2019.09.28 - Louder Than Life Festival, Louisville, KY, USA

Going to bed now, hope to wake up in time for a periscope and Hardschool.

Heh, nope. Got the end of the show from bed, and no Hardschool.

Duff on Instagram before the show:



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Photos shared by the band

Duff on Instagram:
Thank you @louderthanlifefest !! Amazing crowd! Cool town!
Photo: @tadao310



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Melissa on Instagram:
That was some siccnezz tonight at the #louderthanlife 2019 festival!!! Thank you so so much Louisville / Kentucky - you guys showed upppp!!!! This is my post gig tour bus - switched to sneakers - hella sweaty bts shot (@katbenzova_rockphoto took this in a hurry but still captured the vibe ????). Seeing you guys smile 2night filled my heart and made me smile even more!!! I hope you know how amazing you all are..... You make everything worth it ..... P.S. There is no photo proof, but I did eat some salad as part of dinner after the show ????????????????????????
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Review in Splice Magazine (introduction and part about GN'R):

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Louder Than Life 2019 – 3 Days of High Octane Music and Experiences.

Louisville, Kentucky (September 27 – 29, 2019) – What do you get when you combine 120,000 plus crazed metal heads, 50+ plus of the greatest hard rock and heavy metal bands in the world, and spread them out over a three day weekend? You get Louder Than Life, the largest rock festival in America! Yes, with that attendance total this festival really is officially the largest rock festival! For this year the promoter, Danny Wimmer Presents, truly put on one hell of a show!!!

Traditionally Louder Than Life has been held at Champions Park in Louisville, KY. But last year due to the heavy rains from the remnants of a hurricane causing heavy flooding, ultimately for the safety of all the fans, the crews and artists, it was decided to cancel the festival. While this was disappointing to everyone, it was the wise move to make. Flash forward a year later, and a decision needed to be made, keep things the way they are and risk more flooding in a park that is prone to it, or make the bold move to start fresh in a new spot. The brain trust at Danny Wimmer Presents decided to start fresh and see if they could top what they’ve been doing in years past. So, the hunt for a new spot was on. As Louder Than Life has always been held in Louisville, KY they wanted to stay in the city that has embraced them. After searching for a spot that could handle a big crowd along with the infrastructure to handle an event of this magnitude, they found the Highlands Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center.

Situated near the airport, several major highways, and a plethora of hotels this spot is ideally suited for a massive crowd to get in easily from just about anywhere. If you were driving or flying, getting in and finding a place to stay was a breeze. From five star hotels within walking distance to cheap motels thirty minutes away there were plenty of choices for lodging for anyone that wasn’t local. On top of that, there was even a ton of camping available along with RV parking on the exposition grounds. The camping situation alone was a sight to see! Anyone who was driving alongside the festival grounds could see the mass of tents and people pumped up to see their favorite bands. So far, the promoters hit a home run just on location and places to put everyone that would be pouring into the city for the show.

As last years festival was rained out, all eyes were on the weather channel building up to Louder Than Life this year. Seemingly every festival this season was hit with at least one day of rain. So, between last year and what has happened so far this year, fans had plenty of jitters. One of the great things about the fall festival season is the cooler weather. Standing out in the hot sun for three days isn’t easy! A weekend of cool rain is something no one would even consider. Thankfully, the metal gods blessed Louder Than Life with sunny, albeit hot weather. Yes, it was hot, as in ninety five degree weather all weekend long. But at least you could bring in a refillable container to keep yourself hydrated. A thoughtful and wise move indeed.

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The final performance of the night belonged to one of the biggest bands ever, Guns N’ Roses. If you didn’t get there early to stake a spot anywhere near the stage, you were going to be watching them on a video screen. The entire festival grounds were packed with people that would be happy just to say that they were there that night. This would be no festival friendly show that would be long on hits and short on time. They would give the fans a massive twenty eight song three hour show. Kicking things off with “It’s So Easy” then jumping into “Mr. Brownstone” everyone thought that it was going to be a night of just songs from Welcome To The Jungle, of course there was going to be heaping’s of that monster hit album played, but there were plenty of covers that surprised everyone like “Slither” from Velvet Revolver, Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”, “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden, and “The Seeker” by The Who. They finished their epic three and a half hour performance with their monster hit “Paradise City”. With the second day in the books, this festival is two for two in great days for music.

https://splice-mediagroup.com/archive/festivals-2019/louder-than-life-2019/2019

Review in Metal Planet Music, Nov. 12, 2019 (introduction and part about GN'R):

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Gig Review : Louder Than Life 2019 Louisville – Kentucky

After being forced into a flood-induced sabbatical last year, LOUDER THAN LIFE 2019 roared back to life the last weekend of September. Over 50 artists and nearly 130,000 fans descended on Louisville, Kentucky’s Fair and Exposition Center, making Derby City the undisputed capital of the hard rock world (for at least a couple days).

Your intrepid METAL NEXUS away team braved the teeming throngs and the suffocatingly oppressive heat, chasing slivers of shade while soaking in the sights and sounds in order to bring you these dispatches from the front lines of the biggest rock festival in America.

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To say the crowd got a little restless during the forty or so minutes between GODSMACK and headliners GUNS N’ ROSES would be putting it mildly. As the band’s animated intro video played on a seemingly endless loop, I heard plenty of boos and more than a few snide remarks. But once the opening throb of “It’s So Easy” rang out through the Festival Grounds, it seemed all was immediately forgiven and forgotten. In the three years since the “Not In This Lifetime” tour kicked off, GNR has honed and sharpened their act into a near-monolith of super hits and deep cuts from every era, with a healthy smattering of covers and oddities thrown in for good measure. Yes, there was a little delay coming on, and no, Izzy Stradlin did not make an appearance, but after a jam-packed three-hour set, those were minor quibbles, at best. GUNS N’ ROSES played the songs of your youth real loud and real well, and what better way is there to spend a Saturday night?

https://metalplanetmusic.com/2019/11/gig-review-louder-than-life-2019-louisville-kentucky/