Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Etihad Arena  Start time 8.  Looks like it's sold out.  Temp is 92 at show time and no breeze.  Good thing they are inside.  :hihi:

I should be hunting for streams.

Sound check reportedly included Bad Obsession, Bad Apples and Pretty Tied Up.

Make of that what you will.

That is interesting....so when is the show going down? about another 11 hours or so if my understanding of Abu Time is correct

Looking at Megan's instagram the visuals on the backing screen on one of the stories look like they have to be for street of dreams neon signs saying 'to the feelings that i felt' 'taste thats bittersweet' 'wander through my days'

another story shows Slash playing a 'travis bean' style guitar he used for bad obsession on the illusions tour

Yes, luckily we're indoors!



/jarmo

have you seen Izzy around?  :hihi:

Did you know Richard's been in the band longer than Izzy?  :o





/jarmo

sure, and some others too; I was referring to the "new" songs they allegedly rehearsed, mostly Izzy's compositions.

maybe a (good) sign (for Carlos)?  :hihi:

https://www.facebook.com/kazee.grg/videos/211912958393159
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1688453321594301
https://www.facebook.com/NepaliEChords/videos/604014185036006
https://www.facebook.com/kei.carpio/videos/1895506800849596
https://www.facebook.com/suman.gurung.3576/videos/1226054071441410

Bad Obsession in the set early  ;D

Bad Obsession now! Nice!

Didn't catch the start, anyone got the set up until now?

i think it's just been

It's So Easy
Bad Obsession
Chinese Democracy
Slither
Pretty Tied Up
Welcome To The Jungle
Mr Brownstone
Hard Skool
Double Talkin Jive
Reckless Life
Absurd
You Could Be Mine
Down On The Farm
Rocket Queen
T.V. Eye (Stooges cover)
Anything Goes
Civil War
This I Love
Live And Let Die
Estranged
Slash Solo
Sweet Child O Mine
November Rain
Wichita Lineman
Street Of Dreams
Nice Boys
Knockin On Heaven's Door
Nightrain
-
Patience
Don't Cry
My Michelle
Paradise City

Let's go! Hopefully Breakdown and Pretty Tied Up are the next surprises :)

haha i selfishly want them to save some surprises for Hyde Park

I had to rewrite this lyric for the bad sound:

It's a bad connection
It's always messing
It's always messing my mind!!!

:D

Oh and now Pretty Tied Up!! :D

Plenty of time for Don't Damn Me and Oklahoma

Check!

don't damn me would be insane

The sound quality of the stream is of course bad, but songs like Bad Obsession and Pretty Tied Up sounds pretty good! No problem for Axl

Holy shit!

Cant wait to see them next week!!

I thought that they never changed the setlist  🤔

Ali

Veery rare that Browstone is this late on the set.

I’m already happy seeing they played “Pretty Tied Up” and “Bad Obsession”!

Lil better sound here but don't know how long it lasts

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1895506800849596

Wild setlist!

when was the last time they played down on the farm?

December 2006

Anything Goes was played last august 1st, 1988!

So cool setlist so far! Too bad the best streamer had to go!

WILD SET LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Axl is sounding really good. And what a setlist thus far. I hope this is what we see in North America!

https://www.facebook.com/kei.carpio/videos/243464345057775

HOLY SHIT

That setlist is nuts!  Love to see it.

I gotta head out, can someone keep updating the setlist so I know what I miss

20 songs in, and no 'November Rain'.

Weird.  Is that an encore song now?

https://www.facebook.com/bashar.hilal/videos/1592285034611805

I Wish GnR would release this show on audio, if they don't want to release video!

There it is at #23.

https://www.facebook.com/miracle.kanrawee/videos/282501747454753

https://www.facebook.com/desscsimplereality/videos/808167553996429

The clip I just saw of 'Bad Obsession' on FB was great.

Songs in the lower register are Axl's friend at this stage of the game.  Glad to see it back.

Setlist:

It's So Easy, Bad Obsession, Chinese Democracy, Slither, Pretty Tied Up, Welcome to the Jungle, Mr. Brownstone, Hard Skool, Double Talkin' Jive, Reckless Life, Absurd, You Could Be Mine, Down On The Farm, Rocket Queen, Duff - TV Eye (Iggy Pop), Anything Goes, Civil War, This I Love, Live And Let Die, Estranged, Band Introduction, Slash Guitar Solo, Sweet Child o' Mine, November Rain, Wichita Lineman, Street of Dreams, Nice Boys, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Nightrain, Intro/Patience, Don't Cry, My Michelle, Paradise City

Duration: 3hrs 14 minutes

Thanks for your good Live links hunting skills! ;-)

That setlist was nuts!

Real 'Summer 1991" vibes, in terms of unpredictability.

I’d gladly take this setlist for the rest of the tour.

Thank god, myself and many others have been asking for PTU and bad obsession for decades. Makes absolute sense in lower register . At last

The flipside of that point is that 'This I Love' makes NO sense for him at this stage of the game.

