Here Today... Gone To Hell!

As it's the last show in the US it would be pretty awesome to have Steven on again and... mr. Izzy Stradlin... Even just for the two songs or let them do SCOM. It'd be a pretty cool thing  to do and the US is the only place I can imagine it could happen... Fuck it if he came on and did Don't Damn Me it would be even cooler!!!

Can anyone confirm the starting times for tonight? Radio station and Ticket says 7:00 PM, I assume The Cult is on at 8:00 PM and GN'R about 9:30 PM ?

I think if the ticket says show start 7:00, that means The Cult will go on at 7:00.

Hi...I have two extra PIT Tix for tonight's show if anyone is interested.  I will sell them for below face value... :peace:

Then... GN'R at 8:00 I assume 

Looks like we'll get Steven again?

https://instagram.com/p/BJbQujqDgvQ/

GNR 8 I assume.  Maybe 8:15 at latest probably

Caption says Dodgers Stadium and looks like it's dark outside. So guessing this picture was from a few days ago. However, I wouldn't rule it out.

(http://gypsysoul.webspaceforme.net/SD1.jpg)

(http://gypsysoul.webspaceforme.net/SD2.jpg)

(https://instagram.fosl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/14033606_1155312761196915_1885969057_n.jpg)

(https://instagram.fosl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/13736930_1629619034017567_1860985380_n.jpg)

The Cult is on........

https://www.periscope.tv/w/aopd9zFtTUVQdnZPYlBPS0d8MXlwS2RvRE9id054V2195XxFfVjx9reIaLKug-ArpwW00lrWGDAkjmICGIMa


https://www.periscope.tv/w/aopjQTFtTUVQdnZPYlBPS0d8MVJER2xMVnF3WFZHTPoNoptXpNNW-030msS0YpU8yIdVUBcEIHj4izOdwS_2

What time is this suppose to start?

Also there don't seem to be any periscopes tonight :(

Thin Lizzy playing now..hope to find a better scope: https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OdKrYrvEdqxX (https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OdKrYrvEdqxX)

Guns Firing!!!!

Guns firing!!

https://www.periscope.tv/w/aopy9DFtTUVQdnZPYlBPS0d8MU9kS3JZcnZFZHF4WAAcKSMsjIYFl1KPui5wBr7DRKKnrmaSNdURTDY4ft3V

Need a new periscope..this one sounds like there are 3 drummers!! 

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1MYGNEbdblnKw

Used to love her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This leaves think about you, you're crazy and perfect crime i believe left of unplayed alts.

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1LyxBDPLPBEGN

TWAT!!!

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1YpJkeXYmrNKj

Best show on the tour even without Steven? I'd say yes.

Both Axl & Slash absolutely killed it. Best TWAT performance I've heard.

Not like it'd be hard to top though, only the second time Slash has played it live. I missed most of it though.

Great end to the tour! Thanks for all the scopes Gypsy. Now hurry up October so we can do this all again.

Just go back to this periscope http://www.periscope.tv/AndyK10/1YpJkeXYmrNKj?
 and click on the left of the screen and it will replay from the encore.

Thanks to all of tonight's periscopers!!!!  :beer:

Show was epic, but Qualcomm stadium sucks ... So unorganized!!!! Fuckin rookies

What a show! Obviously the setlist was great but also the vibe in the stadium was awesome, loud crowd, good weather.  Band sounded great, sound was super loud... Great end to the tour :peace:

They haven't played Slither, Nice Boys, ...

Ah right forgot those two. Slither at the next show could be a good possibility. Its what should've been Scott's 49th birthday.

Slash on this i love is incredible

Pissed I fell asleep, but thanks for the link, Gypsy.

Can you believe Gnr just played 25 shows without one hiccup? It truly is the End of Days!  :peace:

Hats off to Team Brazil, the crew, and obviously the band. Wow.  :o

Amazing, isn't it?  Not one problem at any show. It's awesome.

The only even minor glitch I can recall was that one night Axl thought the piano sounded a little off.  Really small time.

Our boy is all grows up.

Slash owns TWAT.

That needs to be performed at every GNR show for the rest of time.

Really sounded good.  Even Axl sounded better.

Guess Slash just doesn't dig 'Street Of Dreams'.  And I always thought that was one he'd have been good on.

Errr... No I take Adler every day of the week and twice on Sundays  :smoking:

I thought him laughing when the piano was messed up was classic.  he was laughing out loud. 

Which I thought was GREAT.

My favorite singer ever, but he never laughed anything off.  Been so great to finally see him taking it light this year.

Here's a video of TWAT. Sweet Jesus they killed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9n2vG8wB8

TWAT is definitely the CD song that Slash was most loyal to the original recording, specially during the solo...and its killer!

