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I sign in for the first time in a fucking year and read this god damn fake bullshit. Fuck off.... I hate April Fools, worst holiday EVER.

If I wanted to hear watered down campfire versions of these great songs I'd play them myself with my drunken friends drunk neighbors. Electric All the Way!

19 hours ago, Rovim said:

Honestly I don't think it will work very well. I like Slither, all of Contraband really. But Slither's vocal melodies and lyrics don't really lend themselves very well to Axl's voice or personality in my head at least. That was all Scott and should stay that way.

They have many Guns tunes they can bring back.

Even the karaoke version of Slither with bad singer goes over well, with Slash and Axl on duty it will be epic. Axl would kill it.

On 1/9/2017 at 6:12 PM, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

comparing Axl and Bono is more than comparing apples and oranges. Bono sounds the same cos he doesn't have the range Axl does. when has anyone complained oh Bono doesn't have the rasp all the time? not to be mean, JMO totally...

Can you imagine With Or Without You with Rasp! hahaha

You guys are such fools! What album have the Sex Pistols released in almost 40 years? Impact is impact. How about Bon Jovi? They've only released maybe 4 meaningful radio played songs since 1992-1994, Its My life, Thank You For Loving Me, Everyday and Have a Nice Day. I release GNR has released none in that time, (I don't count CD as GNR...its not, more than one original major member needs to be there to qualify or you're just a solo artist).

Don't Damn Me, Get In The Ring & Shotgun Blues, 3 songs that were never played Live.

Don't Damn Me the first of the 3 I listed deserves a play or two, the riff that made me wanna play guitar along with Coma.

Don't Damn Me is a killer riff, a killer Slash riff and one of the coolest riffs anyone has ever done in my opinion and one that is I think both harder than Sweet Child to do and gives you more accomplishment as a guitarist to learn, but I'm cool with Sweet Child Being #1 because you'd be fucking kidding yourself to say "Popularity doesn't matter to how great a song is"....it kinda does, you're pleasing a more diverse crowd and that always kicks ass and its one you'd tout yourself if you wrote the fucking song. In a group of well known songs, to have your well known song with such an iconic riff that instantly gets people going (even when a poorly skilled cover band pops it off) a song that speaks to their soul and has such meaning... you're a god damn fool if you can deny the power of that. 

What good is a great riff if the majority of people have never heard it? Saying popularity doesn't matter is usually the losers way of making excuses for why his opinion isn't wrong or in this case why his favorite song doesn't suck. Its certainly hard to say that popularity means something today with how crappy all that popular rap and hip hop crap has gotten, but still when you pull yourself away from the fads theres the music that rises above that through time. The Fox song everyone thought was a fad, I thought wtf when I first heard it, but its actually a very genius song and years later I can appreciate why it got popular. 

The purpose of the list is to choose from songs that are very well known and take the best out of those. There can still be awesome riffs, but never underestimate the minds of millions of people's ability to choose a song that speaks to our basic primal urges. 

Hate to break it to you bub, but I'm about to burst that small bubble surrounding your brain...

Slash has been touring his whole life, and he's spent the better part of this last decade clean, sober and a NON Smoker, there is nothing different about now, he's been touring non stop every year. Slash has Twitter &Facebook and a lot going on for him to keep him busy. He's a family man despite his divorce. He has a production company , he has a lot of things at stake business wise and he is at a point in his life where all the stars have aligned. In short life hasn't gotten too shitty for him to revert back into that lifestyle.

Same with Duff, he's got a level head on his shoulders, business decisions that ride on him, a loving family and two great daughters and a beautiful wife. He's really got it figured out right now and the fact they have both done a lot to get clean speaks volumes. 

Truth is, Axl is probably the hardest party'er out of the whole band nowadays, very different than 25 years ago.

What I'm surprised about is how many stupid people there are in the world.

It should come as no Surprise that GNR is doing as great as it is, for one they have better songs than the Stones, (hands down) Sympathy For The Devil is the only Stones song I can listen to because it reminds me of GNR and even that isn't all that great. As for Led Zep, they are very overrated, you've got a handful of songs you hear on the radio like "Stairway To Heaven" "Immigrant Song", "Whole Lotta Love" and maybe 2-3 well known others. GNR on the other hand may not have the complete volume of music, but they made up for it with a lot more listenable music as a whole, the albums were great and they never really boiled down to the hits like it does with Lep zep or the stones. When you listen to GNR you're not listening to one song on a record, you're taking the journey through all of those records, you'd wanna blow your brains out if it were the stones. 

