Casual Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I want to listen The General so bad.Wonder if we´re lucky enough to get The General @ RIR.yea I'm sure they are gonna play some super obscure song for one of their biggest crowds. That would sure kick up the energy...not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I think they'll open with Chinese Democracy but maybe they have yet to decide on an opener for Rio.Personally, I think Jungle will probably always be the best opener for a Guns show, but it's nice to change things a bit once in a while and it's a good idea to play one of the newer songs as the intro just because the attention of 100% of the crowd is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITW 2012 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 It's time to go back to the greatest opening song of all time: Welcome to The Jungle. Chinese Democracy should be banished permanently from the setlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Chinese + Jungle is perfect the way it it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesterdays-Civil-War Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I love CD as an opener. I just love WTTJ a lot more.There are other songs that would get me pumped just as much, such as It's So Easy, Nightrain, Perfect Crime, Don't Damn Me, and Shotgun Blues.Granted, GN'R even playing Don't Damn Me and Shotgun Blues, seeing as how they have never done it before, is highly unlikely.I believe they will just open like CD, like they have been doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocBrown Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Nothing beats those Jungle openers of 2006. I hope they switch it. I think Jungle gets the crowd a lot more pumped right off the bat. They could do Jungle/CD in a row, just switch them around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screamin' Demon Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I'd love for them to open up with Back Off Bitch, that'd make a hell of an opener. But I'd bet on either Chinese Democracy or Welcome To The Jungle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiedHands Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 (edited) I think the current opening set is the best option. Starting with something "new" is pretty ballsy, and with the whole setup, the intro, the pyro, etc., it's so exciting. Then you go right into something everyone knows. I do agree they need to drop at least 'Mr. Brownstone' from those first 4 or 5 songs. I think a line of Chinese Democracy/Jungle/Live and Let Die/Shackler would get the energy going pretty damn well... Edited September 4, 2011 by TiedHands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 CD is brilliant opener it's just whether Shacklers follows it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 They might as well play more new songs. CD all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest siliconmessiah Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 (edited) I don´t know about you guys, but in my opinion, "Chinese Democracy", "Brownstone" , "It´s so easy","Live & Let die", "Street of dreams" and "Knocking on Heavens door"falls into the category of songs that could easily be replaced.That´s six songs that could get thrown out to give place for three totally new songs and three UYI-songs. Would be the perfect RIR-setlist. I´d love to see Pretty Tied Up for example!EDIT: Added KOHD to the list. Edited September 5, 2011 by siliconmessiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Christ on a fucking cross... DJ playing "Chinese" is terrible. No soul or emotion whatsoever. Just flat, chunky strums. "No feel" to steal a popular phrase.I hope he's been practicing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunko12345 Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Chi Dem, probably. Or... a new song, perhaps.If they open with a new song i'll eat my balls.Of course its gonna be CD or WTTJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy_GNR Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Chinese Democracy, not something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhazUp Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 WTTJ would be a great opener. What better way to pump an audience up by teasing an opening riff of one of their most popular songs and Axl screaming "Do you know where the fuck you are!?!?!" at the top of his lungs?I just got chills imagining that! Chinese Democracy as an opener? not so much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnRMatt Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Open with CD and save Jungle for the encore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Nightrain should not be used as an opener. This band play the hell out of it, so it's better for the latter half of the show so they can blow more fucking minds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 CD, then WTTJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheapJon Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 same setlist as last time. same tour - different year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosetattoo Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 They'll open with CD, but I'd most like to see Dead Horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auad Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 (edited) the amazing and unbelievable thing...estranged. Edited September 6, 2011 by auad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockerman Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 (edited) Open with CD ...stop halfway through it and apologize for its fucked up lyrics by blaming it on some bad acid he dropped that he got off a kid standing outside his gates one night and then proceed on to the same setlist that has worked for him for 12 years Heres a transcript of it...It don't really matterGonna find out for yourselfNo it don't really matterGonna leave this thing toSomebody elseIf they were missionariesReal time visionariesSittin' in a chinese stewTo view my dis-infatuationI know that I'm a classic caseWatch my dis-enchanted faceBlame it on the Falun GongThey've seen the end and you can't hold on now...STOP! STOP!!(band grinds to a halt) calls for a translator...Axl taking holds the mike up to his lips....pauses and looks around..grins at Bumblefoot who looks pissed off"YA know.....when I wrote Welcome to the Jungle I wrote that to tell a story of shit that really happened to me and it was real..and now you hear that song everywhere...I was hoping this song would be like Welcome...ya know..iconic but shit.. i have to tell you...I wrote that on some bad acid back in 98 that i got from a kid hanging outside my front gate one night...(crowd roars) so if the lyrics sound like I was on acid...I fuckin was. I had some music that I couldnt find lyrics to and i just went in and started dropping shit out my mouth and just happened to record it!! You have to laugh at the chinese stew part..( crowd cheers) I think i was attempting to channel my inner BONO and make a political statement about some things I learned about China..but in all fairness.. after listening to it..it proves that you can put shit out there set to music and no body in this generation gives a fuck about it!! Theyll swallow it because (takes on his mockery voice) Axl wrote it -sings it and thus its a "masterpiece" ..Well Im sorry the lyrics to this are products of my brains on Acid..jokes on you...jokes on you.....pauses..(crowd cheers and Axl grins)Anyway....So on behalf of myself and Mr Fink and mr. Buckethead who wrote the music and allowed me to use those lyrics...(pause) like they had a choice....I apologize ...i can understand why you people throw bottles at us..not cuz were late but because we opened with that song....well finish it for my fangirls andfan boys out in MYGNR land.. band picks up where it left off and Axl finishes the song..crowd goes wild..largely because they speak Porteguese and never have heard the lyrics and 89% of the crowd have never even heard CD and 95 % were unaware that Slash was no longer in the band anymore and wonder "who the fuck is this Buckehead and Finck he spoke of??? Edited September 6, 2011 by rockerman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChineseDemocracy2004 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Chinese DemocracyI also think they will open with this. I would be very surprised if they didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlIsGod. Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 I can see them doing ChiDem but, id rather have jungle. Its better when the first thing you hear from axl is him screaming at the top of his voice "You know where you AREEEE?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Street of Dreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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