I felt the same way. Maybe on the next leg.


I was just about to post the same thing but you beat me by a few minutes!

I really like the attack and tone he brings to it.

I kinda wish for the first few bars of the outro solo for Better he would play similarly to what Finck does, just for the first few bars as I love the melody there, after that he can take it to the next level!

What were the attendance numbers for this show?

No idea but it was absolutely packed.

My friend went there and he said he's never seen anything like that. So many people.

Yes it was packed. I've been to the stadium aver 150 times for mostly Charger games, I was a season ticket holder for 14 years. I always scan the crowd to get an idea of the size and look for empty seats and that was damn near a sell out. Crowd was loud and into it. A great sight to see for that many people at once. They only got a little tired at the end I believe it was right after TWAT Axl was something like are you still with us and then said just checking.

Big time.

According to Del, it was sold out.

https://twitter.com/deljamesgang/status/767943017311326209

Ali

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/axl-rose-guns-n-roses-model-citizen/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_4572276

That is a GREAT article.  Thanks for posting. 

That is going on my Facebook page immediately.

Are there any links to twat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9n2vG8wB8

If they release a "best of tour" blu ray with songs from every show, this must be on there.They played twat also in Mexico but that performance was excellent.

I really love hearing twat played.    \

I love how Slash hasn't tried to put a spin on it and is playing it as close as he can to the original 

I do wish one day Bucket will get invited back for a couple of songs.   To me nothing beats 2002

Yeah, TWAT sounds great. I do think the chorus should be more powerful, though

The part where they sing "Yeah there was a time, didn't wanna know it all...." is by far my favorite part on CD, and I think it lacks some power live

Other than that, this version is amazing, especially the solo and Axl's screams in the end  :drool:

I agree I was there and I thought it fell kinda flat. Sounded drowned out. 

This is a part where the whole band should be singing, and I only see Duff and maybe Melissa doin' it

It's not a hard part to sing, in fact, quite the opposite actually. So it they all sang it, maybe it would sound more powerful

I'm really going to miss watching the shows on periscope and chatting about them here :(

QUality is way too poor to judge twat

I was there. It didn't sound good... But was very excited as I knew it was just the 2nd time with Slash. And I knew the song!  lol   All the CD songs except for maybe better the crowd wasn't really into. Having CD as the 3rd song really took the momentum down. 

Not Even TIL ?

TWAT was a total flop live in SD. Axl was completely drowned out. Anyone know why he stopped singing during TIL and UTLH??

What an awesome show though! Sound better than back in the day. And move around just as much! I saw them in Slane '92. It's like seeing them back then only minus the late starts and rants. True professionals now. I don't know how Axl can still do it but he can!

Really!!? You didnt like Axl's rants!!? I love his rants...especially this one.

https://youtu.be/piiIVSQdoSE

I love that they play this song live, it is my new Coma

I just Slash needs to practice it a little more.   Everytime  I hear them play it I think Buckethead kills another chicken    Save the chickens!

Went to the San Diego concert and it was AMAZING!! But while we were on the way there and eventually leaving the Stadium parking lot, there were these obnoxious dudes running around and selling $5 - $10 T-shirts. Were these T-shirts official ? They were not the same as the ones being sold in the Merchandise Tent. I get the feeling they were fakes !? Anyone else see these guys?

I also attended this show. Bought tix and a hotel room last minute and braved traffic to get to San Diego on time...

I saw the second T-Mobile show in Vegas and this, the last show on the tour, and can say that both had major highlights distinct from the other. Both shows share the #1 and #2 spots in my best-concert-of-my-life category. That being said, I thought the raw energy of the band and Axl's voice were crazy at Vegas and the precariousness of the whole thing gave the show an intense vibe. San Diego on the other hand showed us a band that was so well oiled they made Vin Diesel's arms look like uh- not as well oiled I guess. The set was much tighter with minimal wasted effort. For example, I noticed that they shortened the Fortus/Slash duo thing and it kept the crowd more engaged. For us super-fans, the new additions all got the obligatory "no way, I can't believe they're playing _____!" Really cool.
 
On YouTube clips: You cannot imagine how freaking powerful and loud the music/vocals are until you are there in person. It may not make for a great recorded version, but the music is so commanding at the show that you don't (really) hear the busted notes or notice the non-super-fan-worthy vocals. It's just so captivating and fun.

About the songs mentioned above: I think he stopped singing on Used To Love Her because Slash started to solo-which kinda felt closer to the original version. Even as hydrated as I was, TWAT struggled to get off the ground and was given a respectable but not overly enthusiastic response. But hey, it was the encore and they came back out after literally 2 minutes. No messing about with 10 mins of screaming for more (which I happily do by the way-hey, you have to earn it!).

