I was at the show.
nothing like that happened.
it's bullshit.
the closest thing to an incident was richard swinging his guitar and almost kicking axl by accident.
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http://www.chinesedemocracy.com/viewtopic.php?t=14455&start=0 )
OK, here's a part of the review, rest at the thread on cd.com)
I got at the gate at noonish, there was a few people there waiting, and till 4 pm, there was 5-10 people in front of the gate. Till 6 o clock, the crowd already gathered around, and at about 6.30 the security was already at the gate, but they were not letting people in yet(and the gate should have opened at 6).
I was 2nd in line at the gate, and the official cameraman came by and did a interview with me. he asked me all the usaul stuff, how long have I been a fan, where I'm from,...
and I asked him what was this for and he said, "For the DVD". and I asked him when the DVD will be released, and he said "about end of summer".
after that we were let in the arena, and once again we had to wait...
finally the last gate of the arena opened, I managed to catch the fence, center. and then another wait started....
the opening act started (some shitty hungarian band).
after they were finally done, we had to wait again.
and some fat guy comes on stage, and says "due to techincal problems, the show will be 20 minutes late".
1 h after that, some people leave the arena...
1 h after that, the damn intro finally starts....
20 minutes after the intro started the WTTJ FINALLY STARTS!!!!
Setlist:
WTTJ
Its so easy
Mr Brownstone
Better
LALD
SCOM
YCBM
Blues
Out ta get me
KOHD
My Michelle
November Rain
Madagascar
Nigtrain
Paradise City
(I forgot when the solos happened) but there was a bunch of them (bumblefoot, fortus, finck, dizzy)
the band also did some random jam at one point.
The show was avesome. I dont know if the whole arena experience enhanced the pleasure, but I felt something that's so good I cant describe it.
there were a couple of mistakes here and there, by some band members, but nothing much
Some interesting details....
guess what... axl did a rant... he did it.... guess when... you guessed it. ... just before the band played "Better". what did he say? .... you guessed it...
there's this think called "computers"... bla bla bla
at the start of the show, Finck got pissed off by his guitar for some reason, and he threw it on the floor, and got another one...
I tought it's a part of the performance or something, but after that, during better(after the "all that I wanted was... ",-after the bubles effect behind the middle part of the song), he really got mad, smashed the guitar on the floor, took his sun glases and threw them also, walked of stage, and stayed there till the end of the song.
They DIDNT play the solo at the end of the song, and Bumblefoot had to perform the outro of the songs, and he kinda messed it up, and didn't know egzactly how many times the part should be repeated.
another interesting thing...
a friend of mine got to see the setlist on one of the monitors before the show started. and they had patience, rocket queen and a couple of other songs listed there that the band chose not to play...
dont know why.
not many stage interaction, at the end, finck walked by the people in the front row, and his and my friends head kinda collided when fincked walked down.
bumblefoot also walked buy, letting people touch his guitar, he walked infront of me, and instead of just touching it, I grabed onta it, and wouldnt let it go, at least till I got my camera out of my pocket I kinda held him in that place for a couple of seconds, squeezing the neck of it:)
Axl's ecuse for being late 3 hours was:
Sorry I was/got pretty fucked up.
Axl's voice was great, the band members are really tight, the performance of the band was 9/10, but because of the band being late for so long, I'd give them 7/10 because it really fucks up the experience when you are tiered, dehidrated, and waiting for hours. at one point I wanted to walk out, I was so fucking tired I couldnt wait no more.
The organizers did a lousy job with the opening act, there were no signs in English, only hungarian, none of the personell at the arena knew a word of english, and there were busses from all around europe over there.
People from outside of hungary didnt give a fuck about the opening act because they were nobodys for us, and we didnt understand a word of their songs. after all, a great number of people was from other countries.
I met loads of fans from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Germany, Austria, Italy, and they were all pissed because of the crappy organization.
The security was crappy also, they refused to give us water, and we were dehidrated. the whole front row was dry.
damn pricks. They started to give out water only after I threw up in front of the stage...
another thing they fucked up... they sold more tickets that arena is allowed to recieve, the show was sold out + they sold 1000-2000 tickets more.
I heared there were problems because they fucked up the seating arangements, and there sometimes 2-3 people got the same fucking seat.
so... conclusion, GREAT GNR SHOW, GREAT PERFORMANCE, only few new GNR songs played, but I didnt notice, cus the band was so good I didnt care even when they played the cristina aguilera theme, the organizers fucked it up with the opening act, the signs/anouncements and selling 2000 tickets more than allowed.
Axl further fucked up, the what could have been a perfect experience by showing up 3 hours late.
The band was tight, and finck is definitely in charge of the stage, has carizma and stage presence. he was all over the place.
I have some photos/recordings, and gonna upload them soon.
I'm sorry I didnt send any mails from the arena, but the whole "waiting" thing got me pretty much exhausted, and I didnt give a fuck about anything after a certain point, and I just wanted to fucking go to sleep.