The U.S. Tour (General Discussion)

[TVC15]

It's not about AXL filling arena's , because back in 1992 you could spend 25 bucs easily to see them. At 75-100 buc's he will never fill a arena , then on top of that he will never keep a american crowd going because he pause's in his setlist to much (remember donington ?)

Look I love gnr as a entity , I love this website/forumn and everybody that posts in it and have gained much RESPECT to the new revised group. But AXL will never , never , never , ever again sale out a arena in AMERICA.HE WON'T even pack a arena in at 90% with the way he does his setlists , and ticket price's.

You're a funny guy... .

The current "US Tour" is obviously a warm-up for the ARENA tour later in the fall. Lastly, I strongly doubt that the prime seats for the ARENA tour will top $65.

 

[Outtagetme]

I have thought all along that this approach is best.  I'm willing to travel for a few shows, as I did for Hammerstein.  I do hope they come to Atlanta and play a few nights at the Tabernacle.  If they can't get in there and end up playing the Roxy Theater, I'm in luck cause it is a block away from my loft.  I hope they generate positive press from this tour.  They really need it.  For some reason, I think they may skip Atlanta all together though.  After all, it's a city with 4 million people and a shit load of apathetic rock fans.  I wish I still lived in Chicago right now.  They should play 5 nights in one of the theaters there. 

[flickn]

It's not about AXL filling arena's , because back in 1992 you could spend 25 bucs easily to see them. At 75-100 buc's he will never fill a arena , then on top of that he will never keep a american crowd going because he pause's in his setlist to much (remember donington ?)

Look I love gnr as a entity , I love this website/forumn and everybody that posts in it and have gained much RESPECT to the new revised group. But AXL will never , never , never , ever again sale out a arena in AMERICA.HE WON'T even pack a arena in at 90% with the way he does his setlists , and ticket price's.

You're a funny guy... .

The current "US Tour" is obviously a warm-up for the ARENA tour later in the fall. Lastly, I strongly doubt that the prime seats for the ARENA tour will top $65.

 

k , I will tread on egss softly here....


I was mentioning about  a arena tour, not this warm up one , I just hope this arena tour coming up........is not like the european tour , you heard him on the trunk show himself " tour in the Us , is hard cause everybody wants the old band back.Touring in europe is cool , cause people are like wow GNR !11!!.Then you have the drawn out seltists with 4-5 solo's cause axl has to hit up the O2 back stage.Songs like Better and such will be not accepted as great grn music if played live immediately following a fortus Beatuiful single.I really like grn as a form of rock music at this time and date ,  just read that these ticket prices or high ......for what ?

[novemberparadise23]

i hope they go all up the east coast

[TVC15]

I have thought all along that this approach is best.? I'm willing to travel for a few shows, as I did for Hammerstein.? I do hope they come to Atlanta and play a few nights at the Tabernacle.? If they can't get in there and end up playing the Roxy Theater, I'm in luck cause it is a block away from my loft.? I hope they generate positive press from this tour.? They really need it.? For some reason, I think they may skip Atlanta all together though.? After all, it's a city with 4 million people and a shit load of apathetic rock fans.? I wish I still lived in Chicago right now.? They should play 5 nights in one of the theaters there.?

I believe they will keep the theatre tour small. When their album is released, I hope they do what the Stones did on their last tour: play one theatre and one arena show in each city.

 

[GNRArnold]

The way I'm seeing it is they are playing it safe- instead of taking chances and playing an arena in Las Vegas to a half full audience, you do two shows at a smaller venue that are guaranteed to be sold out. Cali. is a huge state- instead of doing the 5-6 big arenas there and only selling out LA it makes sense to do the the theaters and build a buzz. My guess is when the arena fall dates are announced it will only be major cities, no B or C markets like the 2002 tour had because those are just too risky. I'm guessing if the arena dates go well(which they will)- then they will add a 2nd leg and hit the B-markets, this is pretty much what Motley Crue did with there last tour- announced about 20 dates originally all in major cities(NYC,LA,Chicago,Philly etc.) then once those sold out they added two more legs hitting other markets. Now what would be a cool idea for the major cities is to do an arena show one night, then the next night do an acoustic gig in a theater. How sweet would it be say in NYC- one nite you get the full electric set at MSG, and the next get a acoustic gig at the Beacon? That would be a cool idea.

[babydolls]

It's not about AXL filling arena's , because back in 1992 you could spend 25 bucs easily to see them. At 75-100 buc's he will never fill a arena , then on top of that he will never keep a american crowd going because he pause's in his setlist to much (remember donington ?)

