Yep, watching Axl blow up badly on MTV, run around out of breath, and barely able to sing during the 2002 VMAs made me wish I hadn't bought a ticket for the late 2002 tour, but then the show I would've attended got canceled anyway. So it worked out for me.... just not so much for Axl.
Hindsight is always 20/20, obviously.
But, in retrospect, the booking on the U.S. tour that year was probably a little ambitious. They had a ton of unsold seats all over. That had to be deflating.
20,000 seat arenas Axl played in his prime as the biggest rock band in the world at the time, but 10 years later with a totally new band, no new material...that's a tough ask.
Bums me out because I think that 2006 tour is awesome. I wish like hell that was his first impression back in front of folks.
I agree. If 2006 was the first the world saw of the new band then the response would have been a lot better, Axl was ridiculous on that tour... So good. If they had released the record during that tour , it could have been real big ..
Only thing ridiculous are little fanboys calling Axl ridiculous.
What the hell are you talking about? I'm saying how great the performances were during that run...
Why do you insist on ruining every single discussion here? We should all learn to use the report button on you. You take issue with everything and try to insult everybody after every post that isn't to ur liking. If you are going to be obnoxious you should at least try to be amusing about it , but you aren't.
The performances were exemplary, I misread your statement entirely-just not used to the colloquial ridiculous as a compliment.
Not honestly trying to insult anybody, I think some might take things a little too personally.
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