Guns N' Roses: (10:12-12:20)

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Axl: University of North Dakota white Sioux jersey, black nylon pants, white tennis shoes. For November Rain Axl switched to a green North Dakota State University Bison jersey. It had yellow writing, word "Bison" on it. For those of you who don't know, UND and NDSU have a long-standing rivalry. And Axl showed up supporting them both. It was great.

Buckethead: Black shirt, with a black cape. Khakis for pants.

Robin Finck: Black jumpsuit. He started out with his hair tightly tied up. For LALD, he wore a black motorcycle helmet and black sunglasses. After LALD, he put his hair down. Finck would put his hair back up for Rocket Queen, and the rest of the show.

Tommy Stinson: Plad blue suit. Light blue with dark blue big stripes and thin red stripes. Tommy would lose the coat at the band introductions.

Dizzy Reed: The same shirt as at the VMA's, with black leather pants.

Brain: Black shirt, black backwards baseball hat, and shorts.

Chris Pitman: Black pants, blue jean coat, and white shirt, with a black winter hat. Maybe he was cold.

Richard Fortus: Blue and white striped jeans, white shirt with a red skull and cross bones, with a black mesh shirt over it.

Stage Setup As the audience looks at it, their angles. There are 8 long vertical banners with three pairs of Chinese writing on them a piece. Brain's Drum kit is elevated. To the left of him is Dizzy, with bongos, synthesizer, piano, and microphone. Opposite Dizzy, to the right of Brain, is Pitman. He has three different types of piano/synthesizers and a microphone. From left to right on the main stage, is where Buckethead, Fortus, Stinson, and Finck usually are. And of course, Axl is all over the place. Axl had a telemprompter on the left side of the stage.

Setlist and highlights

Welcome To The Jungle (Sparks)

It's So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

Axl said: "So, look at all these front rowers. We'd like to thank you all for coming out tonight, all that's been said, I'd say you have the right to be skeptical.

Live And Let Die (Pyro)

Think About You

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Axl had microphone problems until the first verse. He couldn't hit high notes especially. The second verse had cool synth in it.)

Now this is surprising, Axl said: "This is a song Dizzy wrote about his girlfriend Angela" I was expecting something new, or maybe even Silk Worms, and then the play:

You Could Be Mine (Pyro. There were shots of a KFC in china with people on bikes and in cars. It was sped up.)

Someone tried to take a picture, and Axl said: "I'm sorry.I apologize.I apologize.I should have stood still." Then he changed the subject when he said this: "You can't tell people what you mean, because they already know what you feel on the inside of you." Then he said something I didn't understand, and mentioned Slash, whom the whole schpiel may have been about. Then Axl said: "Ladies and Gentlemen.Mr. Robin Finck"

Sweet Child O' Mine (Buckethead left stage before the guitar solo.) A fat sheriff came on the video screens. He had a nightstick and was chewing tobacco.

Out Ta Get Me (Pyro)

Axl talked about how "A couple of individuals need to correct the lighting gear."

Band Introductions, in this order: Finck, "Thomas Veenideen Stinson," as Axl so eloquently put it, Pitman, Dizzy, Fortus "bang for your bucks," Brain (who when introduced took a bite out of a big green apple and a banana), and then Axl said: "Long ago aliens left it to itself.in a chicken coop.ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Buckethead"

Buckethead nunchucka, robot dance, Solo/Star Wars Theme/The Empire Strikes Back/A Pirate's Life For Me (APLFM keeps playing, pre-recorded, as BH goes to get a Target bag. He throws out gifts to the crowd.)

After BH was done, Axl said: "Now wasn't that fun boys and girls.now thank Uncle Axl for bringing it along."

Piano Solo, which included a beautiful piano part. It flows much too well to not be a new song.

November Rain (No Buckethead. After awhile, he came back, tried to play his guitar, but no sound came. He got pissed, threw it down, and walked offstage.) Finck had exactly the same guitar in this song as Slash used in the video. Talk about "replacements." The second half of the song had spark showers.

Then Axl said: "Before we get into this song, we actually have a.how 'bout a lil' intro?"
The band jammed. It was fucking awesome.

Rocket Queen

Start Madagascar, then stop quickly. Axl asked "Are we okay?" Then they went back into the song.

Madagascar (With the same beautiful images. Spark shower.and it was Pitman who sang the background vocals) Then Axl said: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Dizzy Reed."

