October 8th, 2023: Sacramento, CA @ Discovery Park (Aftershock Festival)

[cineater]

Another festival, I'm going to assume outside.  Weather looks hot, cooling off in the evening.  I'm going to assume air quality continuing as poor.  GNR on stage at 7:25.

[cineater]

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[cineater]

Mario says the internet sucks there.  I thanked him for continuing to try but I'm done.  Goodnight folks.  

[jarmo]

Setlist: It’s So Easy, Bad Obsession, Chinese Democracy, Slither, Mr. Brownstone, Pretty Tied Up, Rumble/Welcome To The Jungle, Reckless Life, Perhaps, Hard Skool, Better, Double Talkin’ Jive, You Could Be Mine, Absurd, Rocket Queen, Live And Let Die, Estranged, Down On The Farm, T.V. Eye, Civil War/(Voodoo Child), Band Introductions, Slash Solo/Sweet Child O’ Mine, November Rain, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Nightrain, Paradise City




/jarmo

[gnrfan89]

I attended Aftershock yesterday. Guns N' Roses were on fire all night. Slash was a beast. Axl looked like he was having a blast, he smiled through most of the performance.  IMHO this was his best performance at a show I attended since at least the Las Vegas shows at the beginning of the Not in This Lifetime tour. Maybe even since 2006. WTTJ was a standout. I think they slowed it down a bit and Axl sounded like it was 2006 again for sure. Perhaps and HardSkool sounded great as did Estranged, Civil War and Better.  I'm not a fan of the way Axl chooses to sing November Rain these days, he hits every note but... 

I caught most of Daughtry's set and they were much better than I expected. Also Rancid were really good. Aftershock was great except it was really, really hot. I didn't expect it to be that hot in October. I had never been to a music festival unless Day on The Green @ The Oakland Coliseum counts. I went to a few of those back in the late 70's/early 80's. Standing for 8+ hours with the first 5+ in the heat was tiring. But it was definitely worth it.

Oh, and the 49ers dismantled the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. So, the day couldn't have turned out any better.