Critics say setlist way too similar to last years

Before you draw any conclusion (or borrow someone else's), mabye you'd like to take a look at the comparison chart below and read my analysis.

Recent concert Setlist comparison chart
Las Vegas Dec 31st 2001	Las Vegas Dec 29th 2001	Rock In Rio III Jan 2001
Animated Intro	Animated Intro	Animated Intro
Welcome To The Jungle	Welcome To The Jungle	Welcome To The Jungle
It's So Easy	It's So Easy	It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone	Mr. Brownstone	Mr. Brownstone
Live And Let Die	Live And Let Die	Live And Let Die
Oh My God	Buckethead Guitar Solo	Oh My God
My Michelle	Oh My God	Think About You
Think About You	Think About You	You Could Be Mine
You Could Be Mine	Sweet Child O' Mine	Sossego
Sweet Child O' Mine	Knocking On Heavens Door	Sweet Child O' Mine
Knocking On Heavens Door	Madagascar	Knocking On Heavens Door
November Rain	November Rain (with piano intro)	Madagascar / Buckethead Solo 1
Out To Get Me	Out To Get Me	November Rain
Rhiad & the Bedovins	Rocket Queen	Out To Get Me
Chinese Democracy	Chinese Democracy	Rocket Queen
Rocket Queen	The Blues	Chicken Binge
Patience	Patience	Chinese Democracy
The Blues	My Michelle	The Blues
Nightrain	Silk Worms	Patience
Silkworms	Paradise City	Nightrain / Guitar Solo
Paradice City		My Michelle
		Silkworms
		Drum Solo
		Paradise City

At first, the setlist does look a bit similar. But after some thaught here's my quick personal analysis:

1) When you think about it, GNR concerts have almost always begun with the "It's so Eazy - Mr. Brownstone - Live And Let Die" combination. No superise here. Nobody ever complained about that in the past tours, in fact most people seemed to like it. I wouldn't want it ANY other way!

2) The (I was going to say recent.. hehe) addition of "Welcome To The Jungle" in first position dates back to the 1993 tour. What a great way to begin a concert! It just totally sets the mood! Just checkout theese people at Rock In Rio going nuts!. Plus I rather hear it in first position instead of 18th, this way Axl can sing it better in first position than in 18th position (ie. Indianapolis 1991, hikes!).

3) Next is a mix of classic hits such as "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Knocking On Heaven's Door" and "November Rain" and some new songs like "Oh My God" (Oh, this song just rocks live! I hope no future GNR concert will go without it), "Madagascar", and "Chinese Democracy".

4) Nightrain: Yep, looks like they've dropped it for the 29th concert. If GNR had played as many songs as in Rio, I would have stold myself that sometimes the band has to "make difficult choices" as to which songs to play. But it's not the case, so I'll agree with all those who think that "Nightrain" should have been up there.

5) Last but not least: "Paradice City". What a great way to end a concert. I think it's now a trademark for GNR to end the concert with "Paradice City". Would you expect anything else? No! Trust me this is what you want! Most GNR concerts that don't end with "Paradice City" are the ones that, humm, well, we won't get into that, well, ok, we'll just be polite and say the ones that ended abruptly.

6) In my opinion the setlist is O.K. and totally rocks. I'll run a comparison chart for the 31st concert, but it wouldn't be fair at all to criticize GNR if the setlist where exactly the same.

Everyone is welcome to share their opinion about the setlist in the messageboard or MYNRFORUM.