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I could be leaving something out or the order might be a little off. Feel free to correct me if you were there...

1. Welcome to the Jungle

2. It's So Easy

3. Mr. Brownstone

4. Live & Let Die

5. Knocking on Heaven's Door

6. Robin Finck Solo

7. Sweet Child O' Mine

8. You Could Be Mine

9. Better

10. Dizzy Reed Piano Solo

11. The Blues

12. Richard Fortus solo

13. Out ta Get me

14. November Rain

15. Liquor & Whores (With the Trailer Park Boys)

16. Bumblefoot Solo

17. Rocket Queen

18. My Michelle

19. Patience

20. Nightrain

Encore:

21. Madagascar

22. Paradise City

I'll try to write a review later.

Edited by Sunn074
Posted (edited)
Liquor And Whores??? :unsure:
The Trailer Park Boy's came out and sang that one with Axl. It was just them goofing around.

It was an awsome show though. Axl's voice was strong throughout the entire concert. The highlights for me were Madagasgar, Bumblefoot's Don't Cry, Rocket Queen, Sweet Child O' Mine, the start of Welcome to the Jungle, and Patience. I didn't get back until 7 AM.

Dizzy's solo was a cover of Angie.

And besides the time of day that they hit the stage, the only thing that I can see wrong with thing concert is that Axl doesn't introduce the new songs. It's not a problem for those of us that have heard them already, but 90% of the crowd has no idea what the songs are.

Edited by BBruins
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Liquor And Whores??? :unsure:

The Trailer Park Boy's came out and sang that one with Axl. It was just them goofing around.

It was an awsome show though. Axl's voice was strong throughout the entire concert. The highlights for me were Madagasgar, Bumblefoot's Don't Cry, Rocket Queen, Sweet Child O' Mine, the start of Welcome to the Jungle, and Patience. I didn't get back until 7 AM.

Dizzy's solo was a cover of Angie.

And besides the time of day that they hit the stage, the only thing that I can see wrong with thing concert is that Axl doesn't introduce the new songs. It's not a problem for those of us that have heard them already, but 90% of the crowd has no idea what the songs are.

Totally agree.

This makes zero sense.

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Overall it was a really great show. I've never seen Guns N' Roses before and have been waiting since I was 13 to finally have the chance. So just getting to go to this show was a pretty big deal to me. At the same time, it was going to be very hard for it to fully live up to my expectations. But even considering that, I can't really complain too much.

When we got in line around 7:45, a security guy was yelling out all the stuff you can't take in. One of them was wallet chains. When he said that, he pointed right at mine. So I had to get out of line and take it back to the car. That sucked, but wasn't the end of the world. But when I came back the line was gone.

When I got in, we found our seats, realized they weren't half bad, then went to check out the merch. My wife and I each got a shirt, I grabbed one of the posters and a skull cap with the old GN'R logo for our son.

Around 8:30 Die Mannequin came on. They sucked ass. I like a lot of different types of music and lots of it other people would say is horrible. But that band was not good. The singer kept getting down in front of the stage. Every time she did that I thought, "Great, the time it takes her to go down there, sing and then climb back on the stage, means it's going to take that much longer for the song to end." Eventually they did stop, but only after a very long, annoying song that again involved the singer going down off the stage.

The Suicide Girls came on maybe 9:00-9:30ish. Not bad for what it was, but kind of boring after a while.

The Trews came on sometime after 10:00. They weren't bad, but not really my thing.

It must have been around 11:30-11:45 when GN'R came on. Everyone was going nuts during the into music and as soon as Robin started playing the opening to "Welcome to the Jungle" the place just exploded. It was pretty overwhelming for me and kind of hard to describe. It sent tingles up my spine and my knees were a little shaky. It was just a flood of emotions and adrenaline all at once. I did noticed right away that Axl's voice was getting lost in the mix. The other thing I found was they weren't really loud enough. It was hard to sing along because I'm used to being drowned out at shows. Plus it was almost distracting in a way to sing along, so for quite a bit of the night I just listened and took everything in. After "WTTJ" the mix got evened out a bit and you could hear Axl much better. It stayed that way for the rest of the night.

