They've been having storm issues out there.

For example, Chase Field closed their roof tonight for the Cubs/Diamondbacks game because it was raining in Phoenix... PHOENIX.

So if it can rain there, Vegas might be getting it too.

BWHAHAHHAHAHA

Enjoy the show SG

I also think he's vocally in his 2006 form. I noticed this with the Troub show, and the video GN'R released solidified it.

I thought Axl sounded great in 2006. It was a mix of rasp and the clean vocal. Bad nights were all clean vocal. But the difference in 2006 vs. 2002 & 2011-14, was that Axl HAD POWER (BTTF 2)!

I would GLADLY take 2006 vocal Axl + Slash & Duff in 2016. FUCK YES! According to Scott Weiland, we almost got that in 2006....

They are a BAND.

Axl, Slash & Duff = Guns N' Roses, and what they are saying -- this has been the case since 1990.

Although they are not technically a 3-piece, Alice In Chains is also basically Jerry/Sean/Mike Inez. That group would tour under the AIC banner, whether DuVall was there or not. They did before DuVall was there.

Metallica = Hetfield, Ulrich & Hammett. Nobody considers Rob a member of the band. As soon as Jason was shown the door (for no fucking reason), it became a 3-piece.

Van Halen = Dave/Eddie/Alex. Nobody is paying to see Wolfie.

Queen & The Who are even less so. Just 2 OG's and a backing band.

That's why I went off about Dizzy Reed getting slighted. I didn't get it. 25 years of loyalty to Axl, plus being on the Illusion records, and being in the Hall, I would've thought would've bought Dizzy some say so.

But again, does Dizzy deserve a 4th cut? Apparently IZZY didn't deserve it, so I doubt Dizzy would get it.

However... something tells me if Dizzy is on salary, Dizzy is BY FAR making the most of any of the other members. Possibly triple. I'm sure Dizzy is being taken care of nicely.

Lofton put it better than me, but yeah. GN'R has already had their run at the top. They had a reboot in the early 2000's and it failed for a variety of reasons. This is actually their 2nd reboot, ala Whitesnake in the mid-2000's with Aldrich/Beach, but obviously on a Rolling Stones-level.

That's why I used the Whitesnake reference. People forget that Whitesnake made a mild splash in the rock scene in the late 70s/early 80s, and were significantly popular in the U.K. They had their moment and a couple of hits, and never cracked the U.S. market. By the Slide It In-era, with Sykes on guitar, Coverdale was still failing to get in the U.S. what he wanted. 'Snake '87 was him scrapping the board, completely rebooting the band into a glam rock outfit, and by Slip of the Tongue, they were straight metal with Vandenburg/Vai. He rose to the top of the world, then basically went into modest retirement by 1990, having no clue about the grunge explosion on the way.

Fast-forward to the mid-2000's, then came the reboot with Doug Aldrich/Reb Beach, that was a hybrid band between early 'Snake & glam 'Snake. Probably the way the band always should've been. Regardless, it was a SECOND reboot, and somehow for a time -- it worked. They weren't playing Download or anything, but they had some modest success as a tribute act to themselves.

Axl won't have the ability to do that, because people never viewed him as the centerpiece of the band. Never. Maybe in his mind, but never. Like James said, it's too late in the life cycle.

I come back to the Alice In Chains thing earlier with them being seen as a trio. DuVall imo will never been seen as a true member, despite promotion, but that core of Cantrell/Kinney/Inez, pretty much is AIC. Those pieces imo don't change. That's the core. DuVall can be removed, and that trio will still tour as AIC, whether they bring in a replacement or not. I'd love for Jerry to bring in someone like Aaron Lewis (who'd probably jump at the job as he was a huge Layne mark), but Jerry's ego will never allow it. He still is wanting to convince the world he was always the brains behind Chains (which he was).

Axl doesn't have that option. As just little things like recent soundchecks tonight have proven... THE BAND (at least Slash & Duff) were just as important to the core of Guns N' Roses, as Axl himself.

Just having Slash & Duff there, the guitars sound infinitely better, the backing vocals & harmonies make the songs sound like they did on the album, and with Axl there -- that's the nucleus. Izzy fucked off in '91 to never return, and that's HIS doing.

Again, not to beat a broken record, and yes to slight my boy Dizzy, but yeah... GN'R = Axl/Slash/Duff. It's even being promoted as "Axl, Slash & Duff return to the stage for the first time in 23 years".

It'll stay that way. The only thing that will change that is an untimely death. And of course, if Axl dies -- it's over. He's truely irreplaceable.