IDK, I can appreciate the desire to get the fuck out of there when you're done, but a GN'R show is something you see at most 2x in a decade for even most of the diehards (yea, my personal figures far exceed that too).  A 3 hour show for something most people only see once in their lives doesn't seem excessive. 

I seem to be the opposite of you guys.  I'm not really interested in hearing the hits for the 1Xth time.  I want the deep cuts - I want to hear Locomotive, I want to hear Catcher In The Rye, I'd like to hear Sympathy.  There's no arguing 90%+ of those in attendance want to hear PC before they leave, but none of us fall into the category of fandom that 90% of the audience is comprised of.

That's what was so special about the Hammerstein shows.  Everyone there wanted CD tracks and was a diehard fan.  It was truly a moment in GN'R fandom.

I just wish they'd drop Slither.  It sounds worse in person than it does on YouTube.  And there's no way they aren't aware it sounds like shit.

You're right.  I went to Philly to see them and splurged on the VIP shit.  Never again lol.  Completely forgot that show when I wrote my post.  Still, excluding that, where they only did 25 cities, they usually do arena shows outside of festivals.  The fact that they're doing single digit stadium shows in 2022 and 2023 within North America leads me to believe they're going to resume arena shows to support the new album in 24.

Not my take at all.  They're doing Stadium tours, something they haven't done on a mass scale since the early 90s with guns.  Any other stadium show has been a festival or a one off like they did in Pittsburgh, Buffalo and San Francisco recently.  Metallica already runs their own label so they've completely cut the industry out of their control.  Doing these big stadium shows around the country allows for the true fans the opportunity to travel several hours to somewhere and get 2 nights of kickass music.  Pittsburgh and Buffalo certainly didn't suffer attendance this summer despite being smaller markets because they pulled in fans from around the country (and probably globe).

I fully expect them to resume arena shows in 25 where they hit every major market.

Nut job who shot up the nightclub had SWAT called to his house last year and had a standoff. He was arrested for a slew of felonies, but somehow wasn’t in jail. He even live-streamed his stand-off with SWAT last year. And he was allowed to roam free and enact this tragedy.

If someone who threatens to detonate bombs and livestream a standoff with police is immune from enforcement of our laws, what good does passing more laws do.

Some dude just took 18 bullets sitting on his porch 5 miles from me. Just another Monday.

And now I see it's been removed.  Glad I "downloaded" it in YouTube.