Guns N' Roses Added to Governors Ball (June 7-9th, 2013 in New York)

[GypsySoul]

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Here we go. 9 minutes before set time. @gunsnroses live at Governors Ball NYC!

Chinese Democracy
Welcome To The Jungle
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Live And Let Die
"We got a nice night tonight" This I Love
Rocket Queen
Dj Ashba Guitar Solo
Sweet Child O' Mine
You Could Be Mine
Jam (Another Brick In The Wall: Part 2)
Axl Piano Solo (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road/Someone Saved My Life Tonight)
November Rain
Bumblefoot Guitar Solo
Don't Cry
Better
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Jam/Nightrain

Encore:
The Seeker
Paradise City

[GypsySoul]

Here Today... Gone To Hell!
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[johnreed3344]

Axl sounded insane literally won over everyone amazing night

[cotis]

GNR were great - talked to many people on the way out and they loved the show.

hope we will see some great publicity from it!

[johnreed3344]

Amazing. heres my review, all I can say is everyone who wasn't a GNR fan per say was Insanely into Axl and the band! Im a Gunner for life and I was close middle stage, everyone around me had a BALL. great time by all! so great to see Axl take over a young crowd

[johnreed3344]

@cotis everyone was so impressed it was insane. GNR and Axl won over the whole crowd   

[rebelhipi]

no 4tus solo

[Annie]

@cotis everyone was so impressed it was insane. GNR and Axl won over the whole crowd   

That is so wonderful!~

[draguns]

Just read the New York Times article on Governors Ball. They gave a good review of GNR.

[babydolls]

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/after-the-rain-a-night-of-rock/

NY times review

  hope everyone had a blast!

[One.In.A.Million]

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/after-the-rain-a-night-of-rock/

NY times review

  hope everyone had a blast!

That is a great review, seems like a GN'R show for the books. All the reports I've been hearing as well seems to indicate that everyone was rocking with the band, and a brilliant show ensured in NYC. I love it when a show is as successful as this, especially since it was a festival date as well.

[Jbat81]

Jungle
http://youtu.be/7hdILJWBU38
SCOM
http://youtu.be/kcxd4L5zCsU
Looks like eveone was into it. Wasn't this the show that noone attending wanted them to attend?

[faldor]

Jungle
http://youtu.be/7hdILJWBU38
SCOM
http://youtu.be/kcxd4L5zCsU
Looks like eveone was into it. Wasn't this the show that noone attending wanted them to attend?

yeah, it's always the vocal minority that makes the most noise.

[Jbat81]

Jungle
http://youtu.be/7hdILJWBU38
SCOM
http://youtu.be/kcxd4L5zCsU
Looks like eveone was into it. Wasn't this the show that noone attending wanted them to attend?

yeah, it's always the vocal minority that makes the most noise.

Yea... I mean, if u didnt want to see GNR, all u had to do was go watch NAS... Very simple... Btw, NAS its actually my fav rapper, but NOONE comes before GNR. I rarely listen to hiphop anyways...

[MNGS717]

Sounds like it was a really cool show..I like to hear people change their minds about the band!  One funny guy on Twitter says he "takes back everything he ever said about the band".  I hope anyone who was there could catch guitar picks because from the photos if you don't actually catch them they probably get buried in the mud mess.  A good crowd, lucky if you were there!

[14 Yrs Of Silence]

Nice to hear that they went over well with a broader audience.  The iron is hot. Would love to see Axl win when all is said and done.

[JDA]

Gun N' Roses Bring Hard-Rock Theatrics to Governors Ball
Axl Rose and company rise above the muddy field with an arsenal of hits

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gun-n-roses-bring-hard-rock-theatrics-to-governors-ball-20130609#ixzz2VmS2hr6R
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook It took an act of God at Governors Ball on Friday ? an assailing, miserable rainstorm and frightening flooding ? to create a miracle on Saturday night. And yet one happened, it really did.

Axl Rose started a show early.

