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Review
Guns N’ Roses Live In Las Vegas On New Year's Eve
By Mr. C2YA, Pure Rock Patroller
Tuesday, January 1, 2002 @ 11:54 AM
THIS
SHOW BLEW AWAY NOT ONLY THE 29TH SHOW, BUT ALSO RIO AND HOUSE
OF BLUES!!!
I
wasn’t at the House of Blues but I’ve listened to
the bootlegs many times and I’ve talked to three people
at show that were at last year’s House Of Blues show
and they agree that it blew it away. Not only the fans but
one of the same security guards from last year’s show
said the same. The energy was incredible, right now they are
ready to take on the damn world. But like I said earlier,
they didn’t play new songs.
The
show kicked off unbelievably and the whole show was free of
any technical problems. The band was extremely tight and the
energy throughout the whole show was incredible, every second
throughout the show was amazing. No fuckups at all. Robin
and Tommy were going crazy.
Now
onto their attire – Axl wore the same shoes as the night
before, he had cream pants (couldn’t tell if it was leather
though) and a #44 Florida State Seminole Jersey. He had a
lot more dreads in his hair tonight, and in the back, he had
dreads but the tips were straight and long. He was wearing
a watch with what appeared to have diamonds around it. Later
on in the show Axl put on a dark-bluish corduroy jacket and
then he wore it for a couple of the songs and then wore the
same Prince Valiant-type purplish coat from the previous show.
For Paradise City, Axl came out in a shiny sparklish-blue
shirt, it was something that Liberacci would envied.
Robin
wore a one piece suit. Around the legs it was black and dark-reddish
around his waist. He had one long sleeve on one side, and
sleeveless on the other with a stocking on his arm. He had
on some type of bowtie.
Buckethead
wore Lakers jumpsuit pants, and a plaid long-sleeve shirt
with a red and white striped apron. He had the same bucket
as the other night but with the “Funeral” sticker
on it. During November Rain, I had expected him to come out
with the lights in his eyes, but tonight instead, he came
out with a new logo KFC bucket and when we started his solo,
the bucket rotated back and forth around his head. After the
song, Axl asked for bucket change, and at that point, he was
wearing a Hard Rock Casino bucket and wore it for the rest
of the show. (I think)
Paul
wore black leather pants and a shiny shirt.
Tommy
came out in a checker 3-piece suit. He took the jacket off
after a couple of songs and wore a white tank top the rest
of the show.
Brain
wore a regular t-shirt.
Dizzy
wore a tank top and pants with a chain hanging from his belt.
Chris
was wearing a gas mask and then put on some kind of a mask
that looked like a Hawk, something with a long beak.
Axl
thanked people who participated in the “Welcome Back”
ad that was published in the L.A. Weekly earlier this week.
Someone in the audience handed him a copy of it and got misty-eyed
reading it. Axl also referred to former manager Alan Niven
again, but didn’t say his name (he didn’t think
he was worthy of mentioning). He then said something like
“We’re gonna tour, not for the industry, not for
something or someone, but for ourselves.” And “we’re
not gonna tour for some musician that’s on heroin”
(He then made a goofy face and said in funny voice) “because
he might die anyday!” Axl again said, “These are
the first two shows I’ve wanted to do in 10 years.”
Axl said that Robin said, “Let’s do a rehearsal
and fix this shit and put on a hell of a show!” and then
Axl said he agreed with him. During the first part of the
show, someone threw a pink rose at Axl and he put it in his
mouth for a little bit. Someone (possibly Mark Roulley?) threw
him a small white towel and on it in marker it said “CELEBRITY
DEATHMATCH WAS FIXED!” Axl showed it to the audience
and laughed. Axl also asked if there was any people that attended
the 29th show and there wasn’t too many people. He then
asked them if tonight was a much better show and they all
went crazy in agreement.
Buckethead
did the “Wish Upon A Star” and then something else
and then “Star Wars Theme” as his first solo. Afterwards,
Axl said, “I got a chill because I thought Darth Vader
was in the room.” Buckethead did have a Darth Vader mask
with his toys as well. Buckethead did a sick ass nunchakus
performance and threw them in the audience. His second solo
was acoustic. His third solo was “Big Sur Moon”
and “Eruption” – my jaw was dropped –
it was amazing. There was a waiter at the side of the stage
(who was also there the 29th but didn’t do anything)
and he had a silver platter. Buckethead walked over to him
and he lifted the lid to the platter and it had a severed
rubber hand. Buckethead picked it up and proceeded to do the
tapping to “Eruption” with it and then threw it
in the crowd. I had been dying to see this (I had a heard
about it before). He did the solo with the rubber hand better
than Eddie Van Halen has ever done in his life.
Tommy,
unlike the 29th, was active and ran all over the place. Take
what Tommy did at Rio and multiply it 50x, he was like a damn
10,000 shot Black Cat firecracker! At some point he said “Hi”
to girl named Michelle in the balcony and later waved at her
again.
Robin
was amazing as well. At the end of “Paradise City,”
he jumped into the audience and crowd surfed almost to the
back of the venue and all the way back to the stage.
Oh
yeah, both Tommy and Robin were drinking beer the whole show.
Some
other little things during the show…
During
“The Blues,” during Robin’s solo, Axl proceeded
to act like maestro as if he was really into to the solo and
he did it a little more throughout the song.
During
“You Could Be Mine,” Axl was looking up at Brain
and started to do high kicks.
During
“Silkworms,” Axl rolled around on the floor at the
end of the song and right before that Robin Finck acted as
if he was reeling in a kite as he walked offstage.
“Viva
Las Vegas” was played while the band was offstage before
the encore.
During
“Paradise City,” Robin came over near Buckethead
and put his head to his chest and went off and jammed out.
The
whole band seemed very happy and everyone was full of energy
and having a great time. If you missed this show, I feel bad
for you and I’m sorry. Anyone that you will talk to that
went to this show will tell you how awesome it was.
Source:
knac.com
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