Alden

Not sure where to post this, but I'm on my way to Las Vegas for the weekend if any forum ppl going to the shows at the Hard Rock want to meet up for drinks before said show(s)?

We've all been hanging out at the center bar every night. If you're in that area after the gig you'll find all of us!

Excellent! See you after. I will be the redhead trying not to look awkward.

Not sure where to post this, but I'm on my way to Las Vegas for the weekend if any forum ppl going to the shows at the Hard Rock want to meet up for drinks before said show(s)?

I love the Internet and mobile devices, but I hear you: it's like people are recording instead of experiencing, and maybe we're extra critical too because we have so much more information.

I wonder if it's a really difficult adjustment for bands that started pre-Internet. GNR never had to think about online forums full of fans comparing each night's setlist, or recording hundreds of videos of the times Axl sounds crappy, etc. It's like we have this overview of what's happening instead of just having a very tiny window of experience based on actually going to a show, or a friend going and sort of vaguely remembering what they played and how they sounded, or if MTV happened to record and broadcast something (probably edited).

Anyway, I don't really have a point. I just think yes, it's different now, but all these changes also help build up stronger fan communities, which is (IMO) a really awesome thing and worth any disadvantages of new tech/comm.

maybe he does that to lose body fluids and look less bloated.

That is a really good point, actually.

Do you mean June 7 or am I missing something?

Hee. Just checking. I might enter, but just for fun.

Do you mean June 7 or am I missing something?

Oh no! I forgot to say there is another shirt, black with a white design. Sort of a twisted up weird drawing, possibly with cartoony skulls. I was not a fan of it, but at least that's one extra thing.

This happened in my town, at my old university. Coincidentally, I was in Vegas for a No Trickery show this weekend so I wasn't in town here when it happened--and then after singing happily along with "Used to Love Her," I felt a bit guilty.

I don't know what anyone could have done. I read his memoir and watched some of the videos, saw his previous forum posts that Reddit dug up, etc. Dude wasn't just crazy; he was broken. In my opinion (which is not an expert one at ALL, mind) he was unfixable. So what do you do with a guy like that? Lock him up, I guess, but for what cause? What public agency has the resources to research every possibly-broken person and build up a case for permanently institutionalizing the worst ones?

Still. I do wish the police had researched him online better (he used his actual name on at least one forum where he posted crazy things) before they visited him, or maybe if they'd been able to somehow check and see if he had an alarming number of firearms? I don't even know if there's a database you can look that up in, but maybe that would have helped. Or maybe they could have called SBCC and asked how he was doing in his classes, etc.?

Either way, it happened, and it sucks.

Completely agree about $5 for the playing cards.

I was sad there wasn't more/better merch, actually, because good merch is so easy and actually seems like it might be really fun to come up with new/interesting ideas, you know? But no.

Sooo, this was my first GNR concert and I enjoyed it. Actually, since it's not hard to get to Vegas from where I live, I'm going back in a couple of weeks for the last two concerts. Making up for lack of GNR concert experience, I guess.

At one point it sounded like Axl's voice was sort of... painful? As in, it made me cringe a little bit, and the friend I was with (not a GNR fan) said she thought it sounded like it must have hurt.

I think my only other major observations were that I was bored by the new band's solo pieces but I thought it was decent of Axl to give them a bit of ownership (even if maybe he only does it so he can rest, I don't know), and I felt like Paradise City was really compressed. He hit all the notes from the recorded version, but sang them really quickly.

Oh, and the strippers/pole dancers were sort of pointless; it seemed a bit gross and sad that the girl on the screen during "This I Love" looked about 17; and I enjoyed it very much when the underpants landed on Axl's head.

Anyway, I'm sure this is all old news to you guys, but I thought I'd post to say it was a fun show if you don't have any expectations.

New here (I mostly lurk, because of general shyness and lack of interesting band knowledge), but I'm going June 6th and 7th.

Ha! No, nothing interesting about the playing cards at all. I think they were $20. Why buys $20 playing cards? I guess I do, ugh.

Shirts were $40. I like the shirt design, but that could be because every possible surface at the Hard Rock has it emblazoned across it, staff wears the shirts, etc. I've maybe been brainwashed into it.

I went to the show on Saturday, and they had two main shirt designs, playing cards, and then also key rings and possibly another small trinkety thing?

Here's what I have (annoyingly blurry) pictures of:

1. No Trickery tank top (neon residency branded design on front, logo for The Joint on the back but no tour dates).

2. No Trickery t-shirt (with tour dates on the back).

3. Guns N' Roses Paradise City Las Vegas playing cards (which, why did I buy them? Ridiculous but I didn't want a key ring, so...)