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Whatever happens tonight, I just hope they don't play it safe.

A 1-2 of ISE and BO would be an amazing statement - a 'Fuck Off' and  'Cunt' within the first 6 minutes of a headlining Glastonbury slot!

Metallica got a bit spooked by the Glastonbury headline pressure and leaned heavily on the Black Album - I hope GNR don't do this.

2 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

A shorter setlist with a priority on lower-register songs and reworking the staples to fit his lower register is exactly what I’ve been saying they should do for some time now. Nightrain and Civil War sounded good.

EDIT: Having Melissa there also helps. Wouldn’t mind her filling a similar role to Carrie for SCOM/PC encores going forward.

Why does the set have to be shorter? If he just uses his voice a bit better (e.g. no pointless LALD screams) and sings some stuff in a lower register and include other songs that use the lower register, they can still do the long sets. I really don't think a long set of lots of lower register songs will do a fraction of the damage of a long set of normal Axl singing.

2 minutes ago, SAU3R said:

Disagree. The best Axl sounded on a whole show in years. He should keep singing in the lower octaves. He sounds so much stronger and consistent 

And just imagine the deeper cuts they might have to dig up to fit this! 🥰

2 minutes ago, TheDemocracyRose said:

What's going on here?

Imagine Tom Waits singing Estranged.

1 minute ago, FabioRoses said:

Seems like they're playing Patience already. Curious to see how this setlist will look like.

I fell for this too - ooh acoustic guitar before the encore - but it was just fucking Wichita Lineman! 

1 minute ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

Apparently his throat is really bad. That's what I hear from inside

He was coughing, spitting and blowing his nose constantly at the Dublin show on Tuesday.

2 minutes ago, Stress Fracture said:

If they wanted to turn this into a win for fans, they could shorten Rocket Queen and KOHD but there’s no chance of that.

And drop the guitar solo! Mad that they would rather drop YCBM than Slash's shitty 7min blues solo.

45 minutes ago, 2020_Intensions said:

If he can't handle SCOM or YCBM in high register no way in HELL is he doing 8 minutes of Locomotive ... lol this whole discussion is so silly .. I know it's not our fault it popped up on the "alts" but still .. Ya'll really trying your hardest to fool yourselves?

Verses and refrain are all in the low register i.e the It's So Easy register - which he still does perfectly well!

Its the 'i bought me an illusion...' bits that may cause him a bit of trouble but they're short enough sections!

They'll never fucking play it anyway so no point in arguing about it :-D

1 hour ago, zombux said:

you think so? check (my super favourite) Mountain View 91 performance and try telling me it's not as hard on the vocal chords  

Locomotive is a much easier song for him to sing than Coma.

I think he could do it - sure Slash gets a solo between each verse - loads of time to catch breath!

And his voice sounds fucked in that 91 audio clip - which probably contributes a lot to the poor vocal performance. 

It's my favourite GNR song so I hope they do it :-) 

4 hours ago, gerardo said:

Man..this is the first show after a quite long break, take it easy guys!

Fucking hell...

Axl is a grown man who has 30+ years of rock n' roll behind him, is in one of  - if not the - greatest rock n' roll bands of all time and is AXL FUCKING ROSE - he is not a 7 year old returning to play his first match for his soccer team after spraining his ankle....

He doesn't need to be treated with kid gloves!

A long break of what?! He wasn't down the fucking mines - he was arsing around not giving a flying fuck about GNR and generally just not giving a shit..

Just now, janrichmond said:

How horrible for all those fans 

i misread your comment as ' How horrible are all those fans? ' ha ha!

Hopefully they'll get to carry on with the show!

7 hours ago, AxlRoseCDII said:

Even if Frank is an inferior drummer, I prefer him for the fact that he doesn't bitch about playing some of the greatest GNR songs and claiming to keep Guns together. What's next, Chris Pitman claiming he was the reason for the reunion?

Brain > Sorum

Frank doesn't 'bitch' because Frank has nothing to bitch about! Frank wasn't the drummer who played with GNR at the height of their greatness! Frank wasn't the drummer when stupid shit with members of the band caused the greatest band in the world to break up! Frank had nothing to do with GNR apart from 5 songs of CD and years as a session drummer!

I don't mean anything against Frank but to write off Sorum's contribution to GNR is fucking dumb - if you do you obviously know nothing about GNR! Sorum has contributed more to GNR than any other member apart from the slash/axl/duff/izzy/adler! Sorum wrote (95% i'm sure) and recorded the drum parts on UYI I and II! 

19 minutes ago, rosesandguns said:

Two drumkits? They didn't have two drumkits in Cinci? 

first set of gear (incl. drumkit) belongs to the support band.