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Re: House of Blues 2001 Set List Photo
Fair point.....but how do you go from Oklahoma to Berlin?
Especially considering Oklahoma is what inspired the track...
which starts confusing the timeline tremendously when you think about it.
This may be one of the Slash tunes that was worked on.
If Oklahoma was just music when he named it that, the 
was still around at that point.
Re: House of Blues 2001 Set List Photo
It’s an interesting topic.
Axl isn’t exactly sympathetic to communist (or fascist) regimes which tend to be authoritarian and antithetical to freedom (hence his Fear N’ Freedom essay in the unreleased booklet).
Oklahoma was inspired by the Oklahoma City Bombings and dedicated to the victims and a court date with Erin Everly. CD skews personal so Axl feeing like a survivor of a desired “obliteration” could be the subject matter.
Berlin could be a romantic whiticism (a moment in Berlin he knew the relationship was over, started or ended) or the physical separation of East and West under communist occupation. The East was also Soviet run which goes to the China v Russia imagery of the unreleased booklets and whatever political messages he was trying to get across which despite my best efforts at guessing is rather vague and underdeveloped.
As an aside, seeing as how CD2 was lining up to be the techno-futurist album full of electronica and wild guitars, it would be a trip if it were at all inspired by Kaczisnky’s prophesying about the role of technology and the media in society in the future and denigration of humanity.
I’ve always found Madagascar (socialist state for many years, too) and TWAT as something as a personal reflection on the past from the battle torn present. It’s be interesting if he kept that ball rolling on future albums.
Re: House of Blues 2001 Set List Photo
Berlin could be a romantic whiticism (a moment in Berlin he knew the relationship was over, started or ended) or the physical separation of East and West under communist occupation. The East was also Soviet run which goes to the China v Russia imagery of the unreleased booklets and whatever political messages he was trying to get across which despite my best efforts at guessing is rather vague and underdeveloped
Or towards the end of the saga, he felt as desperate, hopeless, and alone as Hitler under the Reich Chancellory.
As far as Madagascar, I just took it as being out there alone but that might be too simplistic.
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Re: House of Blues 2001 Set List Photo
does anyone have the photo of that infamous setlist?
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Re: House of Blues 2001 Set List Photo
Why? Why a set list from 20 fucking years ago? Gnr fans are so fucking deranged.
cause a good friend asked about it, and i decided to look for it but i guess some people here are not that nice.
