Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Seems like some of the guys are already in town!  :peace:

DJASHBA Axl, Dizzy and Myself took the early bird! Just landed in Oslo!

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http://twitter.com/DJASHBA/status/15164109023

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I can't wait!!
This is my first GN'R concert, and I've been a huge fan since Lies.
Seeing the boys do the songs I grew up with, will probably one of the highllights of my life.

Private jet to Oslo (from Del?s face)

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 :D

Is the show sold out yet?  I thought the one in 2006 did if I'm not mistaken.

Ah cool. Anyone know which hotel they are staying at?

Cool pics!  I dont think I'll be at Elm street much before 5pm, once I get in from airport tomorrow. hope you guys are still there then!  :peace:

I'll be there too, but it's unlikely I can make it before 6pm, so if you stick around you'll meet me at least  : ok:

+1
I?m getting really excited about tomorrow!!  ;D Can?t believe this is really happening.
See you all there. 

nice one - see you there!  : ok:

Contacted by NRK today. Wanted to know my expectations for the show:) gave them a kickass story:)

Hope to see some of you at Elm Street today.  :)





/jarmo

NRK in Norway wanted me to send them my expectations:)
www.NRK.no/pyro

well said dude  :beer:

Twitrer med #gnroslo f?r og under konserten.

Have a rock n' roll blast everyone!
 
Oslo is a fine city and Spektrum a great venue! Elm Street is a cool cafe/pub for rock enthuisiasts.

That there band, Guns N' Roses, ain't too shabby either!

 :peace:

http://www.seher.no/...axl-rose-i-oslo

Video from an Oslo hotel...

really like the beanie hats ;D they suit him alot

is it big arena?

Capacity of about 10.000 to 12.000.

Someone doing the updates tonight..?

So where's the after party? :)

http://twitter.com/dankojones (http://twitter.com/dankojones)

Just finished our set in Oslo. GNR are about to get on stage. Headed to Helsinki early in the morning tomorrow. - Danko
32 minutes ago via web

intro

Hope we get some updates seems very quiet, is Jarmo doing any?

Great guy!!!!

CD, Jungle

Easy,   Mr brownstone

Sorry

Fortus solo/lald, this I love, rocket queen

Band introductions/dizzy solo

Street Of Dreams

Street of Dreams

This I Love made it appearence early in this show  :o

Jam/You Could Be Mine

Axl picks up a Swedish flag during ycbm....

Dj solo/scom

Swedish?

Jam (another brick....)/axl piano solo (goodbye..../someone...)/November rain

He better not do this in Finland :hihi:

Bbf solo, knockin on heavens door

Nightrain

Madagascar

Better

Paradise City

Goodnight!

Thanks for the updates AdZ!!!  :beer:


gunsnroses
that's all folks! OSLO - you killed it! we're all going to HELL -- Helsinki that is! see you all Sat Jun5 at K?pyl?n Urheilupuisto...
10 minutes ago via web

Damn! The band was tight! Axl sounded great, raw and nailed 'This I Love' the best I've ever heard! :D Also sweet ending of NR; Axl and Frank battling over who could endure most endings, Axl even playd piano with his feet! :D

fuck yeah, got signatures from both Ron and DJ outside Grand Hotel and even got a fucking great pic of Axl as he left..
oh, of course i got pics with Ron, DJ and woldn't you know....Del was outside as well...a bit stressed out but he was a total sweetheart =)
i even met our own internet celebrity Jarmo.....(shouldn't look so surprised Jarmo, you're a legend in the community)

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Axl even smiled, too bad he didn't have time to sign anything this time around.......maybe next time, just hope it's "soon" :P

Awesome!!!
Post the others pics! Please, please, please...

Set list?

eh? did you even read the topic?

Just talked to three of my colleagues in their 50's who attended the show; they loved it!  :love: They had seated-tickets and said that the sound was crap during the first songs, but improved before Fortus' solo which they thought was one of the highlighs of the night  : ok:

glad u had a good time knut!. I was talking to jan while show was on een told him he should go to pre-party!!!.lol

The pre-party was sweet  :love: Had a cool wibe with happy people drinking and talking over G&R  :beer:
I also met Jarmo, who is a nice guy. Suck on that Internet!  :peace:

Thanks to all you guys who were @ Elm Street!!   :beer:  :love:

I`m off to Helsinki now, to see some more GN`R.  ;D

p.s. I still have two more tickets for saturday in case anyone is interested.  ;)

Yeah Jarmo is quite the guy when you meet him in person.

