CKY was absolutly horrible. I'm not sure if GNR just put them on to make themselves look better, or what. They had this really obnoxious guitar player, who whenever the crowd started booing or yelling things (with good reason.........), he would say some dumbass remark. I'm sorry, but any band who's primary words are: fuck, shit, cocksuckers, blow job, need to go back and get an education. It was really annoying, "How are all you motherfuckin' motherfuckers!" At this point in the show, the arena is barely 1/3 full, so I'm getting kinda worried.

MixMasterMike. Oh God. And you think CKY is bad!! He was not well received at all. Spinning records NONSTOP for 45 minutes was just WAY to much. It was really horrible. He even had a really cheesy stagesetup too, but onto the goodstuff. By this time the arena was about 80% full. After this, I met Gunner4Life, who was really cool, and he even made signs that read, "PLAY CATCHER IN THE RYE", and "2003-The Year of GNR"

As time went on, EVERY SINLGE SEAT WAS FILLED. This show WAS sold out. @ around 10:10 lights go down, and a different intro was played, not the Exorcist one. It was really hard to hear with everyone screaming. Then they bring down the curtain. Red lights shining on the stage, then you see the band come out, with opening jungle chords. Where's Axl? He's right behind the drums behind all the smoke! YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE! YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE CHICAGO! YOU'RE GONNA DIEEEEEEEEE...........or something like that. I know he threw in Chicago somewhere in the song. Axl was wearing a #7 Atlanta Falcons Michael Vick jersey, couldn't tell if it said Rose on the back. Finck-white suit, buckethead-the usual, tommy- plaid suspends, fortus- pil shirt, dizzy-no shirt (RIPPPED!!!) Brain-couldn't tell. Pitman-who cares, LOL!

It's So Easy and Brownstone went really well. Live and Let Die was when the crowd really started getting into it (great pyro). Then the new version of KOHD came up, and the crowd surprisingly liked it!!

YCBM in my opinion was the only weak song they played. That songs just seems to hard to mimic. I think it should be scrapped from the set.

Finck then comes out and starts playing a guitar solo, that sounds really out of tune, and with no real flow, and everyone's like ehhhhhhh. Then right at the end of the solo, he goes into SCOM!! SCOM was perfect.

later in the set, Axl said, "gimme a piano......." And he started playing this great piano intro. I was thinking, c'mon Axl, please let this be a new song, please please please.......it wasn't but it was a really great intro, very gloomy, but great. Buckethead wasn't in November Rain at all if I remember correctly. November Rain was the final blow to any doubters in the arena. At that point, they all turned and pledged allegiance to the new GNR!!

The Blues went really well, during, "make you change your mind......" Axl seemed to lose control of his voice, and it went REALLY rough. Crowd really liked the Blues though.

Madagascar, same video from the VMA's on the screens. Guitar solo was really great. Amazing song.

Buckethead's solo was pretty cool, and I think it went over really well with everyone, especially the Chicken Binge.

Chinese Democracy was really good too, Great pyro, just like Live and Let Die. Lots of fire. I think I was the only one in the arena who knew the words! lol This was one of my fave songs in the set.

Patience was my personal favorite on the night. Axl was leading everyone to wave their hands, and I looked back and everyone was waving their hands. During, "and the lights they shine so bright....." everyone went apeshit! It was really great.

I can't remember what they played before the Encore, it might have been Chinese Democracy or Nightrain.

The only messup the whole night, was right near the end of Nightrain, Axl was backstage and he comes out, and you hear him say something like, "I was having a conversation, but we'll finish this LATER." Really pissed off.

Paradise City was great, the whistle made everyone go nuts of course, and the confetti made it just that much better.

Overall it was an amazing show. So sound messups, which was really surprising. You could always hear Axl's voice. One thing I noticed is how he barely messed with the Monitor Mixer thing. I went to Vegas on 12/31/01, but this show I think was alot better show, just to have an arena full of people chanting along to every GNR song you ever heard.

I highly recommend going to see them!!!

Matt

PS> One of the funniest things of the night was how Buckethead was moving around alot. At one point he even jumped down 3-4 stairs while playing!!! The first thing that went through my mind was how Axl docked Izzy or Gilby's pay cause they "didn't run around enough".....Hilarious.

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