Here Today... Gone To Hell!

FYI. Start time for tomorrow nights show is now at 8 for The Cult not 8:30. I would assume that will put GNR on stage around 9:30? Does the dome have a curfew of midnight?

http://music.blog.ajc.com/2016/07/26/guns-n-roses-at-the-georgia-dome-tips-for-their-atlanta-concert/

Yes.  Have to be done by midnight. 

The more I think abt it I don't think the dome has a curfew. When they have had nfl Monday or Sunday night games they usually run past 12.

You can go past midnight but a fine will be owed. I'm sure NFL has its own contract as most games don't go past 12 but the NFL is RICH!! Falcons may even pick up if there was a fine. The curfew may just be for non sports events. I'm going w a GA Dome person tomorrow so I'll get the skinny.

I will be there too. Was hoping to hear sorry or CITR, but if it's a curfew deal that won't happen. Really wanted to hear sorry.

I just want them to replace Seeker with anything!

Don't really care to hear any covers unless it's Mama Kin or some velvet revolver. More UYI before CD for me.

Sporting event, given their unpredictable nature, are typcally written in as exemptins for curfews. Instead, a "latest start time" is written in, instead (ie a game can not start past 9:30 pm).

They likewise do not generate fines, so long as they abide by those start times.

Shows, which are more controllable and precictable than an overtime football game, arent given the same leeway.

Idk about the Georgia dome's policy, specifically, though.

Shackler's Revenge would be a nice surprise.

I have a friend going to this show.  He said he's going to try to scope or live tweet if he can get good venue wifi.  I'll post his links if he goes up.

One thing I just thought: Bumble's wacky solo could really be fitting for Slash's "new" style of shredding. This one would be fun to hear. :D

I heard There Was a Fine is a new song they're working on.

Im going!!!!!! Leaving in a bit!!!!!

I thank you for this useful post  : ok:

Any meetups, I will be getting downtown around 3:30 - 4.

I have zero interest in the cult tho

rock 100.5 is having a pre-rock party at STATS...sports bar...gonna hit there first then go to CNN center Dantana's then showtime.

I have no idea why The Cult gets so much crap.  'She Sells Sanctuary' is one of my favorite tunes.  :yes:

a 50 minute Cult set will be tight and absolutely rocking. : ok:

The Guns guys and Duffy/Astbury go way back....

Gnr at 9:30 tonight?

9:25 is the set time.




/jarmo

For those into Zombies/Walking Dead TV show I think the Lithograph is a nod to it. It's filmed in Georgia right? That's why I guessed.

There are silhouettes of Axl, Slash n' Duff on top of the stadium.
(http://gypsysoul.webspaceforme.net/georgia.jpg)

Pretty awesome. They've got shirts with the same print as well.

Man Atlanta is a much more crowded difficult place to manuever than Nashville.  Damn

Some Sorry or Catcher back tonight? Or even Yesterdays again?

Yeah, nasvilles roads sorta make sense in their layout. Atlanta is just a beautiful messy disaster. :)

But in omni hotel. Easy walk to venue, so gonna be great!! Would love to hear Slither tonight... Scott had a kinship to this place..

Cult should be about to go on?

That walking dead themed print is bad fucking ass.  : ok:

The Cult is on

Have fun tonight everyone! I'm so excited about New Orleans and Houston next week!

Im here!!! Sec 114 row 8 seat 6

I hear Atlanta has some of the best strip clubs around.  I know where I would be before and after the show

Edited to try and spell strip correct ha

Strip Club?

AKA Ballet, AKA Single Moms Dance Recital?

I am a proud supporter of single moms world wide

I have to check, but I might still sponsor one for the cost of a cup of coffee a day up on St. Catherine's Street in Montreal.

@DonnieHoward2 Periscope.
Not gonna do entire thing. Ill do a few
https://www.periscope.tv/w/amf83DFlUkV4YWxYWUFRd0F8MWdxeHZCUk1QUmd4QhsmcDo34J7a5s21E1k2FCOjN6Zjxs451dGbEcuyOTBr

Thanks!

Damn drains my battery
Any thing in particular?  I got a bad ass seat. Wanna save battery in case slither or something

If you're asking me, I agree hold out for any oddities that are added to the set. We've all seen 'the classics' a million times, and can watch every version of Jungle (or similar) they have played this year since Vegas on You Tube. Unplayed by Slash CD tracks and UYI deep cuts showing up for the first time would be preferred if you are conserving battery (that is of course if any are played).

I may be in the minority, but maybe its better if you just record the song you want and upload it to YouTube later in the best quality possible. Don't worry about Periscope now if you want to save battery.