Look I love gnr as a entity , I love this website/forumn and everybody that posts in it and have gained much RESPECT to the new revised group. But AXL will never , never , never , ever again sale out a arena in AMERICA.HE WON'T even pack a arena in at 90% with the way he does his setlists , and ticket price's.

he wasnt "pausing" in Donington - there were valid issues.  If there are TD's in any gig, you can expect a band, not just GnR, to pause or stop to sort them out.  Ticket prices prob arent a direct reflection on GnR. remember the huge battle that Pearl jam tried to have with ticketmaster about keeping ticket prices low? 

[Scabbie]

Does anyone think that the band will officially announce the tour dates, or simply leave fans to find out by localised production?

I still find it bizarre they haven't at least updated gnronline.com with the tour dates

[WARose]

Does anyone think that the band will officially announce the tour dates, or simply leave fans to find out by localised production?

I still find it bizarre they haven't at least updated gnronline.com with the tour dates

yeah it`s weird. they announced the 2002 us tour with a press release, but we found out about the european dates from the ticket sites...

[Scabbie]

Does anyone think that the band will officially announce the tour dates, or simply leave fans to find out by localised production?

I still find it bizarre they haven't at least updated gnronline.com with the tour dates

yeah it`s weird. they announced the 2002 us tour with a press release, but we found out about the european dates from the ticket sites...

Maybe they are holding off until all of the dates are confirmed. I thought Sanctuary might have said something too.

[flickn]

It's not about AXL filling arena's , because back in 1992 you could spend 25 bucs easily to see them. At 75-100 buc's he will never fill a arena , then on top of that he will never keep a american crowd going because he pause's in his setlist to much (remember donington ?)

Look I love gnr as a entity , I love this website/forumn and everybody that posts in it and have gained much RESPECT to the new revised group. But AXL will never , never , never , ever again sale out a arena in AMERICA.HE WON'T even pack a arena in at 90% with the way he does his setlists , and ticket price's.

he wasnt "pausing" in Donington - there were valid issues.? If there are TD's in any gig, you can expect a band, not just GnR, to pause or stop to sort them out.? Ticket prices prob arent a direct reflection on GnR. remember the huge battle that Pearl jam tried to have with ticketmaster about keeping ticket prices low??

you honestly beleive there were these technical issues at donnington ?Metallica didn't have to stop their show. It's shame that axl? always have some type of issue at any gig he plays weather it being late ranting, stoping the song in the middle , the list goes on and on , the american people won't put up with that again , I hope he has his shit together when he decides to jump to playing american arenas

[babydolls]

yeah - I do - coz I was there.  Were you???  They were having issues, the stage was too wet and getting dangerous, some of the sound was weird.  They deserve massive credit for this gig especially because they didnt just storm off and sulk - they came back on and kicked some serious ass.  The last 6 songs or so were blinding and Axl didnt want to leave either.

its hardly GnR's fault if there are sound problems - at least they try and sort them out, rather than letting a crowd listen to a substandard gig and not giving a damn.  I know that it takes time getting these things sorterd out, but its not like Axl's ever been any different!
metallica are a different machine.

[jarmo]

you honestly beleive there were these technical issues at donnington ?

As babydolls said, were you there? 

Where I was standing, the sound was really fucked up at the start of the set.

It got better towards the end.



/jarmo

[anythinggoes]

yeah - I do - coz I was there.? Were you? They were having issues, the stage was too wet and getting dangerous, some of the sound was weird.? They deserve massive credit for this gig especially because they didnt just storm off and sulk - they came back on and kicked some serious ass.? The last 6 songs or so were blinding and Axl didnt want to leave either.

its hardly GnR's fault if there are sound problems - at least they try and sort them out, rather than letting a crowd listen to a substandard gig and not giving a damn.? I know that it takes time getting these things sorterd out, but its not like Axl's ever been any different!
metallica are a different machine.

i have to disagree there

the last 10 songs were blinding Basically November Rain onwards 

and i would class falling on your ass a techinical difficulty just as much as a mic failing to work 

[Barbie567]

Back to the topic at hand...does anyone have any concept of how much longer we're going to have to wait for a full tour schedule...?  I mean, are we talking hours, days, weeks?  I am totally tweaking about going away this weekend and not having internet access bc what if they post the dates in the 3 hours that I am nowhere near a computer???   

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I think they'll just keep tacking on dates, even when they start the tour.

[jarmo]

I think they'll just keep tacking on dates, even when they start the tour.

It's possible. That's what happened here in Europe.


It'll be interesting to see where they head after the KROQ show.



/jarmo

[CDesigner]

i officially got my ticket for the 21st at the warfield in SF today. i'm gonna be alone (it was too expensive to buy more than one), so i hope some HTGTHers befriend me there!

[WhatIsItMan]

They need to come to Chicago!  We need some GN'R here in the midwest too!  I'm sick of flying all over the place!  Midwest, Axl!  Midwest!

[BLS-Pride]

Some of the same bands at the Kroq thing. maybe gnr might show? Anyone else think its possible?

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