yea we know that. the incongruity of that serves to highlight the phoniness of these chat shows, but there is an innate humour in it nonetheless. the show-runner/producer off-screen whipping up the crowd to cheer, or the applause ('apple sauce') sign flashing.. it's all part of it, but it is still funny to hear people cheer when 4tus' name or tommy's name is mentioned.

the show must be coming together this week before the residency starts cause reading that it sounds like they haven't thought it thru or planned it at all!

which is the best way!

but aye, i expect at the least they'll do an acoustic section in the set & otherwise keep to the standard setlists. & there'll be a few special guests as well, robin/izzy and others.

oh no that is the reason why he's on there.
sure he did the newspaper interview for promo when they played LA a year or so ago, he said as much in that interview.
but hey, shows have sold badly before & he didn't do promo so perhaps it's a step in the right direction?
i kinda think whatever way it worked before, the onus was meant to be on the promoter, the tour organizers, to sell the shows & promote the shows but for whatever reason these Vegas shows are different & GnR have to help sell it themselves. before they would get a standard rate no matter how many tickets sold & then would get a cut of the tickets after a certain number were sold or whatever? maybe it's different this time?

also, is that the biggest pop 4tus has ever received when axl said his name?

on that first point/paragraph:
i think he should give himself more credit.
i'm not entirely sure it was the Lebeis' fault for him not doing press before this. i don't think he wanted to do press, or trusted the media, to such an extent he chose to shy away from this sort of stuff before.
kimmel asked him how come he's doing this show but not others, or didn't do it before & he never really answered. the answer of course is cause it's much easier to promo the vegas residency & do cool stuff like give out free tickets to that than it is promoting CD or a nationwide tour.

i think they have encouraged him to do this. i think he is able to trust their judgement, that they will put measures in place to enable him to do this as comfortably as possible.
for one thing, it's certainly not unscripted. i'm sure they vetted the process thoroughly (or as thoroughly as those idiots can). & i'm sure the kimmel producers made promises to ensure they got the interview.
i think the trust he has in them, his de facto family, means he is able to do this whereas under other management he wouldn't have been comfortable enough, woulda been too paranoid to 'risk' exposing himself.
i think the fact this happened under Team Brasil shows they are capable of getting him out & about where other management failed. (not getting into the more nefarious aspect of their dealings w/other management mind you.)

& as fun & cool as it was, i wouldn't want to see him over-exposed (lol, i cant keep a straight face typing this!). y'know? doing countless types of these promo-fluff interviews would do more harm than good! but it's not going to get anywhere near that level of exposure i know.
what i'd really like to see him do a charlie rose type interview where he explored in depth his influences & his work, but i don't think those type of shows exist anymore.