Tour is (almost) over - where do we go now?

[adamsapple]

Now that the tour is wrapping up, I think it's safe to say the band deserves rest and time with friends and family. When/if they tour again, what would you like to see? Care for a new album?

I gotta give credit where it is due - tour has seen an improved set list with deep cuts and new songs, Axl giving it his all and using his baritone voice (I like it!) more prominently, Slash not completely butchering the CD solos anymore, plus we got a cool music video for "Perhaps" and even a new song "The General / Monsters".

Either way, just felt like saying THANKS for these shows and the new songs (even though getting new music from this band is like pulling teeth sometimes).

[GNR 1991]

I’m sad that Monsters leaked and may not be getting an official release imminently. Hopefully it is part of the vinyl or is plopped onto streaming by Dec 8.

2023 has been a pretty good year for us I must say. We didn’t expect a Perhaps music video, or The General. Or some of the deep cuts played live.

if the band does take 2024 off, I hope an album or another twofer single is out, even if they don’t tour behind it immediately. The soonest they could tour in 2024 is the summer, after the Slash tour ends in April.

 

 

[AxlRoseCDII]

I don’t really know what they do from here. We can assume it’s gonna be radio silence in 2024, and then 2025 they may do another “WERE FN BACK AGAIN” tour, but I think they’re gonna have to play arenas. I don’t think a new album is happening any time soon, so maybe just Atlas and something else EP with a few more deepcuts in the set.

[Walapino]

I hope we get Monsters, Atlas.... and Seven + Oklahom would be awesome! Some live material too from Slither and CD tracks with S/D!

[ZoSoRose]

This was a good tour, overall. Classic deep cuts in the set and two new songs. For the next tour, I’d like to see Axl change some of his techniques and I’d, of course, want more new songs- including Monsters!

Edited November 3, 2023 by ZoSoRose

[rumandraisin]

Tour was the best so far since the reunion. Not vocally sadly. 

It'll probably be a similar size your in 25 with Atlas and Monsters. 

[rumandraisin]

Does beg the question, what was stopping any of this year's events happening in 2017 or 18 and so on. 

[DSTK]

It's been my favourite tour following Guns,  2002 and 06 were especially good, I was there for Sailing !!

But the sets in Europe in 23 were cool as hell, I'm not fussed about shows I haven't been to and what was played but perhaps and the general were surprising...loved the liked of anything goes, bad obsession, PTU etc 

[Spoon87]

Some cool releases would be nice, a live release of some form (vinyl / BluRay for example), maybe a new covers album if the muse doesn't arrive, best case would be of course new album or a compilation of the new songs, but I wouldn't count on that, haha.

Touring mode seems off for 2024, I could live with that, get some rest guys (and tour your solo efforts, meaning Duff and Slash, Axl could finish up is biography, one can dream, right?).

[DSTK]

1 minute ago, rumandraisin said:

Does beg the question, what was stopping any of this year's events happening in 2017 or 18 and so on. 

The leaks 

[k12]

So what year do you think they go back on tour, I say 2025 for a 40th anniversary tour

 

[BluegrassBlues]

I've loved this tour, and I agree it may be complete radio silence for 2024. I'd love to see dvd releases of this tour and older ones as well, especially if they would release any of the footage shots from UYI. I'd like to see more singles released, and if Axl ever wanted to release a book now would be a great time 

[Ratam]

The future is just an mystery, just they knew. It title put me bit sad. 

[meadsoap]

I'm still wary of that rumored of a long break (meaning longer than a year). Slash words keep ringing through my head, where he said there was "one last leg of the tour before were free to start working on a new album" .

He said that in 2022, and I think these past shows are the last leg he was talking about. So maybe they come back to tour, or maybe Slash words were very literal and this is the "last" lag and we've come to the end of the road.

Edited November 3, 2023 by meadsoap

[Rovim]

6 minutes ago, meadsoap said:

I'm still wary of that rumored of a long break (meaning longer than a year). Slash words keep ringing through my head, where he said there was "one last leg of the tour before were free to start working on a new album" .

He said that in 2022, and I think these past shows are the last leg he was talking about. So maybe they come back to tour, or maybe Slash words were very literal and this is the "last" lag and we've come to the end of the road.

no way that this is the end of the road imo, touring wise for Gn'R. I keep saying this, but Axl said in the China Exchange interview that he would like to keep it going for as long as possible. As long as Axl is physically able to do it, I think we're good in the touring department.

[liers]

I think we’ll see an album and tour within the next year or two..

