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    07/03/16 - Chicago, IL - Solider Field

    in 2016 Tour Dates

    Posted · Edited by Blackstar

    @Andy14, the show was very good. Setlist was the same, except for Duff's song. It seems they sounded better than Friday. I'm saying "it seems", because we had a periscope stream with great sound (almost pro) for the whole show. We heard Axl's voice loudly and clearly. I'm watching the videos now, and I conclude that the videos in general don't do him justice. Best song imo was again Out Ta Get Me, but all songs sounded better last night.

    @lassie, yes, they had a teleprompter, because Axl sometimes was forgetting or messing up the lyrics.

    07/03/16 - Chicago, IL - Solider Field

    in 2016 Tour Dates

    Posted · Edited by Blackstar

    17 minutes ago, WhazUp said:

    I think that has to do with a few different things.  This is the first time Slash and Duff have been in GNR full time since the 90's, it is very very probable and possible that they would rather nail a specific setlist rather than try and memorize 40 songs to pull out during any given show.  It makes for a more tight and consistent delivery of a rock show, especially when you take into account the visuals and light shows that are all pre planned.  Especially when you still are finding your flow and chemistry with a new rhythm guitarist and drummer

     

    This is a good point and I agree. I'm not really complaining, and I don't expect them to dig the whole catalogue. They have rehearsed 5-6 more songs though (but maybe not yet with Axl).

    07/03/16 - Chicago, IL - Solider Field

    in 2016 Tour Dates

    Posted

    Just now, tsinindy said:

    LOL, thats a joke right?  It's 2016, not 1991.  I have no doubt they have the technology that this is no issue.  WTF did Axl do in AC/DC when they switched songs?  Are they not professionals?

    Lol, it seems I didn't express myself correctly in English again. I'm not saying that they are not changing the setlist because of the technology or because they want to make the teleprompter guy's life easier. My point is that GnR used to be flexible and laidback about the setlist, but it's not the same band now, they are fully professionals and have a stable and tight setlist like most other bands. That's all.

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    07/03/16 - Chicago, IL - Solider Field

    in 2016 Tour Dates

    Posted

    Great show, no doubt. The setlist, though...

    According to Duswalt's book, the setlist was the teleprompter handler's nightmare during the UYI tour, because they were screwing it. The guy who did that job had to recognize the first notes of each song and send the lyrics to Axl's screens. And they didn't have computers back then.

    Now it's different, they are fully professionals, and we have to live with it.

    Did it take a reunion to lose Mickey & get back the rasp??

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted · Edited by Blackstar

    12 minutes ago, Lies They Tell said:

    Honestly I think he sounds just as good or bad on both. Neither one is phenomenal. Neither one is bad. Both have occasional rasp and occasional clean voice. Perhaps the difference is that on High Voltage there's no long stretched vowels. That's why it sounds a little funkier or something. But the voice is pretty much the same. Only on Rocket Queen, he is really stretching those vowels and in the ending he's using a more "emphatic" voice. That's probably why he sounds worse to you. But I really don't see a major difference between those two. You could just as well call the High Voltage performance Mickey-ish.

    Maybe I didn't express it correctly. I meant to say that the voice and style are the same on both songs, i.e. I agree with you. Definitely RQ doesn't sound worse to me and I don't think any of them is mickey-ish.

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    Did it take a reunion to lose Mickey & get back the rasp??

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted · Edited by Blackstar

    4 hours ago, Andy14 said:

    People shitting on Axl in 3, 2, 1....:popcorn:

    LoL. Yeah, here we go again. "The rasp" vs "Mickey".

    4 hours ago, RussTCB said:

    I was gonna post something similar. People are gonna call me an apologist, but from what I've seen, Axl is giving 100% and that's all I can ask for. There is a VAST difference for me in the effort level between the last time I saw GN'R and these shows. Does he sound perfect on everything at every show? Nope. Far from it. HOWEVER, he gives way more of a shit then I've seen him give since Hammerstein 2006 and Detroit 1993 before that. That matters way more to me then whether or not he uses rasp every night on NR, YCBM or SCOM.

    As for Slash... dude is killing it. Anyone saying otherwise is unreasonable in their dislike for Slash. That dude is absolutely killing his own material and bringing new life to shit he didn't even right. If Axl looks like he gives a shit, then Slash looks like he's giving ALL of the fucks possible.

     

    3 hours ago, Pedrolg said:

    With Guns he sounds better than 02 and 11-14 for sure. Not as raspy as some would like, but he sounds good, his clean voice is also better and more powerful.

    With AC/DC he sounds like an absolute force of nature. All things considered it's a great year for Axl.

