09/17/23 - Atlanta, GA - Music Midtown Festival (Piedmont Park)

[cineater]

Thanks for sharing Axl.   Could have went my whole life and not heard about that.

[GNRRHCP98]

Just now, BlueJean Baby said:

love his explanation of pussy full of maggots 😄

Missed it on the stream, what he say?

HS, Perhaps, and Absurd consecutively- the trifecta of “new” music from the reunion lineup. That’s kind of amazing. 

[Blackstar]

2 minutes ago, GNRRHCP98 said:

Missed it on the stream, what he say?

HS, Perhaps, and Absurd consecutively- the trifecta of “new” music from the reunion lineup. That’s kind of amazing. 

He has told it once before. The line came about while he was watching the Howard Stern show. Here is what he said the other time (in Moncton):

… that song, but it’s true. It was a long time ago and it was blurred out on TV [on the Howard stern show], but some scary ass chick took a Big Gulp from 7-Eleven filled with maggots and put it on her bikini. I thought that was pretty absurd, I was writing about somebody who I thought was absurd, and just thought it fit. That’s all. Poetic license... Creativity.... Inspiration. Well, enough of that... So, good ole Howard is part of GN’R history. Just saying.

Now he said that he was writing the song about an asshole, so it fit.

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[cineater]

Hey what happen to the tutus?  There must be some place appropriate I could wear a light up tutu.  You know I had a pink one but that's now cover in mud.  They had a good time.

[Silence]

Were lithos sold at this show?

[djtripp20]

I don't care what any of you asshats think. This show is better than anything I've seen online. 

[Blackstar]

Have Estranged, Live and Let Die and Reckless Life been played yet?

Edited September 18, 2023 by Blackstar

[VeeR]

If you're not 4tus you're against us... lol nice one Axl

Edited September 18, 2023 by VeeR

[BlueJean Baby]

does sound good tonight.

[kingcanyon]

3 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Have Estranged, Live and Let Die and Reckless Life been played yet?

No not as I've seen 

[djtripp20]

All three new songs sounded fucking amazing! I can't wait to see the clips later. He finally let the band sing the shit on perhaps. Even my wife (who has put up with me as a gunner since the 90s) says Axl is killing it. She said she'd fuck em

[kingcanyon]

Setlist from setlist.fm so far

1. It's so easy 

2. Bad obsession

3. Chinese democracy 

4. Mr brownstone

5. Slither

6. Welcome to the jungle 

7. Pretty tied up

8. Double talking jive

9. You could be mine

10. Down on the farm

11. Hard skool

12. Perhaps 

13. Absurd 

14. Rocket queen 

15. TV eye

16. Anything goes

17. Civil war 

18. Slash solo

[GNR 1991]

38 minutes ago, cineater said:

Hey what happen to the tutus?  There must be some place appropriate I could wear a light up tutu.  You know I had a pink one but that's now cover in mud.  They had a good time.

What are you even saying?

[djtripp20]

KOHD- Beer run

[cineater]

5 minutes ago, GNR 1991 said:

What are you even saying?

I liked those two light up tutus the girls were wearing on Eric's stream.  I wouldn't wear one to a GNR concert but there must be some place I could wear one.

[Blackstar]

Is there a curfew? They're playing KHOD already and it seems they have skipped some regular songs.

[cineater]

1 minute ago, djtripp20 said:

KOHD- Beer run

I would have did that during Sweet Child and November Rain.  Think I've reached burned out on those.

[djtripp20]

1 minute ago, cineater said:

I would have did that during Sweet Child and November Rain.  Think I've reached burned out on those.

My wife went for me. She's awesome. Song is still going. Bet your she's back before it's done 

[Gun-Z]

I’m at the show, they sound terrific!! Axl has so much charisma and slash is owning the stage 🤘🏼

[djtripp20]

And she's back with beer. What a great intermission song

[themadcaplaughs]

At the show. Everyone around me commenting on how great Axl sounds. Goes to show the forums aren’t the end all be all. He’s on fire tonight; going for it with the stage presence more than I’ve ever seen him.

They just finished KOHD. Axl said they’re not doing an encore break due to curfew; they jumped right into LALD.

Axl has been consistent vocal wise. The only song I could notice him struggling with was Hard Skool. Best Slither I’ve heard from them at the shows I’ve seen since they started playing that song. Ironically, of the new songs, I’d say Absurd actually got best reaction. At the end of the Absurd story Axl said “it seemed like an appropriate memory given that I wrote the song about an asshole.”

Edited September 18, 2023 by themadcaplaughs

[Coma16]

It's a shame Don't Cry isn't a staple....

[djtripp20]

And they're done. No coma, no Maddy, wtf. I'm drunk sorry

[Blackstar]

Axl's Absurd story:

You know, that song, I didn’t make that shit up. It’s really old, that line. It’s from a Howard Stern show. There was some crazy individual in a bikini with, like, a 7-Eleven Big Gulp full of maggots pouring it down in her bikini. It fit the song because I was writing about an asshole, so, you know… I am a sick motherfucker, but not sick enough to make that up by myself. [Music Midtown, Atlanta, GA, USA, September 17, 2023]

[gabmmor]

Setlist: It’s So Easy, Bad Obsession, Chinese Democracy, Mr. Brownstone, Slither, Rumble/Welcome To The Jungle, Pretty Tied Up, Double Talkin’ Jive, You Could Be Mine, Down On The Farm, Hard Skool, Perhaps, Absurd, Rocket Queen, T.V. Eye, Anything Goes, Civil War/(Voodoo Child), Band Introductions, Slash Solo/Sweet Child O’ Mine, November Rain, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Live And Let Die, Patience, Don’t Cry, Nightrain, Paradise City

(HTGTH)