Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Sucker Train Blues, Spectical, Headspace, Superhuman, Crackerman (STP Cover), Mr. Brownstone (GN'R Cover), Fall to Pieces, Big Machine ,Illegal I, Do it for the Kids, Set Me Free, Used To Love Her (GN'R Cover), Sex Type Thing (STP Cover), It's So Easy (GN'R Cover), Slither, Negative Creep (Nirvana Cover).

Reports are just starting to come in. I guess they played for 1hr 45 min and it kicked ass.  Here is the setlist.

Suckertrain Blues

Spectical

Headspace

Superhuman

Crackerman

Brownstone

Fall to Pieces

Big Machine

Illegal I

Do it for the Kids

Set me Free

Used to Love Her

Sex Type Thing

It's So Easy

Slither

Negative Creep

some reviews

http://www.belowempty.com/vr/concerts/2004/040509_HollywoodCA_Roxy_Theatre.php

Thanks, I'm there!!!!!

Was this the surprse guest at the Roxy?

yes it was and the reviews are just fantastic  : ok:

thanks for the link..

it looks like they are really killer stage act.

Hope they have a setlist that varies a whole bunch.  I want to hear You Got No Right at my concert, so hopefully this ain't  everything!  : ok:

The reviews were glowing.  I simply cannot wait to see them live - just 1 more month to go!

I wonder if Negative Creep is going to be staple of their live shows...  and they seem to like playing I Used To Love Her - lol!   :)

we'll have a better idea of the setlist come thursday!

6 cover songs???? wtf i thought this band had "moved on"

Anyone here there last night, more importantly anyone taped the show last night.

 : ok: :beer:

 :hihi:  :no:

That would probably be evident in the 10 new, original songs  : ok:

Face it: Youre mad.    :yes:

I love Negative Creep....

they are playing lots of covers because thats what the fans on the vr board asked for.

Agreed.  10 new songs played of the 13 penned for Contraband can definately qualify as "moved on".

I would rather hear "Bodies" from The Pistols than "Used
to Love Her", other than that, no problem with the covers played.

4 days to KC, giddyup.

I like the setlist. Bodies would be nice but I don't think Scott has the snarl to do the vocal right. Their El Rey version was alright.

holy shit i have got to see this band!!!!!!!!

Im so pissed, i wanna hear this album like right now but its another damn month :( Those reviews were awesome, and I wish i had one of those t-shirts! they kick ass!

I wanna know if theres any unofficial bootlegs...

I hope so, but even if there is, Im only listening to the previously heard songs...that should hold me over.  If anybody knows anything about this shows recording, audio or video, please let us know.  :beer:

someone already put it on ebay :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=53261&item=3815009704&rd=1

So guess who got to see "the feel good band of 04"

The show was amazing, ill elaborate later

Thats great, Jizzo...I didnt think youd make it in.  

I was there

give us your review Jizzo  : ok:
you must be lucky to see this performance  :beer:

Awesome!   8)  "Used to Love Her" is a cool choice to play live.  I can handle a few covers as long as they're playing mostly new material, and ten new songs is definitely a plus.

are there any bootlegs for download??

Here we go.

I got to the Roxy at 7pm. People were paying 100-150 dollars for tickets. The security told us to move away from the building. at about 8:50 they said limited tickets would be on sale. So i got in line, I missed the first 25 people who got in. But once a few vip's went, I see this women standing next to the will call window. I tell my friend, hey thats Christina Applegate, and my friends are like, i don't think it is. Well when I'm at the front of the line, the security guy is like, I need Christina Applegate's tickets. I glance over at her, pretty much in awe of her, and she smiled at me like she was flatered. I ended up standing right next to her at the window, and I wanted to get something signed, but I didn't have anything but a 20 and didn't want to ask her to sign it.

I pay 21 dollars for the ticket and another 3 for the 2 drink minimum.

I get inside, the opener played for about 15 minutes while I was inside. I go to take a leak, but I can't get into the bathroom because Matt Sorum was in there.

I end up standing to the left of center, pretty much directly infront of Duff's spot on stage. A curtain is down but you could here the tests and the unmistakeable riff of mr brownstone. At this point the place is really hot and everyone is sweaty.

The roadie comes on to the mike and says "The Feel Good band of the 04's, Velvet Revolver. They bust into Suckertrain Blues, Slash has the Top Hat on. Then they played Spectacle and Headspace, at this point the only song I knew was Headspace because of the lyrics.

