GN'R Montreal - July 14th

[Birk]

Everybody has a price!

my cropping skills lol

[PerthGNR]

Crop Fernando onto a Virgil pic and you are winning.

[jimb0]

In 2010, MTL did not get Estranged and Rocket Queen witch would of been awesome to hear

Axl's rendition of Rocket Queen in 2012-13 isn't even worth hearing.

It is if you're looking for laughs

[Silent Jay]

Izzy's Army

Intro (The General)
1.Chinese Democracy

...

is that true? At least the song is back since Rio.

edit:

Review

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/07/15/live-review-guns-n-roses-metropolis-sunday-july-14/

Patience is a virtue. Patience is a grace.

Patience is two hours and 20 minutes-plus into a Guns N’ Roses epic in Métropolis on a Sunday night, and conjures now-receding memories of other numbers. Like the 15-year delay between albums and 8 guys onstage doing the work of 5 druggies from 1990 and…

But why dwell on those when Axl Rose and his band – really, the more accurate designation despite the hits catalogue and the brand name – had come to a club to unload an arena in it.

An initial start time of 11 p.m. had been dialed back to 10:15 by promoters and yeah, there were the numerals again and some eye-rolling from the vets in the crowd… but lo, here was Chinese Democrazy – sorry, Democracy – crunching out of DJ Ashba’s amp and here was the star in broad-brimmed hat, ripped jeans and leather jacket in the hot, hot heat of Métropolis. And all bets were off, because they were on.

Questions: would Axl dial down the pyro from the Dresden saturation-bombing of the Bell Centre show 2½ years ago, given we were in, you know, an enclosed space roughly 1/10th the size? Kaboom-wise, yes, but not in scope and length of the set list. Because here was Ashba in his Slash-lite hat cueing the stutter-riff to Welcome to the Jungle. So relax (an anagram, I’m afraid, but it was late).

Or ignite, as the crowd did, when It’s So Easy and Mr. Brownstone followed in short order, and 28 million global copies sold of Appetite were in the house. Initially, it was hard to tell how Axl’s voice was holding up, simply because the packed house was singing every lyric. A video backdrop behind the drum riser, another on it, and one each behind bassist/stage general Tommy Stinson stage left and guitarist Richard Fortus stage right broadcast the visuals, but Axl was front and centre anyway, executing a wider-stanced snakehips slide on the monitors and clearly at ease. Little banter, lots of three-guitar attack.

You could hear the lingering half-life of the original band’s lurid gutter allure in those three songs, and then you would learn that Axl’s version of pacing is actuallyspacing. There would be many mini-exits by the singer, and longer ones as each axeman took a solo turn. Welcome to the Jumble.

The crowd may have loved the bombast of Richard Fortus shredding frets somewhere between Rocket Queen and Live and Let Die, but by the time keyboardist Dizzy Reed had wheeled out his own version of No Quarter, one wearily wanted a sprint rather than a marathon. Each of those stage-crafted breaks only meant the momentum had to be rekindled. And when Rose took to the piano in a purple Liberace jacket to ease from Pink Floyd and Elton into November Rain (3 keyboards, 3 guitars…), when he covered Neil’s Don’t Let it Bring You Down before Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, when the axemen went acoustic with Angie into Patience, you realized the goal here.

All those classics were meant to remind everyone who hadn’t noticed that Axl insists he and his GnR belong among the Colossi of Rawk. Listen as the crowd howls Sweet Child O’ Mine. Listen to concert highlights You Could Be Mine and Night Train, revealing the voice is indeed still there, if tempered. But still there. Watch as he refuses to go jacketless, which was kind of heroic in that heat. A music biz guy referred, affectionately, to “sweatin’ to the oldies.” Listen and listen as this epic-length show eventually promises to pull into Paradise City as many of these folks risk missing the last train home. And as Axl outlasts the world to win something on his terms. The most interesting truth here is that this 160-minute show housed a 110-minute one that would have better cemented his rep.

markjlepage@yahoo.com

Edited July 15, 2013 by Silent Jay

[Twinaleblood]

Are they playing Angie with vocals or is it just an instrumental intro to Patience?

[Mindray11]

@mygnrforum1

Catcher... Tommy is clearly drunk!

I think if I was playing the same setlist for 10+ years I'd need a drink too..

[trqster]

Nice setlist - videos anyone?

[Matthias]

Nice setlist - videos anyone?

Same here. As some people claimed he sounded good, I'd like to hear that myself.

[Rovim]

Well at least they played Catcher. It's nice to know Tommy was drunk for the duration of the show. Alcohol is the glue that holds this line up together.

[liers]

Bungholio!

Seven cover songs? Geez, why not just record a new covers album and tour to support it.

STOP. Your going to give axl ideas if he sees this. Noone wants covers, we want new music.

[magisme]

Well, he sounds fucking terrible in this video. What a joke Axl is. That laugh he's doing toward the end now is so bad.

