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@Blackstar .... I think this the show you're referring to.  At the 10:03 mark .....

Sounds like the start of a really bad joke......"Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Rosie O'Donell walk into a Starbucks...."

I'm here!  They are playing Tom Petty on the PA right now.  The stripped down stage is so cool.  This is going to be awesome.    Have fun everyone. 

This will be my fourth time on this  tour too and I'll go again for a fifth time if they happen to come here again. Life is too short to not enjoy this, and they really do put on an amazing show. 

Absolutely incredible show!  This is my tenth time seeing GNR and the third time seeing the NIL tour. I didn't think that anything could top the Philly show last year, but last night was by far the best show I've been to.  Jungle, Coma, Estranged,  Nightrain, BHS, UTLH and Civil War were  the standouts of the night ---perfection. Slash's solos were mesmerizing to watch. There are generations before us who get to say they saw Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin or went to Woodstock.  Seeing Slash play live will forever be on my list of bragging rights.  He's the best guitarist I ever will be lucky enough to hear in person.

And as for Axl -- yes, I'm going to be that fan who says go see him live. His voice is amazing.  Seriously, what a fuckin powerhouse.  There was tons of rasps, screams and strength in his voice. He crushed it.  And, he is indeed one of the best frontmen that there is.  He runs across that stage like crazed lunatic for three hours and never stops.  He smiles, he's passionate, he engages with the crowd and manages to bring together 30,000 people from the first row to the last seat in the house.  Axl could be enough to carry the show on his own,  but to see the combination of Slash, Axl and Duff together performing live is the stuff of legends.  I hope that everyone gets to see this musical greatness at least once. 

And, to add on to what others have said about the crowd -- I have never seen anything like this.  We were about a 1/3 of the way back on the floor in the $250 area. I'm not even sure if some of the people around me even recognized more than two or three songs.  No one sang along to KOHD, very few people raised their arms and clapped during RQ and even Jungle (which, btw, Axl sang the hell out of) were only moderately appreciated. WTF???  And yet, the band came back and gave that great encore and probably gave way more to the crowd than they got in return. (The only thing I can think of is that Live is from York PA and they had quite a few diehards in my section, so maybe some of those expensive floor seats were snapped up by Live fans who didn't care too much about GNR??)

And finally, did anyone think the final bow was strange?  It seemed to take a little longer than normal tor the band to come out and meanwhile there was a huge push in the crowd to get out. Even if you wanted to stay, there were so many people pushing to get out that it was impossible to stay in your seat.  When the band did come back, Axl looked rather confused as to why so much of the floor had emptied out and I feel bad that the band didn't really get the applause and ovation that they earned and deserved. 

And Happy Birthday to @axlweave and @TLC!  What a way to celebrate. 

I'm here!  I'm in the stadium.  Holy Fuck this is going to be awesome!