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Does anyone know which session the Don't Cry demo on the single is from? Also Marc, are any of the songs from the first ever session circulating?

So Live Like A Suicide was still recorded at Pasha but without Spencer Proffer. Do any of the demos from the first session from August 1985 exist? (not sure of them studio name) Or all of the Sound City/Manny Charlton ones?

Hi Marc, there was a rerun of Dr. Phil today from a few years ago and his wife accompanied two women to Canter's Deli. Were you there for the taping? Was that one of your relatives who came out and served them?

Also, regarding the history of GN'Rs demo sessions, could you please confirm a few things? I'm trying to piece together which ones leaked that are in circulation and which ones never saw the light of day. I'm not sure if there are any sessions missing from this list. I'm trying to get a complete list of every demo recorded by them between 1985 and 1994. I know the Use Your Illusions are not included in this list but for now, I just need to get the early stuff.

1st Session

August 1985

Producer: ???

Welcome To The Jungle

Anything Goes

Don’t Cry

Back Off Bitch

Heartbreak Hotel (not included on tape)

Sound City

May-June 1986

Producer: Manny Charlton

Out Ta Get Me

Rocket Queen (take 1)

Rocket Queen (take 2)

Nightrain

My Michelle

You’re Crazy

Paradise City

Move To The City (take 1)

Move To The City (take 2)

November Rain (acoustic)

November Rain (piano)

Shadow Of Your Love

Reckless Life

Think About You

Welcome To The Jungle

Don’t Cry

Nice Boys (take 3)

Back Off Bitch

Anything Goes

Mama Kin

Heartbreak Hotel (take 2)

Ain’t Goin’ Down (instrumental) ????????

Jumpin’ Jack Flash (take 2)

Jumpin’ Jack Flash (acoustic)

Move To The City (acoustic)

Untitled song in progress

You’re Crazy (acoustic)

The Plague

Cornshucker Stomp

Pasha Studios

August-September 1986

Producer: Spender Proffer

Sweet Child O’ Mine

Nightrain

Reckless Life

Nice Boys

Move To The City

Mama Kin

Rumbo Studios, Take One Studio & Can Am Studio

Fall 1986

Producer: Mike Clink

Anything Goes

It’s So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

My Michelle

Nightrain

Out Ta Get Me

Paradise City

Rocket Queen

Sweet Child O’ Mine

Think About You

Welcome To The Jungle

You’re Crazy

Rumbo Studios

???? 1988

Producer: ???

Patience

One In A Million

You’re Crazy

Used To Love Her

Cornshucker

Is this information accurate with the song listings? Anything you can add would be greatly appreciated.

Did Dr. Phil record any demos with GN'R or any of the members separately? Was he hard to deal with while recording?

Thanks.

Awesome. Thank you so much.

Do you happen to know the date or even a rough idea of when that 3am party was? I hope this topic isn't being dragged out too far, I'm just trying to put something together that I've been working on for a long time, a Guns N' Roses timeline that sort of reads like a journal, not for publishing of course but as a guide, so if the questions are becoming too much, please let me know. But all the information you've given is already greatly appreciated. Thanks again, Marc.

That Roxy show from '86 is awesome. I've watched that so many times and always wondered if it was the earliest video of Guns N' Roses. But someone has audio clips of a lot of '85 gigs, they're not complete but it seems that they were intentionally just sampled together and that the full shows exist on audio. Do you know if that's true or if they're available somewhere?

Was the 3am gig opening for the Dead Boys or The Lords Of The New Church by any chance?

Other than a bunch of pictures, some notes and dialogue, was there anything cut from your book Marc such as gigs (not including the London/Marquee shows in '87) but anything cut from between the first Troubadour and the Drunk Fux shows? Also, did you actually videotape that first show or just take photos?

It is great to have the facts spot on. Thanks to your site Mickey, I was inspired to even try to get a list of every Guns N' Roses performance. It has kept me searching for audio and video shows for over a decade. I think a lot of fans feel the same. You covered a lot of territory and now that Mark's book is out, it completes that, especially since he includes the setlists.

Marc, do you know if any of them besides Slash were horror movie fans? Slash mentioned it several times in his book, and referenced Creepshow, The Omen, etc.

I don't know if you saw the 2nd part of the earlier question about who joined first, Slash or Steven?

Hi Marc,

There are a few things that I'm still trying to figure out regarding the Hell Tour. Before you put together this amazing book and let everyone in on long desired information, the only source we had was the setlist almanac on gnrontour.com which was helpful but very confusing and sometimes inaccurate with the earlier years. They have a bunch of strange dates listed throughout that week, listing the Seattle show as June 8th (the day Duff says they headed out) and that it was at the Rock Theater. I tried to pinpoint the Seattle show date between Reckless Road and Duff's book and from what I gathered, it was on Wednesday June 12, 1985 at Gorilla Garden in Seattle. Is this date correct? Your book has that same date on their picture in the deli. Did anyone record this show, video or audio?

Also, Duff states that he took Axl to the Black Sheep show to convince Slash but a quote in Reckless Road says that Axl, Izzy and Steven went to the show. Was Steven actually in the band at this point before Slash?

Thanks again for your time and answering everyone's questions.