This was compiled by: John M from the GNR list. GN'R played many intros to songs, as well as parts of songs in between Their own songs. Here is a partial list: Sweet Child O' Mine - -Bad Time (originally by Grand Funk Railroad) - -Sail Away Sweet Sister (originally by Queen) - -The One (originally by Elton John) - -Since I Don't Have you (originally by The Skyliners) - -One (originally by U2 - Axl sang this in Dublin 5.16.92) - -Fallen Angel (Axl sang this in Buffalo 7.25.92, I don't know who it is by) Knockin' On Heaven's Door - -Only Women Bleed - -Hotel California (a few times in early '92) November Rain - -It's All Right (originally by Black Sabbath) - -Dust In The Wind (originally by Todd Rundgren) - -And a song I don't know the name of, but Axl played it at the Australia '93 shows) - -Axl also played an instrumental piano solo before November Rain Paradise City - -Mother (originally by Pink Floyd) - -Since I Don't Have You (odd intro at New Haven 3.6.93) Patience - -I Was Only Joking (Izzy played this when he was in the band, originally by Rod Stewart) - -Wild Horses (Gilby played this when he joined the band) - -Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (commonly played in the summer of '92) - -Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Gilby played this into at Sydney '93) - -Imagine (not an intro, but Slash would play the instrumental in the middle of Patience during the Skin & Bones tour in '93. Axl sang the vocals a few times.) - -Pinball Wizard (again, not an intro but Slash would play the instrumental in the middle of Patience) Civil War - -Voodoo Child (Slash played this awesome Hendrix tune at the beginning & end of Civil War throughout the UYI tour.) Just to add, the band (UNFORTUNATELY without AXL) played "let it be" by the Beatles in the last show of the UYI tour in Buenos Aires,Argentina July.1993. The following is compiled by: Peter Andersson from the GNR list! - -------------------------------- War of the Roses - -------------------------------- This is the whole story and all true scandals - -------------------------------- It said somewhere that Guns N' Roses is the hard rock group that even the parents adore. That's when you can call yourself a stadium rocker. Think if Axl, Slash and the others had heard that when they formed almost ten years ago. Guns N' Roses has gone a long way from playing a furious, definitely not parent-friendly, form of hard rock at Los Angeles small clubs, to the sometimes magnificent compositions performed at giant-stadiums. - -------------------------------- FORMING: In Hollywood, USA 1985. The original members were Axl Rose, Saul "Slash" Hudson, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and Izzy Stradlin, or Jeff Isabelle which his real name were. THE NAME: Were mixed from two earlier Hollywood bands, LA Guns and Hollywood Roses. THE SUFFERING ARTISTS: The group lived together in an apartment, described by Izzy as "A fucking living hell". No record company wanted to stake them, so in 1986 Guns N' Roses released the EP "Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide" on their own label "Uzi Suicide". The record sold 10.000 copies in four weeks. The major company Geffen (who also signed Nirvana) smelled success and a couple of months later Guns N' Roses suddenly had a record deal. THE BREAKTHRU: The first record for Geffen, "Appetite for Destruction" came in 1987, but in spite of tours with great bands such as Aerosmith, The Cult, Iron Maiden, and Alice Cooper it took almost a year before "Appetite..." started selling. "Sweet Child O' Mine" reached #1 in USA and Guns N' Roses is ever since then one of the world's absolutely biggest rock band - all categories. By their original image as worker-class guys with furious attitude is not much left when they with the jetset sign in their forehead performs at giant-stadiums like Stockholm's Stadium and compose great ballads with choirs, keyboards and strings. Evil tongues say that Axl came out of the closet and disclosed himself as a symphony-rocker (Axl loves Queen) or they just establish megalomania. Anyway, as told the parents nowadays adore them. "EASY RIDERS" -or? After "Appetite..." only two full-length album has been released "Use Your Illusion I and II", which came out in 1991. On the other hand Guns have toured for two years. May 9th in Wisconsin, USA, was the day when the tour that tomorrow reaches Stockholm's Stadium (with Izzy Stradlin' replacer Gilby Clarke and Dizzy Reed on keyboards). But they have done a lot of other things too. - -------------------------------- The Scandals! - -------------------------------- 1987 *Steven Adler, the drummer that due to his drug-problem nowadays is replaced by (earlier) Cult drummer Matt Sorum, breaks his hand in a bar-fight and are replaced by Fred Coury from Cinderella. 