September 16 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint

[cotis]

I flew out of newark this morning (what flight were you on patcooper?) and I'm setup here in the hotel room. We're staying in New York, New York. Excellent service! We went to lunch at the ESPNZONE this afternoon, a MUST VISIT for any sports fan. Personal TV's at each booth if you're in the smoking lounge. Plus two huge screen TVs and its just amazing.

I'm wearing my Here Today...Gone to Hell: North American tour short tomorrow night! So hopefully meet some of you guys there!!

[patcooper]

I flew out of newark this morning (what flight were you on patcooper?) and I'm setup here in the hotel room. We're staying in New York, New York. Excellent service! We went to lunch at the ESPNZONE this afternoon, a MUST VISIT for any sports fan. Personal TV's at each booth if you're in the smoking lounge. Plus two huge screen TVs and its just amazing.

I'm wearing my Here Today...Gone to Hell: North American tour short tomorrow night! So hopefully meet some of you guys there!!

my flight is tomorrow morning, not this morning. lol. and with the shitty weather here on the eastcoast hopefully i get there before jungle starts to play.

[cotis]

I flew out of newark this morning (what flight were you on patcooper?) and I'm setup here in the hotel room. We're staying in New York, New York. Excellent service! We went to lunch at the ESPNZONE this afternoon, a MUST VISIT for any sports fan. Personal TV's at each booth if you're in the smoking lounge. Plus two huge screen TVs and its just amazing.

I'm wearing my Here Today...Gone to Hell: North American tour short tomorrow night! So hopefully meet some of you guys there!!

my flight is tomorrow morning, not this morning. lol. and with the shitty weather here on the eastcoast hopefully i get there before jungle starts to play.

oh haha okay

i misunderstood you

we just got out before the storms hit...it was raining when we left...but when we took off we got up above the clouds and it was a perfect flight

[phreakofnature]

it is soooo windy today. Welcome to Las Vegas.  Windy as shit sometimes.

[Chief]

FYI - i thought everyone should know, i just got this ticketbastard alert email (I got one for each show)

Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert for your upcoming event. GUNS N ROSES scheduled at JOINT @ HARD ROCK HOTEL on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2006, at 8:00PM, has changed times.  The event will now take place at 9PM.  Original tickets will be honored for the new time.

If you have any questions, please contact us online at:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/h/asktm.html

Thank you for using Ticketmaster.  We appreciate your business!

[leatherebel]

FYI - i thought everyone should know, i just got this ticketbastard alert email (I got one for each show)

Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert for your upcoming event. GUNS N ROSES scheduled at JOINT @ HARD ROCK HOTEL on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2006, at 8:00PM, has changed times.? The event will now take place at 9PM.? Original tickets will be honored for the new time.

If you have any questions, please contact us online at:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/h/asktm.html

Thank you for using Ticketmaster.? We appreciate your business!

Hm....does not sound good. Unless they have cancelled the opening band, we shouldn't expect gn'r before midnight.....it's gonna be a loooong wait. hm

[Chief]

I think they did this so as not to piss off people who plan to get in early and wait...

[axlrosegnr]

Oh well, I don't care, i think I can wait an extra hour to get in.

[phreakofnature]

yeah, I don't think I am actually going to go into the hardrock until like 930p or so.

[phreakofnature]

Well, not sure what to say... That show left me speechless. But I will give it a shot.  By FAR the best god damn show I have ever been too.


I knew it was going to be a special night when I walked into the joint, to be greeted by none other the Axl Rose. I purposely went late to the show since the venue was so small, I didn't want to stand in line. But, the doors had not opened yet when I got there, so the line was hella long. I decided to walk around the casino for a bit.

About twenty minutes later, Axl Rose walks in the door. If I would have went to the back of the line i would have never seen him. He had a entourage around him but he was very assessable. I walked up to him, shook his hand, he did that funky lean away from me shy handshake thing he did on the MTV Movie awards. i said have a great show, can't wait for you guys to go on.. He said "Thanks see you on the inside." After that everyone else started yelling "Axl, Axl" and they whisked him off to a private area. The cool thing is, he walked down the line and shook everyone?s had that was standing in line towards the front. All i can say was awesome.

So, with all this commotion, I was able to slip in line towards the front. I know I am a bastard but like 30 people left their spot to chase Axl, so I was like meh, why go to the back i will just slip in here. So, I got fantastic spot on the floor. I was about 10 feet away from the stage. Everyone was cool; no one was pushing or shoving where I was. I had a perfect clear view of the greatness.

As far as the set, it was pretty much the same set they played in Europe. No new unheard songs. They did play I.R.S, Better, Magascar, The Blues. They played the usual Appetite songs and November Rain. No TWAT.

the best way I can sum it up is, put the current lineup in the MTV Ritz '88 show. It was a small club like that, everyone was real close together and the stage was about waist high. Axl moved his ass off, it was just like the Ritz show. he was running and dancing likea son of a bitch.

The mix was pretty bad; Axl was low a lot of the time. He did sound fan fucking tastic though. He was on his A game. They recorded the show, I watched them but up giant audience recording microphones throughout the Joint.

During Better something funky happened with his ear monitor. He kept motioning to someone to turn it down. I don't think they ever did cause he got pissed and took it off. There will be another rant tape I am sure. During Paradise City for the 1st 30 seconds I could see him berating Merck off stage. You could tell he was in a tirade just blazing pissed. Then he came back out on stage, sang a few lines and stormed off again. I could see him off stage with Merck just having a total hissy fit. Before that, i could see Axl yelling into the mic, pointing at someone and screaming his head off. Not sure what happened but Axl left the stage mad again, and then came back to finish the song.

Axl was in a pretty good mood for most of the night, until the end. Something pissed him the fuck off. He told a story about Paul McCartney, he said that Paul?s kids told Paul that it was awesome that he covered a Guns n' Roses song. Was pretty funny.

Man, i don't ever want to see an arena show again. Small clubs is where it's at. Nothing like sharing that experience with only 1000 people. Axl was into the crowed all night long, he said it was nice to meet everyone out front..

This show should be all over the net soon. They didn't check anyone for camera's and I saw a few full size cam corders going during the show and about 50 camera phones.

That's about it. Best show of my fucking life.

[killingvector]

Merck has taken a beating from Axl on this tour. I wonder if he ever will get tired of it.

[Brody]

totally steller!!

[.Seal]

Paul McCartney story is hilarious 

[Gaymo, the Hobbit]

nice review. what was with robin falling down?

[phreakofnature]

nice review. what was with robin falling down?

He tripped on a mic stand from what I saw.  When Axl pulled him back up, a stage hand ran over and picked up a mic stand right where he fell.

[Gaymo, the Hobbit]

was he stoned?

[suicide]

Thanks for the great review Phreakofnature!

Axl, just fuckin' fire the fuckin' technicians... I can't believe they still fuck up, they'll never learn! Time to hire some professionals!!!

[cotis]

was he stoned?

in my opinion, yes

haha his eyes were like barely open
 

[dariano]

I was there, I have seen a lot of shows in my 40 years on this planet...tonight was special, it was the most amazing show!

[phreakofnature]

was he stoned?

or really drunk