Ill probably save in case catcher or something else

I'm ready!!!  Cult was good but not the same as early 90's

Guns are firing
Intro
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Chinese Democracy
Welcome To The Jungle
Double Talkin' Jive
Estranged
Live and Let Die
Rocket Queen
You Could Be Mine
Duff's Solo - Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory/Raw Power
This I Love
Civil War
Coma
Band Intros
Slash's Solo - (doodlez)/Godfather Theme
Sweet Child O' Mine
Better
Out Ta Get Me
Richard N' Slash - Wish You Were Here
Axl's piano solo+jam - Layla
November Rain
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Nightrain

Encore:
Jam - Angie
Patience
The Seeker - Oh for Pete's Sake!!!
Paradise City




http://www.periscope.tv/LiveWorkouts/1OyKAbOvewWGb

http://www.periscope.tv/hmartin19/1BRJjkARmWWxw

Did sorum play with the cult?

Signal too weak damn

Yeah. But I never really liked his backing vocals at the song. I'm pretty sure that Duff and Melissa will do a better job in that regard.

But who would play THAT tappin?

I'm so happy!!!

Anyone know what the crowd is like tonight?

Here Today... Gone To Hell
The Georgia Dome
htgth - Slash in Atlanta

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Great crowd but definitely an appetite and UYI fan base! About 40k tonight.

Damn good for a Wednesday night.

Anyone got a working scope?

http://www.periscope.tv/LiveWorkouts/1OyKAbOvewWGb

http://www.periscope.tv/hmartin19/1BRJjkARmWWxw

Going past midnight tonight!  Axl has never sounded better!

Del James
deljamesgang - Patience. Atlanta
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Thanks to all of tonight's periscopers!!!  :beer:

Setlist:
Intro
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Chinese Democracy
Welcome To The Jungle
Double Talkin' Jive
Estranged
Live and Let Die
Rocket Queen
You Could Be Mine
Duff's Solo - Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory/Raw Power
This I Love
Civil War
Coma
Band Intros
Slash's Solo - (doodlez)/Godfather Theme
Sweet Child O' Mine
Better
Out Ta Get Me
Richard N' Slash - Wish You Were Here
Axl's piano solo+jam - Layla
November Rain
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Nightrain

Encore:
Jam - Angie
Patience
The Seeker - Oh for Pete's Sake!!!
Paradise City

 AFD and UYI fan base? Wow!!! Really? Who would've thought? I'm shocked!  :o

Absolutely incredible. Better than Nashville show. Axls voice was even better. Was soooo fucking loud in the enclosed dome.  Played alittle reggae during kohd. Slash played godfather different. More of a 92 style kohd as well
Better kicks so much ass,  especially with new intro

Great review of Atlanta show.  This was my 12th show and I'm positive Axl never sounded better!

You won't catch me complain about set list anymore. They killed it tonight!!

http://music.blog.ajc.com/2016/07/28/concert-review-guns-n-roses-ignite-georgia-dome-with-brawny-rock-show/

It reads though that UYI was released in 1994. Also the tour's name is incorrect.

Great review but I work in quality assurance ;D

This was my 4th GNR show and 1st time seeing Axl with Slash and Duff and it was easily the best of the bunch.  Maybe the best show I have seen period.   They went on exactly on time and absolutely nailed It's So Easy / Mr. Brownstone.  Chinese Democracy was good also, for some reason I like it much better with Slash playing it.   Jungle was disappointing as Axl struggled with the vocals.  DTJ, Estranged and Rocket Queen were epic.  Slash's last solo in Rocket Queen was mind boggling.  YCBM was another song Axl struggled with.  I enjoyed Raw Power, it was better than the clips I had seen.  This I love and Civiil War were amazing.  I never really realized how powerful the lyrics to Civil War are, especially in today's America.   This I Love may have been Axl and Slash's best performance.  Coma was awesome overall, Axl struggled a little bit with the outro.   SCOM and Better were both good.  Axl's vocals were really strong on OTGM.   I thought the Layla cover was awesome.  I was impressed with Axl's piano playing and Slash's solo was much closer to the original and didn't have as much 'shredding'.   It seemed like KOHD had a slightly different arrangement for the better, a little more rocking.  Nightrain was another strong vocal by Axl.  I haven't been a big fan of Patience or Seeker based on the YouTube clips but I enjoyed both last night.  PC was solid, Slash playing the whole outro solo behind his head was pretty impressive.  Random Thoughts:

- Richard Fortus is a bad ass
- Slash was on fire all night, some of the best playing I have ever seen from him (seen him live 6 times)
- Frank has vastly improved on drums
- Rocket Queen, Estranged, This I Love and Civil War were the standouts to me
- Axl's vocals were strong to very strong except for Jungle and YCBM
- The acoustics in the Ga Dome suck
- At times they were unbelievably good
- I say Dome was about 80-85% full, probably about 40k
- The crowd was really into it
- The Cult were pretty good.  I wonder how Matt Sorum feels?  His 2 former bands are touring stadiums together without him.
- Melissa's backup vocals are excellent
- As good if not better than I could have hoped for

Looking forward to sky dogs review !

