Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I remember some people asking what the stage looked like.

Well, here's a nice pic of the stage.

(http://www.gunsnroses.gr/Christos/The_Stage.jpg)

no ramps?  :'(

Thats a really cool picture. I like the designs. Is that from Budapest?

looks like NY's stage

Two things worth noting-

1)  "The Axl Box"- to the audience's right below Chris is a large "box"- red on the inside, black curtains on the outside, an orange "A" and an orange stripe marking where the curtains are to enter.  Inside is where Axl goes during/between to rest, change, and take oxygen (you can see the clear tubing if you're up front- it looks like the one in GNR Photographic History).  Beta joined him often in Lisbon, but the stage/tour manager (or whoever he is) always followed Axl in and stood in front of the curtain opening so people couldn't see in.

2)  Picking songs- Axl and Tommy consult before every song, apparently over what the song choice will be.  Tommy then appears to type something in a little box that's in front of Chris.  I suspect this is the job that Matt used to do- typing in the name of the song so teleprompters, etc. can be cued up by the crew.

Any other stage observations?

That's from Madrid.

damn, that's one motherfuckin nice stage

That's the first front view I get. I had seat tickets (very close) but there were some things I couldn't see. The stage is not that big, the illusions stage was much, much bigger. But cool stage nevertheless.

true ... its a nice stage , but many times smaller then UYI world tour ...

( Off topic - Bar?a !!!!! )

Has anyone else ever wondered why they always have those squares cut out of the video screens?

Thanks for the info buddy - that was interesting  :peace:

Design purposes, I assume. Personally, I like the giant semi-circle screen in RIR. Kind of reminded me of Pink Floyd's circlular screen used during the Division Bell tour.

Reminds me of battle scenes in samurai films or kungfu films set in the warring states piriod.

haha....that flower thing is new too...looks cool though, the curtains and everything

the stage looks pretty good but much smaller than some of the UYI era stages.

Smaller tour=Smaller stage.

My God that is a lot of lights.

'Cause the lights are shining bright  ;)

is the november rain light show still crazy?

what box below chris? i don't see it? ???

Yep me neither. Hard to tell the teleprompters thing from a picture too by the way.  ... :P

very interesting, thanks for the posts!!!

He means below Chris Pittman's keyboards.

Axl and Tommy discuss the next song...then Tommy goes over to a small microphone{the type they put for Axl on NR} and tells the guys up top and probably the rest of the band what the next song is.....thats how it worked in NYC

yeah in some soundboards from 02.. you can slightly hear tommy saying what the next song is...

Hmm, I wonder why Tommy gets that job? I wonder if he has a power of choice here or he just goes through a decided setlist?

and like someone mentioned, thre ARE ramps and levels... Axl runs up the staris to the brain level and in rio the stage had ramps that would have made tony hawk jiz his pants... : ok:

Because Tommy's the musical director of GN'R.


Yeah, I figured as much but why? It's not like it looks good.  Just.. broken.

Long, speculative shot:

The Tommy and Axl "feud" in NYC was over a the setlist?

Please don't start talking about that again.

It has nothing to do with this thread.

One cool thing I noticed was the Axl's teleprompters now are in LCD monitors, much better than those huge monitors from Illusion's era.