For 14 years we were wishing for some major set list changes.

The band has done so much in that time, but this set list really was totally unpredictable and amazing.

Guns gave us more these last 7 years than I ever imagined.

And now a long tour again.  Just awesome.

https://youtu.be/KuetYJy8GcM


Last note just let’s u know he can do what he wants.

Sorry, I was a bit distracted during that.  My children are fucking stupid.   :hihi:

Great show!  Love the set list although I'm feeling a bit estranged with Down on the Farm.  :hihi:

That was excellent. Yes, he can certainly do what he wants.

Ali

It was the best day to be a Guns N Roses fan in awhile.

Now, people...be fair.  Even if he next few setlists are still largely the same...you can't bitch.  They are never going to be Pearl Jam in terms of variety.

A fresh setlist each tour.  That's all you can ask.  And they delivered for us here today.

Agree 100%.
Seeing that setlist and the clips has made the excitement for the UK dates really ramp up for me now.

Nice to see an updated setlist but hopefully we get new music. :beer:

That's a fool's errand.

A competent, high end, big time rock show.  That's what they are now.  That's all you can reasonably expect.

"Perhaps" is on the setlist so we'll probably hear it very soon

Maybe they brought in Down on the Farm as Glastonbury is at Worthy Farm.

Forgot about the litho.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fxik4lkX0AAuUPP?format=jpg&name=small)

What a great start!

They have rounded into a dependable touring machine.  There have been complaints about set lists in the past, but look at 99.9% of touring acts…they aren’t playing sets this long.  What a great start to the tour.

Strange to see the internet happy.   :D

I've should known they were going to play Anything Goes. Duff's wife played it on 3 Chords and Truth this past week and said to Duff that should play it on their tour. Duff said we'll see and how he hasn't  played it since 1991.



Looking forward to Montreal

Exactly this, I saw the Chili Peppers they played for 1 hour and 40 minutes it cost £140, I pay £125 for GnR and I'm getting 2 hour 45 - 3 hour 30 minute shows.

What a start.






/jarmo

Heyyyyyyyy HTGTH!  It's been a while!
So about that show last night....  :beer: WOW  Talk about sending me into orbit!!!!
Cannot wait to see/hear this tour unfold  :peace:

Has anyone seen a video of Down On The Farm?

I really dig that tune.  But live, it would be tough, no? 

That refrain is double tracked Axl.  And on stage, you only have the one Axl.  So if Axl does the lead, that would presumably fall to Melisa and Duff to do the other part.

Just not sure how that would sound live.

Does anyone have a picture of that setlist?

Nice to see This I Love and Street of Dreams back. Axl struggled a bit with lack of lower, but it´s just the warm up. Hope he keeps them for the next shows (i suspect he might take them of).

I think he picked a setlist that can suit better his voice, finally.

he double tracked (or triple tracked) his vocals on a lot of songs, no? it never was a problem in the past for live performances, i don't see any particular difficulty here at that level. and yes like you say, Duff & Melissa can do harmonies and backing so you can have 3 vocals channels in different ranges.

plus it's not too high to sing for him these days, so I'm confident it can sounds very good

The 'Bad Obsession' and 'Pretty Tied Up' clips on YouTube are EXCELLENT.

I wasn't sure about the stance on posting them here.  But check 'em out if you haven't.

Looks like the band was on fire! Bad obsession and PTU live, and maybe even more songs on this tour, will be great!

Wow, unbelievable that they played "Anything Goes"!  And first since 1988!  :o

"Bad Obsession" hadn't been played since 1993, and "Pretty Tied Up" was last played in 1992!  :o

Now we just need to hear "Don't Damn Me" for the first time ever!  8)

While id love to hear Don't Damn Me live for sure.  At this stage in his career im not sure how well that song would go over with his range right now vocally speaking. On a side note I am gonna guess we get alot more UYI songs on this particular tour considering the release of the Vinyl albums last fall.

I disagree completely.  The vocal is consistently low in "Don't Damn Me", so if anything, it would sound better than most songs.

With Don't Damn Me i'm more worried about him being able to get all the lyrics out. There's not much time to take a breath in large portions of that song.

Did I miss a memo about that song being included in the set?



/jarmo

So....you do get memo's...  :D
Anything special that might gonna happen soon mentioned on those memo's ?

If you mean "Don't Damn Me", I personally didn't say it was included.  I just said I wished it would be included.


Perhaps, though they performed "Garden of Eden" live in 1993, and that one is faster.  Granted, that was 1993, but hey.

Yeah, we have a show here in Tel Aviv tomorrow!



Ahh.


Well, I'd just be happy with the new additions. Instead of immediately start asking for other songs after one show....



/jarmo

I don't know 1992 Axl could pull off 'Don't Damn Me'.  Very challenging vocal.

Love the song, in my Top 10 GNR tunes, probably.  I'm cool with UYI I being the only version that I have.