Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Its only a couple nights away before the GNR show at the Metro Centre in Halifax.  I figured it would be ok to start this thread now.  All of us Guns N' Roses fans are really excited down here in Nova Scotia to see our favorite band twice in 3 years  : ok:    :beer:

Rock N' Roll! Yeah, myself and a group of us are driving up to the show. Saw them in 2006 as well. Can't wait, gonna be a rocking time. Too bad the Bubble's Mansion after party didn't work out last time. Would be cool if another after party was set up this year.

Hellz Yeah...Can't f'n wait...it's going to kick ass

I also can't wait..I'll be heading there with Jono...We get to see Baz this time too  :beer:

are they selling alcohol this time??

I have a feeling Halifax might be a special time...it's a couple days before Axl's birthday plus it's the land of Bubble's...n' shitz gonna happen.

Does anyone know if there is an pre or after party somewhere?

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=57873.msg1232317#msg1232317

Hope all who attend have a blast!  :peace:

Now that's gonna be special. I have a feeling.  :D

Yeah, I'd like to know this too. Ridiculous last time, buzz had long worn off when GN'R came on. Once you enter the venue you can't leave, wanted to go back to the hotel for a bit. They lost major revenue on liquor and singled GN'R out for no alcohol sales.

They better be serving beer this time

Today is the day!!! Finally!! I'll be leaving for Halifax in a few hours, can't wait. Hope everyone has a good show. : ok: :peace:

p.s. Yes, they better serve alcohol  :beer:

In halifax now, arrived here last night, i was susspost to hit 3 shows this year and work didnt agree with it lol but fuck it im in halifax now and the show is tonight.  Last show for Canada, should be a great one  :smoking:
Hope to see some you guys here tonight,  Section 8 Row G seat 7.

countdown is on..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :peace:

everyone who will be at the show, enjoy yourself to the max!  :peace:
and give us a review.

Nice baz interview.
Bach ready to rock Halifax  (http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1165747.html)

enjoy the show...

Last chance to play 'prostitute' live during the canadian leg ;)
enjoy the show!

Baz is gonna be giving an interview any minute now at www.q104.ca  They said he's on his way.

Haha...he said he's no Steve Tyler...but he would have no problem hitting the notes.....lol, he said before that Joe Perry, if your listening....

I echo that sentiment!

I know it sounds kinda crazy, but I'm gutted that this part of the tour is coming to an end... and I'm no where near Canada! I guess I've just been enjoying all of the photos, bootlegs and YouTube vids! I'm sure I'll perk up again once the South American leg is underway. And, if/when the European leg kicks off I'll be happier than a... well, a very happy thing.

As for now... I feel this gig could be kinda special... purely because it's the last one in Canada and, like someone else pointed out, it's so damn near Axl's birthday.

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Went to see Bach at Q104 radio station!!

Hey people , what's going on?  Where are the reviews for the Halifax show?  I'm in Australia and it is Friday 5th Feb over here, has the show happened yet?  What's the time difference?

ps....the shows look fucking awesome and cant wait to see em live again here down under!!!

pss.

Because I hardly ever post here I thought i best insert my 2 cents worth.  I've read so many opinions in here about old guys vs new guys and all that crap.  Lot of people saying how they're sick of hearing about the old guys and the new guys are sop much better etc etc.

I say....yes the new guys are fucking awesome, no doubting it, we all know Axl chose them with good reason.  But let's face it, there is a large and very destinctive difference between creating a piece of art and copying someone elses piece of art.

Having said that, I fucking love this new band,not that they are new anymore...... but I feel there is an edge, or something that is very hard to put your finger on, that they lack that the old GNR had.  Of course, this new version is what is is and I'm pretty sure they dont give a fuck about people comparing them to the old guys, just interesting conversation I guess. I think the old band stood for a kind of wreakless, fuck the world, die at any moment or live forever attitude that was delectable and really sexy in a non gay way.  Maybe the new band stand for something else? 

I guess the question is, what makes a better musician?  Such is art that that question can never be answered absolutely because we all like different shit.  Hence the millions of posts in here and other places like it about who's better.  Maybe we can just agree that we love this fucking thing called Guns N Roses and turn that shit up and all get along?????

Don't think the show has started..

Check the time-difference. (It's 10:40 in Halifax)



Google is your friend.. nothing harder than typing "halifax time" in the search field, and voila!

The show starts now btw: http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=58956.0 (http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=58956.0)

Lights out - intro "everybody knows"

IT'S ON!!!  :headbanger:

Wonder if that was the Leonard Cohen song or the John Legend one?

Thanks guys.

Love :love: the headbanging smiley! Last show? That went so fast. So glad to see GNR in the pics and videos people snuck out 4 us. Thanx. I was surprised by how long some of the shows lasted this time. Hope tonight tops it! If that is possible. Another thing, I wasn't sure if this would just seem like Axl & band when they started. I am so amazed at how close they seem & how they just kinda clicked. So happy 4 them. Here's to many more shows.  ;D

Richard fortus guitar solo
Live and let die
If the world


That's pretty cool the way that all ties in together.  8)

And to think it took me ONLY 13 shows to notice that.  :P

does work rather nice!

