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Watching that Freddie Mercury show on CW- They were talking about how Axl never showed up for rehearsals with Elton John. Joe Elliot told the story of Elton coming to Axl's door and trying to talk with Axl about rehearsal because they perform in 4 hours and his bodyguard opened the door and told Elton that "Axl is sleeping," and shut the door on Elton. Elton said "You don't shut the door on Elton John!" Joe said that Elton came into Def Leps dressing room and "vented his spleen." "I'm going to do a duet and he's not opening the door- I am Elton John!"
When Roger Taylor was playing the drums before Axl was to come on stage during Bohemian Rhapsody he didn't know if Axl was going to appear and then out of the corner of his eye here comes Axl like a "whirling dervish in a Scottish kilt, and he was fantastic!"
Great stuff.
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The band was TIGHT that day. They killed it. Amazing when less is more by playing only 2 songs as opposed to 3 hours. Less chance for everything going off the rails. LOL The best rendition of KOHD ever recorded. Give me some reggae!
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1 hour ago, agustingloger said:
What I'm saying is that it's never enough. They are playing a Lot of Chinese stuff wich is cool and probably none of us tought they would play that much and they play Catcher after 4 years and You are complaining about how he plays the solo. When Will You be satisfied? That was My point
This is the problem with the internet and social media. Everyone has access to every show on a tour. There was no issues with set lists, solo's. You went to see the show and that was it. Now everyone is an expert and dissects every show.
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1 hour ago, darkside259 said:
of what?
jungle
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11 hours ago, FabioRoses said:
what happened?
They played the ultra quiet version
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3 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:
Him and duff swapped instruments
Ahhhh... I see that now. Thanks for the clarification!! I noticed the bass dropped out too. When the video came back it explained what happened.
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I wonder what the hell happened to Matt at the end of Paradise city. He couldn't have dropped a stick, he wouldn't take that long to recover. I wonder if he busted his snare head and had to have his snare replaced. LOL Been there done that.
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10 hours ago, StrangerInThisTown said:
Best WTTJ of all time
LOL!! Some people must have been a little ticked.
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2 minutes ago, Original said:
Awesome thanks for heads up!!!!
Meegan took photos and filmed 99% of the time. Does she do that every show I wonder?
Pretty much
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2 minutes ago, Tourettes2400 said:
Well that's 180 degrees from Charlie Brown! LOL
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1 hour ago, We love Axl Rose said:
Full Show on Youtube.
Its funny how you can see Meegan, and Beta working their phones. Through the show.
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1 hour ago, We love Axl Rose said:
Full Show on Youtube.
Yeah, "Dimebag" gets most of all the shows in the Twin Cites and uploads them.
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The review from one of our local papers:
Lots of distance for fans — social and otherwise — at Guns N' Roses show at Xcel Energy Center
Chris Riemenschneider14-17 minutesWelcome to the post-COVID concert jungle.
Guns N' Roses came to Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday night a year later than planned, at a smaller venue than planned, and with a lot of uncertainty still hovering over the show like the dark cloud of hair that looms above the band's iconic guitarist, Slash.
The first of two concerts on back-to-back nights at the St. Paul arena — followed by British pop star Harry Styles on Wednesday — GNR did not implement any kind of vaccine or mask requirement despite the concert being moved indoors. Attendance may have suffered because of it.
Ticket prices were, um, slashed in the days leading up to the concert to around half-price. And that's after the show was already downsized from Target Field last summer (with about a 35,000-person concert capacity) to the X. Only about 11,000 fans showed up in the end, about 1 in 20 of whom rocked out with masks on. At least there were plenty of empty rows for the fans who did want to play it safe and socially distance.
Conversely, tickets to the Styles concert remain sold out and priced over $200 on the resale market. That's after the former One Direction heartthrob announced both a mask and vaccine/test mandate for all U.S. tour dates.
Of course, the difference in demand may have more to do with career trajectories than COVID worries.
