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- stewharkness
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Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
Hey, I'm new to this forum. Just wanted to know if anyone knows why the Use Your Illusion material has been ignored for so long.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
Because he didn't have too... Then Slash starts playing Old GNR shit so Axl had to start playing other GNR stuff too.
Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
I used to think he was saving the UYI stuff as a bit of an ace up the sleeve in the event of a reunion. Obviously that ain't happening so I don't know.
Maybe the UYI stuff is more challenging vocally for him. I have heard Slash respond when asked about playing more UYI stuff that he wouldn't inflict learning all the lyrics onto Myles. Some of those songs like Locomotive are chock full of lyrics. Similarly maybe Axl finds getting all the lyrics to a song like that or Coma difficult these days.
Or maybe Axl just doesn't like those songs as much. I thought I read once where he said words to the effect that those songs bring back bad memories for him.
Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
or maybe he just doesn't give a shit?
he gets by w/what he does & is too lazy to do anything more.
- monkeychow
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Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
Without getting into sides, they've also implied Slash should have left GNR after appetite, and published a review on the official site at one stage that said those records were ruined.
It makes me wonder if Axl himself feels distanced/dissatisfied with the work from that period. Or perhaps as Aussie said...the UYI tour was a tough heartbreaking time for him and he doesn't care to relive it by focusing on songs he wrote in that period.
I also agree with Russ that it seems that the re-introduction of a lot of songs has come from Ron, or someone at least reading the forums - as it does seem to specifically address songs that fans often requested.
Myself I listened again to Axl's live version of "Sailing" from 2006...the high parts are almost religious to me....can only pray there's a studio cut of that in a vault someplace.
- stewharkness
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Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
I just think it's weird. I would've thought that Axl personally would've got bored playing such an identical setlist for so long. I'm definitely going to see them in Sydney, but I'm a little bit disappointed that the setlist is going to be so similar.
- metallex78
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Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
I wonder when tickets actually go on sale for this. There's still no official info on ticketek.com where tickets are supposedly going on sale from...
Re: Guns N' Roses Australian Tour 2013
I just think it's weird. I would've thought that Axl personally would've got bored playing such an identical setlist for so long. I'm definitely going to see them in Sydney, but I'm a little bit disappointed that the setlist is going to be so similar.
Welcome to the forum mate need some more aussies 
