3 hours ago, FATAD said:
But starting with the opening song, "Welcome to the Jungle," the audience witnesses a cult band that first played together 40 years ago tearing down its own legacy. The people in charge at the mixing desk must have suffered heatstroke, because at the beginning, only uncoordinated, overdriven sound garbage pours out of the speakers. Feedback can be heard repeatedly until the end.
Axl Rose squeezes out the sounds, pacing the stage as if he were measuring it. He dances on one leg, paws his hooves like a horse, boldly grabs his genitals a few times, and throws the microphone stand. The frontman, the only continuously active member of the band, wants to give it his all, but his most important tool fails.
A decade ago, a study revealed that the rock singer had the most diverse and variable voice in his field. But that's all gone. For years, fans have wondered whether an illness or his stint as a stand-in with AC/DC in 2016 is to blame for the fact that everything from the low to the high notes sounds strained. There are countless memes online that refer to him as Mickey Mouse.
It's not without a certain irony that Guns N' Roses subtitled their current world tour with the following sentence: "Because what you want & what you get are two completely different things." In the Düsseldorf stadium on Wednesday evening, too, the gap between wish and reality was wide open. Anyone expecting an unforgettable rock concert must have gone home pretty disappointed. Because instead they got: terrible sound at times and a voice on a rollercoaster ride. Only half an hour late – die-hard fans consider it punctual – the American rock legends took the stage in front of 37,000 fans, with around 8,000 seats remaining empty. Already in the first song, "Welcome to the Jungle," the voice of frontman Axl Rose was almost completely drowned out, and the sound seemed poorly mixed.
My personal review:
I couldn't have said it better, Axl's voice was completely broken and definitly heaps more broken than the last time i heard him in 2023. Slash really saved the day besides that the new drummer is a huge improvement really noticable. What i also noticed is that it seemed that Melissa and Duff's mics where very loud and clearly to cover up Axl's fuck ups. Who else wonders why they always use audio from the classic era in their promo's to support this tour and aftermovies from the gigs they play. Just to cover shit up, i saw a blind person with a blind stick entering the stadium and imagined how it would be if you could only focus on audio.
So i do have to say that Axl worked really hard he looked fitter than ever nitl era and it was a f'n' marathon show while it was hot as fuck in that stadium with horrible accoustics. Axl trying fucking hard fit as fuck playing a 3 hour show is a much welcome attitude, normally he seems unprepared, fat as fuck and uninterested. Despite that it was sad to see how often axl's voice just broke down an often after screaming parts he would sing and his lips moved on screen but there was no sound. It was my 21st time and without any doubt my last!! Main reason to go was because it was my only chance to show my 15 year old son the band i used to love live.
But then i realised i showed him the worst version of it and on top of that they played CITR one of the worst newgnr songs ever made and i already went pissing during alot of "new songs" which are all pure garbage.
I even filmed a bit of that shit, why? i have no fucking clue.
https://streamable.com/o/6przms