Guns N' Roses filled U.S. Bank Stadium on their 2017 reunion tour, when Slash and bassist Duff McKagan first rejoined frontman Axl Rose in the band after 15 years apart. They haven't really done much of note since then, though, and have only one revered album to their name — although 1987's "Appetite for Destruction" remains one of rock's most celebrated records. Especially in hockey arenas in Middle America.
Tuesday's concert at least offered some noteworthy new music, courtesy of opening band Mammoth, the group Wolfgang Van Halen formed following last year's death of his father, guitar god Eddie Van Halen.
The 30-year-old rock vet — he joined his dad's namesake band as a bassist at age 16 — sounded more like the offspring of Foo Fighter Dave Grohl throughout the 35-minute set, in a good way. He shredded more as a deep-howler singer than as a guitarist during grungy and hard-driving but melodic anthems such as "Don't Back Down" and "Circles." There was still plenty of guitars, though. Two other axemen rounded out the live lineup after Wolfie played all the instruments on Mammoth's album; so he still has a little of Dad's great showoff attitude in him.
GNR hit the stage promptly at 8 p.m. — unheard of in the old days! — and opened with two old favorites, "It's So Easy" and "Mr. Brownstone."
Shaky at first, Rose sounded warmed up by the time he bellowed and screeched through "Chinese Democracy," title track to GNR's Slash-less 2008 album. That was followed by "Slither," a song from the guitarist's 2000s-era band Velvet Revolver with McKagan — one of only a handful of Tuesday's tunes not also featured on 2017's GNR set list. (Others included "You're Crazy," the trashy new one "Absurd" and covers of "Wichita Lineman" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog.")
Rose's voice is nowhere near as hair-raising as it was in the band's hairsprayed days. Like Robert Plant, though, the 59-year-old Rose has learned to modify his approach to get around the unreachable notes — a tactic that proved effective in the slower and dirtier "You're Crazy" and that should've been employed in the whimpering "You Could Be Mine."
Slash was, as always, a marksman on guitar throughout the nearly three-hour set. His grimy and downright groovy solo in "Rocket Queen" turned that semi-forgettable oldie into a highlight. His extended solo after "Civil War" — based around Muddy Waters riffs — raised the excitement level just in time for "Sweet Child o' Mine."
Along with "Patience" before the encore — and "Paradise City" at the show's end — the big singalong moments sounded as sweet as ever coming out of quarantine and without the troubled acoustics of the band's last show in town. Too bad a third as many people attended this time.
Here's the GNR setlist from Tuesday:
- It's So Easy
- Mr. Brownstone
- Chinese Democracy
- Slither (Velvet Revolver)
- Double Talkin' Jive
- Welcome to the Jungle
- Better
- Estranged
- Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings)
- You're Crazy
- Rocket Queen
- You Could Be Mine
- I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)
- Absurd
- Civil War
- Slash's guitar solo
- Sweet Child o' Mine
- November Rain
- Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb)
- Patience
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan)
- Nightrain
- ENCORE:
- Madagascar
- Don't Cry
- The Seeker (The Who)
- Paradise City
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15 hours ago, allwaystired said:
They should just play the fucking thing.
I've never seen such a fuss and drama over a band playing a song in my life!
I know! I threw that out there to throw some more gas on the fire. Once it is played, if it is played, there will be at least a 30 page thread on how it was sung, the guitar parts, drums etc.
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Thought I would throw a scenario out there. Maybe they play it St Paul tomorrow night. Their last show was in Milwaukee and that was an outdoor show. It's a 5 hour drive from Milwaukee to the Twin Cites. Del posted a photo that was tagged Minneapolis, MN yesterday on Instagram. I would be pretty convinced they are all already in town. With the show at the Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday, they could rehearse the song with Axl singing without too much worry that it would be recorded and sent out on the internet --with Axl singing. With 3 days in the Twin Cites before the show maybe this gives them that opportunity to actually fully (w/Axl) rehearse the song without too much "interference," or worry that its leaked.
Personally what they should do is just rehearse the song anywhere and run everything strictly through IEM's. The drums would be the only thing that would be heard to anyone NOT wearing the IEM's. One of my bands used to rehearse that way.
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22 minutes ago, Coma16 said:
Foo Fighters have also released 4 albums and multiple EPs since Chinese Democracy was released.
