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1 hour ago, Andy14 said:

1490 - 3590 Kč

that's what I found, but we'll have to wait till Wednesday 

What's on Wednesday? I thought the general sale starts on Friday. 

1 hour ago, dgnr said:

Just a small complain in here: 129 € for Golden Circle in poor, periferical Portugal?? What are they now...Stones?  Guess my dream of front row ended before it even started 

Yeah.. those prices are ridiculous. Was planning for front row too, but I may as well rethink that now 

The Prague date is at Letnany Airport, Axl played there with AC/DC in May

Anyone know the prices? I don't have a nightrain membership unfortunately

So the euro tour is finally happening! Any rumours about a Prague date?

On 29. 9. 2016 at 9:50 AM, Mendez said:

Axl, Slash, and Duff could be coughing on repeat and I'd listen to it

It's the BC Rich guitar Slash uses on Chinese Democracy these days. Did he paint it red? There's a spray paint behind her...

8 minutes ago, smoking guns said:

Hahaha.... I don't think so. Steve Lukather taught him a lot of shit back in the mid 2000's... And I think they talk still about guitar etc and getting better. He did some sweeps and stuff at the Stoke on Trent show guitar solo. Not real sweeps but like a small sweep on the bottom 3 strings. But any newish techniques are self taught and probably Lukather. 

Well Slash himself said that Myles was technically a better guitarist than himself and he teached him some licks on the tour. I would't be surprised if Fortus showed him some techniques at the rehearsals.

6 minutes ago, Silent Jay said:

 

That Prostitue sounds really good. When is the remix album coming out?  

Does Coachella usually stream the whole show or just a few songs from each artist? Is the stream available to watch later on YouTube? Just asking as I probably won't be able to get an internet connection this saturday 

They have a shitload of songs to choose from. Let them work on those first, release CD II and/or some other stuff, and only then start writing something new. They will hopefully have a few tours under their belt by then and their chemistry as a band will improve.

That said, I would love to hear an Axl acoustic/blues/jazzy kind of album, sang with his velvety lower register 

Absolutely. Watching it so many times during weekend just reminded me how amazing this song is. Lyrically genius, atmospheric, calm and heavy as fuck at the same time.

GNR at their most progressive rock-esque.

Well Chinese and Better were singles from CD and they were a live staple since 2009, so it makes sense to include them on a new Best of. That Greatest Hits release form 2004 or so is quite lackluster, it's way overdue to put out an upadated version. Add a better tracklist, cool artwork and a track like Atlas Shrugged and you have an instant best seller.

Anybody else is digging the visuals that they did for this tour? During previous nuGuns tours there were always some cheesy-ass graphics and random girl videos, but I really like the production on this one. The highlight for me is definitely WTTJ with the flashing tv screens and AFD skulls, the giant red hands during Chinese and the pulse in Coma is a nice touch too!

1 hour ago, Italian girl said:

Little off Topic:

I am listening to "hartford 1992" bootleg.

At the end of dead horse I can hear the first notes of coma played by someone But axl suddenly says "don't even think about it!" and other things that I can't hear...

Is it possible??

Just watched it. Duff started playing something on his bass (maybe Coma? I'm not sure) and Axl stopped him with "don't even think about it!" and "you can sing it". They did improv their playlists back then, so it's quite possible they wanted to bust out Coma, but Axl didn't feel like it. 

It's still surreal.

You just get so used to seeing them apart, it's a really strange feeling to watch them perform in the same band again.

3 hours ago, jekylhyde said:

I absolutely love the fact that they're playing Chinese Democracy -songs (the title track and Better great songs IMO). It's so cool to see/hear Slash and Duff playing those tracks. I like this hybrid line-up (Fortus FTW). It gives me hope that this isn't only about nostalgia. That there is new music coming some day.

Great time to be a Gn'R-fan!

This. The fact that they reworked Better completely with a new intro gives me hope that CD II will finally see the light of the day.

Chinese Democracy (the song) haven't sounded this good from 2001 (or ever!), Slash completely owns that riff. Better and TIL are cool too, but I'm not so keen on the new solos yet. Robin did an outstanding job with them and the album versions are better IMO. More melodic and memorable.

But overall I'm thrilled that they are playing CD material. Realistically I was expecting two songs max, but we already got four in just two concerts (including TWAT)!

27 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

Stinson looks like he has the worst and second worst hangover in the world, in each of those photos.

I'm pretty sure he did.

I will be happy to hear everything they play, but Locomotive would be unreal. I'm also very interested in what they could do to the Chinese material, especially pieces like Shackler's and Prostitute.

Someone said that Richard did the Bucket parts and Slash did his own take of Robin's solos.

1. Appetite

2. Chinese

3. Illusion I

4. Illusion II

5. Lies

6. Spaghetti

UYIs have lots of bloat, although some of my all time favourite songs are on those two. AFD and CD are just more consistent. Lies would probably be higher if it wasn't for the first four songs.

Not to be an ungrateful bitch, but here we are waiting to hear Slash on Chinese and Better and that guy records the most boring song in the set  Although I must say Slash slayed that solo

5 minutes ago, Silent Jay said:

If Melissa has already worked on newest stuff, that would be a logical decision.

The CD line up is over. Frank and Richard has nothing to do with chinese, just some inputs here and there, but likely be proeminent on the next one. They is no chi dem people in the band now. They can change the songs all they want, the intro of better is an example.

Damn, need to hear that new Better soon...

1 minute ago, killuridols said:

This is a thread called 'Welcome Melissa Reese to GN'R', right? So I guess we are supposed to talk about this Melissa girl joining the band.

There's a 200+ pages thread about the Troubadour show with plenty of discussion on Axl+Slash+Duff interactions.

That thread is clogged up with Frankfurt hate and endless drummer discussions.

And I don't see how constant "is she out yet" bitching is a discussion...