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I thought Axl sounded along the lines of his 2023 average. No more no less. The main problem is that although he sounds decent to good on a considerable part of the set (mostly thanks to the setlist changes this year), he's very weak on the most popular songs. And when casual fans look for a video to check how he sounds, they will look for Welcome to the Jungle and SCOM, not Bad Obsession or Wichita Lineman. Also Better shouldn't have been back in the set. It was kind of passable in San Diego, but it's been a disaster again in the last couple of shows.

He told a fan that he wished he could take it back or that he would try to take it back (it wasn't on a interview). That was two or three years ago. But meanwhile he took it back, as it seems, since he registered it on ASCAP along with another one of his demos from the locker leaks, "10%er".

Some good suggestions for questions already. You could also ask him if he intends to release Going Down (or any other track he wrote during his time in GN'R) at some point, since he has registered it on ASCAP as his own song. (You don't need to mention the ASCAP thing - probably better not).

For Power Trip, yes. But there wasn't such issue at Aftershock Festival (this show) and there was still a 35 minute delay. It's this show people bitched about on the festival's social media.

Full show is on youtube (great quality). * (Credit for the pictures: Danny Garcia, Andy Dorado and Delphine G. Carnes)

I don't know where this rumour came from. I have yet to see evidence (screenshot, article etc) of Fortus saying that.

It says they are the last shows of the US tour.

Yeah, Sacramento was yesterday, not this one. I saw you posted about your buddy in the Sacramento show thread, too, that's why I asked.

It doesn't seem that there was a stage turnover issue for this one, because from what I saw there were four different stages and the band that played before GN'R on the same stage (Rancid) had finished their set around 6:30 pm. GN'R were scheduled to start at 7:25 and they took the stage at 8:00. Unlike with Maiden at Power Trip, Rancid doesn't have a fancy stage setup, so an hour should have sufficed for GN'R to set things up. There are many negative comments about GN'R on the festival's facebook page - actually there are only negative comments. GN'R's delay has been blown out of proportion (they're saying that all the other bands were on time, and GN'R were over an hour late sopeople left because they were tired of waiting etc.). People talking shit on social media about whatever is nothing new and there's the GN'R past record bias. But I also think that delays are felt more at festivals, because people have been there for hours and are already exhausted when at the time of the headliner's set.

Did he go to this concert or the one in Sacramento?

The press release https://blabbermouth.net/news/guns-n-roses-announce-two-performances-at-iconic-hollywood-bowl

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.