Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Board members attending: Mr Patience, seadog2006


Likely gonna be no updates tonight as this is basically just a throw in show. after a GREAT concert that i attended last night. Hopefully they put on a greats show for a decent crowd

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No updates or discussion?

Only a couple board members attending this show. So not likely to be too much discussion.

It's cool that they threw this one in though.

Next leg, GNR should look into doing London again (sold out in 2002), Montreal, and something in B.C., Victoria if not Vancouver, and Hamilton. These Canadian shows are doing really well, Ottawa rocked, Toronto had a huge turnout, Calgary and Halifax sold out, etc.

Hope those going tonight have a great show!

it seems to me that they are probably banned from playing in Montreal.

meh, maybe for a certain amount of years

it's been over 10 years since that incident

AXl mentioned it in his message at gunsnroses.com, that there are issues that still haven't been resolved

Yeah I still think he meant to meant to say "Vancouver" instead of "Montreal."  But ya know.......

He should still play both places again just to be cool.

Unbelievable show, these guys are tight. Chinese Democracy, Madagascar and PC as the encore........back to back shows for me (Halifax and Saint John) time to sleep.

It was unbelievable - tight band!  Amazing sound.  Axl's voice was in top form.  Only a few empty seats.

One of the highlights was when the whole band played "Liqour & Whores".  The Trailer Park Boys weren't there but they did it anyway.  Axl said "That was unplanned".  The crowd loved that.

We got 3 encores... CD, Madagascar, and Paradise City.  Nice!  They were very classy, thanking the audience and the opening acts at the end of the show.

This has to be one of the best shows to come through this city!

I'm exhausted, maybe I'll write more tomorrow.

Oh and from the looks of it , it was close to sold out. On a side note, Liquor and Whores was played again.....but this time without the TPB. No KOHD. Better, The Blues, IRS and as mentioned before, Chinese Democracy and Madagascar were all played.

I got laugh from the "Fuck Portland" sign Axl got from a fan and displayed on stage... :rofl:

Wow, what a cool setlist!

And they didn't play KOHD!

Thanks guys.. If you can, post more info please!!!

Wow, no KOHD.  That one is a shocker!

What does this "Liqour & Whores" song sound like? I've never heard it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVsp9gos3_8

like this

Thanks! I wonder why they didn't play KOHD.. but it's kinda cool though. Good to see them doing things with spontaneity.

Yeah, that was really cool. Some of the old GN'R spirit is back

Anyone know the last time they DIDN'T play KOHD? its gotta be the early 90's.

No KOHD? I thought they played that song at every single gig since the shows since late 1988.

Thanks for the reviews!

I think there was few gigs on UYI-tour where they didn't play it..

I don't have every setlist in mind but yeah it could be. It didn't happen since 2002 though, I believe. Interesting.

Me neither, but that's how I remember it. I think it's only good though, some variety in setlists and spontaneity is great. Hope we are going to hear more news like this : ok:

Damn it, sounds like I should've made a road trip - St. John definately got the better setlist of the two Maritime shows if they included IRS and CD, and finally dropped KOHD! : ok:

Not bad, sounds like a Stones cover or something. I like it when the band does stuff like this, just jammy kinda stuff.
Reminds me of stuff they did on the UYI tour.

In the 2001 gigs they played KOHD too, I really can't remember the last time they did not play it...

And Voodoochild YES THEY DID PLAY KOHD!? Whoever told you they didn't play it they missed it.? Here is the set list.? I'll provide a detailed review later today.? But I had to drive all night back home and just got back.? I'm going to bed!? Here is the set list:

welcome to the jungle
its so easy
mr brownstone
live and let die
knockin on heavens door
better
Finck solo
Sweet Child o mine
you could be mine
the blues
Liquors and whores
Fortus and Finck solo
out ta get me
november rain
IRS
Bumblefoot solo
My Michelle
Patience
night train
Encore
Chinese Democracy
madagascar
paradice city? ?

Songs may not be in the exact order as I am dead tired but pretty close and THEY PLAYED ALL THOSE SONGS.

How could someone miss KOHD? It takes like 15 mins with the singalong.

Classy.

Yeah really! I was kinda wondering that myself. I really like that Madagascar is getting played more and more. I'm really hoping it gets included through this weekend!!

I was there... heard KOHD loud and clear, I think the 4th or 5th song in.  Did you black-out for awhile dude?

St. louis.....

i really hope the tpb come to edmonton as well or at least gn'r play liquor and whores.  that would be awesome  :peace:

How that person missed it beats me.  But I didn't.  I swear they played it.  And loud.

Was the fifth one I think.