And the show was fuckin' fantastic!

I hate to complain about anything, but I couldn't figure out the sound last night. I was moving around and the sound was just fuckin' terrible. Even in front of the mixingtable...

To me spektrum is a hit or miss when it comes to the sound...

So fuckin' cool to see Axl taking up on stage and wearing a Swedish flag he he. Good times. :peace:

Worst G&R-moment ever! Axl should have wiped his ass with it  :peace:

I was in front of the stage were the sound was good during the entire show. But as you say; Spektrum is hit and miss. Mostly miss though...

Would love to hear NR with the entire pink floyd intro from this show :)


Word! WTF? :hihi:

It's supposed to be red, white and royalblue Axl!

axl did the right thing ;D

I agree  :hihi:

BTW any reviews out yet?

I could be wrong about this but I'm pretty sure that Axl doesn't bring the country flags with him.  I think they come from someone in the audience tossing it onstage and he just puts it on like sorta out of respect to the hosting country.

So the real question is why would someone from Sweden bring their flag to a Norway show?  ???   

The flag was from a Swedefuck (Svenske faen) in the audience.

To OWN our sorry Norwegian asses!  :hihi:
It was an hillarious moment  :hihi:

It was nice seeing some of you in Oslo.  :beer:

Hope you enjoyed the show, I sure did.


Did anybody else notice Dj playing Hall of The Mountain King at the end of his solo?


/jarmo

Just got home after 2 days in Oslo. 2 awesome days I might add!
Tuesday night we were hanging at Elm Street, and Del James popped in for a while. What a great guy he really is:)
On concert-day, on our way to the pre-party, me and my wife ran into DJ Ashba and Frank Ferrer. I had pics of each band member with me, and they signed them..it was surreal and awesome!!
Met a lot of you guys at Elm Street, Jarmo as well:) It was great meeting ya'll..hope to see u all next time!!!
The gig itself was just amazing. Axl was spot on, and I also have to say that I am very pleased with DJ Ashba.
He really brings back the bluesy style..awesome guy:)
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My mobile phone recordings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT4x7TqmCyM     - Better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPlMQ7ZhIoM      - Sorry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaqylfiHhmc        - DJ Ashba Solo



/AFGnR

Decided to skip any pre show beers and go stand in line instead and what a good choice that turned out to be. Got pretty much the same spot as in Bergen, right at the front. The sound sucked up there, but that doesn't matter. More importantly, about 30 minutes after I sat down in front of Spektrum and there's only about 10-15 people there one of many black vans drive past (my entrance was right next to the backstage entrance). Inside you can clearly see Ron, but unlike most of the other cars this one parks outside the gate and Ron comes up to shake hands and take pictures with everyone. A great start to any concert  :)

During the last half of Danko another appearance by Ron side stage. Playing along on an acoustic guitar as he's warming up. Once the stage has been set he shows up yet again and spends the rest of the wait sitting at the back of the stage, still with the guitar in hand, chatting to some of the crew and getting some huge cheers from the crowd.

Great to see how lively Tommy was this time. Running all over the stage and really connecting with the crowd. It was well funny when he came on stage wearing a hard hat. Spektrum enforces a VERY strict hard hat policy during rigging and you can find tons of them in big crates back stage.

Also had a great view of the pyro technician's control center. Don't know if it's always this way, but Del were triggering the "cannons" during LALD.

Just remembered, at the end of his solo DJ played a bit of "Dovregubbens Hall" by norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.

Cool so I wasn't the only one who noticed:





/jarmo

seems this tour is going quite well, imo even better than the 2002 / 2006 shows.

just looked to the Oslo recording of knocking on heavens door in youtube...and pfff  :-\ ,  I don't like the way it is performed nowadays (since 2002?)
... I don't understand why they changed the style of the song...the original cover as in the illusions era was a very cool song and worked better for me, also live...
I miss the 'hey .... hey ...hey hey hey...' ;D and the guitar playing is also bit difference. Just my feeling though.

All the rest is pretty ok! Glad they fucking rock again like they should!

Dj must've really enjoyed his stay in Bergen  :beer:

There you go, the infamous swedish flag @ Oslo.  ;)

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At this point it looks more like he?s trying to rip the flag off him.  :hihi:

I was just reading DJ's latest update on Facebook about arriving to Finland. There someone (from Sweden) said how Axl loved the Swedish flag they threw to the stage.  Those people are bringing one to Helsinki as well. I hope Axl won't take it.. 

