Naples Florida October 27th 2006 Chinese Democracy and Use To Love Her Videos

[BigChrisSpirito]

LINKS TO VIDEOS AT THE END OF THIS BLOG


Tonights show kicked ass!  I went to the show tonight with a good friend of mine who I've known for nearly 15 years Damien aka Taz or DamienTheTaz here on this board.  Damien was the first friend I made when I moved to Florida from Rhode Island back when I was 13 in 1990 and we bonded over the fact that we both loved Guns n Roses and I had on a Stoned in LA t-shirt.  Growing up we always said that one day no matter where GnR played in Florida we would go together and see them and tonight was the night as my girl bailed out on me last minute.  We got to the arena at 10:40 as we skipped out on Bach and PR tonight so that we could get more sleep prior to the show.  We timed everything perfectly cause we only had to wait about 10 mins after arriving before Guns took the stage.  Our seats tonight were total shit in section 108 but we noticed nobody was sitting towards the back of the arena dead center looking straight on at the stage so we walked over and had in my opinion the best seats in the freakin' house. 

Tonight's show was amazing!  It was the same setlist from Wednesday nights show in Tampa but seemed flawless.  Axl's voice was dead on all night and the band was so freakin' tight like a well polished machine.  Back in 2002 the band seemed to be a carbon copy of the old GnR lineup in that they played all the old songs the same way Slash, Matt and Duff would have but this time around the band took the old songs and owned them making them there own.  Can't really explain it but they just weren't playing Slash's old solo's on guitar they were owning the songs and simply making them their's if that makes any sense.  Robin Fink did a guitar solo that I can only describe as dangerously sexy.  It was just this bad ass down and dirty sexy guitar riff that in my head I could see people fucking to in a movie or something.  This new band is full of such talented musicans I dare anybody to name another band playing today that busts out 3 and 4 min guitar or piano solos during their shows. 

I had no problem tonight sneaking my camera in and below you will see pictures.  I also used my Sony Digital to record Chinese Democracy and I Use To Love Her on video and will upload those very soon.  I gotta hand it to the guys who bootleg shows as I was scared to tape too much tonight as I didn't wanna risk getting kicked out plus I was bouncing around too much and having too much of a good time to sit still and record everything.  So my hat is off to the great folks who do all the recordings as it takes big balls. 

After the show ended we hung out in the back loading arena with all the trucks and saw the lead singer from Papa Roach and some groupie babes trying to get backstage.  After about 15 mins of standing around we walked around the side of the building and saw Bumblefoot talking to fans and signing autographs.  What a nice nice guy, total class act.  He signed both mine and Damien's ticket stubs and took pictures with both of us.  Totally mellow guy who was really appreciative of everyone coming out and thanks us for coming out and being fans.  Who does that anymore?  Seriously, how cool is that of him to be so down to earth and take time out for the fans?  Simply awesome and that my friends is how a kick ass night ended.  It's 4:34am and I still haven't slept as I'm still all jacked up from the concert and a wonderful night out with one of my best buds.  Enjoy the pictures and as for the videos somebody just email me or PM me with directions on how to compress the videos and where to upload them or simply where to upload them if compressing isn't an issue.  I recorded I Use To Love Her for everybody cause I figured they hadn't been playing that live and it would be neat for everybody to have.  Anyways, I out so 

Big Chris

ps meet EFISH of the board tonight who was sporting a HereTodayGoneToHell.com t-shirt.  Nice meeting you my friend!  (He also meet Bumblefoot and got a pic with him)




*here's two jackasses getting kicked out before the show started.  I have never seen anybody actually carried out like that so I had to take a pic


*This is a shot of the arena which wasn't even half full... gives you all a good idea of where we sat... dead center rear of the building high up.... GREAT SEATS!


*Backstage by the trucks after the show.. this is the lead singer of Papa Roach


*Chinese Democracy live


*My Michelle live with Bach



*November Rain live





*A couple of random shots







*And finally what's a concert without hot groupies with big tits trying to sneak in the backstage area after the show through the parking lot where the stage crew was loading all of the bands instruments.



*Use To Love Her Video
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S2M35F6S

*Chinese Democracy Video
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4G367B51

Hope you enjoyed this blog and my pics/videos

Chris

[cotis]

awesome pics!

glad you had a good time.

downloading CD right now!

[erric]

Really nice of you man to post all this in here,THANKS.

[kupirock]

Great story, thanks for posting.

*This is a shot of the arena which wasn't even half full... gives you all a good idea of where we sat... dead center rear of the building high up.... GREAT SEATS!

Wow! GNR really needs promotion

[BigChrisSpirito]

Glad you all enjoyed the read and the videos.  Wish I could have done a few more but sadly I lacked the balls to chance getting thrown out.  Hopefully a full recording of this show turns up someday.

Chris

[Jim Bob]

Chris,  Thank you very much!   Great read, great pics, GREAT VIDEOS 

[MarioGunner]

AWESOME WORK MAN.... GHLAD TO KNOW YOU HAD A GREAT TIME, THANK YOU!!!!  THE VIDS ARE COOL TOO.   

[jimb0]

USED TO LOVE HER

It actually sounds good again unlike europe!

[jimb0]

You should have told the groupies that you were in GNR, they probably wouldn't have known the difference

[estranged.1098]

Cheers! Thanks for posting that.

I have to ask though, could someone please upload the videos on yousendit or even youtube? Megaupload rarely works here in Brazil.

[BigChrisSpirito]

Glad your all enjoying the videos as for uploading them to another server I will try and get around to that Monday when I'm off again or perhaps somebody else will do it for you before I can get around to it.

[Dirty Little Thing]

Kick ass pictures dude, this gets me so psyched for when i see them in a week. 

[bucketheadfan]

amazing thank you

[lennonisgod]

Thanks for the review of the show and the Vids. The pics are pretty kick ass too!! I'm glad you had a good time and I'm happy Axl kicked some fucking ass for ya. I like the pics of those people being carried out by their heads...too funny. What did those cunts do by the way?? Did you happen to see it??

[Bandita]

Thanks for the review of the show and the Vids. The pics are pretty kick ass too!! I'm glad you had a good time and I'm happy Axl kicked some fucking ass for ya. I like the pics of those people being carried out by their heads...too funny. What did those cunts do by the way?? Did you happen to see it??

 

Yea I was wondering that too

Did they jump over the rail or something?

Thanks for the pics and stuff!  Awesome!!!

[BigChrisSpirito]

Thanks for the review of the show and the Vids. The pics are pretty kick ass too!! I'm glad you had a good time and I'm happy Axl kicked some fucking ass for ya. I like the pics of those people being carried out by their heads...too funny. What did those cunts do by the way?? Did you happen to see it??

 

Yea I was wondering that too

Did they jump over the rail or something?

Thanks for the pics and stuff!? Awesome!!!

They got into a fight with another kid who was taken out just prior to me snapping this picture so from what I saw it was the girl and the guy vs some other guy and the chick threw her beer/or drink on the 1st guy who got kicked out.

[The Legend]

I remember those hotties above and the fight. Nice pics, thx, and many thx for the video memories. 

[Alina]

very cool post 

thanks for vids