Indeed, the Guns N' Roses frontman bucked his own proud tradition of intractability ? one that has led to countless hours of empty stages and show delays since the band?s 1985 formation ? by taking the New York festival?s main stage seven minutes before the headlining band?s scheduled start. What?s more, Rose actually appeared engaged with his surroundings; he and his hard-rock cohorts barreled straight into the largely under-30s audience with a throaty and joyously grandiose introduction of "Chinese Democracy" (title track of the hysterically overlabored 2008 album), unleashing flames from the drum riser as Rose slid into that famed falsetto with impressive ease. From there, the band kept no cards at their chests; their second song was their career-maker, 1987?s "Welcome to the Jungle," delivered with the revelation of their entire arsenal of stadium tricks, the silly staples of the hair-metal era that they rightly make no apologies for: the videos of scantily clad dancers, the double-necked guitars, the liberal stage fireballs and fireworks, even that snake dance.

10 Things Duff McKagan Learned on the Summer Festival Circuit

Guns N? Roses nonchalantly played all the hits for the mud-caked Governors Ball masses, and kicked in early with a slew of Appetite for Destruction immortals. "It?s So Easy" boasted even more fireworks (those were frequent enough in the set to double as kick drums) as Rose dipped down an octave-and-change with aplomb. (He truly does sound great, still, even if he insists on wearing cheesy t-shirts of women with cartoonish bare breasts. Or perhaps these are his Samson-esque source of vocal strength.) "Mr. Brownstone" slid sludgily into their stalwart 1991 cover of Paul McCartney and Wings? "Live and Let Die," fireballs roaring from the stage again. Then came the short sprint into "Rocket Queen," which boasted an extremely Eighties video montage of models gyrating in leather and fishnets before a stark white backdrop, and a comfortable spin through "Sweet Child o? Mine" that was matched by the audience?s rapturous participation. (Lead guitarist DJ Ashba, clad in a familiar top hat, sported a distinct "I crushed that" smirk at the end of "Child." Rose, as always, remained unimpressed.)

This familiarity is what allows any iteration of the band to headline a festival 26 years after the release of Appetite for Destruction; the best and worst to be said of them is that they sound exactly, resolutely, safely like their records. There is no experimentation wanted or received from anyone onstage (and it?s not of interest to fans either). Guns N? Roses is, famously, Axl Rose and whoever he hasn?t fired that month; his iron fist and business savvy in the current lineup is apparent in every note they play. He is the only original member left (keyboardist Dizzy Reed dates the next furthest back as a contributor to 1991?s Use Your Illusion I and II) and the rest of the musicians are, while clearly technically talented, expected to play with note-for-note faithfulness the familiar chords and solos of classic-lineup stars Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan, etc., like a cover ensemble of their own catalogue. "November Rain," one of the many Illusion I offerings, broke down with precise familiarity, from Rose?s soft piano intro to the plaintive Slash guitar solo, to the frenetic coda of foreboding chants and cataclysmic strings. Their glimmering cover of Bob Dylan?s "Knockin? on Heaven?s Door" (from Illusion II) still sprawled near healthy double-digits; "Nightrain" chugged along right on schedule, without brakes or extra coal.

The highly enjoyable, completely predictable set ended with the group?s longtime finale from Appetite: "Paradise City," an entreaty to the libidinous that Rose remains skilled enough to have already made redundant. At its bawdy, bright close, confetti canyons spread glitter across the crowd and fireworks lit the night, the latest in a healthy half-dozen times in the set. Rose almost seemed to grin back at the crowd, but there was no need ? he?s seen this all before, and he knows he will again.


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[One.In.A.Million]

I would of given anything to have been there, a festival show in New York. Seems like Guns went over great with the crowd, and I love how the band went on early after all that drama when they got announced. 

[LIGuns]

Nice review..Seems journalists from this event like mocking the 80's..

[One.In.A.Million]

I agree it was a really nice review. Sure it is done in a sarcastic and tongue in cheek manner, but I got a very positive vibe from it, so I'll take it. Seems like it was an honest review as well, which holds truth as many fans who attended also have reported how it was a fantastic positive Guns performance.