julian204

My 2 cents on this show: it was absolutely amazing, this was the happiest / most excited I've felt this year . Love the energy these guys give off by just making music together.

Axl seemed in a good mood and sounded as good as can be expected imo. 

The band did start 45 minutes late. After 30 minutes of waiting we saw a helicopter fly past and I joked to my friend "oh there comes Axl". And then the helicopter made a turn above the venue and started dropping altitude and eventually landed on the side of the field . At least we got the proper 90's experience with them starting late I guess. 

I purposefully didn't check setlists from previous shows or check the forum since the start of the tour, cause I feel that not knowing what comes next adds to the experience. So I was very pleasantly surprised when I heard Bad Obsession, PTU, Anything Goes and especially DOTF (my favourite song off spaghetti incident, only recently discovered it since I'd never given that album a chance). I did miss Sorum's tight drumming and machine gun snaredrum sound though.

Only thing that bothered me was the slow tempo on the AFD songs. I know it's probably to give Axl some room to breathe, but WTTJ just sounded comically slow, almost as if I was listening to a rumba version of the song. You'd think they would be able to crank it up just a little. 

Also I miss the live McBob introductions.

All in all a great show. When they announced the Euro tour I kinda had my doubts whether I should go or not, but I'm very glad I went.

24 minutes ago, meadsoap said:

I wonder why this show is flopping so hard when all the other Middle East/Europe shows have decent to great attendance. Was there a lot of competition in the Netherlands this summer? Maybe GN'R announced too late.

Iron Maiden is playing tonight at a different venue in NL and they announced before GN'R. I guess they draw kind of the same audience. GN'R have played here 3 times now, so all the casuals have already had a chance to see them. Also, a lot of people farther north in the country can't be bothered to drive this far south, especially since it's a working day.

All things considered (), these are hopefully the right ingredients for an intimate 3,5 hour show with a good setlist .

I haven't checked the setlist yet for the shows on this tour because I want to be surprised tonight. Something special about not knowing what songs they'll be playing or which song's coming up next