Guns N' Roses June 9, 2018 Donington Park Castle Donington, England Not in This Lifetime European Tour 2018 Download Festival
01 Intro 02 Its so easy 03 Mr Brownstone 04 Chinese democracy 05 Welcome to the Jungle 06 Double Talkin Jive 07 Better 08 Estranged 09 Live and Let Die 10 Slither 11 Rocket Queen 12 You Could be Mine 13 You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory 14 Attitude 15 This I Love 16 Shadow of your Love 17 Civil War 18 Band introductions 19 Guitar solo and blues jam 20 Godfather theme 21 Sweet Child O'Mine 22 Coma 23 Wichita Lineman 24 Wish You Were Here 25 Layla 26 November Rain 27 Black Hole Sun 28 Knockin on Heavens Door 29 Nightrain 30 Patience 31 The Seeker 32 Paradise City
I positioned myself underneath one of the speaker stacks that was alongside the sound and lighting tower in the venue.
The weather and conditions at this years festival were pretty good for a change too, but there is some phasing due to the wind, which I guess is to be expected seeing as I'm basically standing in a field.
I've no problem with a band playing a long set, but not when its full of songs that frankly I don't want to hear them play. I usually edit out any chat between songs but at the end of Nightrain me and my mate are discussing how self indulgent it is and how they lost the crowd too, in particular after Sweet Child O'Mine I think. Overall they could have cut out 6 covers and some of the extended solos and made the set more streamlined and interesting or, heaven forbid, play some of their own songs in place of the covers.
I haven't got round to this for a while because I had an issue in one channel which could be a problem with these mics or it could be that I didn't take my battery box. I've fixed it as best I can and its not too bad but I've never really been happy with it overall and thats been my love hate relationship with taping at the Download Festival in general because its so hard to get a decent recording if the weather isn't on your side. There is some crowd noise at times with people talking around me during the quieter parts.
3 CDs AndyLGR Audience AndyLGR CA-11 omnis > Edirol R-09 WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Split using CD Wave editor > WAV to FLAC (Traders little helper) FLAC A-