The Blues Axl said: "I guess this might be people's bedtime. I see some people falling asleep.tsk tsk tsk.let's see.where are we? Give me some marshmallows."

Chinese Democracy (Pyro) Axl said afterwards: "Well.we do hope to see you again. We hope you see us again.and if you tell a friend and they tell a friend and they tell a friend and they tell a friend and they tell a friend."

Patience (Tommy laid down on his back for part of the song, which was real cool. Fortus and BH had acoustic guitars, Finck played the solo with the electric.)

My Michelle

Nightrain

Encore: Finck Solo/Paradise City (American flag on screen at beginning of PC. Pyro, spark shower, and confetti everywhere.)

Well that's it. Nothing new new. It was an excellent show, and Axl was perfect the entire night. I was twelve rows back from him, on the right side of the stage, so I saw Finck most of the night. It was an incredible show. I 'm not sure if this is a band or some lumbering juggernaut that has yet to be awaken. Attendance was between 5500-6500.

Thanks to gan7676 and Ravi of the Dust n Bones M/L

Well I unexpectedly got home a little early today so I thought I'd give my review from last night's GNR show in Fargo.

When we got there I don't know how you people sneak shit in because there were metal detectors and pat downs. The only place that you could maybe hide something was probably under a hat. We got to our seats and watched CKY and mixmaster Mike. Just a word of advice. They weren't bad both of them but you aren't missing anything at all by showing up late so that's probably best if you do so.

This was my first GNR concert by the way so when the lights went out and the opening riff from Jungle came on. Wow I can't tell you how excited I was. The feeling was unreal and something that I will never forget.

The stage set up was pretty cool I thought. There was some room for Axl to do some running around which he certainly did. And they had screens on both sides of the stage to show clips and live footage of the band. But the COOLEST thing was definitely the matrix style cameras they had set up front. Just an example of what that was like, the screen would show Axl jumping in the air, then at mid point he'd freeze and it look like the camera would zoom around him back and forth. Very cool.

Saw Axl's bodyguard and I asked him if it was indeed him. His reply (jokingly) "No. I'm a tennis player."

Also saw on the guys from Jackass. The party guy one where he dances in thongs in stores. That guy... don't know his name.

Axl wore a white North Dakota jersey for the first half of the show with leather pants and white shoes. At November Rain he switched to a Bisons jersey.

Buckethead was wearing his regular clothes and cape.

Finck had a black space suit.

Tommy was wearing a blue plad suit. Took the jacket off after and was wearing a muscle shirt with suspenders.

Dizzy looked like Dizzy, Brain looked like brain and Pittman looked like Oscar the grouch with his long hair flowing out of his tuque and jean jacket.

Musically the show was great. Wow I can't believe even I had my doubts about this band. They were smoking all night. The one person I now think is totally awesome is Mr. Robin Finck. This guy kicked ass!!! He's number one in my books now. Buckethead was pretty cool too.

The band seemed to play a slower version of YCBM. Did anyone else catch this? I thought the best performances of the night were Chinese Democracy, November Rain and Nightrain. I didn't even like CD very much but hearing that sone live was totally killer. New fave song. Before Rocket Queen Axl said they were laying down the funk... or something like that. When the started I thought it was a new song because Axl let out a little wail. I was shocked but I guess it turned out to be a jam session before Rocket Queen. Every song was great IMO and Axl was in pretty good spirits all night.

Axl comments! After Brownstone he said the fans have a right to be skeptical about the new band but they will impress.

For a moment after the blues I thought they were getting the plug pulled on them because he said it was running late and they will be back soon with a whole bunch of new songs. Then he said it's time to roast marshmallows and weiners but he doesn't hope that his weiner got roasted for being on late.

During band intros, the cameramen had trouble finding Chris Pittman and Axl said come on it's not very hard!

And Axl wasn't too impressed how someone threw beer into the lighting but it was taken care of.

Axl asked the crowd if they wanted him to stand still. Crowd was shouting now then started talking about the crowd being psychic. I lost him there.

The crowd was not bad and slowed down after a while but I never once heard a slash comment or these guys suck. Crowd seemed to eat up the new band very much.

Don't miss GNR if they come to your turn. The only question I have now is when can I see them again! Bye bye I'm a little tired from no sleep. Sorry that it seems a bit rushed.