    Even with diminished skills he is still a very impressive singer.

    I agree. Axl is giving everything he has for these reunion shows as well as for the AC/DC ones. Is his voice at 1993 or 2006 level, let alone 1988? No (he seems more motivated now than 2006 and 2010 though). It doesn't mean that he's not still a very good singer and a great frontman, better than most out there. And he still has something no one else has: the versatility in his singing and the ability to transform his voice and style from song to song so much that it gives the impression it's another person singing. It's not just a matter of hitting the notes and vocal range (others have wide range, too), it's mostly about feeling it. Axl still growls like a wild animal on Jungle and Out Ta Get Me, he sounds fragile with this whiny voice (raspy or not) on Estranged and This I Love, he can sing Back In Black like a demon (since we now have the AC/DC repertoire too), and he makes Patience, this simple and "easy-to-sing" ballad, with his natural tender and soulful voice, a song that could be sung in a church or something. I don't know, maybe I'm exaggerating here, but I think no singer alive can do this, at least to such an extent. I see that the majority of fans here appreciate only the rasp, but I like Axl's "natural" voice (I don't know if the term is correct, I mean the voice he uses e.g. for the main part of Patience and the verses of Civil War) as much as the raspy one. November Rain will be fine for me if they slow it down and Axl sings it with this voice.

    Slash seemed a bit aloof in the April shows (in the Artisan News clip he said that he didn't expect much and he didn't give it much thought, he'd just go up and play). But now he's not just 100% in it, he almost owns the show. And Axl seems very happy that Slash shines on the stage.

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    What songs would you love to see played on the NITL tour?

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted · Edited by Blackstar

    My first preferences would be Don't Damn Me, Locomotive and Garden Of Eden, but there's no chance they'll play them. Slash said he wouldn't play Don't Damn Me with SMKC, although he likes it, because it's too difficult to sing (it has too many words and doesn't give space for breath); I guess the same goes for the other two. Don't Damn Me wasn't played even during the UYI tour. Locomotive and Garden of Eden were played a few times between 1991-1993, but now... Human Being, another song I like, is even more difficult; maybe they could play a part of it as an intro to another song, it would be cool.

    I would also like to hear So Fine, Bad Obsession, The Garden and the pre-AFD gem Reckless Life.

    GNR Women's discussion

    in THE JUNGLE

    Posted · Edited by Blackstar

    12 hours ago, Lumikki said:

    And on a completely unrelated note (I swear I'll stop spamming now, I'm just babysitting right now and really bored ), I just came across this picture again.

    It's from Craig Duswalt's book and it has always amused me. Axl looks so tiny and precious there. I don't know if it's the weird girly hat he's wearing or what, but it's an interesting picture. And most importantly, he's wearing a a kind of baby sling! :lol:

    According to Duswalt, Axl made a baby sling out of towels and stuff to carry his baby wallaby around in it (apparently he had a baby wallaby for a while during the UYI tour?). Everywhere he went, he carried the baby with him in that pouch he made for it. Duswalt said it was sweet to see such a doting and paternal side to Axl :wub: It's such a cute story, I think. But also makes me kinda sad he never had a real baby to dote on :(

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    Yeah, the wallaby story is so sweet :)

    36 minutes ago, oaka said:

    @Lumikki that is a baby sling?? I always believed it was an apron! Hahaha!! I thought he was having a barbeque or sth...??

    I have never heard of the baby wallaby story. Nice one! Thanks for sharing! ??

    Here's a picture of the baby wallaby from the same book. Axl had named him Freddie (after Freddie Mercury, of course)

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    Rate The Spaghetti Incident

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted

    Imo TSI is a great album for what it is. Firstly, for the selection of songs (not the obvious punk "hits"). As for the covers themselves, some of them are as good as the originals ("Ain't It Fun", "Human Being") or maybe better ("Black Leather"). Duff's covers and "Since I don't have you" (although it is like the odd one out) are also very good, and the rest of them are decent.

    14 minutes ago, oaka said:

    Although I really like the songs on The Spaghetti Incident? and I have played that album on repeat, I never quite understood the purpose it served..were they contractually obliged to release an album over a certain period of time and since they hadn't recorded any new songs, they released this cover album to play tribute to the artists who influenced them? 

    Almost half of the songs were recorded during the UYI sessions. The original idea was for an EP with punk covers exclusively. Then they decided to make a full album and recorded the rest of the covers during the tour (Duff recorded "You can't put your arms around a memory" by himself along with original songs for his solo album). According to Slash, Izzy hadn't played on the older recordings although he was still in the band, so Gilby recorded rhythm guitar parts for all of the songs.

     

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