All right.  On to my review of last night's show in St-John.  I'll run by the opening acts really fast.  First of all as the night went along, the more people there was in the arena.  By the time Guns N' Roses played there was probably around 4000 people, maybe a little more.  No more than 5000 anyways.  So the arena was no more than half full.  Die Mannequin was not very good.  Not horrible neither but not good.  Sound was horrible.  After that the darndest thing happened.  I went to a GNR concert and I ended up in a strip club.  Seriously then it was the Suicide Girls.  They got WAY MORE of a reaction from the crowd.  The male portion of it anyways.  Then it was The Trews.  They were AWESOME!  I was bummed that Baz wasn't there.  Now I am glad he wasn't.  The Trews totally rocked!  Die Mannequin took the stage at 8:30.  And The Trews left at around 10:45.  I think.

Guns took the stage at 11:30 or maybe 11:40.  I'd like to say from the get go that during the whole show not once did I tell myself this would've been better if it was the old lineup.  Axl seems totally happy to be on stage.  He moves, runs, jumps all over the stage during the whole show.  His voice is in very good shape.  I HAVE NEVER and do mean NEVER seen Axl in such good spirits.  Like I said he looks happy to be there, he is into it and seems to be having the time of his life on that stage.  I don't think I've seen having this much fun even during the Illusions tour.  And the band seems to be tight and are clearly having the time of their lives as well on that stage.  The things that I noticed though is that people say that Finck and Fortus don't seem to be interacting with Bumble as much as they are with the rest of the band.  It is true.  BUT!  In their defense, Bumblefoot seems to be in his own bubble on that stage.  And that is not a knock against him.  To the contrary.  He seems to be having a blast on stage.  Axl interacted with him a lot.  They seem to get along.  Finck interacted with Bumble during Paradise though and they seem to enjou each other on stage.  As for the solos.  The crowd did seemed turn off by them.  Especially the Fortus Finck one because it was so long.  The crowd loved Bumblefoot's solo but that could be due to the fact that he played the national anthem and don't cry.  I was surprised that they played 5 songs from their upcoming album.  The thing that irked me though was the fact that he never once said "this is a song from our upcoming album" or something like that.  But the band seemed to be giving a tad little extra when they played the new ones.  Also I can't do this review without mentioning the fact that Robin Finck played Sweet Child O' Mine perfectly last night.  I'll even say that he played probably even better than Slash.  Way to go Robin.  Axl seems to love the Trailer Park Boys.  When they played liquors and whores he said something along the line that "this song makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside".   All in all a fantastic show!  I give it a 4.5 stars out of 5 and is probably the second best show I have ever seen and maybe the best one period.  And one last thing.  I thought this tour was a money grab before last night.  IT IS NOT!  Axl seems to be loving every minute of that tour.  Here is hoping that the album is out in 06.  Here is the setlist again.  May not be in the exact order.

welcome to the jungle
its so easy
mr brownstone
live and let die
knockin on heavens door
better
Finck solo
Sweet Child o mine
you could be mine
the blues
Liquors and whores
Fortus and Finck solo
out ta get me
november rain
IRS
Bumblefoot solo
My Michelle
Patience
night train
Encore
Chinese Democracy
madagascar
paradice city   

PS:A lot of people thought that the album was released yesterday and were bummed when I told them it wasn't.

I don't know if anyone noticed how many pictures of BBF are on robinfinck.com lately : ok: ? R&R are together for few years now... BBF just joined the band recently. So it takes some time. But now seems the time has come & the chemistry between the whole band is amazing. Even Frank!!!

Thanks for the great review and great to hear you enjoyed it!

It was a lot more than half full, my guess would be 6500 people.  A lot of people left before the end of the show because it went so late though.  It was a Tuesday night so I can't blame them totally.  There was no way I was leaving before the end though.

6500?  You think?  Could be.  And yes a lot of people left before the end.  And I too stayed till the end.  I would've stayed till 6 am if I would've had to.  It was that good.

It was the poster above me in the first page. :peace:

But anyways, thanks for your review. Seems like a really cool setlist and the band seems tighter than ever.

I noticed that. But I dunno about BBF with Richard yet...

BTW, on the Halifax video of Liquor & Whores, BBF kinda teach each one how to play (even Tommy), I thought that was really cool. :D

well Richard is playing the least amount of solos (which is shame because he is great, as both Robin and BBF are), but I am sure he is cool with BBF

What time did GNR hit the stage?

St. John's time zone threw me off.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

It's one hour thirty min ahead of me (eastern time zone)

Saint John, NB, not St. John's, NL  ;)

It's an hour ahead of Eastern (Atlantic).

Someone earlier in the thread said they took the stage around 11:45AST (10:45 your time)

Well I never was good at math :hihi: 

Thanks for clarifying that :)

Ok.  Sorry my bad.  Looks like this Mr.Patience guy missed half the show.  Says no KOHD, no Better, Blues or IRS.  I can't figure out how he missed those songs.

It is . after KOHD not ,

So he 'only' missed KOHD  :hihi:

No idea how I missed it, we were a tad intoxicated (making up for the Halifax show). What makes things worse is I was pretty much front row the whole show and never left once. Oh well, it was an incredible night and I can't wait to see them again.