Anyone know the capacity of the venue?

Fingers crossed for a smooth evening!

There's being bummed about a bad show from your favourite band, then you have total "armageddon-doomsday-destruction-crazy"-angry at the band/Axl!

I was bummed after spending a lot of money on the two shows in Norway last year.
And for the record, I got up at 4am to watch rir and I missed the live stream because of the late start.

But there is a thing called everreacting and many here on the board are def in that camp!

Found the TV-rip on youtube last night and watched it on my HD-TV through my Boxee Box. Picture quality was superb! Sound and playing of the band was awesome! Axl's vocals were a bit high in the mix for my taste. Really highlighted the fact that he seemed unprepared.
Don't know what the youtube-mix that many of you watched was like, but to me there were several great moments!

Hopefully, Estranged will become a regular. And like someone suggested a few pages back (Neemo, I think?), it would be awesome if they played Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged back to back on a regular basis!

It's very obvious to me that this gig and the Brazilian fans mean a great deal to Axl. Seems like he really tried to pull himself together at various points during the gig, only to get caught in another lyrical hickup or whatever. Even at the very end during PC, seems to me he really tries to close on a high note when DJ seems to try and help get him back on track! If the lyrical hickups were due to the monitors beeing covered up because of the rain or whatever. Doesen't really matter. It happened. Maybe he was upset that he couldn't go "all in", running around and generally giving the crowd a show that he felt they deserved and it just snowballed from there? Should or could he be a tad more profesional about it? Sure, but history tells us THAT is not his strong side...

One could argue that other great bands have pulled off great shows in heavy rain. But one thing is for damn sure. None of us really knows what it feels like to feel prevented from giving 75'000 crazy fans what they came for. Seems to me that, giving a great show to a large audience like that can make you feel on top of the fuckin' world. But if you feel like you "fuck up the show", it can really make you wanna curl up in a fetus-position and beg the ground to swallow you right then and there! Seems we got a little bit of both on this night. Prolly more of the latter....

Boy, this thread got really long! And the usual whiners really had a field day! Like vultures on a roadkill!
Jeez, some of you have written a novel worth of material in these pages. Many of you prolly had unrealistic high hopes for this gig. And you're obviously upset at spending hours n' hours on your computer, only to have your pipedream shot down. But holy mother of Jesus and all that's good and holy, the venomous doomsday arguments are really of the charts!

If a bad rock show gets you THIS riled up, I really hate to think of what happens to you when some really important shit in your lives really hits the fan!

From Twitter:

Bumblefoot: Apologies for f'ing up the Jungle solo tonight, I couldn't see through that stormtrooper helmet and was trying to get it off my head, haha!!
mo, okt 03 13:32:09 from web

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Bumblefoot: But at least I know I can still do this. (With help from Advil, whiskey & massage...) Thanks to ALL of you for tuning in, was an HONOR
mo, okt 03 13:34:44 from web

Damn! I had to get to work so I missed the whole thing! And Estranged!

Can't wait to get home and watch it. Or maybe I'll wait for the HDTV-rip....

Was the rest of the show really that bad or was the sound "lost in the stream"?

Catched a bit of System Of A Down earlier and all I heard was vocals and guitars with some low drums way in the back.

Anyway, a bad show at the start of a tour is nothing new when it comes to Axl. Shouldn't be that way, but at least he's consistant!