"It's So Easy" and "Mr. Brownstone" were both great. Everyone went nuts for "Live & Let Die" which is kind of odd. I like the song, but it's not really my favorite. Must have been lots of old Beatles/Wings fans there. "Knocking On Heaven's Door" was good, but sounded a little different. I think they changed it up a little. It was hard to recognize it when they started until the first verse came in. "Sweet Child O' Mine" was also really good and the crowed was really into it. I heard that Axl had been getting drowned out during "You Could Be Mine", but not last night, he tore through it and I could hear everything. The crowd reacted pretty well for "Better" given that it's a song most of them have never heard. They weren't into "The Blues" as much, but part of that was also because of some momentum being lost with the solos. Each time a solo came along people were into it and cheering, but lots of them started sitting down. Which I can't fucking stand. Don't come to a Guns N' Roses show and sit. That's insulting to the band. My wife tapped my on my shoulder and said the people behind me were complaining because I wasn't sitting down. I just said, "Too bad." and kept standing. Mind you the band kind of shot themselves in the foot by times with the lulls during the show. That would be one of my few complaints. The set list combined with all the solos was total peeks and valleys. They would start to gain some momentum, then throw in something slow or a long solo. I didn't really mind, but it was really annoying how people around me would react by sitting. They still were enjoying everything, just enjoying it like a bunch of old lame people.

Towards the end of the show the Ricky, Julian and Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys came out and got a great response from the crowd. The band (including Axl) then played "Liquor & Whores" with Bubbles singing and playing guitar. Axl looked like he was having a great time and was laughing lots. It was really cool seeing guys from a show/movie that is done locally get that kind of recognition from GN'R and for the band to see how much people here love the TPB.

During Ron's solo he played "Oh Canada" and got a huge reaction/sing along from the crowd. He then played "Don't Cry". It was good, but I would rather have heard the band play it with Axl singing.

They then played "Rocket Queen" and "My Michelle", which were both awesome. "Patience" was next, then they ended with "Nightrain". After a few min they came back and did "Madagascar" which was really well done. The closed the show with "Paradise City". That was at 2:15am.

Some random things...

I was a little disappointed about some of the songs they didn't play. "Down on the Farm" especially. But also "TWAT", "IRS", "Used to Love Her" and "Chinese Democracy". I know they wouldn't have played all those due to time, but I think one or two that normally would have been included got left out for some reason. "Down on the Farm" likely got taken out to make room for "Liquor & Whores".

The crowd was good overall, but I would have liked to have seen people getting into it more.

Although it could have been louder, the sound was really good.

Axl sounded great.

Axl left the stage lots of times, but he always came back, which is all that matters.

Don't ask me to sit down if you're behind me at a show unless you want to be told to fuck off. ;)

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Oh, and I saw Del James walking around with Frank between some of the opening acts. They were on the floor looking up into the crowd in the lower bowl. Del had a little walkie talkie. I don't know what they were doing. Crowd control?

Del is shorter than you would expect. But everyone is shorter in real life. And has short hair now.

Also, here's "Sweet Child O' Mine"...

Edited by Sunn074
Posted (edited)

heres the setlist that i wrote down

Welcome To The Jungle,

It's So Easy,

Mr. Brownstone,

Live And Let Die,

Knockin' On Heaven's Door,

Robin Guitar Solo / Jam,

Sweet Child O' Mine,

Better,

You Could Be Mine,

Dizzy Piano Solo (Angie),

The Blues,

Piano Moving Jam,

Richard & Robin Guitar Duet (Beautiful),

Out Ta Get Me,

November Rain,

Rocket Queen,

With The Trailer Park Boys (Liquor & Whores),

My Michelle,

Patience

Ron Guitar Solo (Oh Canada, Don't Cry),

Nightrain

Encores:

Madagascar

Paradise City

Edited by jonah

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