Just got home! after a 7-8 hour car trip..

Great show! They really rocked Oslo! Nice meeting up with htgth members!

Dovregubbens hall was awesome!

Was arena full?

nope....from what i saw there were lots of seats and plenty of floor space open....

Sold 5500, according to: http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/rr-tore-og-asbjorn/

Maximum capacity: 9700, acccording to: http://www.oslospektrum.no/oslo-spektrum.13389.html

I thought the crowd was pretty good, at least on the floor. Cheering and clapping during the solos, going crazy for the oldies.

Good times  :beer:

Here's a few pics I took last night in Oslo.I'm still high from the adrenaline!


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Found a great review from "DCK" at http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/rr-tore-og-asbjorn/#comment-29669

"Legger inn en review p? engelsk jeg skrev.

Sound was terrible. Couldn?t hear Axl for the first three songs almost, just vaguely in the background. The band kept having issues with the sound, the vocals appearing and disappearing throughout the show. Sometimes his voice was extremely loud, sometimes very low.

Chinese Democracy is a lukewarm opener. It doesn?t get the crowd going too much. Welcome to the jungle is therefore the real opener, when people go nuts. Sadly, I couldn?t hear crap of his vocals, and I had the best damn seats in the entire arena.

His vocals finally showed up on Sorry. It sounds killer live. One of the highlights of the show. Crowd was pretty dead though. In fact, all the Chinese Democracy songs sounded mostly great. This I Love was superb too, but Axl have to really haul ass to do the songs. His voice are very raspy these days, it doesn?t bode well for the rest of the year. People love it though, because they think that?s how he is supposed to sound, but it truly is not.

Street of Dreams. Jesus. With all those ballads in there, why the fuck play it? Can?t they do another CD song? It?s been played to death already. Give it up. It?s a mediocre ballad. With Sorry and TIL there, absolutely no point.

DJ Ashba is the shining star of this GNR version. He plays well, he got a great stage presence. He saves it all from a total disaster stage presence wise (except Axl of course). Put your faith in DJ Ashba people.

Bumblefoot, hands down the greatest thing to happen to us in regards to communication with the fans, is so anonynomus on stage. He does nothing really. Just disappears somewhere between Axl and Ashba. The Buckethead craving has never been bigger. Bumbles solos are nothing special, his playing is skillfull but doesn?t give me anything. And his spot used to be filled with Buckethead. The difference is DRASTIC.

Fortus, cool on stage, was off several times on his rythm parts. Cool James Bond theme though.

Frank Ferrer just underlines the fact that Brian Mantia is the best drummer GNR ever had. Ferrer is too polished, ?too nice?.

When Axl?s vocals was present, he did his best. He kept disappearing backstage all the time. Annoying, but not uncommon. However, you see him sing and then run away, you just go ?aaarrrrggghhh? after an hour or so. Ron said in an interview that the voice decided the setlist. Now, SOD is pretty hard to sing. Just replace it! Too many ballads. It looses momentum.

Better didn?t sound as good as I remembered from 2006. The back up vocals with Bumblefoot and Tommy works good though. Axl struggles throughout the song, but he always did on Better. I was scared they wouldn?t even do Better, but thankfully it came.

Madagascar was awesome. Just how it should have sounded on the record. Heavy and very tense. TIL was also great. Axl did great on it.

Embaressing moment when some dork gave Axl a Swedish flag. Axl wore it for a few verses on You Could Be Mine. He either had no idea it was the wrong flag for the country he was in, or he just wanted to have some fun. Guess he got the point when the crowd didn?t react to his little gesture.

He was also dead quiet for the entire show. Didn?t speak one word to the audience except for his introduction of the band and the guitar players. He said thank you at the end though, it felt like we did him a favour showing up or something.

The crowd cheered loudly when he stopped TIL 10 seconds into it because ?he couldn?t hear shit?. He smiled and seemed to be in a good mood. No problems there. For Axl, he almost seemed apathic. ?Just do the job and get on with it? mentality. Very unlike what you expect from him.

So, I?ll give it a 3 out of 6.

Too little Chinese Democracy, and when played, they do the wrong songs. Maddy and SOD, well?heard them for years. Do something else. Plenty of songs to choose from. Only TIL played which was brand *new* thinking 2002-2006.

