2021 US Summer Tour (was: 2021 North America Stadium Tour)

[dsaddler78]

no Cleveland? damn....Detroit it is. I am of the thinking , like many that they do have to offer something new/different to generate the buzz for this run of shows! guess we will see

[Civil Attitude]

no Cleveland? damn....Detroit it is. I am of the thinking , like many that they do have to offer something new/different to generate the buzz for this run of shows! guess we will see

I agree man!....Regardless, its been a couple years since I've been able to see them play. so Screw it! I'm going with my crue, and were gonna have a blast. I already reserved my hotel    Love a Detroit show!!

[COMAMOTIVE]

For what it's worth - Live Nation appears to be going hard on the promo
CBS sportsline has an add for the tour on the first page - which means A LOT of fantasy sports players will know that this is on

[rizzo160]

Does anyone know the prices of tickets at MetLife stadium?

[dsaddler78]

no Cleveland? damn....Detroit it is. I am of the thinking , like many that they do have to offer something new/different to generate the buzz for this run of shows! guess we will see

I agree man!....Regardless, its been a couple years since I've been able to see them play. so Screw it! I'm going with my crue, and were gonna have a blast. I already reserved my hotel    Love a Detroit show!!

cool. I just landed 2 pit tickets

[pilferk]

Does anyone know the prices of tickets at MetLife stadium?

Pit about 250
Side stage lower level 250
Rest of lower level between 100 and 150
Mid level 100
Upper level between 50 and 100

If you're looking for lower level tix in the 150 range...I'd suggest anything you can find in Section 115C and lower.  Better seats (padded), access to the coaches club (private bathrooms and concession/food areas), and a nice little side windowed area that will get you pretty close to the stage connected to the coaches club.

[jarmo]

Promo clip from Live Nation: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=808930229581710



/jarmo

[hunter80]

I’m excited for the new tour. It takes a lot to put these shows on and the band and entire crew really deliver.

I don’t expect new music at all. I imagine GNR May eventually take a cue from the Stones and maybe do special event shows where they play lots of deep cuts like the Stones did with Sticky Fingers as an example. Perhaps with a possible box set and remastered Illusion albums someday hopefully happening we will see shows geared towards those songs?

I’d love to see GNR in 2020 and I’m glad they are touring.

[Spirit]

Dream scenario:

- Release new album, and make this year's tour about that.
- mid-2021: Release of UYI 30th anniversary boxset, with new stadium tour to support that.

[GNR4L]

no Cleveland? damn....Detroit it is. I am of the thinking , like many that they do have to offer something new/different to generate the buzz for this run of shows! guess we will see

I agree man!....Regardless, its been a couple years since I've been able to see them play. so Screw it! I'm going with my crue, and were gonna have a blast. I already reserved my hotel    Love a Detroit show!!

cool. I just landed 2 pit tickets

Nightrain presale?

[kunzerd]

How many new songs:

I’ve seen guns a decent number of times at this point and while the setlist has stayed relatively the same, there’s always been something swapped out.

So while I’d like “new” music, new to me is ok too. New new I’d say two surprise songs would be nice, but new to me, maybe three or four I haven’t heard before, or haven’t heard in a while. I’d love locamotive or better yet, breakdown. I’d also like to see there was a time again (only caught it once at Hammerstein) and I haven’t heard Madagascar in awhile, or think about you.

In terms of covers, I usually think that’s a space where a band could make a show a unique experience, so I feel like it’s better to whip out something new and unexpected rather than do the same cover every night for a tour. I always enjoy when a band goes against type with these too, like when robin and Richard used to do Beautiful. Instead of black hole sun, why don’t they bring out slash’s song Promise Me, that’d be a cool Cornell tribute, since he wrote the lyrics.

This stuff can be hard to accomplish though because guns show is very effects heavy as well, lighting/screens/pyro is planned out and timed. I saw faith no more twice in a week once and between the two shows there was a 18 song difference. They can pull that off because the stage production is bare bones, guns stage show kind of restricts them to a degree, so they have less flexibility in a set list.

Either way, as much as I’d like new stuff, creating is hard, and it can’t be done on demand. Also there’s a ton of pressure on someone like Axl who takes long breaks from recording, and most likely anything he comes up with next will be called “not as great as the old stuff”.  Sure they can just unload some new material, but for them it can’t just be anything, it has to be the best of the best because there’s a huge expectation. I’d love new stuff, but there’s other bands out there for me to listen to. I can still treasure what they made and at the end of the day it’s my own choice to go to a show or not.

