Guns N' Roses - Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide - (1986) - (Uzi Suicide USR-001) - Vinyl - 24-Bit/96kHz + 16-Bit/44kHz

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Guns N' Roses - Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide - (1986) - (Uzi Suicide USR-001) - Vinyl - 24-Bit/96kHz + 16-Bit/44kHz

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Guns N' Roses - Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide is a four-song EP released by Guns N' Roses on December 16, 1986 on the label, UZI Suicide. (This was ostensibly a self-released record but UZI Suicide was actually part of Geffen Records.) When referred to by the band members talking about the EP, they have simply called it Live Like a Suicide. The record itself was limited to only 10,000 copies, and it came out only in vinyl and cassette formats. According to Steven Adler's autobiography, My Appetite For Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N' Roses, the entire EP was recorded at Pasha Studios in Hollywood with pre-recorded audience applause and cheering in the background, as Geffen's engineers told him "it would cost too much to actually record a live record". Duff McKagan says in his autobiography, It's So Easy (and other Lies), that "the crowd noise...is from a 1970's rock festival called the Texas Jam. We thought it would be funny to put a huge stadium crowd in the background at a time when we were lucky to be playing to a few hundred." One song considered for this EP was "Shadow of Your Love", which never made it onto the album. In 1988, the recordings featured on Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide were re-released along with four newer songs as the album G N' R Lies. The song "Shadow Of Your Love" would not be released until the 1988 EP "Live From The Jungle" which has never been released in the US. The front cover consists of a photograph of two of the band members, Duff McKagan and Axl Rose with an early Guns N' Roses logo, designed by Slash, overhead. The artwork from this EP is also featured on the back cover of G N' R Lies The four songs were selected from the band's demo tapes. Two are cover versions and two are originals. The EP was a faux-live recording with overdubbed crowd noise, but these are in fact studio performances. "Reckless Life" is the opening track on the EP. This song was originally written by Hollywood Rose, which had included all the members of Guns N' Roses except Duff McKagan at one point or another. It was included in the Hollywood Rose compilation album The Roots of Guns N' Roses. "Nice Boys" is a cover of a song by Rose Tattoo. "Move to the City" features a horn section, and is the third track on the EP. "Mama Kin" is a cover of a song by Aerosmith, a band Guns N' Roses has cited as one of their major influences. I have included full scans.

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Guns N' Roses - Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide - (1986) - (Uzi Suicide USR-001) - Vinyl - 24-Bit/96kHz + 16-Bit/44kHz

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