Good thing the crowd was great. They drowned out the Mickey for themselves. Well done, Montreal. Poorly done, Axl.

[magisme]

And we're supposed to think Axl was close to matching this energy and voice from 2010? Please, people, stop lying. Get your head out of Axl's ass.

2010:

[Guest cbgnr666]

Looks like the crowd enjoyed it,but that doesn't matter they're not the important fans.

[Zint]

What time did the opening band start?

[mina1788]

And we're supposed to think Axl was close to matching this energy and voice from 2010? Please, people, stop lying. Get your head out of Axl's ass.

2010:

How good is this

[Hollywood Gunner]

Wow what a fucking show... axl was on his game last night and so was the band... ppl keep talkin shit about the ticket prices but it was definitely worth every penny

[suckerpunched03]

That side by side offers quite the perspective.

[Montrealer]

So, here’s my honest review for last night show. I hope I don’t forget anything as I had only 2 hours of sleep!

I didn’t see the opening band, I was having a drink with Eric and my wife across the street, and we were in just a few minutes before GN’R started. It was a really hot night in Montreal and so was the Metropolis.

The place was full and you could tell it was only hardcore fans in there. Paying that much money, you have to be a fan! The lineup was very long hours before the show, something I really don’t understand because there’s always a way to be front row without having to wait hours.

GN’R started on time. The stage setup was perfect for a club but the stage was a little small. It’s a different experience to see GN’R in a club with only fans. Axl was in a great mood and you could tell he really enjoy playing small venues. DJ was clearly the favorite band member of the crowd. You can say anything you want about the guy but he sure knows how to entertain a crowd. Ron was in a great shape, just before his solo, he took the time to speak in French which I thought was really nice from him. Tommy was clearly drunk last night and Chris was partying hard as well.

The voice, I really don’t know what to say about it. Axl sounded great but when I look at the videos from last night it’s completely different. I think that when you’re there with all the noise around you don’t really concentrate on it. But I have to say that his voice was painful on YCBM, CITR and Better! The band on this other side was great and I have nothing bad to say about them. There are too many solos and covers and it kill the rhythm of the show even when the place is full of hardcore fans. Now, maybe Volcano will disagree with this because he was probably in the front rows but for the rest of the club, it’s another story. They could cut all these covers and just do a 2 hours show and it would be perfect!

For your information, I had access to the control screen of the guy who’s in charge of the lightning. I could see all songs that were in the system if they decided to play any of them. I took a picture of it but it’s way too blurry to be able to read anything on it. What I can assure you is that there’s nothing new on it at all.

Was it a great show? No. Was it a good show, yes it was!

I really don’t know what to say more than that. Just ask me questions if there’s anything you’d like to know about last night!

What time did the opening band start?

21:15

[Apollo]

Izzy's Army

Intro (The General)

1.Chinese Democracy

...

is that true? At least the song is back since Rio.

edit:

Review

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/07/15/live-review-guns-n-roses-metropolis-sunday-july-14/

Patience is a virtue. Patience is a grace.

Patience is two hours and 20 minutes-plus into a Guns N’ Roses epic in Métropolis on a Sunday night, and conjures now-receding memories of other numbers. Like the 15-year delay between albums and 8 guys onstage doing the work of 5 druggies from 1990 and…

But why dwell on those when Axl Rose and his band – really, the more accurate designation despite the hits catalogue and the brand name – had come to a club to unload an arena in it.

An initial start time of 11 p.m. had been dialed back to 10:15 by promoters and yeah, there were the numerals again and some eye-rolling from the vets in the crowd… but lo, here was Chinese Democrazy – sorry, Democracy – crunching out of DJ Ashba’s amp and here was the star in broad-brimmed hat, ripped jeans and leather jacket in the hot, hot heat of Métropolis. And all bets were off, because they were on.

Questions: would Axl dial down the pyro from the Dresden saturation-bombing of the Bell Centre show 2½ years ago, given we were in, you know, an enclosed space roughly 1/10th the size? Kaboom-wise, yes, but not in scope and length of the set list. Because here was Ashba in his Slash-lite hat cueing the stutter-riff to Welcome to the Jungle. So relax (an anagram, I’m afraid, but it was late).

Or ignite, as the crowd did, when It’s So Easy and Mr. Brownstone followed in short order, and 28 million global copies sold of Appetite were in the house. Initially, it was hard to tell how Axl’s voice was holding up, simply because the packed house was singing every lyric. A video backdrop behind the drum riser, another on it, and one each behind bassist/stage general Tommy Stinson stage left and guitarist Richard Fortus stage right broadcast the visuals, but Axl was front and centre anyway, executing a wider-stanced snakehips slide on the monitors and clearly at ease. Little banter, lots of three-guitar attack.

You could hear the lingering half-life of the original band’s lurid gutter allure in those three songs, and then you would learn that Axl’s version of pacing is actuallyspacing. There would be many mini-exits by the singer, and longer ones as each axeman took a solo turn. Welcome to the Jumble.

