Review Vegas Show

[Kiki]

THANKS TO C2YA FOR INFORMING US ALL!

He sat in the front row in between Axl and Buckethead.

They didn´t even check people so the show is probably bootleged!

Same setlist from Rio but they didn't play Nightrain

At the beginning of the show…

They showed a video clip of new GN'R logo (orange/blue with the US flag in the background), then they show the space shuttle and satellite from space camera zooms in through to Earth and gets to land then they show a movie – a soldier is running through weeds and shit – and during this, kick ass music clips from what is most likely a new GN'R song is played (pounding drums, awesome evil guitar from hell). They they who tanks and all hell breaks loose. It could something from a new movie (from what he noticed, he´s not sure) and then they went on to another video with a narrator that sounded like George C. Scott and he said "The Arabs have taken our money - it's time to put the money back" and it talked about the economy and it starts talking about who's the real evil in the world (money and weird shit) then they show a cartoon of chinese soldiers then it ends.

Stage Setup
Brain, Dizzy, and Chris´s equipment was 5´ high (kind like the UYI tour setup) Axl´s piano came out from under the kit
There was a catwalk – Axl ran back and forth a lot
Brain had a red drumset

Members
Axl was thinner. Looked the same, was wearing a white Oakland Raiders Rich Gannon #12 jersey and had black leather pants and Lugz boots that were brown with black bottoms. Nike watch on right hand…Bracelet on left. 2nd half of the show he wore dark-purplish Prince Valiant coat over his jersey. Voice was great...screams were fucking on-spot.
Robin wore an all black jumpsuit
Buckethead had a yellow jacket. He wore a green backpack halfway through the show. His KFC bucket had blood stains on it.
Dizzy looked like Dizzy
90% of the show Chris wore pantyhose over his head – he was crazy as hell – was headbanging and shit
Paul had a beard
Tommy wore black pants and a black t-shirt that said “bomb�






The sound was screwed up early in the show and during Oh My God Axl´s mic went out and he got really really pissed. He threw the microphone and walked to the side of the stage and stared in the sound technician's face…looked evil as hell…more evil than what he looked like at Rio. So Tommy sang almost the rest. During the end of the song, Robin got pissed and threw his guitar at the speaker and it broke and then threw the mic stand across the stage.

Axl said "this is the first show in 10 years that he wanted to do" and goes on to talk about how Alan Niven forced them to tour in 91 and he fired him for it. And then he talks about the European tour. He had no idea there was a European tour. He said, “One day I was sitting at home on the internet and I found out that the GN´R tour was cancelled and I had no idea that I had a tour.â€� He said don't blame him for the cancellation. He also said has to deal with the "Internet Whores." He also said “We're in the studio doing this album and I can promise you that we're gonna deliver and it's gonna be out of the ballparkâ€�
And "we've been working on this album and I can tell you we're doing our best and that's all I can promise." He said someone in the elevator thanked him for doing a show and he was really moved. Later on he repeated again about this was the first time he wanted to do a show and it was all fucking up…but he smiled about it.

Buckethead did three solos. The first solo was after the 4th or 5th song and it consisted of Pirates of the Caribbean/Big Sur Moon/Star Wars The 2nd solo was acoustic and it went slow to fast. The 3rd was electric.

Someone threw a KFC bucket at Axl and he wore it.
Someone threw a black cowboy hot at Axl and he wore it - Tommy wore it at end.
Axl started doing the “two-step� while having a huge smile on his face during Paradise City.

Before the show…
Rick Rubin, Pauly Shore, and Owen Wilson were at the show

Robin Finck's guitar tech said 68 songs done - working on 14 more.

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[Kiki]

*UPDATED REVIEW*

THANKS TO C2YA FOR INFORMING US ALL!

He sat in the front row in between Axl and Buckethead. He could see the lyric monitor. Lots of monitors.

[shadow=red,left,300]They didn't even check people so the show is probably bootleged![/shadow]

Professional filming crew at the show!

Setlist(in no particular order but almost accurate)

Welcome To The Jungle
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Live And Let Die
Oh My God
Think About You
You Could Be Mine
Sweet Child O' Mine
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Madagascar
November Rain (real cool long piano intro)
Out Ta Get Me
Rocket Queen
Chinese Democracy
The Blues
Patience
My Michelle
Silk Worms
Paradise City


Madagascar sounded awesome...

Madagascar sounded awesome...

Video clips in the background were different than Rio...during November Rain a whale was shown...psychedelic looking...during Buckethead's solo there was a lot of weird symbols (like hieroglyphics).

During one song, Axl was pissed off talking to someone at the soundboard....he wore the ear monitor device....

[Kiki]

here are a few things i forgot to mention:
brain wore headphone during madagascar
axel talked about ticket prices for the shows, he said something like this:  when you do one show they want to get as much money as they can from you.  he was pretty much saying i don't make these prices, the people in the suits do, i know and understand your complaints about the prices and i feel the same way.

axel talked about "Oh My God".  This is what he said:  Basically, that was a demo that the record company took from us without even asking.  He also mentioned the fact that "Oh My God" is not how the record will sound.  The entire record will not sound like one song.

if anyone wants to contact c2ya (chris) his cell phone number is 210 771 2292.  

Message From c2ya  
« on: December 31st, 2001, 8:09pm »    


"I talked to Gersh, Brain's drum tech, today for about 5 minutes at the casino. One of the things I asked was, "Will there be any new songs played tonight?" and Gersh replied, "No." So, sorry to dissapoint everyone. So if they do play new songs, don't bash me, you know, don't shoot the messenger. But anyway, Happy New Year! And fuck the 'Internet Whores' HAHAHA!"

[Kiki]

Deze email is van Linda Scott Webmaster http://www.snakepit.org  ...............

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Scott" <LScott@snakepit.org>

Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [GNR] 12/29 gig


I don't know that he was serious..he laughed when telling me. He said..what do you think? I said...it doesn't sound sound like a good plan to me, but I know you have wanted to here their new music. In which case, I would wait awhile as mostly you will hear YOUR old music. He was very lighthearted about it... not like he was going to disrupt things or in a negative mood...sort of...this might be a fun thing to do...but he was talking about New Year's Eve. I'll ask when I talk to him...I think if he goes, he would be in his Slash disguise...the hair pulled back and tucked in his shirt, shades, sleeves down over his tats.
He sat in on the AC/DC shows right after Snakepit would be on, and no one recognized him even though minutes before they were all pushing to get near him. He blends in well.

A typical GNR controversy! Happy New Year!

Linda