Scott then talks about Superhuman being a track about Fucking, cause everyone needs to fuck. Then Scott says were gonna play a song by the beach boys, and the band busts into Crackerman. The song ends and the band starts mr brownstone. Brownstone is crazy, Scott is amazing on the end (Stuck it in the needle....)

Scott talks about writing good love songs, and that Mary is here tonight, and has his ring on her finger again (Crowd applauses) . The band starts Fall to Pieces. It has a classic Slash solo in it.

Big Machine was my favorite new song of the night. "Were all slaves to the Big Machine". I don't remember Illegal I, I had no idea what it was and I really can't remember anything special about it.

Slash takes the mike and talks about Do it for the kid, Scott corects him, saying its plural, kids. The song was really fast, with scott speeding up the words.

Then Scott says you may of heard this song on the radio last summer, this is Set Me Free Motherfucker. Its the normal Hulk version, but after the My Freedom part they play a bit more of the words and riff again.

The band takes a break, and then comes back and plays a 3 song encore of Used to Love Her, Sex Type Thing and Its So Easy. Used to love her is the reallygood, scott just sings it mostly while sitting on the base drum. He introduces Sex Type thing as another love song and I think it was Duff who said that this is another one of scotts favorites and then busts into Its So Easy.

There is another encore and I think thsi is when Scott talks about the Roxy lying to the band about the AC, and scott says the band offered to pay to have one brought in. He says its hot and sweaty like an asshole. Then he's like, a nice beautiful asshole.

Slither is the first song played during the last encore. Its an extended version with an extended intro and an extended solo and outro.

The last song the band plays is Negative Creep. The band is amazing on it, its so fuckin heavy and there was nothing like Scott screaming, "I'm a negative creep, I'm a negative creep".

The show ends at this point.

These are a few things that also were said and happened but I can't place when it was done. In between one song Scott tells the crowd that the crowd doesn't need a break, because everyone out there is 21, 22 and 23.

He also went off on the media, saying he wanted to have them over to his house to ....(he pauses)... to have cheap sex.

Also during one of the new songs, Scott works his way to a railing behind the crowd and sings a few verses from behind the crowd.

if I think of more I'll add it

Sounds cool... why would they not let you in the bathroom coz Matt Sorum was in there?? He pisses just like the rest of us...

dammit!  I knew I shoulda gone  :'(  I figured there was no way for me to get in there.


You're turning me into a drooling Pavlov dog, Jizzo.  :)  How were the other songs? Were they all fast rockers?  Were there a bunch of Slash solos (in which case those VelvetRope 'critics' were wrong)?

Thanks for the review.

awesome review Jizzo, thanks!
a few questions, sorry:
1. was Fall to Pieces the classic that everyone is saying it is? (can you compare it to any pre-existing song?)
2. was the crowd mainly twentysomethings? mostly young?

thanks!  :-*

First of all they played 10 new songs 8 of which no one has heard. Second, people at the VR borads all pretty much told the band that we want covers. 99.9% of the fans were fans of STP and GnR  before VR and it's pretty special to see these songs played.

Pretty much everysong had some type of solo. all the fast songs were intense.

Fall to pieces was good, but I feel it will be much better in the studio.

There was a mix between the ages, i saw young kids and then I saw older people

Yeah, I guess they didn't want matt to be disturbed

June 8th is right around the corner.

I loved the review that said "Slash said a few things but very difficult to understand. " haha, now who said this ain't no rock n roll band?!?!?

I can't wait to see these guys!
   :peace:

SLC, you're gonna be in LA on the 8th?  

You guys are all going on the 8th and I'm going on the 9th!  I wont see my HTGTH buddies  :'(

Maybe I can switch my tickets with somebody...  ???

Edit:  I realize you mean the album is released on June 8th.. my mistake.  But it would be cool if you came to LA for the show.  :)

Anyone taped this show, if there is an audio recording please let us all know.
Also are the new songs very gnr, very stp or not like either.

thanx for review Jizzo  :beer:

Probably because they didn't want people bothering him for autographs in the middle of a show when he needs to focus on the stage show at hand.

It was actually about 40 minutes before they went on, but I understood it,  but they didn't close it for adrian young, but he wasn't playing that night [face_wink]