The crowd may have loved the bombast of Richard Fortus shredding frets somewhere between Rocket Queen and Live and Let Die, but by the time keyboardist Dizzy Reed had wheeled out his own version of No Quarter, one wearily wanted a sprint rather than a marathon. Each of those stage-crafted breaks only meant the momentum had to be rekindled. And when Rose took to the piano in a purple Liberace jacket to ease from Pink Floyd and Elton into November Rain (3 keyboards, 3 guitars…), when he covered Neil’s Don’t Let it Bring You Down before Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, when the axemen went acoustic with Angie into Patience, you realized the goal here.

All those classics were meant to remind everyone who hadn’t noticed that Axl insists he and his GnR belong among the Colossi of Rawk. Listen as the crowd howls Sweet Child O’ Mine. Listen to concert highlights You Could Be Mine and Night Train, revealing the voice is indeed still there, if tempered. But still there. Watch as he refuses to go jacketless, which was kind of heroic in that heat. A music biz guy referred, affectionately, to “sweatin’ to the oldies.” Listen and listen as this epic-length show eventually promises to pull into Paradise City as many of these folks risk missing the last train home. And as Axl outlasts the world to win something on his terms. The most interesting truth here is that this 160-minute show housed a 110-minute one that would have better cemented his rep.

markjlepage@yahoo.com

That review pretty much sums it up.

When is Axl going to get this band into the studio and try and shoot some life into the GnR name?

How long will he continue to milk his back catalog and let the current band carry the show, without throwing them a bone and letting them release an album together?

[Hollywood Gunner]

Rasp anyone?

Edited July 15, 2013 by Hollywood Gunner

[Apollo]

So, here’s my honest review for last night show. I hope I don’t forget anything as I had only 2 hours of sleep!

I didn’t see the opening band, I was having a drink with Eric and my wife across the street, and we were in just a few minutes before GN’R started. It was a really hot night in Montreal and so was the Metropolis.

The place was full and you could tell it was only hardcore fans in there. Paying that much money, you have to be a fan! The lineup was very long hours before the show, something I really don’t understand because there’s always a way to be front row without having to wait hours.

GN’R started on time. The stage setup was perfect for a club but the stage was a little small. It’s a different experience to see GN’R in a club with only fans. Axl was in a great mood and you could tell he really enjoy playing small venues. DJ was clearly the favorite band member of the crowd. You can say anything you want about the guy but he sure knows how to entertain a crowd. Ron was in a great shape, just before his solo, he took the time to speak in French which I thought was really nice from him. Tommy was clearly drunk last night and Chris was partying hard as well.

The voice, I really don’t know what to say about it. Axl sounded great but when I look at the videos from last night it’s completely different. I think that when you’re there with all the noise around you don’t really concentrate on it. But I have to say that his voice was painful on YCBM, CITR and Better! The band on this other side was great and I have nothing bad to say about them. There are too many solos and covers and it kill the rhythm of the show even when the place is full of hardcore fans. Now, maybe Volcano will disagree with this because he was probably in the front rows but for the rest of the club, it’s another story. They could cut all these covers and just do a 2 hours show and it would be perfect!

For your information, I had access to the control screen of the guy who’s in charge of the lightning. I could see all songs that were in the system if they decided to play any of them. I took a picture of it but it’s way too blurry to be able to read anything on it. What I can assure you is that there’s nothing new on it at all.

Was it a great show? No. Was it a good show, yes it was!

I really don’t know what to say more than that. Just ask me questions if there’s anything you’d like to know about last night!

What time did the opening band start?

21:15

Thank you for the great review of the show.

Not filled with pure Axl worship, not filled with mockery just to rile up Axl Nutters.

An honest review from a die-hard fan and long-time forum member.

*************

Hollywood Gunner..........I'm a bit confused. We're not supposed to judge Axl's singing performance on youtube videos because they mysteriously make his voice sound bad. But if a youtube video makes Axl's voice sound good, then that's proof that he still sounds great?

Edited July 15, 2013 by Groghan

[Montrealer]

Another french critic can be find here : http://www.sorstu.ca/critique-guns-n-roses-au-metropolis-de-montreal/

I'll try to translate it tonight for you guys. There's a few nice pics in there as well.

Edited July 15, 2013 by Montrealer

[originalgnrnewgnr]

seriously, axl must be very insecure about his looks, when he holds the mic in front of his mouth you barely see his face.

[RJ88]

seriously, axl must be very insecure about his looks, when he holds the mic in front of his mouth you barely see his face.

I nomiante this for dumbest post of the year

Edited July 15, 2013 by RJ88

[VictorPeres]

And we're supposed to think Axl was close to matching this energy and voice from 2010? Please, people, stop lying. Get your head out of Axl's ass.

2010:

oh my god, it was wonderful!

The difference is not only in voice, but also on stage presence. Axl in this video is really cheerful showing interest in the show.

Axl now looks like a robot, singing badly, and also moving around at all the shows.