Now if you wanna compare songs vs songs GNR's quality of music is much better because you have anthems & epics you've got songs like:

November Rain,

Its So Easy

Paradise City,

Nightrain,

Welcome To The Jungle,

Sweet Child O' Mine,

Estranged,

Don't Cry,

Patience,

Used To Love Her,

Mr Brownstone,

You Could Be Mine

Civil War,

Knockin' On Heavens Door

I think I would have saved myself some time by just listing off "Appetite For Destruction", GNR Lies, Use Your Illusions 1 & 2. People forget that all things considered in 6 years those were a lot of songs to be known for, and I'm counting that from 1987 when they released Appetite, not to mention it took them several months after leading into '88 to catch on. Compare that with Megan Trainer who is known for All About That Bass and thats already 2 years ago and shes maybe released 3 songs in 1/3rd of the time GNR was famous & making music with so many anthems and epics. GNR were the Rock N' Roll voice for a generation.

Nothing should replace Paradise City and anyone who thinks so needs their head examined. Its the highest energy song out of the set.

On 7/21/2016 at 3:48 AM, Lumikki said:

I don't get it either. I don't hate CITR, but there are so many better songs on CD.

And if it were up to me, they'd drop more than half of the set list

Get rid of November Rain, Paradise City, It's So Easy, Brownstone, KOHD, LALD, Seeker, Out Ta Get Me, YCBM, My Michelle, Patience, DTJ, Chinese Democracy, TIL, CITR, Attitude/New Rose, Godfather theme and other unnecessary solos

Keep:

Jungle
Nightrain
Rocket Queen
Estranged
Coma
Civil War
Don't Cry (preferably the 87 or the alt. version, and make it a fixed spot on the set list then)
SCOM (because the casuals like it, but I wouldn't mind to see that one go either)
Better
Sorry

Add from the GNR back catalogue:

14 Years
Yesterdays
Dead Horse
Breakdown or Locomotive (can alternate those)
Don't Damn Me
Ain't It Fun
So Fine (for Duff's solo spot)

Add from CD:

Prostitute
Street of Dreams
TWAT and Shackler's Revenge (can alternate those too, just like Breakdown and Locomotive)

Add from VR/Slash's solo stuff (they could regularly swap some of those in and out):

Back And Forth Again
Back To The Moment
Slither
Fall To Pieces
Starlight
Gotten
By The Sword

And while we're at it, let's throw some of Izzy's solo stuff in too. Maybe some of these:

Sweet Caress
River
Shuffle It All
Gotta Say
Take A Look At That Guy

Obviously, we need Izzy for a lot of these, so get him back and make this reunion perfect. Don't care who drums, Frank can stay as far as I'm concerned.

You're mad...

No way on earth can you get rid of Paradise City!. There is no song on earth better to close any bands concert with. I'm ok with you axing anything in favor of another song, but axing Paradise City is like saying "I like my body but get rid of my heart".....No WAY!

I will say, I love the idea of Startlight & Don't Damn Me that you had.... they definitely NEED to be there at some point.

I like everything minus the CD stuff, I like the CD stuff Live now because its an actual band effort with Axl, Duff, Slash & Fortus and its not fake & forced theres actual passion behind it now. While I like everything, there are songs I do play less of, those songs I "sometimes" pass/play less of are "You Ain't The First", "My World" and "Don't Cry" alternate version, prefer the original but still like this version. Other than that, I love every song on all their albums and can relate them to a time I did something, GNR to this day is the one band & artist next to Elvis Presley where I can throw a cd in (nowadays plug my phone in and choose an artist) and let it roll through. Same goes for any band Slash has, and its not even to be a blind fan boy, the guy just writes riffs that click with my brain and his World On Fire is probably one of my favorite albums ever.

Not only do I love all their songs, I can also play 95% of them on guitar completely through with solos since I was 15 (I'm now 29) and yes that includes Coma, Locomotive, Don't Damn Me, Estranged, Paradise City & ect...

Me and my brother would play Twisted Metal back in the 90s and throw GNR on and just kick ass on that game and since every cd rocked we didn't have to get up and change it. And then before mp3 players I brought a Use Your Illusions cassette & walkman to school and would jam it with other kids on the playground and we'd all think we were so bad ass listening to GNR. Then I upgraded to an actual Sony Walkman and would put it in my flannel jacket pocket & ride go kart all day blasting GNR. Their albums would literally be first round deserted island picks for me!. Lots of great times and every song fits some sort of emotion you can go through or are going through.

As a guitar player, I bet Slash was burning up to prove himself on those tracks to Axl. It wasn't Axl making him. Axl is going to sing Slither after all!

The article should read "Janes Addiction wishes they were as great as GNR". I'd look Perry Farrell right in that fucked up face of his and tell him to "keep dreaming dick cheese breath".

On 7/14/2016 at 6:53 PM, ironmt said:

They are not In the same league as Guns.

