08/08/17 - Miami, FL - Marlins Park

[JimMorrison4]

A few weeks ago i said i was thinking about selling my tickets because of how Axl sounded in Europe. Glad I didn't!! This was my 7th  time seeing them (02, 06, 10, 12 twice, 16,  and last night.) I don't remember hearing Axl sound better. Great, great show. 

It was weird they decided to leave the roof open considering how hot it was but maybe that's what helped with the sound? 

Guns n Roses absolutely puts on the best concert you'll ever see. This year alone I've seen Metallica, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Reo Speedwagon, Styx, Neil Diamond, a 2 day country festival, Kid Rock, Def Leppard, George Thorogood, Bret Michaels, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. It's not even a close comparison. 

[MyPrettyTiedUpMichelle]

6 minutes ago, JimMorrison4 said:

A few weeks ago i said i was thinking about selling my tickets because of how Axl sounded in Europe. Glad I didn't!! This was my 7th  time seeing them (02, 06, 10, 12 twice, 16,  and last night.) I don't remember hearing Axl sound better. Great, great show. 

It was weird they decided to leave the roof open considering how hot it was but maybe that's what helped with the sound? 

Guns n Roses absolutely puts on the best concert you'll ever see. This year alone I've seen Metallica, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Reo Speedwagon, Styx, Neil Diamond, a 2 day country festival, Kid Rock, Def Leppard, George Thorogood, Bret Michaels, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. It's not even a close comparison. 

Bloody hell, I'm jealous - all those bands you've seen!  Especially Def Leppard, what were they like?  30th anniversary for those guys this year too.  Thanks for the mini-review.  I don't know what it is, but since Apollo, the band on the whole seems to have found some extra energy, particularly Axl.

Edited August 9, 2017 by MyPrettyTiedUpMichelle

[moreblack]

17 minutes ago, JimMorrison4 said:

It's not even a close comparison. 

Don't know about that. I've seen Maiden live, they're kind of unbeatable.

Edited August 9, 2017 by moreblack

[tsinindy]

2 minutes ago, moreblack said:

Don't know about that. I've seen Maiden live, they're kind of unbeatable.

Maidens setlist this year really holds them down. I love Maiden, great live act,  but I would say the GnR show I saw in St Louis was better than Maiden in Vegas.  Close call though.

[JimMorrison4]

The ONLY thing I can kinda knock Maiden for is that every time I've seen them they were touring a new album. So over half of the setlist is always new songs. 

Def Leppard still sounds great. The band is always so tight. Joe Elliot doesn't hit the high notes like he used to but when you're there you don't notice. 

[moreblack]

Just now, JimMorrison4 said:

The ONLY thing I can kinda knock Maiden for is that every time I've seen them they were touring a new album. So over half of the setlist is always new songs. 

Suits me fine, I don't want to hear Run To The Hills, Hallowed or Wrathchild for the millionth time, infact I would trade more "classics" for a full rendition of Empire Of The Clouds. You have to admire the fact they're always going forward, and their output quality has never waned. It's not like they don't do their retro tours either. I remember they toured nothing but DiAnno era stuff at one point and early Bruce stuff other years. 

[IncitingChaos]

 

 

[TupacShakur]

axl please release all  the locked up albums from your vault before N korea war

[gnrkoncerti]

1 hour ago, JimMorrison4 said:

A few weeks ago i said i was thinking about selling my tickets because of how Axl sounded in Europe. Glad I didn't!! This was my 7th  time seeing them (02, 06, 10, 12 twice, 16,  and last night.) I don't remember hearing Axl sound better. Great, great show. 

It was weird they decided to leave the roof open considering how hot it was but maybe that's what helped with the sound? 

Guns n Roses absolutely puts on the best concert you'll ever see. This year alone I've seen Metallica, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Reo Speedwagon, Styx, Neil Diamond, a 2 day country festival, Kid Rock, Def Leppard, George Thorogood, Bret Michaels, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. It's not even a close comparison. 

Axl sounded amazing inEurope...You made conclusion with yt videos...And I'm glad you'were wrong...

Axl sounded bloody amazing in Euro dates...I was there

Edited August 9, 2017 by gnrkoncerti

[Black Sabbath]

The show was great.

[pomponio]

Ok guys,  here we go. I was there last night and I must say, it was beyond amazing. I saw them in Orlando and Lima, Peru last year, and this show was in a whole different category. The whole band was on fire!! Slash was running around like  if it was 1992 again. So was Axl. Axl vocals were insanely powerful, and raspy. The crowd was great. At least, 70% were from Latin America, which makes them loud, engaged and beyond enthusiastic. Guns N' Roses loves that. I could see the band getting pumped every time they looked up at the crowd's faces. Axl would smile and make face gestures through out the whole night. Slash extended every solo and kept playing and playing during the song's endings. Frank, which I've never been a huge fan of, was hitting those drums with a crazy energy. I'm a fan now. Duff looked as if he didn't believe how great the show was going. 