I know that’s an unpopular opinion, but Axls finally releasing new music. Slash and Duff want to write and record, and Axls said in the past that he wasn’t writing songs to keep them buried. They're not getting any younger, either. It just feels different this time around. There’s an optimism surrounding this band that there wasn’t been in about 13 years

[axlvai]

I hope to get some good old stuff. More UYI shows to see.

The make of the new album. With slash n Duff. The closing of the chinese era.

NITL tour its over. Now make the magic happen again.

[meadsoap]

11 minutes ago, Rovim said:

no way that this is the end of the road imo, touring wise for Gn'R. I keep saying this, but Axl said in the China Exchange interview that he would like to keep it going for as long as possible. As long as Axl is physically able to do it, I think we're good in the touring department.

True. I know he said that when the tour first started but it's now 8 years later of nonstop, tiring truing. As I said in another thread, even in this leg alone they did 51 3-hour shows in less than 6 months.

Axl in his 60s now, and that kind of constant travel and strain is brutal even on young bodies. There's a reason their same-age peers (like Metallica and RHCP) schedule much more spread out shows and/or much shorter shows. If they did take a longer break after this, it would make sense and even be healthy. Maybe "end of the road" is the wrong way to say it, but a hiatus for a few years to recuperate...

 

Edited November 3, 2023 by meadsoap

[Rovim]

Just now, meadsoap said:

True. I know he said that when the tour started but it's been 8 years of nonstop shows. As I said in another thread, even in this leg alone they did 51 3-hour shows in less than 6 months.

Axl in his 60s now, and that kind of constant travel and strain is brutal on the body. There's a reason their same-age peers (like Metallica and RHCP) schedule much more spread out shows and/or much shorter shows. If they did take a longer break after this, it would make sense and even be healthier. Maybe "end of the road" is the wrong way to say it, but a hiatus for a couple years to recuperate...

 

longer breaks, no more back to back shows, changing singing approach, all of that I can see happening and some of it is already happening, but keeping it going is something I believe that Axl is still interested in doing for multiple reasons.

[meadsoap]

To give you guys an idea, Metallica's current tour is 46 shows over 18 months, with a couple weeks to recover in between each city. GnR just did 51 shows in five months with less than 3 days to recover in between most of them, and the shows are an hour longer than Metallica's. RHCP only does 90 minutes sets.

It's kind of insane what their doing in comparison to other 50+ aged bands.

Edited November 3, 2023 by meadsoap

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

Duff wants to tour off his new album and Slash is going back to Miles Kennedy and that band.

Axl will probably take a long vacation.

Maybe a new album will come sometime next year.

I read John 5 thinks Motley Crue and GNR should tour together. Guess he doesn't know the history of these two bands. Anyway, who would headline GNR will want to headline. I know MC and DL both changed off.  I doubt this will ever happen. lol

I do hope either next year or 2025 GNR comes back to Dallas TX.  I know next year a lot of bands Iron Maiden and The Scorpions are having huge tours.

[gunsfanoldie]

Can't imagine much changing. I actually thought before this year they really needed to shake it up, and to their credit they did. From here on out, I expect just more of the same. They covered most of the songs this time around that hadn't come out and I'd have expected earlier like Bad Obsession and Pretty Tied Up. At this point, the biggest songs that haven't been revived are Think About You, Move To The City and Perfect Crime. I guess Dust N Bones and 14 Years if Izzy came back, and maybe You Ain't The First but thats about it.

They've covered about 60 different songs at this point since 2016, including all the various covers. The only two "gimmicks" I could see them having left to play if they wanted are an original 5 Appetite lineup, or a tour where they play all of Appetite, both of which seemed more likely to me before this year. Now I don't feel they'll really have to. Then I guess there's the farewell tour but yeah, I don't know. I think they could just continue this as long as they want.

There's no way we get an album. IMO.

Edited November 3, 2023 by gunsfanoldie

[Dani_1455]

Well what Slash said have been happening, he told about the UYI Boxset we have It, he told that new songs were coming It happen, he has told that they would start working on a new album It should happen the things is when.

My bet is that they will return around first months of 2025 and by the final 2025 we should be getting an album or an EP with new songs

[WhazUp]

I must say, this currently feels like the most normal GNR has been in a long long time lol.  Songs are actually coming out from time to time, they are being played live, setlists are shifting and more deep cuts being played, etc.  I hope they keep that momentum of normalcy going during the downtime and capitalize on Axl having time to hear some Slash riffs and write some melodies and lyrics

 

[Italian girl]

It Will be a long sad period