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#2281 Adolf Hitler

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Posted 07 July 2016 - 12:56 AM

I did not watch tonight's stream. Just found out Adler performed with them. Just watched a clip and not gonna lie...I almost cried. He's so happy and we all know how much he's wanted this since getting fired. Plus you realize how many years were wasted for practically nothing.

 

I love the current lineup....hope it continues.....but now that we've seen 4/5 AFD reunion....they need to get Izzy back for something next year.

 

I would LOVE an anniversary show next year where its only the AFD 5 and they do AFD and Lies in its entirety. In the middle of the set go acoustic and do the four Lies songs.

 

WRap that in cellophane and it'll sell like hot cakes.

 

 

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Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:20 AM

A few thoughts on last night's show, which I attended:

 

#1: Compared with the CD years' shows, in which the band was onstage with a big buildup leading to Axl and pyro coming on at the same time, the three original members just walked out together and got shit rolling.  The difference seemed very profound, as this was no longer the Axl show.  Noticably, a lot of the pyro they had during the last 15 years was gone, only happening on the opener and closer but otherwise absent.  Because Slash is better than fire. 

 

#2: Axl was smiling a lot, seemed really happy to be doing this, which is good news to me.  The only one smiling more was Adler, who was a fucking hit with the crowd.  Dude must be over the moon right now.  Plus, since he's basically an AFD guy, we got an extra AFD song ("My Michelle") to keep him on stage a little longer.  I never in my life thought I'd see Steven Adler playing with GNR so I'm pretty happy to have been there. 

 

#3: Big early cheers when Slash started --- not finished --- his "Brownstone" solo.  Crowd clearly recognizes the importance of him being in the band again.  Duh.

 

#4: Axl sounded really good, up until Coma, when he started to lose it.  His worst song was "Better", which I almost think he sucked on purpose just so he could kill it on "Out Ta Get Me" w/ Adler.  Overall, though, he was good and saved enough in the tank for the finish to sound strong.

 

#5: I hate, HATE, HATE this article.  When did the point of journalism become to shit all over something to prove how fucking cool you are?  Fuck Bill Wyman, whoever the fuck that is.


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Posted 07 July 2016 - 03:24 PM

Adler??? I have to check this out. 

 

Yea, I didn't like the article at all, thought it sucked. I liked the photo though. 


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Posted 07 July 2016 - 03:49 PM

I was at the show last night too.  Fucking amazing.  Greatest show of my life.  I bought nose bleeds cause I got front row in Pittsburgh next week, but they relocated me down to section 146, so I had great seats.  Fantastic show and Adler coming out was amazing.


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Posted 07 July 2016 - 07:12 PM

Izzy should be around the corner I'd imagine. All five would be awesome. 


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Posted 08 July 2016 - 02:09 AM

Great review. Glad two people we know got to witness it in person.

 

This is an incredible moment.

 

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Freedom hit the nail on the head.....even though it is a "hybrid" lineup.....crowds know the "real" GNR is back and are responding accordingly. Its why deep cuts(and even solos as freedom pointed out) are getting huge crowd pops.

 

Edit: One little factoid on this show:

 

First time in history that Adler and Dizzy were onstage together. Adler was fired right before they hiredDizzy.


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Posted 08 July 2016 - 02:20 AM

Looks like Axl is giving him a little bag of coke or what? 

 

Did Frank go work the lights during Adler's part? 

 

This whole things is really nuts. 


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Posted 08 July 2016 - 02:40 AM

Man oh man...

 

 


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Posted 08 July 2016 - 02:54 AM

1) I feel jipped on the Vegas gig

 

2) Anybody else feel stupid for supporting the CD era?  :P


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Posted 08 July 2016 - 07:38 AM

I was at the show last night too.  Fucking amazing.  Greatest show of my life.  I bought nose bleeds cause I got front row in Pittsburgh next week, but they relocated me down to section 146, so I had great seats.  Fantastic show and Adler coming out was amazing.

 

Didn't know you were there...I'm guessing you were the guy yelling "HAIL SATAN" at the Bible thumpers out front.  But yeah, it was a killer show.  They sounded tight and the sound was pretty good for a stadium.

 

 

1) I feel jipped on the Vegas gig

 

2) Anybody else feel stupid for supporting the CD era?  :P

 

Didn't you get a free Alice in Chains show, too?  Sounds like a steal.

 

I still like CD.  If he had just put it out as "Axl Rose", we wouldn't think of it all that differently from Slash's three solo albums. 