Agreed! They don't stand a chance against Guns N' Roses. Guns N' Roses would fuckin' gut their fucking asses.

6 hours ago, Andy14 said:

I really wish someone looked at me the way Axl looks at Slash .

I wish the same for me too lol

These guys are so awesome, Axl, Slash & Duff, they really did a great thing and made my dreams and millions of other fans dreams come true, in a weird way they're pretty much family to me. Band wise, this is the biggest reunion of major parts & players in the History of Music, the only thing for me that could possibly have a chance at topping this is if Elvis Presley came out of hiding.

I think first of all that the lack of drugs made this completely possible. As some of you know, I manage a strip club, and when girls and anyone are on drugs they will lie (more than normal), they're not reliable and they become just so clouded in judgement and small things become big things very fast and will eventually lead to a slow agonizing or unexpected instant breakup.

While Axl used drugs in the past, he always had to be the responsible one because unlike the others he didn't have an issue with drugs despite using them he quite simply didn't need them, while the others in the band depended on them: Slash & Izzy especially. Now that Slash is clean on everything and has gotten rid of Perla, the drugs & money hungry bitch aren't pushing him away from Axl and now Axl actually has the support system from his bandmates instead of feeling like the only source of glue that keeps it together. I'm not blaming Slash for anything because I always tended to take his side in the "dark ages" of GNR but I think all of these guys being clean makes things pretty cut & dry and keeps the clouded judgement at bay. I'd like to point out that most of the leaches that influenced Axl in a bad way toward the rest of the band in the early-mid 90s have now been dissolved into history and/or exposed for what they were...fame grabbing gremlins.

Now they've got experience behind them and they've most likely accepted their own responsibility in the breakup. Each to some extent has probably gotten rid of each others demons that plagued them during the original run of GNR. Axl isn't fighting with a wife, Slash isn't doing smack and Duff matured into a respectable rock & roll dad and person in general.

Loving these guys has always been like what I would think having a set of divorced parents would be like, you can see both points of view and both points of failure but you love them both anyway.

13 hours ago, Tom2112 said:

I'd gladly axe the godfather theme... that's a complete snore fest  at least raw power is fast and quick, god father is long, drawn out and not particularly interesting... a good piss break, but that's it. I still maintain that the type of jam they did with Move to the city was the best of both worlds, big break for Axl in the middle and Slash gets to widdle away until he gets the nod from Axl. Having The godfather and Wish you were here is just self indulgent... it's ALMOST (not quite at the level) as bad as having to listen to those crap DJ solo pieces... the difference being that Richard and Slash can actually play their instruments.

I took my piss break during the show, whipped it out and pissed into my old beer cups. Everyone in our row did it...I mean come on you're not gonna miss GNR!

7 hours ago, RONIN said:

Ahh -- I didn't consider that. Fair point -- AFD songs being played by the originals is indeed something to savor. I'm just more of a UYI fan. It would be epic to hear Locomotive and Don't Damn Me live.

You're king of the internet for today! Totally agree on Don't Damn Me & Locomotive. I'd love Shotgun Blues too, but Don't Damn Me deserves its live debut! Hell even Get In The Ring!

I think their setlist has been pretty solid for their amount of work and personally theres no better concert closer than Paradise City in the history of music but I'm so over Its So Easy & Mr Brownstone as they've been played in every one of the Gunners side projects as with "Wish You Were Here".

My wish list is for sometime during this tour is for them to play:

Don't Damn Me (Never played live!)

Pretty Tied Up (Needs to be brought back for a show)

Shotgun Blues (Don't think its been played live)

Get In The Ring (Also Yet to debut live EVER)

Slither (sometime soon!)

Starlight (Cuz Axl would rape it and do great on it!)

And if Axl feels up to it "My World" lol ;-)

1 hour ago, Gilla999 said:

Yeah exactly and I'm from that era of GNR fan so that's what I'm used to seeing! I do think the British crowds these days are still more rowdy than what I've witnessed in the US but I totally agree the camera phone thing plays a massive part of it wherever you are too. I was in pit in Vegas and the phone thing did my head in - such a buzz kill

Part of it is the fact us Americans can and will get sued for anything these days, but Also in Wisconsin where I'm from it'd be boarderline riot having GNR, which is why I wished they would have played Lambeau Field in Green Bay Wi. For Kenny Chesneys concert (yes Kenny Chesney lol) played at Lambeau there were 80,000 fans there and there was dozens ejected from the concert and a bunch of arrests...Wisconsin knows how to party, these other midwest states are chill compared to us...even chicago was chill, they've got absolutely nothing on us. You should have seen the bartenders face at Soldier Field when I said all 4 beers I ordered were for myself, she instantly knew I was from Wisconsin and asked me to confirm it lol.

