2011.10.02 - Rock In Rio, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

tommy_stinson It's probably good that you can't get Havana Club 7 year rum in the states. It's too good. Ouch my head hurts! 35 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

Bumblefoot: Had a wonderful night (I think?) stumbling around, lots of friends, delicious birthday cake, singin' and playin' piano (I don't play piano, haha)
https://youtu.be/L66oYdIP2EU

Today = stay in bed until the show. When I get out of bed I do bad things. Staying in bed.

gunsnroses As you can probably tell that 1:10 set is gonna a run a little behind. stay tuned #GunsInRio about 1 minute ago · reply · retweet · favorite

tommy_stinson Gonna go play R.I.R.now. Wish me luck.....Whoa!! about 1 hour ago · reply · retweet · favorite

Just got home from the concert. I'll honestly say most of the people around me near the stage enjoyed the concert. That still doesn't take away the true facts that have been posted here before. I really did not notice Axl's poor voice in WTTJ, and I actually thought he nailed Estranged, This I Love and KOHD.... He REALLY messed up November Rain though.... I felt like DJ was pissed as fuck during the concert, and I mean REALLY pissed. Tommy was also in a bad mood, Axl was more concerned about his personal affairs than to his 'job', Bumblefoot and Fortus were perfect, expect for that let down on WTTJ and Nightrain by Bumblefoot. Frank messed up the intro to You Could Be Mine.

The most important negative factors NO DOUBTS, and this is by someone who was there and saw people commenting, were:

1- RAIN... HELL THAT RAIN WAS COLD AS FUCK, YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!! I WAS SHIVERING, DEFINITELY WILL GET A COLD...
2- TIRESOME AS FUCK.... SOAD, EVANESCENCE, PITTY and DETONAUTAS+ WAITING FOR AXL + RAIN, IT'S JUST TOO MUCH, PEOPLE WERE LEAVING BEFORE GnR EVEN STARTED, A LOT OF PEOPLE.
3- THE SETLIST THAT WAS SHOWN ON FACEBOOK PUT OUR HOPES SO FUCKING HIGH UP IT WAS IN IMMENSE LET DOWN..

DanyYo wrote:Ah, and I forgot to add that it was amusing to watch Ashba in Slash's shoes in Estranged lol

Soulmonster wrote:

DanyYo wrote:Ah, and I forgot to add that it was amusing to watch Ashba in Slash's shoes in Estranged lol

Whut? He did great on the solos But Bumbles did even better on his solos.

Guns N’ Roses played to a soggy but massive audience this evening/morning at the Rock in Rio as a part of their kick off for their tour in 2011. Guns N’ Roses was nearly at top form for the most of the concert. But due to the rain and possible audio issues (at least on my end), there were small delays in between songs. At times during the delay, sometimes a quick instrumental would be played between band members while something was possibly fixed or adjusted. But, when the band played, the band was tight and was amazing. Axl first came out what I thought was a yellow raincoat but by the third song, it was taken off. Axl mentioned in the beginning that they would be playing it safe but playing songs. It was at this time I saw people with brooms pushing the water off the stage creating a waterfall at times. Yeah, lots of water.

With the torrential down pour, it was amazing that the band played as well as they did due to the circumstances but by the end of the concert, it seemed they were getting tired and going through the motions. But that didn’t detract from the concert itself. Axl was in top form and his singing actually surprised on how his strong his voice was. During songs like “Sorry” he sung it with a passion that really made me pay attention to his performance. The were only two negatives that I saw in the concert: between songs, there were delays that kept breaking the flow of the concert. Your all into the song and bam, delay. Get going again, bam! Delay. That got a little old after while. Again, however, probably due to rain issues which at times I did see crew on stage while they were performing and in between the songs. Axl even changed into fresh clothes during a solo. The second thing was that toward the end, it got slow and a few times I was looking at my watch. Over all, the concert was great to see, especially at the Rock in Rio festival and well worth the wait. Looking back at this concert, you know this band is going to get stronger as the tour progresses as most bands do when they tour and when that happens, watch out. This could be one hell of tour this fall. See them if you can.

Axl Hunts Wascully Wabbits in Wio

Axl Rose is nothing if not temperamental, but on a damp October night in a downpour of rain, he and his legacy, Guns N’ Roses returned to Rio de Janeiro for Rock In Rio IV, and he was in an exceptional mood. Despite the inclement weather and a very poor job by the sound man early on (you couldn’t hear his vocals to start the show, and yet he never once threw his mic), Axl took it all in stride.

The band opened with “Chinese Democracy”, arguably a poor choice to kick off the show, but the crowd responded loudly and warmly. Axl took the stage in a massive yellow coat that looked more like a Gucci raincoat. With cowboy hat and sunglasses in place the band continued on into “Welcome To The Jungle” Guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal wore a Star Wars storm-trooper helmet for this one.

Sticking with the band’s debut album they tore through “It’s So Easy” and “Mr. Brownstone” before returning to their 2008 release, Chinese Democracy for “Sorry” and “There Was A Time”. The former track was one of the worst of the night. Performance-wise it felt a little sloppy, particularly Axl’s vocals. Still, it’s splitting hairs to tear down a solid show over one or two weak tracks.

