Gimpy Hewitt

Axl sounds good on jungle!

1 minute ago, Martin Riggs said:

How rare is that not to be in the first 4 songs on the reunion tour?

Never happened before

They skipped Jungle

1 hour ago, MaskingApathy said:

It is under alts

I meant any other new stuff other than hardschool

1 minute ago, Lies They Tell said:

A surprise for sure, but a welcome one! I honestly loved this! I've always been a fan of the remix version of Silkworms. 

That being said this seriously felt like Axl wanted to troll with the fans again. Kinda like back in the day with his sausage tweets. He knows that Silkworms isn't the most beloves GNR song. That made this so funny.

But I love the energy of this song and I hope that it stays in the setlist.

Most of all I hope that they start playing other unreleased GNR too. If Silkworms was all we got, then this would be absurdly disappointing.

But I'm very sure that they will play other unreleased GNR songs on this tour too. Hardschool is very likely, but hopefully something else too.

I think hard school will be played but don’t hold your breath for anything else, I’m sure if it was going to be played this tour it’d already be under alts on the setlist

11 minutes ago, AxlRoseCDII said:

The voice sounds pretty rough. I don't know what I expect at his age, though. It always seems like he is trying but just can't get the notes or sound of his voice anymore. I think with some vocal surgery/coaching again he can get back to how he sounded in 2016, which I think was very realistic for his age.

The sad thing is he had a year and a half off of touring to get vocal surgery and it doesn’t seem like he went through with it. I guess with the uncertainty of when the tour would resume he refrained from getting it. But who knows it’s all just speculation

Really sad at the end of nightrain it sounded like he said “I have no idea why my vocals are washed for that entire song”. I feel so bad for the dude it does seem like he’s trying.

2 minutes ago, youngswedishvinyl said:

I do agree with you on a lot of points here, the difference though is that SOYL was officially released in 1992 and it was played to promote the reissue of AFD. Silkworms was never officially released and it returns now under a new title with nothing else but a potential forthcoming album to promote.

Is Absurd a new song? No, it was played 20 years ago. But that was the case for Don't Cry, Back Off Bitch and Perfect Crime as well, although that was only five years prior to release.

Good point here on SOYL, I guess the band themselves didn’t promote it as new, but I remember Fernando calling it a new song on Reddit. 

Just now, Cosmo said:

I’m speechless. How the hell dis they manage to get the worst song they ever performed live and, 20 years later, present it as a new song, sounding even worse? That takes talent. I mean… you got 20 years to improve the song, get people’s opinions, come up with something good, you get help from Slash, Duff, a revolving door of musicians along the way and yet - it sounds worse than any other song in the GnR catalog lol.

 

I was worried a new GnR album would be half assed like the Slash and Myles songs but man… that stuff is much better than Absurd! 

This......

Only reason I’m seeing this show again for the 4th time is the possibility of hearing hard skool. Let’s hope we are blessed tomorrow.

I get that many of you are excited for this, but I’d like you all to remember your feelings towards shadow of your love in 2018 when they called it a “new” song. I remember how angry a lot of you were then, that are happy and satisfied with this now. We have waited 13 years to even hear a glimpse of something new, and they dust off a song that was played live already in 2001, and they call it the first new song. You can make the case that this would be the same way if they played hard skool Instead but my counter argument is, hard skool was never played live before, and never heard unless you’re a diehard that got ahold of the leaks. If you had directv in 2001, you already heard Absurd 20 years ago. I guess there’s not much point to this rant other than I’m disgusted that this is what I waited 13 years for..... silkworms

5 minutes ago, SMG said:

99% Sure they have sounchecked OMG.

They 100% soundchecked it in 2011 but idk for sure if they have in recent years, but it was on the setlist.

Is it just me or during the breakdown of Hardschool do you hear the Axl tracks going “ay ay ay” like one of his voice ad libs. If that’s what he plans on doing during the breakdown that’ll be a cool little throwback GNR sound.

Just saw a pic of Axl at soundcheck, bigger than ever....

1 minute ago, Kranich said:

You saw nightrain from houston?

Easily my favourite live version of this song.

This one is unfortunately not as good.

I’m sure it was better than this one a bit. His screams were great but the middle of the song had a lot of weak middle register. All in all an awesome NITLT selects

Nightrain was kinda weak in 2016, he didn’t use as much of the low register rasp then

At least the Mickey voice had some life behind it in 2016

A GOOD ROCKET QUEEN

3 words.... cocaine ain’t cheap

8 hours ago, DTJ80 said:

I just took it that they were guide vocals for the soundcheck TBH. I think Think About You was soundchecked also and sounded really good.

They soundchecked  Pretty Tied Up. Sounded nice

*comes on here because thread is hot hoping for something*

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*leaves in disappointment*