Spirit Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 They've already played around 3 hours in several cities on the current US tour..Do you think they might try and stretch it towards 4 hours at any point during the tour, if so, where and when?Personally I think we might see one monster show or two towards the end of the year. Nothing is announced in LA yet, but that would be my bet if they would give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coma16 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 While it would be cool n' all. I think it would be a little excessive for the those attending. Unless there is some sort of intermission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirit Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 While it would be cool n' all. I think it would be a little excessive for the those attending. Unless there is some sort of intermission.I agree that 4 hours is pushing it, don't know how they felt in Tokyo but they seemed to be enjoying it.The band seems to be on a roll right now.. would have been a great way to make a concert dvd with like 35 songs or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 While it would be cool n' all. I think it would be a little excessive for the those attending. Unless there is some sort of intermission.I agree that 4 hours is pushing it, don't know how they felt in Tokyo but they seemed to be enjoying it.The band seems to be on a roll right now.. would have been a great way to make a concert dvd with like 35 songs or something.+1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Drama Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Four hours is only 23 minutes longer than the current record. I can see it happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 They have enough material to do it. The band could play for 6 hours if they wanted. esp. if they decided not to do rehearsal time and just hit the ground running as soon as the show starts. Maybe something with "special guests" joining in to give Axl's voice a break here and there, or take on piano duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 While it would be cool n' all. I think it would be a little excessive for the those attending. Unless there is some sort of intermission.Dude, if people can stand festivals like RiR, people can easily pull 4 hours off... (if they don't get on stage too late) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocArunas Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 (edited) They have enough material to do it. The band could play for 6 hours if they wanted. esp. if they decided not to do rehearsal time and just hit the ground running as soon as the show starts. Maybe something with "special guests" joining in to give Axl's voice a break here and there, or take on piano duties.6 hours? Would there be enough material for 6 hours? I think that would probably be the whole discography Edited November 9, 2011 by DocArunas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
there is no dana only zool Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 While it would be cool n' all. I think it would be a little excessive for the those attending. Unless there is some sort of intermission.Maybe it's just the kid in me that refuses to grow up, but if I could watch GN'R play for 24 hours, I'd be psyched haha. Also that's with the show just starting at 2am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 They've already played around 3 hours in several cities on the current US tour..Do you think they might try and stretch it towards 4 hours at any point during the tour, if so, where and when?Personally I think we might see one monster show or two towards the end of the year. Nothing is announced in LA yet, but that would be my bet if they would give it a shot.YES. (and I nominate Detroit or Chicago for it to happen in) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITW 2012 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 They should attempt to break the record in Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirit Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 I doubt they would do it on an American tour.Sorry to say, but US fans as a whole don't deserve shit like that.Asia and South America have more dedicated and overall better fans. THEY deserve it.The fans who turn up attending the concerts deserves it just as much as fans elsewhere.I think the difference between the US and the rest of the world pretty much is some fans in the US have turned their back on GN'R. Those particular people are not the ones going to the shows now.The concert goers in the US are just as dedicated and good fans as the next one, they've just become fewer. I have a feeling there's growth again as many young people are attending these shows going by the reports.I'm not from the US by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eu4ic Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Vancouver doesnt deserve record-setting Gnr gigs. Either do it in the Midwest, the South, L.A. or N.Y. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 They should do it in Rio to make up for RiR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 (edited) Maybe I'm confusing something here but Duff says in his book that they already played a four hour show.Once the crew was able to take stock of our gear in the wake of the riot, we canceled three shows. We flew to Irving, Texas, to put things back together, hoping to restart the tour with two shows in Dallas. The stage set itself was pretty strong and for the most part survived. Our crew called sound and lighting companies to try to reassemble the gear and we waited for things to come in. We also had to replace the two pianos.We looked at venues differently now. In fact, a crew catchphrase came out of the Riverport riot: Know your exits. We continued the tour the second week of July, in Dallas. The first night back, Axl wouldn’t go on until two hours after we were supposed to start. But it’s not as if I went to him and said, “Come on, buddy, let’s go.” I just grabbed another plastic cup filled with vodka and a tiny splash of cranberry juice. And another. And another. And so it went. At the very end of July, we had a four-night home stand at the Great Western Forum in L.A. We also finally completed the mixing of the two Use Your Illusion albums at the same time we arrived back in L.A. We celebrated with a four-hour show the last night of the Great Western Forum run, August 3, 1991.Less than a month into the tour, on August 8, 1992, we stopped in Montreal. Metallica front man James Hetfield inadvertently stepped into the plume of one of his band’s pyrotechnics pots at the show and had to be rushed to the hospital with extensive burns. The other members of Metallica came back out onstage after James had been whisked away, explained what had happened, and apologized for suspending the show. We could have saved the day by going right on and playing a long set. It would have been a great gesture to the fans and to the guys in Metallica. It would have been the professional thing to do, the right thing to do. And we were capable of an epic set—we had played for four hours in L.A. the night we found out mixing was complete on the Illusion records.Edit: Wiki says it was only 3.5 hours. Edited November 10, 2011 by Dazey Does Dallas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 The last show they might as well go on till 7am. People would leaving and they be hey comeback we've got Coma to do and Shotgun Blues as a closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 If they started doing four hour shows at least the late starts wouldn't be an issue anymore. Fans wouldn't have to worry about missing the last train home as the morning service would have started by that time and they could just head straight to work from the venue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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