Ironically section 430 at Soldier Field was full of Wisconsinites, I had wondered initially why our section was kicking so much ass, then found out most of us were all from the same town & just wisconsin in general, must have been a ploy by Ticket Master to keep us away from the Chicago people because they know what we do to them during Packers Vs Bears games.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/cops-overwhelmed-by-drunks-kenny-chesney-sparks-white-1713086995

3 hours ago, Gilla999 said:

Literally still in shock. The best kind of shock there is. He has a smile on his face the whole way through - oh, and it sounds fucking AWESOME. Obviously. How it's supposed to sound. You guys see Slash smiling at him during My Michelle? I love it. So so happy for Steven, this will have meant so much to him. What a random time and place to do it though! 

Izzy, we we're waiting for you...

Stevies from Ohio! Not so random if you think about it

17 hours ago, bumblecool said:

 

beer here costs 0.60$, and our country is amazing so what's your point? Come visit soon Portugal.

At the venue or in general? we have cheap beer too but not at music venues!

On 7/2/2016 at 5:10 AM, bumblecool said:

Looking at this and the stupid american seats on the pit thing 

 

I am really sick and tired of America being everyones door mat. I get it that our country has been one big pile of shit for the last 7 & a half years but theres still a ton to be proud of here so if you don't like America STAY in YOUR country and enjoy your death pits!. We go to shows to enjoy them not get trampled and/or sued for punching an idiot in front of us ruining the show. A pit is fine in a smaller venue but in a stadium thats located in one of the most dangerous cities in America I think I'll pass on the mass curb stomp.

Not everyone can live in such a depressing country where nothing goes right where all they have is music to cheer them up and so they cling the life out of the very artists they supposedly "support". 

My only complaint was the $10.50 beer... I spent $200 on beer and that was a little excessive, but you can't put a price on a good time, especially when that good time is GNR with Axl & Slash together for the first time in 23 years on stage. So unless Portugal & Brazil stadiums have cheaper beer at a venue like that, then brag about the cheap beer not the seating behind the pit!.

On 7/1/2016 at 6:54 PM, SEPTEM said:

If u wanna choose just what u want to.   I can do that too.

Nightrain?? Sweet child?? Starlight?? Those ( among others) were i bunch of shit on several shows between 2011-2015.  And i repeat .. That live at roxy 2015?? Light years away from the wonderfull, inspired and undisputable magnificent slash we're hearing with guns n' roses.

Im a huge seek slash fan ( both of my tats are about slash stuff and snakepit), but i wont lie and im not blind or deaf.   Dont take honesty and truth out of the ecuation; if u do that  you're heading BS-LAND.  

Some of u said " axl is bringing his a-game to this reunion" .. Well yes, totally. 

But slash ALSO IS BRINGING HIS A-GAME TO THIS, HE IS PLAYING WAAAYY BETTER THAN THE LAST 6 OR SEVEN YEARS.  PERIOD

You're on a witch hunt & purposely trying to find something to talk about. Absolute bullshit to me.

Slash has always been awesome & great, but he's been epically inspired and awesome since he kicked drugs, cigarettes & booze in 2008. Granted he may have a little extra motivation being with Axl again but you also haven't been hearing November Rain, Estranged and a few other GNR songs by him in 23 years. 

I seen Slash in Chicago last year with Myles Kennedy at the Concord Theater and he was absolutely at peace with himself and his band, and he was absolutely killing it like I'd never seen him, now as great of a show as Velvet Revolver in St Paul was in 2005, Slash is light years ahead of his playing in 2005 because he's clean now. Now I seen Slash & Guns friday night in Chicago and he was just as perfect & awesome as he was the year before, but you could tell on his face he enjoyed being back with his old buddy and the mojo was there, but it was massively different than the year before when he was with MK & The Conspirators where he also hit all the notes and made me feel all the emotions.

Slash has always been great, his solo band with MK is great but the greatness of the situation around him changes slightly but Slash always gives his all, I don't think anything is left behind when he's done and off stage. Obviously you're never going to top Axl & Slash back together, even the Beatles couldn't top that...AND yes I said even the BEATLES COULDN'T TOP THAT.  

On 7/1/2016 at 6:06 AM, Lies They Tell said:

If you like rasp, then his voice is definitely not the best it's been in 20 years. Check out some 2010 videos. He sounded waaaayyyy more raspy back then. 

Been waaay more impressed with his current voice than the overrated 2010 voice everyone drags on about.

They're both Epic songs, its like choosing between your kids or family members...but for me its Don't Damn Me because of the complexity of Slash's awesome riff and its also the riff that made me find out what the heck distortion was as a young guitarist!. That is quite possibly the greatest riff & tone combination of all time on Don't Damn me.