It would be easy to call Guns N’ Roses’ appearance Tuesday night at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City a no-frills show, except for, you know, the multiple video screens, the pyro, the show-ending confetti … the fact that they employ two keyboardists.
So, all right then, it wasn’t as austere as a nunnery. It is rock ’n’ roll, after all. But that was the point in this latest installment of GNR’s now-years-long “Not in This Lifetime Tour” — all those accoutrements were, if not wholly unnecessary, at least relegated to the periphery where they belong.