Blackstar

Review: https://riffmagazine.com/festivals/aftershock-20231008-guns-n-roses/

There are a few people on this forum who are fans of both bands and have criticized both singers' performances taking the context (age etc.) into account. For some people it's merely about enjoying what they hear or not. For others it's about seeing their favourite bands and singer(s), so they can cut them some slack despite the shortcomings. I don't see a problem with any of this.

That's pretty cool.

That promo was uploaded by the advertising company about three weeks before we discovered it, but never shared by the band. Maybe a Vegas date was planned but eventually scrapped.

Perhaps was pretty good (still a bit shaky in the verses).

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/10/09/guns-n-roses-fans-frustrated-with-double-booking-chase-field/

They were late at Power Trip and now they were late for this one, too. At Power Trip Maiden were 15-20 minutes late (Bruce Dickinson said due to traffic, I think), so that pushed GN'R's set and then they were an additional 15-20 minute late themselves. AC/DC also started about 20 minutes late the next day (but the media emphasized on GN'R's lateness because of history, lol.) Maybe there were similar issues at this one.

I can imagine that if something like that is announced many people here will lose their shit.

I guess the expectations were mostly due to Power Trip being advertised as the hard rock/metal equivalent of Desert Trip/"Oldchella". The acts at Desert Trip had treated it as kind of special, they had guests, etc.

The DMCA notice for the fat picture meme was in 2016, so not too far back. He may brush it off, but I doubt he laughs it off in the case of memes, videos etc. that make fun of his appearance.

I don't know Axl (obviously), but I doubt he would find this funny. He surely didn't find the memes with the "fat picture" funny.

I don't think it's mean-spirited, from Josh Freese at least. He posts weird humorous stuff on his own IG all the time and has always had nice things to say about Axl, at least in public. I can't say that about MJ Keenan - like I said, he and Axl haven't liked each other, so maybe it is mean-spirited.

Josh Freese liked MJ Keenan's post. They find it funny, I guess.

He didn't (not live, at least). Tool played at Aftershock Festival that night. And GN'R are playing there tonight, so they are not meant to watch each other I just posted about this in another thread. There is a back story of animosity between them.

Maynard James Keenan of Tool is mocking Axl on IG https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyJhSalpeGB/ There is a back story between them. They apparently didn't like each other and Axl reportedly blamed Keenan for Billy Howerdel leaving the CD project for A Perfect Circle.

The second point stands (longer set). But as far as the first goes, with the exception of four three songs (two of which from the recent album), all the rest were in the set list on the tour with Axl, which is when they toured last time. Or Axl/DC doesn't count? Edit: I see now that it wasn't even longer than the Axl/DC shows (they played 23-25 songs then).

Thanks!

Of course it doesn't

(I have posted the picture of Slash with the Metallica guys a page back - all pictures taken by Ross Halfin)

All that is a symptom - or maybe part of the cause, actually - of how irrelevant a genre rock has become. There are a lot of people willing to pay large amounts of money for concerts, who demand to hear only the songs they know. Maybe acts should change their M.O. They could play at big venues or festivals with 10-15 song sets and charge the same as they do now - the crowds that want to hear only the hits would pay anyway - and then play deep cuts heavy sets at smaller venues in the same cities.

Credit: Kurt Schwarz/WRIF https://wrif.com/galleries/pictures-from-night-one-at-powertrip-w-guns-n-roses-and-iron-maiden/

Axl looks great in these pictures, I have to say, especially in black pants-black shirt outfits.