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  • JezzaSnrJezzaSnr Frets: 23
    Who cares!!?
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  • RoundwoundRoundwound Frets: 206
    edited June 2023
    Philly_Q said:
    It's a decent performance, I think.  Or at least better than I expected.  And for all the comments about Axl, he's in fucking great shape, vocally and physically, compared with some contemporaries like Vince Neil or Don Dokken.

    It all feels a bit disjointed though.  Very little interaction between the band members, they each seem to be occupying their own little worlds.  Slash's facial expression has changed so little he might as well be wearing a mask, never mind the hat and shades.
    Slash is always like that (I’ve seen him live about 5 times). In the old days you couldn't even see his face for hair! 

    I do think Duff mabye looks a bit off tonight though (although his playing is tight as ever).

    Some odd song choices. I wonder if that’s to help Axls voice rather than just ripping through all the AFD standards. Great to see bad obsession and double talking jive from UYI.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    Seriously impressed with Slash.  I feel sorry for Axl - part of his signature was the high register of his voice.  It just sounds strange with him singing an octave lower - to the point that I think he's holding back what would be a legendary performance from a rock band.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    The whole band is tight as fuck.  I love it when bands are this tight.
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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8372
    November Rain is a bit wince :(
    Inactivist Lefty Lawyer
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  • LPManicLPManic Frets: 1005
    Controversial but I never liked Slash's live sound with the Victoria gold top.
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  • Devil#20Devil#20 Frets: 1715
    Slash has earned his crust tonight. Brilliant performance right through. Axl though. It's a shame but he went off too early and just got worse and worse and not helped by the mixing at times. Seems like they fiddled with it off and on to sit with each song maybe. He tried a scream early on and his voice went immediately after and he didn't recover from that. Up until then he was just about hanging in there. 

    Ian

    Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.

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  • S56035S56035 Frets: 833
    Backing vocals louder than Axl. I reckon it's deliberate to hide him a bit.
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  • RoundwoundRoundwound Frets: 206
    JerkMoans said:
    November Rain is a bit wince :(
    Yeah that song really demonstrates the part of his range that’s gone, unfortunately. 
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  • RoundwoundRoundwound Frets: 206
    edited June 2023
    Devil#20 said:
    Slash has earned his crust tonight. Brilliant performance right through. Axl though. It's a shame but he went off too early and just got worse and worse and not helped by the mixing at times. Seems like they fiddled with it off and on to sit with each song maybe. He tried a scream early on and his voice went immediately after and he didn't recover from that. Up until then he was just about hanging in there. 
    I think possibly more song dependent. They started low with it’s so easy, bad obsession, the Chinese democracy one and Sither. Later on in the set I thought he nailed You could be mine. November Rain was a shame. Decent again on Patience.
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  • theatreanchortheatreanchor Frets: 961
    It occurs to me that I can only listen to Appetite for Destruction these days. 
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  • Tone71Tone71 Frets: 598
    I think tonight has confirmed (to me at least) that Slash really is one of the greats........simply incredible 
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  • Devil#20Devil#20 Frets: 1715
    Tone71 said:
    I think tonight has confirmed (to me at least) that Slash really is one of the greats........simply incredible 
    He absolutely is but as he's 75% of the output of the band it's almost a solo concert and after a while the lack of variation in the set can start to wear thin. I think the set has become way too long. 

    Ian

    Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.

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  • mattdavismattdavis Frets: 836
    My god they have some tunes. Can’t believe people will still singing this many Arctic Monkeys tunes in 30 years. I bloody love this band. I do miss the aggression of their playing in their heyday but the songs still stand up. 
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  • abw1989abw1989 Frets: 569
    Richard Fortus putting in some solid lead work in here on Knocking on Heaven's Door!
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  • mattdavismattdavis Frets: 836
    Re slash’s tone - it’s very dry and less gained up. Pretty unforgiving. Don’t remember it having that quality in the old days. 
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  • theatreanchortheatreanchor Frets: 961
    abw1989 said:
    Richard Fortus putting in some solid lead work in here on Knocking on Heaven's Door!
    He’s been excellent throughout imo. Never seen him play before. 
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  • Vintage65Vintage65 Frets: 189
    Izzy Stradlin wrote or co-wrote all the best songs, so it's a pity he wasn't there this evening.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    I've only experienced that moment of "absolutely locked-in with each other" a handful of times in my time and it's better than sex.  I'm not joking either.  Fucking incredible feeling when you've all brought your A game and everyone's in millisecond-accurate sync - moreso if it's an uptempo number and you're all motoring in perfect sync.  Magical.  Absolutely magical.
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  • theatreanchortheatreanchor Frets: 961
    Where were all the amps tho?
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  • willowillo Frets: 240
    mattdavis said:
    My god they have some tunes. Can’t believe people will still singing this many Arctic Monkeys tunes in 30 years. I bloody love this band. I do miss the aggression of their playing in their heyday but the songs still stand up. 
    To be fair to the Arctic Monkeys, the songs that went down best yesterday are almost 20 years old. It's one way to make you feel old...

    Fucking love GNR though. Had lost interest in their recent activities but this has got me back into it.
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  • rsvmarkrsvmark Frets: 1324
    Dave Grohl now with GNR 
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    It's very sad for vocalists when you think about it....  Everyone else in the band has an instrument that doesn't change with age.  The singer has an instrument that not only ages but you can't buy another - no matter how much money you have.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    On the other hand, they've probably had more sex than the rest of the band combined.
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  • RoundwoundRoundwound Frets: 206
    I do wonder what would have happened (musical output wise) if they’d managed to stick together through the 90s and 00s. I saw GnR with Axl and the hired guns around 2006 and he still had the voice. All things considered a very good set.
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    Emp_Fab said:
    On the other hand, they've probably had more sex than the rest of the band combined.

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  • LPManicLPManic Frets: 1005
    Roundwound said:
    I do wonder what would have happened (musical output wise) if they’d managed to stick together through the 90s and 00s. I saw GnR with Axl and the hired guns around 2006 and he still had the voice. All things considered a very good set.
    They still would have imploded. But they should have got back together long before 2015 or whenever it was. 
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  • Tone71Tone71 Frets: 598
    edited June 2023
    Just watching it back on bbc1 and the mix is much more coherent and balanced. 
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    I'm ashamed to admit it but as I wasn't really a GnR fan, I never really got to hear Slash's playing much.

    Fuck.  Me.

    Have I have missed out or what?
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  • RobDaviesRobDavies Frets: 2983
    Fatboy Slim isn’t actually doing anything, is he?
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