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#101 Re: Guns N' Roses » Ideal Setlist Part 1: Don't Cry vs. Patience » 468 weeks ago
Crowd wants Patience. Helluva experience hearing that live.
I want Don't Cry (alt).
#102 Guns N' Roses » Quote Hunt » 468 weeks ago
- Gagarin
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The gist is Axl is saying that "For years I had Slash and Stephanie and everyone else saying everything I wrote was terrible and I was no good, so getting back to writing was just hard." Anyone remember a quote like that or know the source?
Could not find in Axl chats - though I might have missed it.
#103 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Set-List » 470 weeks ago
Gagarin wrote:You have no where to go if you do WTTJ first. ISE cuts in right away and kicks things off. WTTJ lets you back off and then crank it up again. There's a reason.
That reason is Axl. WTTJ became a staple opener on 01/01/01 and stayed that way throughout the Robin era. CD was made priority only after the album drop. In between, even on the now-legendary '06-07 season, it was an AFD show. IRS and Better became regulars, but the UYI deep cuts were non-existent. It had to do with Axl's self-admitted 'emotional problems' with the back catalogue and the desire to promote an unreleased album. The only thing they had to fall back on was AFD, or so they thought.
Having Slash and Duff back has reinstated him with a whole of self-assuredness. They can now do something like Coma, which is bordering on obscure and represents a certain musical deep-end for Guns during the UYI-era. And he's fine with picking that thread up again, because the current lineup validates the inclusion. Axl has less to prove right now as his main men have old-school credentials.
What?
WTTJ was commonly NOT the opening song for GNR. It wasn't until Axl's shows with the NuGNR band. It's So Easy was the most common opener as far as I can tell. When you start all the way at '11' there's nowhere for you to go. It makes sense to not have it be the first song...just like it wasn't at most shows in the 80's or 90's.
#104 Re: Guns N' Roses » 3/7/16 SOLDIER FIELD, CHICAGO, IL UNITED STATES » 470 weeks ago
They may close of the end-zone side high level sections, remove some floor seats, and fill the others in.
That way it wouldn't impact the overall 'feel'.
#105 Re: Guns N' Roses » 1/7/16 SOLDIER FIELD, CHICAGO, IL UNITED STATES » 470 weeks ago
Might have been others. He did the "I'm not sure what it is but it's weird and pissed off and calls itself SLASH" intro.
#106 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Set-List » 470 weeks ago
The same people would go to shows multiple times and watch it online (had the technology been existent/proven) in 2006 as in 2016.
Same online nerd fanbase. *Raises hand*. It's a finite amount.
There's a REASON the setlists are the way they are. There's practically a science to it. Not doing WTTJ first is genius. Why waste the biggest pop of the night on a song that's going to get a big pop anyway? You have no where to go if you do WTTJ first. ISE cuts in right away and kicks things off. WTTJ lets you back off and then crank it up again. There's a reason.
The setlists as they are let them check the right boxes each night.
When push comes to shove, every fan that makes a 'dream setlist' in one of those threads ends up basically making the same setlist as every other fan... and they end up looking like the real setlist, plus or minus 4 or 5 songs. What do you REALLY want? Random setlists with no flow or rhyme or reason to order? A night with nothing but slow ballads? A night with nothing but fast songs one after another after another? A "No SCOM, No WWTJ, No PC, No NR" night where everyone goes home pissed except for 200 people who were jazzed about hearing Perfect Crime? (Frankly, some of the Pearl Jam setlists would SUCK for the casual fan...doing the whole 'Binaural' album? No thanks, Eddie.)
Civil War, Estranged, Coma are NOT SONGS YOU DO IF YOU ARE LAZY.
#107 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Set-List » 470 weeks ago
#Bitch #Moan
These are stadium shows with 40,000 - 60,000 people. "Loads of people" haven't been watching the YouTube videos or going to multiple shows. Loads of people are going to the show, plopping down 50 bucks for merchandise, and 50 bucks for beer and leaving VERY happy and VERY satisfied.
Doing Coma and the Chinese songs is ridiculous - they're there because of Slash-service, Axl-service, Duff-service, and fan-service. We are getting a sundae with these shows. I am very happy GNR chooses to be ridiculous.
Their whole catalog are 'must play' songs to someone. That's the problem. Personally I'm not missing TWAT or Back Of Bitch or Bad Obsession or whatever song that will end up being played and some forum poster will end up moving the goal post anyway.
Coma.
FFS.
Coma.
#108 Re: Guns N' Roses » 1/7/16 SOLDIER FIELD, CHICAGO, IL UNITED STATES » 470 weeks ago
I appreciate the homefuck.
Amazing show and amazing to be there with tens of thousands of people, not just 'thousands of people'. I really hope this is a windfall for all involved, especially the 3.
Best of the shows I've been to.
3 or 4 songs in Axl says "Good morning!", talks about how he read the "selective annihilation" quote in Civil War in the Chicago Sun Times. "There's bugs in my water - that costs extra!" sometime towards the end of the show.
#109 Re: Guns N' Roses » 26/6/16 FEDEX FIELD, WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES » 470 weeks ago
He's probably the only multimillionaire in LA not on HGH...
#110 Re: Guns N' Roses » If Dexter returns... » 473 weeks ago
If Dexter returned, I'd say -
1.) Thank you for Chinese Democracy - it helped me get though and process some real shit that came up in my life. Thank you.
2.) When you posted in the forums after it was released, you mentioned that you'd like people to have the opportunity to get what they can out of it for awhile before you 'clouded it' with revealing your own inspirations. Could you let us know what is going on in Prostitute? Who were the ones that wouldn't be saved?