1988 *Axl Rose misses a gig in Arizona and the band decides to fire him. But he's back three months later. They do a concert in Sydney, Australia and when they do Mr Brownstone (deals with heroin) the Australian police thinks that Axl is encouraging the audience to use drugs. They issue an arrestment-order for Rose, but the band gets away to New Zealand. 1989 *Izzy Stradlin and Motley Crue's Vince Neil starts to fight at the MTV awards because Neil is maintaining that Stradlin was hitting on Neil's wife. *Rolling Stones plays at a giant-arena in Los Angeles and Guns N' Roses opens the show. Several of the members are so high that it turns into a catastrof. Axl shouts from stage that it is the last time the band is ever gonna play together (Slash gave up drugs after this concert). 1990 *Izzy Stradlin is arrested for urinating in an ashtray on an airplane. *Axl marries Erin Everly (daughter of the Everly Brother's Done Everly). Two days later Erin requests for divorce. She maintains that Axl's been maltreating her. (Axl in analysis two years later: "I cry every time I think of how horrible we treated each other. Erin and I treated each other like shit. Sometimes we treated each other great, because the children in us were best friends. But then there were other times when we ruined each other's life completely.") *Steven's fired in August due to his drug-problem *Axl is arrested again since he tried to hit down a neighbor with a wine bottle. 1991 *In St Louis, USA, Axl decides to go off the stage. The audience goes crazy, riot breaks out. 60 people are taken to hospital and equipment for 1.2 million dollars are destroyed. *In Helsinki, Axl leaves the stage ones again. After a moment of persuasion he returns and does the gig I wrote the article by hand from the paper, but I saved the picture. It's an old one where Axl has a cowboy hat & a shirt w/ the cover of Zeppelin's first album, Slash wears a Damned shirt. Too bad it's now in a very bad condition. The article was published in AFTONBLADET June 10th 1993 Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 16:52:28 +0200 From: "Peter Andersson" Subject: [GNR] article #2 (Slash has grown tired of the superdiva Axl >From Aftonbladet, beginning of february 1995 Slash has grown tired of the superdiva Axl - ------------------------ Guns N' Roses guitarist takes vacation and enjoys being solo - ------------------------ Slash has taken a vacation from the circus known as Guns N' Roses. Now it's the hobbyband Snakepit he's devoted to. -Axl thinks that Guns N' Roses is his soloproject he says and snorts. No, he don't wanna talk about Guns N' Roses being history. But if you read between the lines there's no doubt that Saul "Slash" Hudson is beginning to get more then tired of the superdiva Axl. So tired that he now intensivly enjoys to devote himself to the side-project Snakepit. A hobbyband that he put together with amongst others Eric Dover from Jellyfish. - Incredibly nice not to be part of a highprofile band like Guns. To be able to do something without needing to care about that everything must look cool. It's a vacation. And fun. Q Funnier then Guns N' Roses? -Guns is fun too, but it's more like an institution today. Yes, I can actually not describe it in any other way. Q Okey, you and Axl are grown up men, why are you always arguing? -We've always had separate opinions and will always have. But as long as we can record a good Guns-record we are a band. At the moment there seems to be a fucking confusion about what "a good Guns-record" is. Q Is there going to be a new record? -We are going to meet in August after we've toured with Snakepit. Then we'll see what happens. We've been jamming a little, but there are no actual songs. Q You, Duff McKagan, Gilby Clarke... The most in the band have done records outside guns. Isn't Axl gonna do a solorecord soon? - Well, Axl thinks Guns is his soloproject. Q Okey, you have a lot of chains and rings everywhere. Are you a piercingfreak? - Well. I've pierced the nose and the navel, but nothing more. I don't have a bolt through my dick if someone thought so. - One problem with these stuff is that the alarm always starts at the securitycheck on airports. