Chinese Democracy Starts Now 10 Year Anniversary!!

[LIGuns]

Can you believe it's been 10 years (Dec 31/Jan 1) since Axl's "comeback" show at the House o' Blues in Las Vegas!!
I think I'll be playing that show on my IPOD on New Years Day..
Highlights were o' course the new  N' well recieved songs that were played.. But the "Welcome Back" chant N' Axl's genuine shock N' appreciation towards the crowd was also a great moment....

[Jdog0830]

Time flies by!
More time for future rocking!!!


Joe

[Voodoochild]

That was one of the best GNR shows ever. I can't even describe how excited I was when I first listened the new songs in that bootleg by the Jan 1st already.

[willow]

That was one of the best GNR shows ever. I can't even describe how excited I was when I first listened the new songs in that bootleg by the Jan 1st already.

Same here, when I finally got Rio on VHS I was sitting in the chair crying as I watched it. I couldn't believe I was finally seeing Axl on stage again. I made it out too The Joint shows the fallowing year. And was blown away. I can't believe that every show sense has just gotten better and better.

[Continental Drift]

VERY hard to believe that it's been 10 years...

That said time is relative in the world of GN'R- so I suppose it's not surprising to me that it seems more like 5 years ago or so...

Anyway- great great shows. Raw but with some absolutely fantastic energy. Always felt it was very unfortunate for the band that Buckethead got sick and they had to cancel the European tour they had scheduled for that Summer...

[Street of the Blues]

This is awesome!  Here's to the next 10 years of the Chinese Democracy tour 

[LongGoneDay]

I passed on the chance to see them in '01 or '02? but was all over tickets for the '06-'07 run. Caught two amazing shows, and judging from footage online, they appear to be sounding even better live of late. Hoping for a chance to catch another show soon.

[gnr-4-ever]

Time sure does fly by fast, seems like yesterday Axl was screaming the intro on Jungle, throwing that guy out on Easy (always a fun memory  ), the memorable version of KOHD, the first video footage of a song called "Chinese Democracy", the "ok, nevermind" part in Street of Dreams (known as "The Blues" at that time), and of course the speech at the end (the first time I saw it I almost cried). I could go on and on for hours about the show, it was that great and historic for GN'R. And who can forget those 200,000+ people who were there? Probably the best crowd on a GN'R show ever. Who knows will it ever happen again, but one thing's for sure - it would be great if they visited Rio in 2011 to do a 10 year anniversary show. 

[One.In.A.Million]

Wow, can't believe it's been that long. 

Must have been an amazing time to be a fan, and I am jealous like hell over the people who witnessed that first ever show at the house of blues. I can't get enough of the RIR 3 performance, something special indeed, that can never be replicated. The band, the crowd, the venue everything was perfect that night.

So here's to Axl and Guns N' Roses for the 10 year anniversary of the Chinese Democracy era, and since the first live show in the millenium for GN'R.

 

[bigcash2002]

very hard to believe

[gnrjanus]

A special release (HOB dvd) would be pretty sweet for 10 years of the great return!

[Voodoochild]

This is awesome!  Here's to the next 10 years of the Chinese Democracy tour 

Dont you love to stir shit up?

[AXL DEMOCRACY]

A special release (HOB dvd) would be pretty sweet for 10 years of the great return!

I wish this was released.  I was there, front row.  One, if not the best moments of my G N' R life.  To be able to experience that show again would be real special.  It's too bad for whatever reasons it is not available.  Even if we got one song from that show released through the band's Facebook, or put up on youtube would be a real treat.

[Lord Stan]

Wow, I didn't realise. Now I remember that the show I bought tickets for got cancelled in 2000.

Since then it's been so great

[Gezzy]

I wish I was at that gig, I listen to the bootleg so much!

[Street of the Blues]

Rock in Rio is my favorite.

[One.In.A.Million]

I wish I was at that gig, I listen to the bootleg so much!

Damn right Gezzy, I would give anything to have been there. Just listening to the intro gives me goosebumps like nothing else.

I would love nothing more than to see this released as a DVD sometime in the future. It might never happen, but it would be a big shame if it doesn't. Any GN'R fan past and present are lying if they deny they would be intrigued like hell to see this show, this is the holy grail in terms of GN'R DVD's.

I just hope it exists, it's gotta have been recorded, although I have not heard anyone from the GN'R camp state that it had, but I may be wrong.

Here's to hoping.

 

[Gezzy]

Turns out it was filmed and professionally recorded, and planned to be released on DVD when the mark 1 version of Chinese Democracy was originally supposed to be released in June 2001.



But as we all know, Roy Thomas Baker got hold of the helm later on that year and insisted all 70 or so songs they had, were to be all re-recorded. They moved studios, it took RTB weeks to find the perfect Marshall head for a guitar part etc.

[One.In.A.Million]

Didn't Axl answer a question about this so called DVD, during one of the online chats?. I'm sure he did, I'm going to try to find the exact quote, but I'm sure he did.

Gunns on Today at 11:51:59
Hey Axl, alot of the gnr fans always say how good the House of Blues 01/01/01 show is,
are you thinking about releasing that for the fans in dvd or download soon?


No plans for any live shows as DVD's currently.

That's the one, so we can't tell much by this really. Axl just stated that there were no plans to release any DVD, and didn't make his answer specific to the subject mentioned in the question.

[Jdog0830]

Well fuck that would have made a kick ass good DVD...


Joe