vaida Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) As you know this year, July 21st, is the 25th anniversary of Appetite For Destruction. Best selling debut album of all time. It is also GN'R best selling album of all time with sales exceeding 28 million albums worldwide, and is considered one of the greatest albums of all time.It is THE ALBUM that gave the kick to glam rocks balls, not grunge. (Grunge destroyed the rock n' roll or at least tried.) It was a much heavier and raunchier album than what was being released with Sunset strip and L.A. scene at the time. Also to many GN'R fans it is THE ALBUM. Axl, Slash, Izzy, Duff & Steven. They were all part of it. Like it or not.Would you be interested for AFD 25th anniversary release? Many bands and artists releases anniversary versions of their biggest and best albums with new stuff included to the fans, of course. What would it have included?- Remastered version of the album? - Unrealesed songs and B-Sides? (Shadow of Your Love, You're Crazy first acoustic version?)- Early Demos?- Live CD/DVD from that era? Collection of best shows or just one gig?- Original album cover?- Full Version of Nightrain (not fade-out album version)- Songs from GN'R LIES?- Book? (Updated Reckless Road?)What would you like?Sounds like a great idea Now is the time. It might even help Axl fund another album. Edited April 17, 2012 by vaida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axl_morris Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Axl would never do this because it's from the old band. I think it's fine as it is, if it's not broke don't fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flayer Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Release the 1999 version :xmasssanta: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaida Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) Release the 1999 version :xmasssanta:If Robin, Bucket and Brain han't walked, that's one mix we might have got to hear. There's slim chance now. Edited April 17, 2012 by vaida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millions Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Stick out a double album : on on the first CD, its Axl's current version of Guns re-doing Appetite. And on the second album - have Slash's Hall of Fame line-up doing theirs....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaida Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Stick out a double album : on on the first CD, its Axl's current version of Guns re-doing Appetite. And on the second album - have Slash's Hall of Fame line-up doing theirs.......no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flayer Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Might be a good thing for the label to coerce him with a bit. "If you don't have your new CD ready this year, we're gonna release that anniversary edition Appetite." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppruks Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 re-releases are just a sign of desperation on the industry's part to keep being 'relevant' and basically to keep milking that cow as long as they can... it's like 'Nevermind' was a great album, why release it again with a bunch of extra stuff added to it, so that all the corporate mags in the world could make their special Nirvana editions and they could I don't know show the '92 Reading concert 20 years later at an actual LIVE concert... stuff like that just becomes cyclical until it's all a mess and nothing original gets done...imagine the 70s...did people in the 70s try to revamp their heroes from the 50s ... no, they were too busy creating new music ... so wrt any kind of re-releases, I think it's just a waste of time and energy... The Stones' 'Main Street' re-master sounded totally different and when some of the cool things that made that record imperfect where 'fixed' it lost some of its magic...mistakes are great, it makes it feel that the record is human and a living thingthere's plenty of demoes floating around of the guns early stuff ... take 'em as they are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocker rockstar Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) Remastering the album would just ruin it. The issue with it is that they master these new records too hot and destroy the dynamics of albums now days. It is sad. Read about the loudness wars. Anyways, there is a good chance that after a remaster the old version would sound better then the new remaster. I do like the idea of bonus songs and demo songs etc... I like the idea of more dvds of concerts and stuff like that. I agree with where Axl is now there is a good chance this will not happen unless the record company does it with out their permission like they did with the Greatest Hits. Releases like this are another casualty of Axl taking GNR in name only as his solo band. Sorry but it is the reason that we don't get more releases from the old band archive. Edited April 18, 2012 by rocker rockstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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