So, I can complain about the set list. I was there. Jarmo says the band plays for the audience. Well, I was in the audience and I want Chinese Democracy songs with AFD and mix them up a little. They?re growing into this pattern of doing a repeat-setlist every night.

So, I?m slightly disappointed with this 2010 version except for Ashba."

I'm confused. Is that your review duga? Or is that the translation of DCK's review, which you advertised as "great".

That's a shitty review if you ask me.

Not mine. Okay, "fair" or "honest" is a better word than "great". 

Thats a translation of DCK's review, get Google Chrome, it has a built in translator : ok: I never knew I was so fluent (in reading...) so many languages  :hihi:

Cool DJ interview from Oslo Ink!

http://www.tv2underholdning.no/gkn/her-faar-guns-nroses-tatovering-i-oslo-3220972.html

Thank you for clearing up my confusion.

My only feedback on that review would pertaining to SOD. I don't like the song much either and would love for it to be replaced in the set. But I think Axl himself truly loves that song and playing it live every show likely makes the whole effort of getting his ass out on the stage all the more worth it.

I'm guessing he could sit home and watch CNN all day not having to grace the fans with his presence.

It's a shame though that the sound was so off.

DCK is definitely a fan of the new band....for what that is worth.

Actually that's the original version by DCK (written in English)
http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/rr-tore-og-asbjorn/#comment-29669

Well grounded, honest and detailed enough.

Some thoughts regarding Wednesday's concert... Was my first one - I've "only" been waiting since 1991, but circumstances would not allow this to happen before now.

It was really cool meeting all you HTGTH people at Elm Street before the show! I was actually hanging there for so long that when I finally got inside the venue it only took some minutes before the lights went down and the show started. From where I was (first middle of the floor quite far back, then on the right hand side of the stage a few meters back) the sound was excellent throughout, Axl's singing was clear and the band sounded good, even the decibel level was mostly tolerably.

During the concert I found out that what I really wanted to hear was the new CD stuff. From a personal point of view I wish they had played more of that and less of the classics, but I understand they have to satisfy the appetites of a totally different crowd as well. Everything from CD sounded so good, but I think it was Better at the very end that got a bigger part of the audience really carried away, me included. I also particularly enjoyed Richard's solo.

The most depressing part of the concert experience had nothing to do with the band and everything to do with the really annoying security policy at the Spektrum. They let me take my pocket camera in, although I saw hoards of confiscated ones outside. I was fully enjoying Street of Dreams and I had a perfect aim on Axl and DJ in a nice posture just in front of me and was just about to press the camera button when this big hairy hand comes and stops me. I had to give up the camera, without any receipt (yeah right, I was gonna come off the floor in the middle of a song I particularly enjoyed) and afterwards I had to ask three different places before I could get it back. And all the time there were like dozens of cameras and mobiles hovering all over the venue.

There were a lot of things happening on the stage and it was not so easy to follow everything that was going on. I would love the see another show soon! DJ was really good with the audience, the band sounded even better than I could have imagined given all the complaints that you hear in concert reviews and everything looked as good as I had hoped for based on various pictures and videos.

great! =) DJ is a great guy

So glad we got inside just in time heh heh!  Great to meet you too.  Thats fucked with the camera.. security told me they werent allowing cameras, I had put mine in my coat pocket and put coat over my arm, and let them search my bag and managed to get it in ok. But I saw loads on a table having been taken away, yet I saw plenty of cameras around me being used obviously all through the gig with no security bothering about it. I dont get it...

I really don't get the camera policy either, makes no sense! It's just so randomly applied. It was soooo annoying with the security guy taking mine away while others all around me kept filming.

Our timing could not have been more perfect, any later and we would have missed the beginning  :o Jarmo may be more of a guru than he let's anybody (himself included) to know  :hihi: Anyway, sounds like you had a good time, I did too, pre-show included!  : ok:

I checked out the youtube clips. His voice sounds fine to me - nowhere near the problems he was having on the UYI tour. He's not an opera singer - it's natural to have some grit in there. The fact that he can still get up to a high E or thereabouts is pretty impressive. Even Geoff Tate has to push for that stuff these days.

what song(s) was used as intro in oslo and bergen? that "jaws" themie song or some other?

Bergen, the same as 06

Oslo, some sort of horror movie theme

The Exorcist in Oslo i belive...

For those who haven't heard the original of Dizzy's piano solo, "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" by Warren Zevon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dyUzUxE_2w


It's a great song! I hadn't actually heard it before, altough I've heard several other tunes by him. This is actually one of his most well-known songs.