Sounds like another incredible night, curious as to why the seem to lean Out ta Get me and Patience over Don't Cry and Michelle.

I'd much rather hear Out Ta Get Me than My Michelle... I love it, love the solo, and maybe it's Axl's best vocal performance on this tour, along with Nightrain and Jungle.

Don't really care for Patience. I think it's a good song, but the arrangement this tour (2 acoustics and Slash's Les Paul) make it soung too hollow and empty. Don't know the right word for it. The coda is something that should be powerful and it's not this tour.

But I really hope they play Don't Cry in Sao Paulo. Much better song to me.

I'm with you on both.

Just thinking out loud as how and why they end up choosing the way they do.

Here Today... Gone To Hell
The Georgia Dome
htgth - Duff in Atlanta

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Agree on Patience. But they'll probably play both, one each night, assuming the setlist wont dramatically change till November.

Totally agree
I actually started disliking Patience live versions back to the old Tokyo video days. It's partly the way he sings it. Just think it doesn't fit a large concert enviornment, a little something is missing.

Don't Cry is a great live song and hearing it the other night at MetLife for Encore made a great night even better

Yeah, I think you're totally right when you say it doesn't fit a large concert environment. It just doesn't sound right. It seems dead.

But in the Tokyo version, it picks up when Slash does his amazing solo, and the coda is much more powerful with the 12-string electric and the drums.

IMO that's the version they should aim for if they're to play Patience.

Don't cry is a classic gnr tune and should be in any set list any night.   Same with all 4 of the songs mentioned.  zero reason they shouldn't be in the set list

I don't really think My Michelle is a classic. The same can be said about Out Ta Get Me. Not a classic IMO, but I really like it.

Agree about Don't Cry though. And Patience, even if I don't like it that much, it's instantly recognizable.

Well two are true hits

All 4 are classic gnr tunes, recognizable to any gnr fan.

Either way, more guns songs the better

Jungle surprises me, he's been pretty good on Jungle throughout this tour - including the three shows I saw in Landover(1) and Metlife(both nights).

You Could Be Mine has to be his weakest song vocally. It doesn't sound right with "clean" vocals, and almost needs to be screamed throughout. I am a realist though, and I know that at 54 years old it's a little harder to do that. YCBM is a song I guess the casual fan is gonna want to hear. Honestly it's one of those songs I can take or leave, especially given the fact that he really can't give it a full go anymore.

He clearly paces himself. He has a few bullets in the gun a night with the "rasp" - for lack of a better term, and he decides to let it go when he needs to.

Another classic jarmo!



BRAVO, BRAVO   :beer:

3rd total GNR show and the best one, even better than Nashville

Axl is on a whole nother level with Duff and Slash back. Not that he wasn't great in 2011 when i saw them, but he has just absolutely regained his all time great form. Everything about this performance was perfect and i had the butterflies even though ive heard each song a thousand times.
Slash is the greatest guitarist of all time

No setlist complaints, I mean would have loved to hear Sorry or even Dont Cry, but is moot.

Better intro excites me for what this band could do creatively on a new album

Was a jam packed crowd, very loud, intense and amazing.

I thought Axl was on point with Jungle and I've seen many shows at the Dome and I think the acoustics were great from the floor. 

2 quick clips!

Better
https://www.facebook.com/casey.mize.77/posts/10153910528923722

KOHD
https://youtu.be/sFClmFzo8ms

I agree the points on his vocals on this one, but I couldn't imagine seeing GNR without them playing that.

I think his weakest song is SCOM.  Not sure why, but it's consistently weakest song each night.

OTGM, I think is just OK as a song.  But he leans into that one and kills it, I think.  Welcome addition to this tour.

The whole fuckin thing rocked! Period. End of Discussion...this is all I said at Gnrtruth...

"I have seen 7 UYI shows and 4 Chi Dem shows....last night was the best of the bunch. God Bless Duff...whatever he did to get Ax and Slash back on stage together worked. They both seem to be pushing each other to be their VERY best. Sure, it is ego, but it is ego fueled by competition and mutual respect. It was simply awesome to see and hear.

and fuck youtube.....no where close to doing the sound and overall visuals justice....be there or be square!"

Other points...had tears in eyes on multiple occasions. Got to the bar around 4....huge Gnr pre-party. The energy was so fuckin positve...all the Gnr shirts, rock chicks. Then went and met my brother and 3 other sets of brothers and wives. Pretty special....