On a final note, yes, there’s a ton of stuff left over from Chinese democracy, and I can totally hear how a slash/duff influence could elevate it. But who wants to just fill in for things written by other people? I feel like even if they did bring a couple of those songs back over to a new album, it would be more fulfilling as a song writer to actually bring some new compositions to the table or hash things out together.


Sorry for the long rant, I read here more than I post.

[COMAMOTIVE]

The stage production point is a valid one.
I think it does take slightly away from a show when people can look up the next song because they've been playing the same identical 10 first songs for the last 3 years.
Part of a good show is that you don't know what's necessarily coming - at least to me.

And for God's sakes - Open with Jungle once in awhile. 

[kunzerd]

The stage production point is a valid one.
I think it does take slightly away from a show when people can look up the next song because they've been playing the same identical 10 first songs for the last 3 years.
Part of a good show is that you don't know what's necessarily coming - at least to me.

And for God's sakes - Open with Jungle once in awhile. 

I think they opened with jungle at every show I’ve been to. And I kind of like that tradition, cause I know when I hear the opening notes for it shits about to get real.  I also like the tradition of night train before encores because I know I have three songs left, and ending on paradise city. Everything else can be switched up.

I do miss the confetti canons though at the end. I think they stopped using those from what I can tell in YouTube videos.

[jarmo]

I do miss the confetti canons though at the end. I think they stopped using those from what I can tell in YouTube videos.

Confetti cannons were in action in Las Vegas last November and before that as well.




/jarmo

[COMAMOTIVE]

The stage production point is a valid one.
I think it does take slightly away from a show when people can look up the next song because they've been playing the same identical 10 first songs for the last 3 years.
Part of a good show is that you don't know what's necessarily coming - at least to me.

And for God's sakes - Open with Jungle once in awhile. 

I think they opened with jungle at every show I’ve been to. And I kind of like that tradition, cause I know when I hear the opening notes for it shits about to get real.  I also like the tradition of night train before encores because I know I have three songs left, and ending on paradise city. Everything else can be switched up.

I do miss the confetti canons though at the end. I think they stopped using those from what I can tell in YouTube videos.

Jungle opening chords is so perfectly perfect to open a Gn'r show to - much more so than Easy imo - holding out hope they go back to it
Saw them in Hammerstein Ballroom - think it was Bumblefoot's first show - and they started with that - it was unreal - can play it slow and pull the crowd in at your will
PC is a great closer - can't argue that, though often thought the outro to NRain would be an interesting way to cap off a great night too.

All good either way

[GNR4L]

I would like to see this set list this summer.


- It’s So Easy
- Mr. Brownstone
- Chinese Democracy
- Welcome To The Jungle
- Slither
- Better
- Estranged
- Live and Let Die
- You’re Crazy
-  Rocket Queen
- You Could Be Mine
- Shadow of Your Love
- Attitude
- Dead Horse
- Hard School
- Sweet Child O’Mine
- November Rain
- KOHD
- Nightrain


Encore

- Perhaps
- Patience
- Benny and The Jets
- Paradise City

[kunzerd]

I do miss the confetti canons though at the end. I think they stopped using those from what I can tell in YouTube videos.

Confetti cannons were in action in Las Vegas last November and before that as well.




/jarmo

That’s good to hear, I’ve managed to grab some from every show I’ve been to and lay it in my clear Cd trays with my show tickets.

[(t)]

What I like about It's So Easy as the opener is they just jump right into it, as opposed to the long tease with Jungle. Bring back Right Next Door to Hell.

[dsaddler78]

no Cleveland? damn....Detroit it is. I am of the thinking , like many that they do have to offer something new/different to generate the buzz for this run of shows! guess we will see

I agree man!....Regardless, its been a couple years since I've been able to see them play. so Screw it! I'm going with my crue, and were gonna have a blast. I already reserved my hotel    Love a Detroit show!!

cool. I just landed 2 pit tickets

Nightrain presale?

yeah....i had to try like 10 times. it kept telling me the number of tickets was not available. then it just popped up. 250 each. 575 for 2 with the taxes

[axlroses]

Picked up two floor field level tickets for San Francisco