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Posted 08 July 2016 - 02:47 PM

Didn't know you were there...I'm guessing you were the guy yelling "HAIL SATAN" at the Bible thumpers out front. But yeah, it was a killer show. They sounded tight and the sound was pretty good for a stadium.



Didn't you get a free Alice in Chains show, too? Sounds like a steal.

I still like CD. If he had just put it out as "Axl Rose", we wouldn't think of it all that differently from Slash's three solo albums.


I missed that sign. My cousin was apparently there too and posted a pic of what they were saying. I think I was guilty of 3/4 of the things they said condemned you to hell. I had to look up "little monster" though. Apparently that's a name for Lady Gaga fans.
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Posted 08 July 2016 - 05:56 PM

How awesome that two of you got to witness this!  Going to these shows is sort of like playing the lottery and hoping you win big with the show you're going to see, because someone might just show up.  Watching the video - yeah - made me want to sort of cry, too!  

 

"Anybody else feel stupid for supporting the CD era?   :P"    I gotta' say it, J - "told ya' so".  I never could get into it because it wasn't, well, the same.  So many of us would get into trouble for saying that, like, at HTGTH, in years past.  You didn't dare say it because your post would be deleted.  How far we've come in the GnR saga.  Loving it, today!

 

 



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Posted 09 July 2016 - 01:55 AM

 

 

2) Anybody else feel stupid for supporting the CD era?  :P

In the early years of the saga...no. It had tons of potential. He could've had an Audioslave type situation on his hands had it turned out differently.

 

The main thing the CD era had going against it is its duration.....it was simply dragged out too long. When it reached the point that replacements of replacements of replacements were touring under the CD banner(yet mainly focusing on AFD) and still acting like another album is right around the corner....it jumped a school of sharks and should've been put out of its misery.

 

In hindsight, fans should've said "enough is enough" in 2006. Yeah I know quite a few hardcores loved that lineup and various shows but it was a huge sign that the train to China had been derailed. The unique group of 2001-02 is gone, in its place a more marketable group to push to casuals(including a Finck-Pitman image change) and what was clearly an officially sanctioned leak to appease the hardcore base begging for Chinese stew. The promotional tactics used to promote this lineup/tour was insane and actually an insult to that lineup(and fans). Other than the hybrid logo seen once in a blue moon, AFD logos and even pics of the old band were used to promote that tour, especially in Europe and Australia.......yet they pretended to be surprised when there were Slash chants. I guarantee the only reason Slash and Duff didn't sue over this is because the tour was essentially just promoting the old material and they were earning royalties off the increase in album sales.

 

Another thing that soured the Chinese era was the Slash obsession by Axl and his inner circle. They talked more about Slash 1999-2014 than they did CD and/or CD members. What makes this funny and pathetic in hindsight is we now know he was always open to a reunion but the timing wasn't right. So why the fuck did we have to endure all those rants about Serpico, cancer, one will die before a reunion, not in this lifetime, etc.? I'll tell you why......it helped promote the "CD" tours and it also kept his hardcore fan base in a state of agitation and their eyes off the ball(new albums). Get your fan base whining about Slash the media whore and how Axl would never prostitute himself for fortune and shame and they wont talk about how there's no GNR album on store shelves.

 

The media was a few steps ahead of the fans which is why they stopped giving a shit long before fans started checking out.

 

2009-14 was an abomination. After not promoting his own album before, during, and after release(I don't blame him. Nobody cared about it generally speaking) the fan base had to endure another round but this time absolutely senseless never ending Chinese Democracy tour. Ashba was the final nail in the coffin of "new GNR".....everything that made the early 2000s era unique was obliterated and with a handful of Asian shows the exception, a complete nostalgia head trip that didn't even bother pretending it was moving forward. They were just running in circles and Axl was just waiting for the right time to cash in the reunion chips and decided to make a nice chunk of cash while waiting it out. How on earth any fans actually believed CD II was coming out in that time frame is beyond me. One of my first posts after the hiring of Ashba was that no new music would ever be released by that lineup. People said I was crazy......but I was right.

 

Had the CD era continued on past 2014, its next US tour would've been in bowling alleys and pizza parlors. New GNR had simply run out of road and it was reunion or bust after that last Vegas show. Its why they "left it in Vegas". They had to because there was nowhere else to take it.

 

 

edit: I knew it was only a matter of time before a nerd photoshopped that pic....

 

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Posted 09 July 2016 - 08:56 PM

Check this out.....did you ever really imagine it would happen?

 

 


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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

 

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Posted 09 July 2016 - 09:46 PM

 

 

 

edit: I knew it was only a matter of time before a nerd photoshopped that pic....

 

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What am I missing? What did they photoshop?


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