gnr-dave Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 He should try at a few of the shows opening with CD and not WTTJ and see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appetite 4 Axl Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I guess that would be cool but WTTJ is a great opener. Nothing beats hearing that first riff.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_YourIdols Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I guess that would be cool but WTTJ is a great opener. Nothing beats hearing that first riff..i agree with you when axl screams do you know where the fuck you are!?!?!?!?!?!? really makes people go nuts i don't think that would happen with chinese democracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-GenerationX Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I agree, and I hope that CD will be the opener once the show is out.With that whole new long intor they have going now, its a perfect show opener.And I have never liked WTTJ as the opener. I think one of the highlights of the UYI bootlegs is when its mid show and Axl hits you with the random and unexpected "DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE FUCK YOU ARE?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCGNR Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 YesI also think the intro to Better would work quite well to getting a show kicked offI'm tired of Jungle opening every one of the hundred something shows they've done this year - but I understand why they keep it thereTrying one of the CD songs would kind of symbolize " Out with the old, and in with the new " and I'm for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axingn'r Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Unfortunately for Axl, none of the new songs are good enough to be neither openers nor closers.Hopefully the "big guns" are still to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnr-dave Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 Unfortunately for Axl, none of the new songs are good enough to be neither openers nor closers.Hopefully the "big guns" are still to come.Oh please, gnr have opened with perfect crime and right next door to hell before, CD is better than both of those songs. Gnr used to open wiht its so easy or nighttrain before too. IT was not always WTTJ. When CD drops CD should be the opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_YourIdols Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Unfortunately for Axl, none of the new songs are good enough to be neither openers nor closers.Hopefully the "big guns" are still to come.Oh please, gnr have opened with perfect crime and right next door to hell before, CD is better than both of those songs. Gnr used to open wiht its so easy or nighttrain before too. IT was not always WTTJ. When CD drops CD should be the opener.if it has to be one of the new songs i would prefer better ten times more than chinese democracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axingn'r Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Unfortunately for Axl, none of the new songs are good enough to be neither openers nor closers.Hopefully the "big guns" are still to come.Oh please, gnr have opened with perfect crime and right next door to hell before, CD is better than both of those songs. Gnr used to open wiht its so easy or nighttrain before too. IT was not always WTTJ. When CD drops CD should be the opener.If CD is better than Perfect Crime and Right Next Door to Hell is debatable. Anyway, they didn't open often with Perfect Crime, did they ?It's so Easy and Nightrain are among the best GNR songs, CD isn't a patch on them. It's an average song imo, but maybe we should get used to average songs with this new band, shouldn't we ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Drama Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I was thinking the exact same thing. Chinese Democracy would be a kick-ass opener! rock1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNR06 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Unfortunately for Axl, none of the new songs are good enough to be neither openers nor closers.Hopefully the "big guns" are still to come.Oh please, gnr have opened with perfect crime and right next door to hell before, CD is better than both of those songs. Gnr used to open wiht its so easy or nighttrain before too. IT was not always WTTJ. When CD drops CD should be the opener.If CD is better than Perfect Crime and Right Next Door to Hell is debatable. Anyway, they didn't open often with Perfect Crime, did they ?It's so Easy and Nightrain are among the best GNR songs, CD isn't a patch on them. It's an average song imo, but maybe we should get used to average songs with this new band, shouldn't we ?Yes, I remember seeing them open with Perfect Crime before UYIs were released. No one in the crowd knew the song but it sounded hard and angry.IMO, they should consider using CD as an opener after CD is released. Right now the crowd energy that WTTJ generates is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt13 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 He should try at a few of the shows opening with CD and not WTTJ and see how it goes.I'm sure Axl Rose, a guy who has played countless hundreds of concerts, who has performed in front of countless millions of fans, who has a pretty good idea of what those countless millions of fans want to hear has things under control. Until 'CD' has the same mystique and recognizability as WTTJ (quite arguably an iconic track burned into every ear of every English speaking person in the world thanks to its use at sporting and other events), which it won't, it probably won't be an opener. Casual fans are going to want to hear the huge classics and what better way to get a casual crowd fired up than the use of Jungle as an opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kesseli Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 CD as an opener would kick so much ass. its awesome the opening riff now.. and finck can play with it the way he plays with wttj... just teasing.nightrain is a nice opener also.. Better = not an opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdinan Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 So what, we lose the "do you know where the fuck you are!"