Fingers crossed for you mate but they made another total arse of themselves at Reading/Leeds Festival last weekend.
Not half wrong. The best bit though doing Better - ''Well, I'll just sing through a megaphone then'' after the power cut.
^ i was gonna go specifically to see them, glad i didn't in the end.
If I was going by myself I wouldn't have - but I now have someone to go with who likes the band and Korn (oh lord).
Every review I've read from the GnR since 2006 says that everyone should basically avoid attending their concerts. The lack of Slash is the biggest down, but there are plenty of them: Axl's voice is pretty weak (was it strong any time? ), the band is weak too and they use to play crappy setlist and/or very short concerts... To be honest I never like them live, I love most of their studio stuff but they were never a live band for me.
Buckethead will fix that in no time. Better technical player of industrial stuff - which is where I think GnR might be headed on the next album, and that's cool - but Slash was a better rock and roll player - that said, bands change all the time and unfortunately Slash was a big name to go and got replaced with numerous guitarists. Axl had a strong voice and still does - This I Love from the new album is a great example of that as is There Was A Time. The problem with the new album (Chinese Democracy) is there's just too much going on at any one time in the backgrounds - Prostitute, the last track: you have drum machines, orchestra, piano, keyboard, second layered vocals and I think there might even be four guitars at once.
It's a good album but if you're not a fan of longish ballads, 6-7 minutes at any one song, then it's probably not your thing. A strong voice on the earlier records would be any of the longer songs - Locomotive (three layered vocals at once!!!), Coma, Estranged...basically anything on the Illusions.
during the UYI tour, yeah, it was phenominal. it's taken a pummeling over the years though.
He can't even do that scream on Welcome To The Jungle anymore. Well, he can technically but I mean, that's not an easy scream either but hell, just don't it then to sound like a dead cat. On the video they put out in 1992 from Tokyo...the way he does that scream on Live And Let Die is killin' it. A bit like Bono on Crazy Tonight with the falsetto ''I'll go crazeee tonight'' - if you can't do it don't bother.
Oh and there will be photos, right after the U2 show.
Now playing: Aerosmith - Crazy (Get A Grip)