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The article was written by Ronny Olovsson Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:31:56 +0200 From: "Peter Andersson" Subject: [GNR] article#3 (Duffs solodebut "Believe In Me") - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To send messages to the list, use this address: gnr@lists.arocknid.com See the end of this message for (un)subscription details. Thanks! - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duff's solo-debut "Believe In Me" - ---------------------------- To keep self-possession when the circus Guns N' Roses started spinning faster and faster and numbers of audiences, millions of dollars and record-sells that earlier had been inconceivable had become ordinary life, Duff McKagan decided to go in therapy. The result became his very autobiographic soloalbum "Believe In Me". - ---------------------------- It wasn't any problem for the multi- instrumentalist Duff McKagan or the one-man orchestra as he also have been called. Drums, bass, acoustic- and electric guitar - soon had he on his own recorded "The Majority", one of many songs he had recorded as demos at home. Later that night Lenny Kravitz came, a friend that had heard the demo a lot of times before, and offered himself to do the vocals. The idea behind doing a solorecord started to take form in Duff's head. He should write and play the most, with certain friends invited as guest-artists. The only problem was time, Guns were urged by the record-company to release some new material. And then came the world's longest rock-tour on 28 months, i.e. 192 concerts in 28 countries. Duff solved the problem by spending as good as every time off by writing songs at hotel-rooms or recording in studios in Los Angeles, London, Dallas, Seattle and Denver. -When I'm in a hotel I can't go anywhere, since I'm surrounded by thousands of fans. The recordings have taken part in lonely places, hard places, after gigs, anywhere and anytime. The uncertaincy had a certain charm that made the record cool and real, Duff thinks. He considers that "Believe In Me" that the soloalbum's called is very different from what Guns does. -You can't compare my record with any of that Guns N' Roses and pretend that they are from the same source. To campare with Guns slow way of recording many of Duff's songs were in one day, for example the title-song, and even in one take, as "(Fucked Up) Beyond Belief". -Because I was forced to. And also that I could. I didn't need to hire someone else. I didn't need to wait for any singer. It was only for me to do it. You can easily notice that Duff is beginning to grow tired of Guns N' Roses way to circumstantial way of doing records, and that he therefore prefers the spontanous way that his own record were made in. -I didn't do this record to boast with what I can play. I love the early Prince-albums were he played everything by himself. I didn't do it to surprise people either - although it would be nice if they were. One of the most unexpected elements on "Believe In Me" is the song "Fuck You", a furious combination of rap and rock. -I have many friends that are rappers, Duff tells. The Guys that were in NWA, like Ice Cube, and the guys in Body Count. We used to barberque with each other. The raw attitude on "Believe In Me" reflects a period of Duff's life with very much loneliness, pain and longing. -When there's no one special and you're alone and everything a person of the other sex wants from you is money and stardom, where do you go then? The record is about my feelings, what I've gone thru during a very self-centred period . It's nothing made up, it's the truth. But it's not a depressing album. In spite of everything I've kept on the positive side. Every song ends in an optimistal intonation where I say "I'm okay, so fuck you!" - I'm happy that I can carry all these feelings and getting rid of them in this way. Otherwise I might have becomed like Ted Bundy. He's from Seattle just like I am. I knew him when we grew up. Some people's thougths drive them to kill, others write poetry, I rock! And not just on record, but on his own tour. After a short vacation in Hawaii he formed the band DUFF, where Teddy Andreadis, Guns N' Roses second keyboardist, the guitarist Joie Mastrokalos ("One of my best friends since 12 years, says Duff) and the drummer Aaron Brooks from the LA-band Circle Of Soul are members. The tour started the first of October in Europe and reaches Stockhom the 19th this month, when DUFF are opening for Scorpions in the Globe Arena. I think the article is from the paper "Okej". Don't know when, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GNR Songs Never Played Live: Return-Path: Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:31:15 -0700 From: Breakdown To: Ravi Subject: Re: [GNR] songs never played.. References: <3.0.32.19980710000537.007acba0@pop.ben2.ucla.edu> Hmmm... they've played all the songs from AFD and Lies. I don't think Garden of Eden, Don't Damn Me, or Bad Apples ever say the light of day... neither did Get In The Ring (..too bad, that woulda kicked some ass), Shotgun Blues, Don't Cry (alt. lyrics) or My World (although they did play this song from the CD at the end of some of the concerts). Since they didn't tour for TSI, the only songs they DID play was Since I Don't Have You (at soundchecks), Down On The Farm (at Farm Aid in '90 with Steven, his last show with them) and Attitude. Hope this helps! Kolton