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Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
So the show in São Paulo happenned yesterday.
Gotta say I was impressed by Axl's trying giving it all. However, he has some ups and downs and his voice was cracking often. Out of all my GNR concerts, this rates as the worse but it wasn't as bad as Rio 2022.
The show could be trimmed to a 2 hour GREAT rock concert, instead it's a 3 hour average show because it drags for too long.
It's easy to see that the band is just going through the motions and that's kinda sad.
Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
Yeah...the set absolutely needs to be trimmed of ALL fat. I've recommended this since the concert I went to in 2017.
It's too fucking long...and nobody but 10-20 hardcores in attendance would complain about a condensed set.
Everyone is there to hear the following.....
Jungle
SCOM
NR
PC
on the next level....
KOHD
Patience
Don't Cry
LALD
That's the meat and potatoes right there.
All the set needs is a handful of key AFD-UYI minor hits/deep cuts to round it out.
YCBM
ISE
Brownstone
Nightrain
Out To Get Me
Civil War
Estranged
Pick a few of those...or rotate.
A couple new songs that can rotate if they release more
Boom...there's your show.
Drop the covers and while I don't have a problem with em....drop the CD tracks...or rotate them with the list above.
And yeah.... residencies in the US is a good idea.
Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
Indeed, James, look at SP setlist... So much bloat!!
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Chinese Democracy
(Link Wray's "Rumble" intro) Welcome to the Jungle
Better
Reckless Life
Double Talkin' Jive
Live and Let Die
Estranged
Shadow of Your Love
Rocket Queen
You Could Be Mine
Attitude (Misfits cover) (Duff on lead vocals)
Absurd
Hard Skool
Civil War (Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun" outro)
Sorry (followed by band introductions)
Slash Guitar Solo
Sweet Child o' Mine
November Rain
Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb cover)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)
Nightrain
Encore:
Coma
(The Beatles' "Blackbird" intro) Patience
Don't Cry
Paradise City
Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
I would totally go with a smaller set like:
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Any Chinese Democracy song (CD or Better)
Welcome to the Jungle
Better
Live and Let Die
Estranged
You Could Be Mine
Whatever song Duff needs to on lead vocals for his ego to be embraced
Civil War
Patience or Don't Cry
Slash Guitar Solo
Sweet Child o' Mine
Whatever new song or single (a fan can dream)
November Rain
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)
Nightrain
Encore:
Random cover the band plays for fun
Patience or Don't Cry
Paradise City
Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
That set list is insane.
Heres a good set...
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Chinese Democracy
(Link Wray's "Rumble" intro) Welcome to the Jungle
Double Talkin' Jive
Live and Let Die
You Could Be Mine
Attitude (Misfits cover) (Duff on lead vocals)
Absurd
Hard Skool
Civil War (Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun" outro)
Slash Guitar Solo
Sweet Child o' Mine
November Rain
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)
Encore:
(The Beatles' "Blackbird" intro) Patience
Don't Cry
Paradise City
That's all you need...you could even cut a couple of those songs if necessary.
It may happen at some point because he needs to save his voice if they plan on doing this long term.
Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
You could probably dump out the CD tracks plus most of the GNR Lies stuff except for Patience. I personally don't care for Live and Let Die but that one is popular. Don't mind if they rotate one of the epic deep cuts though (Coma, Estranged, Civil War etc).
Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
My view is the following are absolute must plays. The ones where if someone was going to a GN'R show and it was their first one and they didn't get these, they'd be rightly pissed off.
Welcome to the Jungle
Sweet Child O' Mine
Paradise City
November Rain
On the level below that if you missed too many of these in a set you'd also be rightly pissed off, but could accept a couple of them being missed
You Could Be Mine
Patience
KOHD
LALD
Don't Cry
After that... pick anything. A few well other well known ones, new tracks and some deep cuts. Honestly, they should just lock in the nine songs listed above and then rotate the entire rest of the set every tour cycle to keep the shows fresh. This has been the same basic core set since 2016.
Making ISE, Brownstone, CD, Better, DTJ, Estranged, RQ, Civil War and Nightrain rotational would freshen up these sets a lot. If they ever shorten their shows they'll have to consider it.
Re: So GNR played Rock In Rio yesterday...
Too many hard cores love Estranged…no way you take that one out….KOHD is where the time is wasted
KOHD is almost up there in the main category with Jungle, SCOM, PC, and NR. You could actually make a case to include it.
It's that popular.
After 1989-90 I never cared for it but it has to stay.
It's not even a Dylan song anymore...it's GNR.
LALD is in this category too although it's more likely to be dropped than KOHD.
Estranged should be an alternate. It isn't necessary with NR in the set.