Guns N' Roses
Hammerstein Ballroom - New York, NY
May 12th, 2006 (First of four warm up shows)
Attendance: 3.800 +/- [Sold Out]
W. Axl Rose [vocals, piano]
Robin Finck | Richard Fortus | Bumblefoot [guitars]
Tommy Stinson [bass]
Dizzy Reed [keyboards, piano, percussion]
Chris Pitman [keyboards, SFX]
Brain [drums]
Source: DV Clone > PC > 2 DVDR (Audio DV Avi > LPCM 2.0 1536 Kbps) [GNROSAS] > ImToo DVD Audio Ripper 4.0.40 build-0217 > WAV 1411 kbps [Audio codec: pcm_s16le, sample rate: 44100, channels: 2 (Stereo)] > Audacity 1.2.4 (to split into tracks, fade out added on Track09-Disc02) > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 etree edition > FLAC [Level 8] > Audacity for Re-Track and Edits > xACT for SBE fix [JIMBEAM]
Tracklist:
01 Intro
02 Welcome To The Jungle
03 It's So Easy
04 Mr. Brownstone
05 Better
06 Live And Let Die
07 Robin Fink Guitar Solo #1
08 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
09 Madagascar
10 Axl New York City Rant
11 Band Introductions
12 You Could Be Mine
13 Dizzy Reed Piano Solo
14 The Blues
15 Out Ta Get Me
16 Bumblefoot Guitar Solo #1
17 November Rain
18 My Michelle (feat. Sebastian Bach)
19 Chinese Democracy
20 There Was A Time
21 Patience
22 I.R.S.
23 Bumblefoot Guitar Solo #2
24 Nightrain
25 Encore Break
26 Robin Fink Guitar Solo #2
27 Paradise City
[JIMBEAM] RE-TRACK Notes:
This is a re-tracked edition of the [Estebanf] 2006-05-12 Hammerstein audio that exists as part of the 2006 All Shows torrent. I made no edits to sound volume or anything like that. I just re-tracked the songs. The original text file is included in this torrent, I have renamed it to "Info-original [estebanf].txt"
On the original files there seemed to be a blip between Chinese Democracy and TWAT. It's right as Axl responds to Tommy's 'I'm having a really good fucking time, are you?' and Axl goes 'You have no idea how much, you know wh-' then it blips to TWAT. I made no changes to these files other than the track tags. On the NYCBITCH dvd there is no cut on the audio, but it's 192 CBR. I am downloading the GNROSAS DVD and will compare to these FLACs, but I assume this is a problem with the GNROSAS copy. If I can get a better rip of the GNROSAS DVD myself, I will do so at a later point. No music is lost in the blip, so it's not a HUGE deal.
I chose to leave the intro to November Rain attached and not even call it a "piano solo" - it's just under 30 seconds long and really just a NR intro and not a solo.
The Bumblefoot intro to Nightrain, at the end of his 2nd solo, was a tough call to make. I decided to leave it attached to the start of the song for two reasons. 1) There seems to be a slight blip, or duplication, of guitar noise at the end of Bumble's solo track and the start of the Nightrain track. This was not due to my re-cutting the solo from the end of IRS, but was an original sound on the start of Nightrain. 2) Bumble is the FUCKING MAN! The entire band is extremely under appreciated during this whole show and this was BF's first gig. We'd be lucky to hear a little improv like that during these 2012 shows!
I cleaned up a slight double drop-out of silence in Robin's feedback toward the tail-end of the Encore Break before his 2nd solo.
I forget who did this great album art, but I've had it since these shows first surfaced. Thanks!