Jaz, I was Madagas at the Monday Hammstein shows and the Izzy show on Wed...had a awesome time.....still owe you.

nice!! Be very cool, to hang out again!.

HEY!!! HEY!!!  HEY!!! Take it to a PM!!!  :rant:

We're talking about how Richard's star-power has really shown on this tour!!!  (http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/natur/nature-smiley-016.gif)
okay so maybe we weren't talking about that ... BUT WE SHOULD BE CAUSE HE'S AWESOME!!!! (http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/musik/music-smiley-005.gif)

FOR sure Gypsy!!. lol no fuckin' doubt!

Knockin on heavens door

Axl says this is the last show of this leg
he thanks danko jones and Sebastian Bach
he thanks the crew, bus crew, catering etc
team brazil and beta for putting up with all the shit

"seriously I'm lucky to be alive...."



This song must have special meaning because the 'chatting' always seems to strike an emotional cord.

Encore: liquor and whores (with the trailer park boys)

Dj is wearing a space suit like bubbles


Sounds like Bubbles got himself a stalker.  :-X

Show over?  what is final setlist and showtimes?

gunsnroses    Canada, over - onto South America http://yfrog.com/3ihfmj
3 minutes ago from Tweetie

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Thank you Guns n' Roses for a great leg of the tour. On to South America and many points beyond! Also, thank YOU Jarmo for all the updates.  : ok:

THANKS TO THE ENTIRE GNR CAMP FOR ALWAYS PUTTING ON THE MOST AMAZING SHOWS!!!  :headbanger:
THANKS FOR THE UPDATES JARMO!!!  :beer:

  (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-transport015.gif)  WISHING EVERYONE THERE A SAFE TRIP HOME (wherever that may be)!!!

nice....check the dude out on the floor..... :D

who's that?


same here.  lets congratulate them on the successful Canadian tour and hope they'll take good rest for the upcoming south american tour.

It's Mr. Lahey from the Trailer Park Boys show. He is a drunk on the show.

Was he "make believe" drunk last night or not?  At first I thought it was just part of the act but I got a little worried when those bouncer looking guys were following him around onstage.  But then the guys in the band seemed fine with him being there and everything turned out okay so I guess it's all good.

But I'm glad those bouncer guys were there just in case.  Another facet of the GNR Camp doing an awesome job!!!  8)   

Here is a Halifax review:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1166203.html

Paradise City for GN?R fans

Guns N? Roses frontman raves, burns and rages until almost 1 a.m.

By STEPHEN COOKE


WHILE watching Guns N? Roses end its Canadian leg of the Chinese Democracy tour at the Halifax Metro Centre on Thursday, it was hard to get the words of poet Dylan Thomas out of my head.

Yes, it?s a bizarre allusion ? please, no Use Your Allusion puns ? but the Welsh bard might just as well have been referring to Axl Rose & Co. when he penned the classic lines: "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Not that Rose is about to breathe his last. In fact, the volatile frontman seemed to be in better fighting trim this time around than when the band was here over three years ago. There sure was a lot of raving, burning and raging on the stage on Thursday night. The dying of the music business light indicates that we?ll see less of this kind of spectacle, not to mention the sort of rock excess that lets a long-awaited album simmer for 14 years.

But considering the number of tracks still left in the can, it?s likely we won?t have to wait until 2025 for a followup.

The phrase "long-awaited" didn?t apply to the Guns N? Roses set; unlike other stops on the tour, the arena lights dimmed a mere 40 minutes after leather-clad rock demigod Sebastian Bach led 8,000 or so through a fist-pumping finale of his Skid Row hit Youth Gone Wild.

After a bit of Leonard Cohen?s recording Everybody Knows, up stepped recent GN?R addition DJ Ashba, teasing out the opening riff to Chinese Democracy, his guitar literally smoking from the cigarette stuck in his Gibson headstock.

With a burst of flashpots, out strode Rose in a black fedora, shades, an open white dress shirt and huge dangling crucifix, staking his claim on a massive stage that stopped just short of centre ice.

Shaped like a trident, with left and right prongs coming within a few feet of the lowest lower bowl seats, the setup became a battleground for Ashba and fellow guitarists Ron (Bumblefoot) Thal and Richard Fortus to scramble over and fire off six-string volleys to the delight of anyone within eye contact.

"All we?ve got is precious time," crowed Rose in his distinctive snarling growl, referring to the one element he can never seem to get enough of, before travelling back in it with Guns N? Roses? initial breakout hit Welcome to the Jungle and its first ever single release It?s So Easy, urged along by ex-Replacement Tommy Stinson?s insistent bass line and a burst of red fireworks.

