[AndyLGR]


2018-06-09 Download Festival, Donington Park, Donington, England [AndyLGR]

Guns N' Roses
Main stage
Download Festival
Donington Park, Castle Donington, England
9th June 2018

Tracklisting:

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
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30 Patience
31 The Seeker
32 Paradise City

CA-11 omnis > Edirol R-09

Edited in Adobe Audition 3.0 > Split using CD Wave editor > WAV to FLAC using traders little helper.

Recorded by me on the second day of the Download Festival.

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.

I've attached samples in the first post of this thread so please be sure to check it out before downloading.

Please respect my wishes and don't convert to lossy formats.

AndyLGR