G n' R

So the show was pretty good the other night. Long and late, but pretty good. I have not been out that late on a school night in a long long time...

We got there as Die Mannequin was finishing up, no real dissapointment missing them...

Next came the Suicide Girls, an interesting show indeed... Lets just say they are young ladies with variuos... talents...

The Trews came on around 10:00 and they played for about an hour. I have only seen them live once, opening for Nickelack a few years ago, but I was very impressed. I think that these guys are going to be around for qute some time, at least here in Canada... Anyway, their performance was excellent.

So, after about a 45 minute wait while the stage was changed over on came Axl and the "new" Guns N' Roses. Of course the fist song was Welcome to the Jungle and the energy and feel was awesome! Axl did his usual dance moves, the "slithering snake" and the "arms out foot stomp while backing up" or whatever you want to call them. Aside from being a bit thicker through the midsection he looked pretty much like the Axl we watched in videos so many years ago...

They continued to play all of the great songs, It's so Easy, Mr. Brownstone, Sweet Child O' Mine, etc... and it was really very good. The only problem was that after the first 4 - 5 songs most of the crowd had to sit for a while because we were all so tired... We are just not used to being up that late anymore...

I did manage to stick it out til the end though, an awesome version of Paradise City rounded out the final encore at about 2:00 am.

It was certainly not the Guns N' Roses we grew up with but I think they are on the right track anyway. I guess we will just have to wait and see whether or not Chinese Democracy ever comes out, they played a couple of their new songs that should be on the album and they were pretty good.