As for Slash and Duff, good gracious. They are infinitely better players than they were in the 90's. Axl is just feeding off their mojo. As stated, he has to bring it to keep up. He is bringing it.

Other than that, everyone I have talked to (or heard on radio) was blown away by how good it was.  :o

ps....Slash's work on the CD songs is absolutely perfect..... : ok:

Obyously.. Is GNR

 : ok:

Second half of YCBM is not clean.  He nails it.  He starts off clean, but he picks up intensity and rips the end. 

ALso on RQ

SCOM at Atlanta sounded amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nO_OophVTU - I think he sings it lightly on purpose cause he knows the entire crowd will carry the song live.  It is a sing-a-long song.  He doesn't soung weak here, just relaxed.  He certainly is not singing for YOUTUBE.

Yeah, he clearly improved his performance on YCBM in this tour.

From the audience, in MetLife, YCBM sounded just about album perfect.  The only rough spots I remember, the whole night, were during a key change for TIL and a 3 second vocal "crack" during coma.  He absolutely slayed YCBM AND SCOM.  I do agree with an earlier poster..there are times he pulls back on his vocals to let the crowd sing along.  And the Metlife crowd did not disappoint.

I will also say....going back and listening to bootlegs and youtubes and the scopes....even my own personal video on my phone....live vs memorex there is no comparison.  Pretty much everyone says he sounded AMAZING via the recording sources that night.....I will tell you he sounded BETTER live.  His vocals have so much more depth, live.  Ditto with the guitar work. Some of the subtlety and inflection and nuances are just lost via the recordings we have.  Short a sound board, I'm not sure there's any way around that.

There was this video that got pulled in 2009 with the GNR rehearsal for the tour (that only came to happen at the ending of that year) when the sound engineer talked about how difficult it was to mix the three guitar sonic wall with Axl's voice. He said it was tough because it sounded like a guitar. I kinda agree with him, it does sound like a lead guitar sometimes.

The thing with YouTube and bootlegs in general is that it takes away the concept of the whole sound. In the live environment, Axl is mixed within the other instruments. When you hear a recording, you tend to overanalyze it. It's just that simple. I know people like to point fingers and say it's an excuse, because when he sounds good (or with rasp voice) you can def notice it on YouTube.. But still, its a fact: the sound is mixed to a live performance, not for an audience bootleg recording.

Hello everyone,

The Atlanta show was Amazing, chills the entire time.  It was my daughter's first rock concert and she was blown away.  She was evening singing along with Better (yeah, I rock as a dad).


Here is a roughly 7 min video montage I put together with some highlights from the show that I recorded during the performance.

Enjoy!

-Cliff

https://youtu.be/AhxahBFDYcs (https://youtu.be/AhxahBFDYcs)

Wasn't this one of the best parts of the whole experience?  I loved my show for it's performance, which was great.

But I also loved seeing such a mass of people.  Such a mass of people all decked out in GNR stuff.  Such a mass of people that all just exuded complete happiness and thrill to finally be seeing this again.

Just a great, great night.  

Anyone that didn't buy a ticket when it came to your town needs their heads examined.

yep....loved it all...

I only know from singing it at karaoke that SCOM is a hard song to "scream" and I'm a pretty vocally trained 33 year old.

I like the way Axl paces himself. Unfortunately the human voice eventually does change and lose it's power over time - regardless of how much you preserve it. Vintage Axl's "singing" style was something that had a shelf life. His disappearance for almost a decade probably speaks volumes of that. Without assuming things, who knows what was going on with his voice back then? Perhaps some sort of vocal surgery? Perhaps some sort of personal unhappiness with the sound of his voice?

I've seen other "aging" acts live - Bon Jovi, Motley Crue to name a couple, and present day Axl really blows both of them away vocally, and energy wise.

I've seen them live 18 times since 2000 - starting with the Vegas shows in 2001, from the full tour in 2002, from the Hammerstein shows(all four) in 2006, from the small gigs in 2012(Roseland, The Ritz, etc..)... and I've been overall happy with a lot of them. The Hammerstein shows were absolutely magical - and I got to know Ron Thal personally, and that man is a saint. Not a bad word to speak of him.

Somehow the "Not In This Lifetime" tour shows make everything right. Slash just makes everything better.

Being 33, I never got to see the original band, or the Illusions lineup - so this right now is the best incarnation of Guns N' Roses that I've seen and may ever see. I personally couldn't be any happier.

Guns N' Roses have provided me with a lot of great memories in my life. That can't be taken away.

Easily this was by far the best show in my entire life!!! It was nice to bump fists with Jarmo at last!
My recommendation: this tour is a MUST to any GN'R fan (casual, hardcore, etc)