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Hello everyone.  I don't think it's any big secret that GNR is planning on releasing a UYI boxset sometime in the future, like they did for Appetite and Lies.  Before we even get into it, I cannot guarantee that GNR will ever release this, I am just told that it is being planned.  But they are in the research stage now but, as you can imagine, there is a ton to go through.  I am referring to audio and video.  For example the Bob Clearmountain mixes of UYI that Tom Zutaut mentioned.  Since there's so much, they thought it might be easier to ask you guys what to look for, i.e., what you would like to see in the box.  Of course I will take any feedback offered, but more along the lines of rare recordings, shows we don't already have audio/video of, things that are theorized to exist, etc.  Or even stuff you have that GNR/the label/etc. might not have.

Please keep in mind that I can't guarantee any credit or anything like that.  I'd imagine you would get credit if they end up using something from your collection that they didn't have, but otherwise I kind of doubt it.  But this is your chance to speak (indirectly) to the label about what you want to see in this boxset.  No, not interested in any ideas regarding pricing, knick knacks, etc.  Just audio/video.  So let me know (either reply here, PM, email, FB message, etc.), and I will pass on the info.  Lastly, I just want to say that even if you know the label has something and you want to see it in the boxset, I can't guarantee anything.

Thanks everyone, you rock!  : ok: :beer:

Maybe post this to Evo, gnfnr, reddit, facebook, twitter and the steve Hoffman boards too.

Good luck  :peace:

Great idea!  : ok:


Some examples:

- Alternative mixes of the tracks. For example I remember hearing a bootleg version of 14 Years with a longer outro. Maybe there's more longer versions of songs that they had to edit in order to fit everything on one cd back then.

- Ain't Goin' Down No More

- Rehearsal & demo versions

- Live tracks from 1991 before the album was released.

- How about some of the footage from the documentary they filmed on tour?



/jarmo

Something with shannon hoon.


The backstage of st louis riot :hihi: :hihi:

Definitely like to hear any unreleased music from the Illusion era.  Good luck :beer:

The La Forum show from August 1991 would be incredible. I believe it was recorded.

Hope they'll include several full concerts. Only thing I missed from the AFD boxset.

Songs that were left out from the albums. Aint Going Down and that Hanoi Rocks cover that was recorded for The Spahgetti Incedent.

Full show or shows on cd and dvd ( Something new, not tokyo 92 for example)

Extented 14 years and cool stuff like that

Illusions tour documentary.

Also i doubt it will happen but a dvd set with full shows from  Faith No More Metallica and GN'R from the summer 1992 tour would be extra cool.

I wonder how many unreleased songs from the Illusion era? :beer:

Would be really cool to hear those songs.

that is what I was thinking. any songs from that time of recording we never heard about would be insane. has to be something! :drool:

Crash Diet, Sentimental Movie, Too Much Too Soon, Ain't Goin Down, Bring it back Home and Just Another Sunday in good quality would be nice.
Thanks for asking!

Yes ! The August 3rd Inglewood show on whatever format in that box set.They were on fire the whole 4 hours.
Also,the Spaghetti Incident songs that were recorded with Izzy.

Live DvD from 1991 would be awesome.
Acustic recordings of songs.
Liverecordings with guests like Blind Melon, Aerosmith, etc.
Behind scenes 91 tour

Making fucking videos included on DVD or USB stick
(Making of Estranged, Dont Cry and November Rain)
Interviews from 2020, from Axl, Duff and Slash about making of Use your Illusion.
Coma T-Shirt!!!
Alt recordings of Breakdown, Coma etc. If it excists

I think I remember hearing Slash talk about a great demo of Live and Let Die. I would love to hear that

Crash Diet (without a doubt the best unreleased song)

the UIY tour documentary

Live video of some 1993 show (with the acoustic set)

Making fucking videos (remastered in a proper quality)

The box should also be simular to the Locked n load box, so they would fith perfect together 8)

Having Slash, Axl, Duff, Dizzy (Izzy n’ Matt?) talk us trough the recording and or writing process and how they thought during those days

Coma T-Shirt!!!
I've got one!

......just looked on ebay, didn't realise they were so expensive!

LIVE SHOWS!!! Paris 1992 in high quality would be the holy grail. Saskatoon '93. The one in '91 where Axl goes HAM on Perfect Crime. Chicago '92 just for Coma.

As far as studio stuff... I doubt there was much left off the album so what about that early demo of This I Love from '94 or the version of Back and Forth Again (before it became a Snakepit song) with Axl whistling?

Didn't they record Beer and a Cigarette by Hanoi Rocks? That would be cool.

I've got a Coma t-shirt ;-) original  : ok:

There is a tape,that I have somewhere.  That has the original version of right next door to hell, it was originally called psycho bitch from hell,  It also had civil war which was the first time he used the talking phrase near the end of the song. which he also talked about whether steven was still in the band. Both were acoustic.  There were a couple of other things on it but haven't listened to it in years

psycho bitch from hell!!  🤣

How about the May 16th 1991 warm up show from the Ritz in New York.