Simply amazing. I would even recommend taking a non-super fan to the show-it's that good.



 

Oh yes of course they're not official. Counterfeit all the way. I've been to the Q, the Murph before that over 150 times, mostly Chargers games, Padre games for the downtown stadium and concerts back in the day and those guys are always around selling counterfeit shirts before and after the game. 

I strongly doubt Buckethead would play the ending solo as close to the original one as Bumblefoot. The only solo he kinda played the same every night was KOHD (which was AMAZING).

From what I saw on YouTube, he stopped in UTLH because Slash actually played the solo earlier than what he was supposed to.

Thought the same.

Which, unfortunately is what happens when you only do a song every blue moon.  Partly why I can't give full throated calls to unearth some rarity they never do.  Odds are it will sound pretty rough.  I imagine if they did TWAT on the regular, it would sound better.  But once every 3-4 months, is going to be a work in progress, and sound like it.

I have a Pearl Jam bootleg where someone yells out a song title and Eddie says "honestly, we haven't played that in years and I'm not sure we even remember it."

There is 21 hours left out for the day that the band isn't on stage.  Tons of time to practice.   

Guns has a tiny backlog of original music.   They should be able to master any song live.   

Especially if they have a set list with only a couple of additional songs to choose from.   I don't know perhaps Prato e those songs that you do not play live every night'. 

Don't let common sense and logic get in the way of whining....




/jarmo

Ah, always a hallmark of this band.  Extensive rehearsals and frequent releases.

GNR in a nutshell, right there.

So its your contention that is what they are doing, then?

Don't lob your little passive aggressive grenade and then scurry back into the woodpile.  Defend it.

Don't forget the months previous before the tour   While they were not touring.....   24hrs in those days.  To you know. Umm praactice....

Or don't forget the fact they wrote the songs!!!!!!!!!   

But I am not saying they don't sound good/great on 87% of the music.   They do. 

I just do not like the excuse of they don't play a song live all the time it won't sound good.

A football team uses a select play only once every 3 games.   Thy are expected to nail it

A magician uses a trick every couple of shows.   He is expected to nail it.     

Both overly practice to nail them.     And hell te QB on the team probably didn't even write the play!

'Coma' really sounded great right from that first Vegas show.

Oh please.

Ignorance is bliss.


You and your Canadian cyber buddy think you have an idea of what goes on, but the reality is different.

Here's a word for you to disregard: Soundcheck.

And another one: Rehearsals.

Now go on and pretend this post never happened and you really do have a clue about how GN'R operates.  :-*


/jarmo

Not to speak for Jarmo here, but my interpretation of what he is saying is that... NO... there aren't 21 hours in a day for that during the tour. Really the only time they have for that is during soundcheck and that time is dedicated more to dialing in the sound and instrument setups which leads more to Jamming than it does to practicing a specific tune.

Vegas was sort of unique that they got a second arena with a stage setup to run longer rehearsals prior to a show.

With that said... I will remove myself from the middle of the always playful DX and Jarmo show.

If the only things we have to complain about after more than 2 dozen hugely successful stadium shows are a mistimed solo in a song they played once and a 'weak' performance of a song that has only been played by this lineup twice (yet was arguably as good as it's ever been been played live) then we have it really really good as a fanbase.

I think any night you get a TWAT, UTLH, or even a 'Yesterdays'...that's a bonus.  It's gravy.  It might not be super sharp, but you didn't expect it anyway.

The songs that got played night in, night out, were all excellent.  Vocals and music.

Agree on TWAT. That's a pretty complex song, so they should play it more if they want it to sound more tight. Same thing can be said about Coma. The reason it's so tight is because they're playing it every night. That's a song with lots of tempo changes and chords. I see people claiming they should play Locomotive (myself included), but that's another song that fits into this category.. It needs to be played often to sound right

As for Used to Love Her, that song is one of the simplest 3 chords songs ever, they don't really need to rehearse it to sound good. But they're human beings, sometimes they screw up, Slash probably got distracted and started the solo earlier. No big deal.

Totally agree, in principle.

But the weird thing about 'Locomotive' is that the last 2 times it was played (12.13.91 in NYC, 2.20.92 in Tokyo), it was basically flawless. 

Music sounds tight, and Axl doesn't mess up one line.  And fact it, that song has a lot of lyrics.

Yeah, maybe if they played it it would sound right, we don't know. I hope they play it... I'd rather hear Locomotive than Coma in Sao Paulo  :drool:

I think out of these 3 songs, TWAT is the most complex. It seems to me it's a studio song, that doesn't really work live. Actually I think that applies to most of CD.

For sure agree with TWAT. It didn't sound good live being there with all the complexities of the song.

Final bow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9gyIio7ifI