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SET LIST

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Welcome To The Jungle It's So Easy Mr. Brownstone Live And Let Die Oh My God My Michelle Think About You You Could Be Mine Knockin' On Heavens Door November Rain Out Ta Get Me Rocket Queen Rhiyadh And The Bedouins Chinese Democracy The Blues Nightrain Chicken Binge (Buckethead) Silk Worms Paradise City

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ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT

W. Axl Rose in
It's A Sorta Kinda Wonderful Life

[pissing noise]

Axl: Oh, hi! Didn't hear you come in. Sorry I can't be with you tonight. (note from chindem: I don't quite know what he says here...)The electromagnetic rays.

[spacy noise]

Axl (screams at a young male servant): Boy! Where's my f-ucking bed pan?

[DING]--this is the noise of Axl taking a dump in the bedpan.

Axl: Nothing like a nice cold bedpan to start your day.

Female voice speaking through an intercom: Mr. Rose, your (?) nurse is here.

[sound of a soda can being opened]

Axl: Just for the taste of it...Diet Coke.

[sound of magazine pages being ripped and wadded up]

Axl: Well, Happy New Year! (coughs) Enjoy the millennium and hope to see you soon, boys and girls. But right now Uncle Axl has a date with cleanliness and we all know that cleanliness is next to...well, you get the picture. So take care, enjoy the show...I think I s-hit myself.

[spacy noise]

Thanks to Chindem for transcribing.

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AXL: I have traversed a treacherous sea of horrors to be with you tonight.

AXL: Like to introduce a couple of people now....Someone who's worked VERY hard to be here and through all the opposition and worked VERY HARD with the former band to try to help thing's work out.....And has worked solidly,....basically every single day for the last seven year's to try to help me have a GODDAMN BAND......The original guitar player....that I worked with...that I met when I was twelve year's old, and we'd argue about who's cooler: Led Zeppelin, Queen, Kiss or Aerosmith......Ladies and gentlemen this is Mr. Paul Huge... PHT.....The question..."WHO THE FUCK IS PAUL" and "what's he look like"....Well, now you all know...And you can write home to everyone how it just doesn't work and it's not, ...it's just sucks...(laughs)

AXL: Good morning I just woke up,...I'v been taking a nap for about eight years.

AXL: This next song is something new....Right before I came here, when I left L.A....The movie Kundun was on about the Dalai Lama. I kinda liked the idea that we were playing the House of Blues, as it's kinda associated with that......That came about, I was at the House of Blues in Chicago when Vegas called me..."Do you wanna do a warm up gig at the House of Blues"..SURE..So you know I was getting ready to leave, and the TV was on..and it was the end of the movie.....The Dalai Lama was about to cross over the border to be in exile for the rest of his life from his own country.....And he looks back at the men who helped him escape the Chinese government....And he looks back at them, and he waves, and they wave at him.....Then they show a scene where he looks back at them again and he sees every one of them dead....... Because he knew that they would be killed. They knew in helping him they would be killed...and ahh...The emotion in this next song...that's all that's about..It's not like an intelligent song..it doesn't have the answers to anything..But it's the title track of the record...Which God willing we will finish....(laughs).....And it's not necessarily pro or con about China. It's just that China symbolizes one of the strongest, yet most oppressive countries and government's in the world.....And we are fortunate to live in a free country....And so in thinking about that, it just kind of upset me,...so we wrotd this little song called "Chinese Democracy".

AXL: So Thursday night was the first night I ever, like, sang a set with these guys...It was the first time I've sang a set in eight years..I've had a little bit of emotional problems doing the old stuff. I've had to work through it....I don't know..I was a little worried....There was a rehersal...Then we had some kind of a set list....Then I actually went to sound check...that's....that's a first for all three of those in fifteen years. I was afraid I may jinx the show. You know like basball players wearing different sock's or something. I could fuck thing's up....Alright got some acoustic guitars....So people were on crack...Say what (crowd chants "WELCOME BACK")....Thank you....(crowd: wooooo) .....Now you're embarrassing me.

AXL: I appreciate you all comming to our open rehearsals.