Guns n' Roses Live Radio Shows '88 & '92

Two live Guns N' Roses radio broadcasts will be released on CD for the first time next month.

The shows – performed in 1988 and 1992 – feature on Guns N' Roses Live Radio Broadcasts, which will be issued on April 27.

The 1988 show was recorded on February 2 at The Ritz in New York, as the band's massive debut album Appetite For Destruction was starting to make big waves. The show includes a cover of Aerosmith track Mama Kin.

The 1992 gig took place on April 9 at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago during the Use Your Illusion tour.

Guns N' Roses have not confirmed any involvement with the release.

GUNS N’ ROSES LIVE RADIO BROADCASTS TRACKLIST
Disc One: The Ritz New York 1988

Down on the Farm
Free Fallin’
It’s So Easy
Mr Brownstone
Out Ta Get Me
Sweet Child O’ Mine
My Michelle
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Welcome to the Jungle
Night Train
Paradise City
Mama Kin
Rocket Queen
Patience

Disc Two: Chicago Rosemont Horizon 1992
Welcome to the Jungle
Civil War
Night Train
Mr Brownstone
Live and Let Die
It’s So Easy
Wild Horses
Patience
Double Talkin’ Jive
November Rain
You Could Be Mine
The Godfather Theme
Welcome to the Jungle (bonus track)
Civil War (bonus track)

This may or may not be the official cover art...

I saw this news yesterday. It appears like it's a bootleg. If the sound quality is good I will buy it.

Bootleg or not, I'm super-psyched about this!! That show from the Ritz was shown on MTV and was my first time really getting to SEE the band. I remember my buddy Paul recording the audio on tape and making dubs of it for all of us. We played the hell out of this concert!!



Whatever your opinion of the band or what they've become in the last 25 years, you can't deny they were young, hungry and on fire that night.

That track listing is off though. The show opens with 'It's So Easy' (watch the video) and 'Free Falling' by Tom Petty wasn't even out yet (1989). 'Down on the Farm' wasn't performed until 1992 at Farm Aid, which, coincidentally was the last time Steven Adler performed with the band. I have bootlegs with those songs. I don't believe 'Patience' was performed that night either.

Don't know much about that 2nd show from '92, although I'd guess it's with Matt Sorum behind the kit and Izzy was probably still with them at that point.

EDIT: Nope. Gilby Clarke on rhythm guitar.

Witchfinder wrote:

I saw this news yesterday.  It appears like it's a bootleg.  If the sound quality is good I will buy it.

The audio on that YouTube video is decent. If they pull the audio from the original footage, that's good enough for me. I'd hope it would be un-edited and removed the bleeps though.

I remember watching that Ritz show on MTV back in the day. They were ON FIRE back then. I'd be interested in this CD.

This is something I'd like to give a listen to but I'd never buy the cd. I'd listen to it once and then probably put it away for good, never to be used by me again.

007 wrote:

This is something I'd like to give a listen to but I'd never buy the cd. I'd listen to it once and then probably put it away for good, never to be used by me again.

I don't typically go gaga over live releases, but I have such fond memories of that '88 show. I just played the YouTube show while I ate lunch and I could recite most of the in-between song stage banter from memory.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

007 wrote:

This is something I'd like to give a listen to but I'd never buy the cd. I'd listen to it once and then probably put it away for good, never to be used by me again.

I don't typically go gaga over live releases, but I have such fond memories of that '88 show. I just played the YouTube show while I ate lunch and I could recite most of the in-between song stage banter from memory.

I taped the '88 show off the radio. Most of the show anyway. I remember switching on the radio and hearing a song and getting stoked, but assumed it was just going to be one song. Then another song came on, so I realized they were playing an actual full concert. Popped in a tape and listened to it a ton of times. It was the only dubbed tape that I considered part of my actual cassette collection and not just some placeholder.

Axl is strangely coherent for the most part.

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I am definitely interested in picking up a copy of this... Love GnR!

I have not heard this before - but from that youtube vid - this will be a purchase, no doubt.

I've had the Ritz show for a while, via downloading it somewhere. It's a great show! The second show from 92 I don't care too much about.

Goos stuff! I remember taping the '88 show off MTV back in the day and I must've watched it about a dozen times. I will grab this as I have picked up a lot of the recent "radio" broadcasts that have come out like Aerosmith, Heart. Journey. and Cheap Trick.

I loved their official live album release and I think its a smart move to release this live set that has been bootlegged a thousand times already and I will be buying it

Mean Green

Yeah, I'd go for this. I'd seen that Ritz show back in the day, very fond memories there. It was pretty wild.

Slightly off topic, but for me GnR is one of those rare bands that sounded completely different when I was a kid. Don't get me wrong, they still sound great, but reminiscing on first hearing them, I recall a lot more bite and snarl, like, menacing. Usually I would boil it down to age but I don't experience this with other bands. So I'm not sure what it is. I just remember them being the most in-your-face hard rock experience, but today I hear a damned good hard rock band. It's as though those songs were entirely different.

Because you now know that Axl is a dipshit.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Because you now know that Axl is a dipshit.

Naw, these feelings came about before Axl resurfaced.

It's probably because, at the time, the Poisons and Warrants had become the staples of rock radio and GnR was rawer then that.

That's dead on, the punk attitude is what I love about them the most.

Gosh, I love teh interwebs. Here's a pre-Appetite, glammed-up GnR performing at the Roxy in 1986..


The whole band has a very Hanoi Rocks-look going on.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Gosh, I love teh interwebs. Here's a pre-Appetite, glammed-up GnR performing at the Roxy in 1986..


The whole band has a very Hanoi Rocks-look going on.

I might have been at that show MG ? Being I was still shooting heroin then ?

Oh yeah, I'll be getting this. Great road trip music (IMHO)

corplhicks wrote:

Yeah, I'd go for this. I'd seen that Ritz show back in the day, very fond memories there. It was pretty wild.

Slightly off topic, but for me GnR is one of those rare bands that sounded completely different when I was a kid. Don't get me wrong, they still sound great, but reminiscing on first hearing them, I recall a lot more bite and snarl, like, menacing. Usually I would boil it down to age but I don't experience this with other bands. So I'm not sure what it is. I just remember them being the most in-your-face hard rock experience, but today I hear a damned good hard rock band. It's as though those songs were entirely different.

Well said on both points dude. The Ritz show I have very fond memories of myself, had a copy of that around the time I first discovered these guys and it's a raw, wild show. The second one I've never heard or was even aware of, as much as I loved Suicide and Appetite those Illusion records really killed my interest in Guns N Roses. That's when I really noticed how utterly fuckin ANNOYING most of the stuff Rose does with his voice is and frankly aside from maybe an EP's worth of tracks, the majority of the songs are awful.

As for sounding different now, when these guys hit the strip back then your average hard rock was over polished MTV cookie cutter stuff ala Winger and QR. Guns N Roses took the style of Hanoi Rocks and injected punk sensibilities and aggression into it. It was so unequivocally different (yet still accessible) that it was like an atom bomb dropping on the scene. Now that none of that is in the limelight anymore, it just stands as what it is: pretty good raw rock.