... he can just scream: "WOULD YOU LIKE PORK FRIED RICE WITH THAAAAATTTT!!"" :chinese democracy opening riff: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appetite for illusions Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I've imagined it as the opener. Then straight after "out of tiiimmme", when the audiene are cheerin, he screams "YOU KNOW WHERE THE FUCK YOU ARE???!?!?!"Fuckin sweet B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stradlin666 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Maybe the intro should start with Axl reading a few Fortune cookies and tossing them in the audience!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCGNR Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I was in the Meadowlands for both GNR/Metallica shows back in early nineties, and the second show , yes, they opened with Perfect Crime The reason he is playing Jungle now, is because he knows that there are still a lot of people going to these shows because of what GNR HAS DONE......not necessarily what GNR WILL DO in the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Apollo Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Unfortunately for Axl, none of the new songs are good enough to be neither openers nor closers.Hopefully the "big guns" are still to come.Oh please, gnr have opened with perfect crime and right next door to hell before, CD is better than both of those songs. Gnr used to open wiht its so easy or nighttrain before too. IT was not always WTTJ. When CD drops CD should be the opener.If CD is better than Perfect Crime and Right Next Door to Hell is debatable. Anyway, they didn't open often with Perfect Crime, did they ?It's so Easy and Nightrain are among the best GNR songs, CD isn't a patch on them. It's an average song imo, but maybe we should get used to average songs with this new band, shouldn't we ?Why would you assume that songs the new gnr puts out are going to be average? Weren't you a fan of the old band? Wasn't Axl part of a band that put out some of the best rock music ever? Seems like you'd assume that whatever Axl put out now would be WAY more than "average." Course, I guess after what Slash has put out without Axl (velvet, snakepit) your used to old band members putting out average rock. But you should at least wait and give Axl a chance, before assuming the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 (edited) can't promote the new band without having a dig at the former members eh?They're the bane of GNR's existence now. Everywhere one turns there they are. Why couldn't they just dissapear into nothing after leaving GNR, then we wouldn't have to always be reminded that they will always be around and people will never forget their contributions to GNR. Why couldn't they just stop making music and not get along so well outside of GNR that they are back making jamming together? Edited December 28, 2006 by moreblack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustaine Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I think they should always open with WTTJ, it's such a great opener... the crowd goes crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnan Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I guess that would be cool but WTTJ is a great opener. Nothing beats hearing that first riff..Even this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_YourIdols Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I guess that would be cool but WTTJ is a great opener. Nothing beats hearing that first riff..Even this?yes even that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Apollo Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 can't promote the new band without having a dig at the former members eh?They're the bane of GNR's existence now. Everywhere one turns there they are. Why couldn't they just dissapear into nothing after leaving GNR, then we wouldn't have to always be reminded that they will always be around and people will never forget their contributions to GNR. Why couldn't they just stop making music and not get along so well outside of GNR that they are back making jamming together?OMG. Talk about the pot coloring the kettle Black.Yes, people often talk about the old guys when talking about the new band.JUST LIKE VR fans cant talk about their band without taking shots at Axl and Chinese Democracy!!!!Thats what amazes me about the VR crowd. They apply different standards to people than they follow themselves.It's OK to rip Axl, the new band and Chinese Democracy the album. But if somebody says something negative about Scott or Velvet . . . it's not an opinion like they have about Axl/CD . . . but it's disgruntled, jealous fans just ripping apart the old guys.Unfuckingbelievable. The old saying "do as I say, not as I do" comes to mind.I bash Velv Rev because I think their singer sucks, their album was boring and I personally expected much more from Slash/Duff. You apparently didn't. Guess my expectations were too high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Flower Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Nah, you just have shitty taste in music.Don't worry, not everyone can be as cool as me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leigh-Rok! Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 CD isn't a patch on them. It's an average song imoI don't do it often, but I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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