"Can you scream?" asked Rose from the lip of the stage, and the compressed sea of bodies on the floor obliged as he sashayed and did a variation on the good foot. It was one of Rose?s few comments to the crowd over the course of the two hour and 20 minute show ? a far cry from the rambunctious, verbose repartee of Bach and opening act Danko Jones ? but hardly a surprise.

I doubt anyone was expecting the kind of intimate chatfest seen just the night before in the same venue with Jann Arden.

"Are you having a wonderful time?" Rose later asked, with mock gentility before introducing his rhythm guitarist with "Ladies and Gentleman, Mr. Fortus," and a bow and sweep of his hand.

Fortus, grinning through his long bangs and resembling the lost love child of Pete Townshend and Keith Richards, with a mod shirt and dangling scarf, accompanied images of choppers on the giant video screens with a series of thunderous notes that morphed into the James Bond theme, Live and Let Die, joined by his bandmates? variations on the classic melody.

Of course this signalled another burst of pyro and Rose?s confident strut through a plus-sized version of the Paul McCartney classic. Somehow, when he roars, "You?ve got to give the other fella heeeeeell!" I think Rose probably means it more than McCartney does.

Roughly a third of the show was given over to Chinese Democracy tunes, some of which were improved when transferred to the stage and trimmed of the album?s excessive gloss, the end result of 14 years of tweaking and overthinking arrangements.

If the World?s simmering groove provided a decent soundscape for Rose?s keening vocals and some rapid-fire runs by Thal, who also shone on Better, making the fretless half of his custom double-neck guitar rumble, groan and gnash its strings with feral intensity.

Wisely, GN?R stayed away from most of Chinese Democracy?s meandering power ballads, although a grand piano was rolled out for dapper Dizzy Reed to play a thoughtful intro for Street of Dreams, a maudlin ballad about lost innocence that nonetheless features some impressive vocal work by Rose, who climbed atop the Baldwin keyboard as all three guitarists were going like blazes in the big climax.

Thursday night turned into Friday morning as Ashba?s glittering black Gibson chimed out the distinctive opening arpeggio of Sweet Child o? Mine and Rose wrapped his familiar bandana around his forehead for a rendition that seemed more subdued than in years past, giving the anthem a more nostalgic, wistful tone.

"Where do we go now?" he crooned, which seemed like a good question, since they?d just dropped the original band?s biggest hit into the dead centre of the show, but it continued to build with an emotional November Rain, the percussive force of You Could Be Mine ? the kind of flat-out rocker Chinese Democracy could have used more of ? and an extended Knocking on Heaven?s Door, drawn out to epic lengths by Ashba?s lyrical, soulful solo and Rose?s searing sandpaper wail.

After screaming through a possessed version of Night Train, with Thal working his wah pedal like he was trying to stamp out a scorpion, GN?R returned after an extended standing ovation with some special guests, the cast of Trailer Park Boys, including some drunken ramblings from Mr. Lahey (John Dunsworth) and a rap from J-Roc (Jonathan Torrens).

Finally, Mike Smith as Bubbles got the band and the crowd to join in on "a little something we sing down at the legion," that notorious ode to life?s simple pleasures, Liquor and Whores, while Lahey did headstands in his underwear and bathrobe.

Finally, at about 1 a.m., the crowd was practically blasted toward the exit by the last of the pyro during Paradise City, in hopes that this city?s ticketing for the overnight winter parking ban hadn?t started yet.

( scooke@herald.ca)

CLOSE WINDOW
? 2008 The Halifax Herald Limite

Great review  : ok:
Always nice to read the positive ones  ;D ;D ;D ;D

the lovely wasted in this clip yes?  ;D

I now have seen GnR in 2002,2006 and the latest show in Halifax.  This latest show was by far the best yet.  The whole arena was on their feet the entire show and the band seemed to be having a great time.  Actually got a drum stick that night.  The only question I am left with is why the encore only had Liquors and Whores and Paradise City.  Not that I can complain about the length of the show (most bands don't play near that). I just wonder if the Metro Centre cut them off at 1am?

I will always remember this show. Amazing, met Bach at the radio station, sat by Ricky and Julian from The Trailer Park Boys, and managed to get into the after party and drink with the band and others until after 7am! I didn't get to speak with Axl, but I was standing right beside him. All good guys in the band, Dizzy even gave me a shot of his Jagermeister!

How did u get into the after party.  We were at the Toothy Moose but never realized there was a VIP section.

Saw Fernando and he ended up telling the bouncer to let me in. Crazy night!

Did you meet Tommy?

Yes! Another great guy, chatted with most of the guys by the bar for awhile. I think he said he was tired and couldn't wait to get back to New Jersey.

I imagine they were all pretty wore out....that's a lot of partying and travelling.

For sure, playing back to back nights and partying until well after the sun comes up definitely wears one out.