beginning was difficult, but for the rest he sounded like he's sounded for years now to my ears. And taking the circumstances into account, being off tour, with no band, and being obviously very emotional, it was better than I expected/feared.

9 minutes ago, JimiRose said:

Going back to the stroke thing, i think it's true. people always blame his current look on all the botox and face surgery, but it's definitely droopy, you can see it in the LMP funeral pics. Amazing if true that no one seems to have any idea it happened

I thought the same, but maybe it's just that he struggled to control his feelings? Regardless I believed the stroke thing. That interview is from years ago, this isn't an attention seeker, so I fully believe his story.

It proves how little we actually know about Axl's life.

Sad. What a curse it seems to be when you're born to a star. They seem doomed, just like their parents, to give in to drugs and succumb. Elvis, his daughter and grandson, and so many others. I'm beginning to think it's a good thing Axl doesn't have kids and TB for all the complaints we have, seem to be healthy at least.

13 minutes ago, jamillos said:

How do you know? Anyway, she's the one who apparently has a copyright for this B&W stuff. These photos could even be older for all I know, but in any case, it's her doing (and if it wasn't, that doesn't change anything about it, does it). 

Insider No, a friend said so when she was at a show and it was later discussed in a thread on here as well. One of Beta's cousins was the photographer in Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

I don't know whose pictures these are, I'm not that much of an expert. Tbh, there have been at least some colour pics as well the last year or so, but yeah, I would like to see more colour too, no matter who's the photographer.

15 hours ago, jamillos said:

Great pics, and Kat Benzova officially pisses me off for this never-ending B&W nonsense. Such beautiful photos... 

Are they even Kat's? Kat wasn't on this last leg of the tour.

2 hours ago, veon said:

No slur present here… and this in late 2012. Not buying this

 

Who says he has a slur because of a stroke? I know several people who have no noticeable effects at all after a stroke. 

Why would that guy make something like that up? He's not a forum nutter out for attention, right? 😁 The interview is from 2016. It's safe to say it didn't attract any attention at all.

8 hours ago, Ratam said:

He speak same Niven, about God and Satan.....

They're all nutters. I can't believe people like that actually exist 🤯

11 hours ago, Ratam said:

Seem weird that stroke not have at least a minimum consequence.

It wouldn't be weird. Many people get a stroke without even realizing. It depends on the severity of course, but it's perfectly possible to have a stroke with no consequences.

1 hour ago, action said:

so if someone publicly accuses me of doing bad stuff on other forums, without any proof, putting me in a bad light, what are you going to do about that, if I can't see those accusations?

😁 Cut it out. It's a forum. No one cares. It's not as if this is about to go viral and affect you in any way.

On 12/17/2022 at 6:24 PM, Ratam said:

Of 40 Coldplay shows just 10 was in Argentina.

And 4 in Belgium. That's almost half of all their shows in Argentina and Belgium alone

34 minutes ago, gavgnr said:

Are we to infer that there are 4 Chinese era singles to be released? I had a feeling that would be the case. Likely The General, Atlas, SOG and Soulmonster. Very happy with the plan if so.

No. 4 is SMKC album.

5 hours ago, Karice said:

Estranged came AFTER Garden Of Eden? 😳🤔 I don't know why the YouTube Comments made it seem like Garden Of Eden camera AFTER Estranged. I could see them blowing big money on Estranged and only having a little money for Garden Of Eden, but it's fucing weird the other way. 😳🤔

Not really, Estranged was the last in the trilogy, so Axl wanted one of his crazy ideas for his magnum opus.

If you want to read up, I think there are more useful and trustworthy threads to be found on this very forum, like these:

I thought I remembered reading that and yes, it appears that this video was made because they had some time left after making the Yesterdays video.