That is my point. Yet their set list has stayed the same with very few changes.
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To put it in perspective. The Foo Fighters have 152 songs in their catalog yet their set lists have pretty much stayed the same for their 2021 tour. GNR has 87 songs in their catalog and yet their set lists has also stayed the same (pretty much) since the tour began. They are playing for the crowds at the arenas/stadiums. Also for the fact that major changes in the set lists makes it harder, as you have to think of production, lighting, pyro. Moving stuff around too much can cause a lot of problems/headaches. But to be fair GNR could/should change the sets when they take a break because then everything can be "reset." Very few large scale bands will never play the same show twice. The Grateful Dead typically would do this back in their day. Bruce Springsteen was/is notorious to have his band rehearse the whole catalog so they could play any song at anytime. He even had a spot in the show where they would take audience requests.
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GNR better be fully aware of the of timing during the show, if not they may have the plug pulled, again.
Chicago Sun Times Jun 23, 2021:
The Cubs would get the go-ahead to hold a rare, midweek concert after Labor Day at Wrigley Field — Guns N’ Roses on Thursday, Sept. 16 — under an ordinance proposed by the local alderman to help the team’s billionaire owners recoup some of their pandemic losses.
The ordinance governing night games and concerts at Wrigley includes a strict prohibition to ensure area residents get some sleep on work and school nights: No midweek concerts after Labor Day, when summer vacation is over and kids are in school.
At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, local Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) introduced an ordinance to waive that post-Labor Day ban and allow the Cubs to hold a 6 p.m. concert on Sept. 16 featuring Guns N’ Roses.
That concert originally was set for Wednesday, July 21, but re-scheduled to Sept. 16 — after Wrigley got the go-ahead to return to 100% capacity for Cubs games and concerts.
“I’m trying to help the Cubs, to be honest with you. There’s less concerts than typically. And it’s been a rough season for everybody. Just because we’re mostly out of the pandemic [doesn’t mean there haven’t been] some huge economic losses for the neighborhood and the Cubs,” Tunney said.
“It’s a one-time exception. I’m not loosening the restrictions other than the fact that we had a pandemic year economically, health-wise and otherwise. It’s all trying to resurrect the local economy — not just the Cubs. It’s a school night. People have to get to bed. It’s an 11 [p.m.] shutdown. But I think the majority of residents understand that this is an exceptional year, as was last year.”
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Also if there is bleed from the cymbals into other nearby mics. Sometime a full drum shield is used to help with stage volume and the same sound bleeding issue.
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On 8/31/2021 at 8:35 AM, DurhamGirl said:
All New Show was advertised then they seemed to drop it during the pandemic, most bafflingd.
They do have an "All New Show." They don't use any pyro or confetti cannons anymore. LOL
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Just compared the WTTJ from Atlanta 2016 to Detroit 2021 128 BPMS in Atlanta and 120 BPM's for Detroit. Nice.
Actual Video is at 123 BPM's & 1991 Show it was at 120 BPM's
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1 minute ago, tsinindy said:
I'm fairly certain that is the way it will be here in Indy at Lucas Oil Stadium...our arena (banker's life) is closed for remodeling. I have a friend who works for the mayor and they wanted to move it there...but they can't.
I saw them last time around at US Bank Stadium and there were sound issues. It has to be outside or in a smaller arena for the best sound. Those huge indoor football stadiums are tough.
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22 minutes ago, Stress Fracture said:
What a bizarre layout for a rock concert.
That the way it would have been if their show here in Minneapolis was still at Target Field (Baseball Stadium) but it was moved the XCEL Arena (hockey arena). It would be better at The Gophers football stadium outside.
When did you first learn about Guns N'Roses? :)
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Back in '86 or '87 when I first heard "Paradise City," on the radio. I thought it was a cool tune then I didn't hear it again for awhile. Then WTTJ came out and PC eventually came back to the radio. I believe the DJ at that time had a copy that he played until some upper management put a stop to it the first round. Then I saw the video on MTV. Back when MTV showed videos 98.9% of the time instead of the BS they show today.