Guns N' Roses
''St. Patrick's Day Massacre'' [Aces High Sound Productions]
Boston, MA, Boston Garden - March 17, 1993
http://www.suicideshift.info/bootleg/spdm.htmlLineup: W. Axl Rose, Slash, Gilby Clarke, Duff McKagan, Dizzy Reed & Matt Sorum
Sound Quality: A
Length: 2:09:43
Format: 2xCD (Mp3)
Notes: This bootleg has 2sec gaps in between songs. This is a really great show. The concert is interrupted after "Nice Boys" because some in the audience threw bottles. Duff threatens a fan before "Attitude". After "Double Talkin' Jive" Axl asks Duff how "Cornchucker" (see Jan 31, 1988) goes, after which Duff plays a little of it and recites parts of the lyrics. Rare performance of "Reckless Life" on the Use Your Illusion tour. After the song Slash says "Happy fucking S:t Patrick's Day". Axl changes the lyrics to "Don't Cry" a little and laughs; "Give me a kiss before you, tell me to fuck off"; "I'll try not to think about you, and the times we had"; "And please remember, that you liked to lie".
Disc 1/2
01. Intro - Since I Don't Have You
02. It's So Easy
03. Mr. Brownstone
04. Nice Boys
05. Interlude
06. The Garden
07. Live And Let Die
08. Welcome To The Jungle
09. Attitude
10. Double Talkin' Jive
11. You Ain't The First
12. You're Crazy
13. Used To Love Her
14. Patience
Disc 2/2
01. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
02. Piano Solo
03. November Rain
04. Dead Horse
05. Band presentation
06. Drum Solo
07. You Could Be Mine
08. Guitar Solo
09. Since I Don't Have You [intro] / Sweet Child O' Mine
10. Reckless Life
11. Don't Cry
12. Paradise City
Dave Schumacher's Review of:
Boston Garden, Boston, MA. March 17th 1993I've seen GNR four times total. My favorite time was at the old Boston Garden on St. Patrick's Day. The show started great and everything seemed cool. Then, someone thought it would be a good idea to throw a bottle at Mr. Rose. In the middle of Brownstone the band stopped, Axl said goodnight, and the houselights came on. I thought for sure there was going to be another St. Louis episode. Soon Axl comes waliking out and sits on the front of the stage. He proceeds to lecture the crowd that throwing objects at the band is not a good idea and that if it happens again the show is over. After about ten minutes of ranting, the boys finally start back up and rocked harder than any other time I had seen them before. One other memorable experience, was when Slash had his snakepit project. I was interning at radio station WAAF in Boston on the Liz
Wilde show. He came in with his singer and I viewed an up close acoustical performance by the guitar master himself. Being a huge fan, that was a thrill. Mr. Hudson was however slightly moody which did turn me off a bit. I did get a picture with him and an autograph but he wasnt the friendliest guy i've ever met. But we can let that slide based on the fine licks he has given us.
Steve Morse's Review of:
Boston Garden, Boston, MA. March 17th 1993A Frenzied Guns N' Roses Delivers at the GardenIt's hard to match the chemistry of Irish rockers U2 playing the Boston Garden on St. Patrick's Day, which happened last year. But there was still action galore at last night's St. Pat's Garden party, starring bad- boy rockers Guns N' Roses. They anchored a frenzied evening that spanned an ugly beer bottle- throwing incident, a patronizing lecture by Guns mouthpiece Axl Rose, a surprise guest shot by Boston rockers Extreme (who joined opening act Brian May), a vicious blast at WBCN (by a ticket- off Axl, who was woken up in his hotel by a on- air phone call from a 'BCN staffer) and, oh yes, some great rock 'n' roll.
The sold- out 15,000 fans, who endured beefed- up security inside and outside the Garden (and a snowstorm on the way home), caught a memorable show that found Guns playing far better than their bloated Worcester Centrum date last year. The band was wise to jettison their backup singers and horn players, because this new ?Skin N' Bones? tour harkened back to their stripped- down, punk- metal roots and was much more satisfying.
Except, that is, for the bizarre soap opera that took place after some idiot tossed a beer bottle onto the stage, causing Axl & Co. to stomp off for 10 long minutes. It happened after just three songs, among them the fever- pitch- building ?Mr. Brownstone? (about heroin) and a cover of Rose Tattoo's ?Nice Boys,? with its ear- splitting, crowd- screamed refrain, ?Nice boys don't play rock 'n' roll!?
No one knows where the bottle was flung from, but it may have come from someone backstage, because it's hard to imagine any concert- goer being able to smuggle a bottle past the Garden gendarmes whose frisking was almost obscenely thorough at the gates. Anyway, it prompted the short- fused Rose (who wore a Charles Manson T- shirt with ?Charlie Don't Surf? on the back), to lecture the crowd like a school principal, before adding, ?It was probably someone from that expletive station WBCN.?
For their part, the fans were disgusted when Guns stomped off. They broke into an angry return chant that can't be printed in a family paper, but can be abbreviated by the initials ?B.S.? When the band came back to perform their ragingly punky tune, ?Attitude,? guitarist Slash declared: ?Not that this city needs any.?
The war of attitudes, in the long run, may have produced a better concert. Rose was wired beyond belief when he returned, charging through Paul McCartney's ?Live and Let Die? (with strobe- lit effects from a wall of 125 lights in the back of the stage) and a supersonic ?Welcome to the Jungle.? (Read: Welcome to Boston on St. Patty's Day.)
A change- of- pace acoustic set, however, proved to be a highlight, as the band sat in sofas and chairs, peaking with ?Patience? and Bob Dylan's ?Kockin' on Heaven's Door.? Rose, Slash, bassist Duff McKagan (a full- blooded Irishman who clearly enjoyed himself despite the snags), guitarist Gilby Clarke and drummer Matt Sorum then rocked the rafters on through encores of ?Sweet Child O' Mine? and ?Paradise City.?
May, the former Queen guitarist, opened on a generally favorable note, rocking hard and singing far better than expected. He soared with an encore of Queen's ?Tie Your Mother Down,? aided by Extreme's Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt.
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