The August 3rd 1991 Great Western L.A Forum Show.  

The November 1992 Bogota Colombia Show. The show where it poured down during November Rain. The clip on youtube is awesome.

An official concert DVD ( Blu Ray if possible) of the 1993 tour. That Saskatoon show that was on youtube was amazing. I have many shows from 1993 on dvd but the quality is sub par. It would have to contain the unplugged set of course.

The Making F@*!ing Videos Parts 1, 2, and 4 on DVD

The Making F@*!ing Video Part 3   ::)

I believe Duff or Slash mentioned something about another set of recordings of the Illusion albums, something along the lines of unpolished or something like that.  

Any possible unreleased tracks, if there are any.


I'm sure there's a ton more but that's off the top of head lol.

Would really like to see the set presented in a box ala Locked N Loaded. I think the illusions cover would look amazing on the front of the box with the figure in the centre and one side blue/purple with the other yellow/red  :peace:

Can I also just say that a release of a UYI box set would presumably prejudice a new album next year so I’m am crossing my nuts that we see a record later this year 🤞

I think they considered it at least, don't remember if I read that or that they did. Anyway, I think Michael Monroe said they changed their mind because someone thought Andy McCoy was a jerk.

I think they could release both UYI box set and a new album in 2021. GNR has had plenty of time to get their ducks in a row.

As much behind the scenes footage from the Use Your Illusion tour as possible. If I remember correctly, Slash said a ton was filmed.

Gilby said they had a film crew for the entire duration of the Illusion's tour. Apparently they film every show so I can only imagine the footage they have.

 

Locomotive without the fade out!

Perfect Crime from the 1991 Indiana show where Axl goes crazy during it.

This!  Would love to see a nice documentary package from the footage from this tour.  Do new interviews with the band looking back on it.

Indeed they did, the film crew even had a shirt:

http://www.troccolitm.com/filmcrewt.html?1201402196671

Thanks everyone for your feedback, keep it coming!

Ooh, I just thought of a great one; I would LOVE to hear new mixes of the songs with Shannon Hoon where you can either exclusively or dominantly hear him. Shannon gets really lost in the mix on all of them so even just bringing him up would be great, but I think it would be even cooler to hear it as if he were the lead singer, like in an alternate universe. Similarly, it might be cool to hear just Axl's guitar on Shotgun Blues.

Edit: Another idea; Slash once said that he preferred all the songs in their initial phase without all the added instrumentation. I don't know if he was referring to earlier takes or the final takes just without the horns and such but either way it might be cool to hear more stripped back versions.

Maybe the "raw" mixes. So I guess before the sound effects, synthesizers etc.

Imagine Live And Let Die or November Rain without the extra instruments?



/jarmo

Those ones might sound strange but it would certainly be interesting.

Erase all of Dizzys piano
And let us hear the raw “ Appetite “ Type Demos - Slash mentions in his book of the songs on Illusions

 :peace: I second that... you ain't the first with his vocals as a duet instead of background vocals.  :P

Well, as my nickname suggests, i d love to hear a final version of Crash Diet  :)
And some footage from Athens, Greece 1993, that date was the 2 yrar anniversary of the YUI tour. And it s the only Skin n Bones tour date that "only woman bleed" was performed acoustically
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27 years i ve been looking for some footage from that show and all ive got is 5 seconds   ;D

If it’s meant to be like the appetite deluxe, just package spaghetti incident with it too, like how lies was with the previous set.No reason for that to ever get an anniversary edition. Just cram the album with more interesting covers (Sympathy did the devil) and moments where guns jammed with other bands (I believe they did free falling with tom petty once, some of this stuff could be a rights issue though).

Interesting idea. I bet there are some different takes of Sympathy and other stuff from that session floating around. As well as the jams with Zakk Wylde maybe?

And Spaghetti with Izzy's original rhythm tracks on it.

Here's another one: the entire album with Izzy mixed so you can actually hear him. I was just trying to learn Pretty Tied Up and even with only the right earbud in, I could barely make out Izzy's part.

This could be epic! : ok: I bet we'll see this before a new album.  :(

You mean the left earbud, right?

I guess so, I don't really bother looking at which is which, they fit either way, so possibly.

The full pro shot Wembley Stadium show 31.08.1991 on dvd please  :peace:

I would love to see additional footage of their live performance at the Orpheum Theatre while they filmed the November Rain video. I have seen some footage of them playing DeadHorse but that's it.

I wonder what other songs they might have performed?

The amount of cool footage surrounding that album and tour must be insane.

Also, the early version of what became Back and Forth Again, which can be heard on Makin' Videos, or an early version of This I Love, which was supposedly written around '93.

Anyone heard anything about an anniversary release yet?

9 days until the 30th anniversary.

1991 was a great year for music, I see that Metallica have been doing a lot with the Black Album anniversary.

The AFD boxset was released one year after the anniversary, so soon might not be the word.