I'm now convinced that Axl chooses to give 110%  (150% last night) whenever he wants to. But we need to remember he is a 55 y/o guy who has a really delicate instrument. His voice has made him rich and famous. He needs to protect it. During some songs he used his "more delicate" high pitch, in order to preserve his pipes. However, he went way beyond the "manufacturer's recommended rpm's" during songs like jungle, ycbm, LALD, etc. His ability to sing at that level at his age, shows how well he has been taking care of his instrument. His not abusing his vocals all the time, is the reason why we can still enjoy the greatest rock band in the world in 2017. Instead of complaining about it, we should be thankful Axl is a smart guy who has known how to keep this rare talent alive for so many years. 

Persicope, set list rant:

I got into Gn'R and as 12 year old back in the nineties. I fell in love with that band, as they were breaking up. I cried when I heard Kurt Loader reading Axl's press release about Slash being out in 1996. I became a musician because of them. I followed every step of their careers, dreaming that they would one day put their crap aside and get back together. I waited 23 fucking years for this. I became and adult and a dad and they still didn't get back together. So it's logical that I went nuts when it finally happened. I saw most of the first leg of the American tour live on periscope. I also over analyzed every detail. I knew if they were gonna do don't cry or patience during the encore, beforehand. When I saw them in Orlando, there was no surprise effect. The same in Lima. I flew down to South America just for that show, by the way. During the last months before the Miami show, I decided not to watch any periscope or even read much about them. And what a favor I did to myself. I felt like a kid whenever they started each song. Not knowing what comes after makes it special. It also helps that last night they played a bunch of stuff they didn't do in the shows I went to.  I used to love her and Yesterdays were a gift. My advice is for you guys not to follow the set lists or live videos as much, if you're gonna see them anytime soon. It dramatically improves your own experience. And, by the way, every major live act keeps the same core set list during every show. It makes no sense for us to complain about it. 

 

What else? They are still the greatest rock n' roll band in the world!!!! I thought I was done after this show. But I was wrong. I will see them again. Rock n roll is not dead. Guns N' Roses are rock n roll! 

Edited August 9, 2017 by pomponio
Spelling, grammar, context.

[tsinindy]

14 minutes ago, gnrkoncerti said:

Axl sounded amazing inEurope...You made conclusion with yt videos...And I'm glad you'were wrong...

Axl sounded bloody amazing in Euro dates...I was there

Yes YouTube videos are legitimate sources of info...geeze lol

source:  me, I've watched a ton of videos from the St Louis show and they accurately reflect how he and the band sounded...amazing isn't it.  

Edited August 9, 2017 by tsinindy

[SEANAXL21]

Amazing show guys in Miami driving home now i took video's will post on youtube later also got video of the band driving up in the golf carts behind the stage.Axl showed up in a suv it was pretty cool look for them soon thanks Gunners!!!!!!

[Ratam]

2 hours ago, BlueJean Baby said:

 

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See more photos of Guns N' Roses performance at Marlins Park here. Photo by George Martinez

Guns N' Roses Made Up for Lost Time With Three-Hour Set at Marlins Park

CELIA ALMEIDA | AUGUST 9, 2017 | 9:03AM

They say rock n' roll is dead in 2017 - a shell of the cultural touchstone it once was, eclipsed by computer-generated sounds and gone by the wayside in a karmic retelling of rock's past usurpation of jazz as America's leading musical force. "They" haven't seen Slash play Eric Clapton's "Layla" solo with Axl Rose on piano in front of 35,000 rabid fans wearing Guns N' Roses T-shirts like compulsory uniforms.

 

After decades of public feuding and separate musical projects, "The Most Dangerous Band in the World" made up for lost time at Marlins Park with a blistering 3-hour set of arena-ready hits, and asserted its place in rock's disciplic succession with tributes to many of the rock n' roll gods who came before (and after) them.

The first of these tributes came before GNR even hit the stage, as the offstage announcer introduced the band by shouting out the "Rhinestone Fucking Cowboy" Glen Campbell, whose death was announced just a few hours before the show.

 

Running onstage to the Looney Tunes theme-song, the band opened with "It's So Easy," off the career-defining albumAppetite for Destruction. The Not In This Lifetime tour marks the reunion of original members Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan in celebration of Appetite's 30th anniversary.

Guns N' Roses powered through the energetic set as sweat dripped off their bodies and Axl Rose changed T-shirt after T-shirt.

