2021.09.23 - Schottenstein Center, Columbus, OH, USA

by **Soulmonster** Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:50 am

September 23, 2021
Schottenstein Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Setlist:
01. It's So Easy
02. Mr. Brownstone
03. Chinese Democracy
04. Slither
05. Double Talkin' Jive
Link Wray's "Rumble" intro
06. Welcome to the Jungle
07. Better
08. Estranged
09. Live And Let Die
10. You're Crazy
11. Rocket Queen
12. Shadow Of Your Love
13. You Could Be Mine
14. I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
15. Absurd
16. Civil War
Slash Guitar Solo (You Gotta Move/Mannish Boy Jam)
17. Sweet Child O' Mine
18. November Rain
19. Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell cover)
20. Patience
21. Coma
Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" intro
22. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
23. Nightrain
Encore
24. Madagascar
25. Don't Cry
26. The Seeker
27. Paradise City

Date:
September 23, 2021.

Venue:
Schottenstein Center

Location:
Columbus, OH, USA.

Line-up:
Axl Rose: Vocals and piano
Slash: Lead and rhythm guitar, and backing vocals
Richard Fortus: Rhythm and lead guitar, and backing vocals
Duff McKagan: Bass and backing vocals
Dizzy Reed: Piano and backing vocals
Frank Ferrer: Drums
Melissa Reese: Keyboard and backing vocals

Poster:
(Artist: Scott Sandler)

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by **Blackstar** Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:27 am

by **Blackstar** Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:35 am

No live debut or release announcement of Hard Skool (but it's been released everywhere now) Doh!

But long show with Coma and Shadow Of Your Love added.

by **Soulmonster** Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:56 am

I'm a bit surprised they didn't play Hard Skool tonight. Oh well, four more opportunities in 2021.

by **Soulmonster** Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:23 am

Seems like Axl's got the timing issues fixed: https://www.facebook.com/kristie.miyamoto/videos/623510235307870/

by ludurigan Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:03 pm

Blackstar wrote:No live debut or release announcement of Hard Skool (but it's been released everywhere now)

But long show with Coma and Shadow Of Your Love added.

Slash: Hey Ax, look!
Axl: What?
Slash: Everybody likes our... huh... Everybody likes your song man! We did... huh... You did it! See? Let's celebrate and play it...
Axl: Yeah, but there is this fucking journalist in New Zealand and I just read his review and he is saying that...
Slash: Fuck that, man!
Axl: No, look, this New Zealand fucking asshole has said that...
Slash: Never mind that man... Look, we are good for tonight, right?
Axl: Good for what?
Slash: To play the song man!
Axl: No! No! I don't think that this is a good time...
Slash: Look Ax, we have been rehearsing this shit for weeks now, this is all we have been doing at soundchecks...
Axl: I know, it is just that I am so pissed there with this New Zealand fucking pseudo journalist and I want to...
Slash: Look man who cares about that? There is this other guy who wrote a bad review on Kerrang too, who cares about that shit?
Axl: What? On Kerrang?
Slash: Yeah they don't even exist anymore, they are just a website now... and who fucking cares...
Axl: Who wrote it? What did he say? Is it Mick Wall? Is is Mick Wall under a pen name?
Slash: Look Ax, let's just fucking play the song man. You are Axl Rose from Guns n' Roses!
Axl: Fuck! This must have been written by a kid who wasn't even born when I fucking started and I am gonna call Fernando and tell him to...
Slash: Hey! Hey! Snap out of it man!
Axl: Just call Fernando and ask him to write a...
Slash: Hey Ax, here, look! Look! Here! Just take a look at this photo Meegan just sent me!
[Axl pauses]
Slash: Four kids with Hardskool t-shirts man! Right in front of the stage, take a fucking look!
Axl: What?
Slash: Look! Here! These fucking kids printed fucking t-shirts with the name of your fucking song on it man!
Axl: Wow, really?
Slash: Fuck yeah! Here, look!
Axl: Hey that is so cool... Wow... That makes me so...
Slash: See? I told you, they love you, you are Axl Rose, now let's just play the fucking song and give these fucking kids what they...
Axl: What is this shit?
Slash: What?
Axl: This... Here... Look! This fucker... Nando, come here now!
Slash: What is wrong man?
Axl: This fucking asshole on the photo, look!
Slash: What man? I don't see shit...
Axl: Here, look! This bald fucking asshole here on the left... see?
Slash: Oh...
Axl: This fucking asshole has the fucking nerve to come to my fucking show with a fucking "Where is Izzy" t-shirt... To my fucking show!
Slash: Who cares about Izzy man? Fuck Izzy! We got rid of him already! It is just us now Ax, just you, you know? We have been through all this... it is all good now man...
Axl: Shiiiit!!!
Slash: Look Ax, let's just play the fucking song, right?
Axl: No
Slash: Come on
Axl: No
Slash: Please
Axl: No, not tonight
Slash: Ow fuck man...
Axl: Sorry
Slash: Fuck
Axl: Sorry, I know you want to play it
Slash: Yeah
Axl: Can we do Coma instead?
Slash: You said you hate it
Axl: Yeah, I do, but I know you want to play it
Slash: Oh, ok I can accept that
Axl: So we are good, let's do Coma... for these shows
Slash: Huh.. ok...
Axl: OK, we are good
Slash: Right. See you up there man...
Axl: Sure, it's 30 minutes and we are on.
[Slash leaves]
Axl: Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaando! Call the New Zealand office. Now!