Las Vegas, The Hard Rock Hotel, USA
31.12.01

Tracks List
Intro, Welcome To The Jungle, It's So Easy, Mr. Brownstone, Live And Let Die, Guitar solo, Oh My God, My Michelle, Think About You, You Could Be Mine, Sweet Child O' Mine, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Madagascar, November Rain, Out Ta Get Me, Guitar Solo, (Buckethead), Rocket Queen, Chinese Democracy, Acoustic Guitar Solo (Buckethead), Patience, The Blues, Silk Worms, Nightrain, Paradise City, Outro

Note
Un concert apparement plus énergique que celui du 29.12.01. D'après une déclaration faite par Slash sur la radio de ABCNews, Slash était présent à Las Vegas ce jour là mais il n'at pas pu rentrer au Hard Rock Hotel. Une personne de la sécurité, décidé par Axl, a empêché Slash d'entrer et d'assister au concert.

Le concert a commencé avec une énergie incroyable et sans aucuns problèmes techniques cette fois. Le groupe était vraiment en forme et l'énergie qui s'y est dégagée était incroyable.

Axl portait les mêmes chaussures que le show précédent. Il portait un pantalon couleur crème (sûrement en cuir) et un jersey "Florida State Seminole" avec le numéro 44. Plus tard dans le concert Axl a portait le même blouson noir que la nuit précédente pendant plusieurs chansons. Pour Paradise City, Axl est arrivé avec un T-Shirt bleu.

Axl a remercié les gens qui ont participé à ce retour de bienvenue et au journal LA Weekly pour avoir publié un article rapidement avant ces 2 concerts. Axl fait encore une fois allusion à Alan Niven mais sans donner son nom. Il dit "Nous faisons des concerts, pas pour l'industrie, par pour quelque chose ou pour quelqu'un mais pour nous mêmes. Et nous ne faisons pas des concerts pour  les musiciens accroc à l'héroïne, parce qu'il pourrait en mourir à tous moments." Axl répète "Ce sont les deux premiers concerts que je voulais vraiment faire en 10 ans."

(Traduction par mes soins "toujours approximative" de la review  faite par c2ya)

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Review originale par c2ya

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 3 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 fucking 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 LA 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 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 and shit 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 fucking nunchukai 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 fucking 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 fucking 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 fucking jammed out.

The whole band seemed very happy and everyone was full of energy and having a great fucking 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 fucking awesome it was.

I got to mention this also – and if the girl who was in front of me reads this – no hard feelings. But,  there was a girl in front of me who was having trouble breathing, and she eventually passed out and I’d like to thank her for letting me move up into a better spot HAHHAHAHAAHAH!! It was perfect timing because the next song was November Rain.

I’d like to say “hi” to the security that looked exactly James Tolkan (the principal from Back To The Future)

I’d also like to thank the hot girl behind me that was pulling on my GN’R beanie hat and she was also pulling on some other things haha…she was very drunk and I’m just saying “Hi” if you’re out there.

There was also some German chicks – 3 or 4 – one of them took pictures through the whole show and didn’t get kicked out. They did check us in line but it wasn’t very hard or anything – you could have still snuck a camera or recording device in very easily.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE: TO BLACKVELVET – ROBIN FINCK SPIT ON MY FACE!!! EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!! HAHAHA!!!