Guns N' Roses musicians can act as hard as they want - and they do. But at their core, they're crowd pleasers. They know their fans want raining pyro, climbing and jumping off stage monitors, and extended guitar solos. They delivered handsomely to a melting audience that vocalized and tweeted their displeasure at the Park's decision to keep the roof open without AC at the height of Miami summer. Sitting in the heat was bad, but GNR nevertheless powered through the energetic set as sweat dripped off their bodies and Axl Rose changed T-shirt after T-shirt.

Photo by George Martinez

 

Rose faded in and out of view during the show, appearing when his voice was needed for songs like "Rocket Queen," "You Could Be Mine," "My Michelle," and the still-shocking "Used to Love Her." He bowed out during the many times Slash took center stage for extended solos, like his instrumental cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."

That was just one of many tributes, both subtle and overt, to the band's rock heroes. Slash closed out "Civil War" with a few licks of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child" and duck-walked across the stage like Chuck Berry, as  McKagan played in his Lemmy shirt and displayed a purple Prince symbol on his bass guitar.The most powerful tribute of the night came in the form of a moving cover of "Black Hole Sun," in memory of Soundgarden frontman and Slash and McKagan collaborator Chris Cornell. The rendition also allowed space for Rose to sing in his gorgeous lower register, which goes criminally underused in favor of his admittedly impressive sky high range.

The show hit the three-hour mark during the band's four-song encore, which included "Patience" and "Paradise City." Fans had been clamoring for these songs from the stands throughout the show. Saving his only political statement for the end of the show, Axl Rose asked the crowd to sing along with vigor during "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," alluding to Donald Trump's terrifying "fire and fury" comments regarding possible nuclear war with North Korea. "This could be the last time we get to sing it," he said, before voicing his wish for cooler heads to prevail. After all, after a lifetime of public spats and outbursts, his band's twilight success is living proof of what can be accomplished when people set egos aside and finally get to work.

 

Thanks for post this great review,the people complain for the roof open was very hot, poor people and also the band 😎

[IncitingChaos]

16 minutes ago, Ratam said:

Thanks for post this great review,the people complain for the roof open was very hot, poor people and also the band 😎

The sound quality would suffer greatly if the roof was shut. I guarantee the concert was better Bc they had it opened. 

[Gnrcane]

11 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

The sound quality would suffer greatly if the roof was shut. I guarantee the concert was better Bc they had it opened. 

Agree.  It would echo like crazy because, unlike an arena, there is no sound baffle on the underside of the roof.

[Ratam]

25 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

The sound quality would suffer greatly if the roof was shut. I guarantee the concert was better Bc they had it opened. 

Yes, i not think in  the sound, just in hot , because i hate hot weather, i suffer much ,these was my point

[Italian girl]

Thinkin' about next time I could see gnr..

[axlsend]

4 minutes ago, Italian girl said:

Thinkin' about next time I could see gnr..

Go to NY!

[Padme]

13 minutes ago, Italian girl said:

Thinkin' about next time I could see gnr..

Vegas/L.A. 

[lenni19]

Axl looks fucking cool with the cap 😀 

I hope he will wear it every show from now 😀 

 

[marlingrl03]

[pugachev]

Hope to see them again in Houston or Tulsa, the ticket prices there much pricier than what I got in Little Rock. I was spoiled.

[gnr5]

Here is my review if anyone cares to read it...

Got there at around 7pm, traffic was crazy but I was able to make it to my seat on time, they started around 8pm. I went with two other casual fans, and my brother who knows all the UYI and AFD stuff, not really into CD. It was hot and sticky, I thought Axl would not be wearing any of his jackets, but he did and by Chinese Democracy he was soaking wet from his sweat. Anyhow, I've seen them in 2002-2006-2012(?)-Vegas Night 1, yet, this has been my favorite performance. I didn't see any periscopes or anything the past few weeks, so I didn't know what to expect. Axl sounded AMAZING, both of my casual fans friends were blown away by his voice, he was on fire the entire time, LALD was a highlight, he really brought the house down with that. He was running around, at least more than the Europe leg. Slash was moving around a lot too. The production is great too, if you don't have tickets yet, make sure you find one, I thought Miami was going to be an ok show, but it was GREAT. 

Now I want to go see them in the PIT at another show! Gonna have to fly out somewhere.

[MyPrettyTiedUpMichelle]

47 minutes ago, lenni19 said:

Axl looks fucking cool with the cap 😀 

I hope he will wear it every show from now 😀 

 

I was thinking that too!  Loving the cap, way more than the cowboy hat.  In any case, he's in great shape lately, best he's looked for ages.  Dare I say it, he seems to be getting his mojo back?