“Live & Let Die” came next followed by “Rocket Queen” and a nice guitar performance by DJ Ashba. Ashba kicked off the trademark guitar intro for “Sweet Child ‘O Mine” and the already stoked crowd came unhinged.

One of the show’s highlights came in the form of “Estranged” from Use Your Illusion II, which Axl announced the band hadn’t played live in 18 years.

The band returned to Chinese Democracy again for the tracks “Better” and Street of Dreams” which bookended a band jam of The Who‘s “Baba O’Reilly” led by pianist Dizzy Reed. While the band as a whole did a great job, Reed’s piano work was often marred by sloppy mistakes.

“You Could Be Mine” and “November Rain” went back to back, and it was during the latter when Axl seemed to see something in the crowd that both distracted and irritated him. For the remainder of the show his mood seemed to change.

Bumblefoot got his own chance to shine on a band jam of the “Theme from the Pink Panther”, where Thal lit the fretboard up to the delight of everyone. Fellow guitarist Richard Fortus came out with an acoustic guitar for “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” where Axl found a moment of levity, with a self-deprecating mimic of Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits.

uns N’ Roses closed out the set in raucous fashion with an ass-kicking monster performance of “Nightrain”. They soon returned for a double chorus of “Patience” and “Paradise City”.

In all it was a very engaging and exciting performance despite a few less than stellar moments. Axl may be the lone member of the original band, but Ashba, Fortus and Thal add their own unique style, as well as the rhythm section of bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Frank Ferrer.

DanyYo wrote:From what I saw Ron's beard is longer than ever and Axl's fatter than ever and in an awful shape.

Soulmonster wrote:

DanyYo wrote:From what I saw Ron's beard is longer than ever and Axl's fatter than ever and in an awful shape.

Typical girl, obsessing over their appearances .

But just for the record, Axl wasn't really fat, was he? More like an average 48-year-old to me.

DanyYo wrote:

Soulmonster wrote:

DanyYo wrote:From what I saw Ron's beard is longer than ever and Axl's fatter than ever and in an awful shape.

Typical girl, obsessing over their appearances .

But just for the record, Axl wasn't really fat, was he? More like an average 48-year-old to me.

OK not fat, chubby . And IMO most avarage 48-year old man faces haven't undergone face surgery.

After four shows and standing four about 13-14 hours, everybody was completely wet, tired and cold. I wasn't expecting much from the rest of the crowd, but was hoping the band could change my mind.
After i don't know how many hours, people got very excited with CD and jungle, axl voice wasn't as bad as it is on the videos, and people was very pissed with the mess in the jungle solo... get the helmet of and fucking play the solo.
Only the major hits made the crowd go crazy, even songs like it's so easy, mr browstone and rocket queen were only ok for the crowd. Chinese Democracy songs didn't get a good response at all, only on This I Love people applauded axl on the middle of the song, he sounded really good. His voice was obviously not as good as 20 years ago and even last year but was far from being bad as it sounds on the tv.

The members didn't get a good response from the crowd at any time... i don't like long intrumental solos at any shows, but 3 guitar solos and a piano solo, at 4~5am was really too much, people was pissed. People was pissed too with the silly "GUNS... N... ROSES" thing after every song, the first time was cool, the second was ok, after that, no...Also, the response after the songs was really weak too, i watched the videos and it seems people was crazy after the end of the songs, put it was very few people, almost none near me (and i was very close to the stage). And when a member asked the crowd to clap or something, very very few people responded, i think this was because of the cold and fatigue tho. Axl, of course, was the exception, when he came to the left part of the stage near where i was, in patience, people just went crazy. He never asks the crowd for clapping, but if he had done it yesterday, i think even the security guards would do it.

The band was really good, except for axl, they really seemed to rehearsal a lot. I think 3 guitars is too much and that Pittman is completely unnecessary, but, as far as it goes, they were very good.

Estranged was so freaking awesome, definitly the top moment of the night, it's my favorite song and when it started the crowd went crazy, everybody singing the beginning, wasn't expecting it. Was a fantastic perfomance.

A few times the crowd kept asking for don't cry.

The sound effect thing on live and let die was embaressing, didn't sound good and was out of sync, no one liked it.

kohd was fantastic too, i don't really like this version, but it really hit the crowd

Axl forgetting the lyrics on november rain and patience made everyone pissed, this is unforgivable... of course he was pissed too after november rain and kept like that for the rest of the show.

They really need to improve the time between songs, just seemed they were like "what do we do now?" Didn't seem it was because the rain and didn't seem at all a huge band headlining a huge festival... i went to slipknot and metallica last sunday and their show was tecnically perfect.

After Paradise City, everyone was hoping they would come back to wave for the crowd... it was a disappoitment for everyone that they didn't.

DanyYo wrote:Ah, and Better, Beta and all, sucks completely *fpalm*

Soulmonster wrote:

DanyYo wrote:Ah, and Better, Beta and all, sucks completely *fpalm*

Rubbish, it was a nice, warming gesture to Beta and her family