craiggunslover Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Anyone remember talk about this right up till about a week before the album was released but it never happened Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Drama Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 There were three. The bike, the red hand, and the grenade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underhardy Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Record company apparently didn’t have Axls back on this. He really wanted it, both other booklets were 99% ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F*ck Fear Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I always wanted the proper artwork with the album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby845 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 All for them are dreadful 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Did Axl fight the label on this? Is this one of the reasons he did no promotion and didnt tour right away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I remember perhaps two weeks before release, one of the online cd retailers had three separate options to buy. The pictures were not up though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitto Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Here, some alt cd covers and arts: http://troccolitm.com/CDChiDemRedHand.html http://troccolitm.com/CDChiDemGrenade.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom2112 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 17 minutes ago, Guitto said: Here, some alt cd covers and arts: http://troccolitm.com/CDChiDemRedHand.html http://troccolitm.com/CDChiDemGrenade.html I'm surprised this wasn't the main cover, the bike is fine but I really love this image. Would love to find a t-shirt of this cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 8 hours ago, Tyler Drama said: There were three. The bike, the red hand, and the grenade. Technically there were 4, and 2 were released, if you count the box set: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitto Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 22 minutes ago, Tom2112 said: I'm surprised this wasn't the main cover, the bike is fine but I really love this image. Would love to find a t-shirt of this cover. Yeah, and the Grenade looks great too(and better than bike cover) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pskihq92 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, Guitto said: Yeah, and the Grenade looks great too(and better than bike cover) I got that wallet in 2010 in Moncton nb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6lake sa66ath Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 27 minutes ago, Pskihq92 said: I got that wallet in 2010 in Moncton nb 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modano09 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Pre-orders went up for Cover A, Cover B and Cover C but there were no pictures. It sounds like that's what Axl wanted but the record company didn't. Which makes sense, at that point they just wanted to get it out and every with. Weird it'd make it to pre-orders if that was the case though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlashisGOD Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Always kinda wanted this to be the cover 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirit Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 1 hour ago, SlashisGOD said: Always kinda wanted this to be the cover I guess they used the image for the 2001 promotion because it looked cool esthetically, but it's actually a Japanese kamikaze pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiggunslover Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 The bike cover which was used was taken by someone during the illusion tour I think and axl always said it would be the next album cover since the late 90's I read day back.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyBananaduck Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 6 hours ago, craiggunslover said: The bike cover which was used was taken by someone during the illusion tour I think and axl always said it would be the next album cover since the late 90's I read day back.. Can't say I understand why. It's the blandest of all the designs, and yet the one virtually everyone who didn't shell out big bucks ended up with. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 On 1/15/2018 at 6:41 AM, Guitto said: Here, some alt cd covers and arts: http://troccolitm.com/CDChiDemRedHand.html http://troccolitm.com/CDChiDemGrenade.html The Red Hand was the best cover, but the Grenade had the best art in the booklet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludurigan Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 On 15/01/2018 at 3:51 AM, craiggunslover said: Anyone remember talk about this right up till about a week before the album was released but it never happened Why? thing is axl and his art directors (stephen relda, michael nagakcam and jeff lebbasi) used the same technique he used for the songs in the album they blended the covers yep, they blended all the 9 covers -- believe it or not, but there were actually 9 covers, not 4! -- and they are all in there if you look real hard at them -- or if you read the spoilers below SPOILERS ALERT most of the covers (#2, #3, #5, #6 and #8) are mingled with the ground and the wall. the easiest to notice is cover #5 (the red hand with the little creatures) which can be spotted quite easily on the upper left corner right below the word "guns" cover #4 is right by its side at the upper top left corner hidden by the inverted-mirror technique -- in which you invert the image and then invert it again and it disappears covers #7 and #9 are inside the basket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiggunslover Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 On 16/01/2018 at 5:37 PM, ludurigan said: thing is axl and his art directors (stephen relda, michael nagakcam and jeff lebbasi) used the same technique he used for the songs in the album they blended the covers yep, they blended all the 9 covers -- believe it or not, but there were actually 9 covers, not 4! -- and they are all in there if you look real hard at them -- or if you read the spoilers below SPOILERS ALERT most of the covers (#2, #3, #5, #6 and #8) are mingled with the ground and the wall. the easiest to notice is cover #5 (the red hand with the little creatures) which can be spotted quite easily on the upper left corner right below the word "guns" cover #4 is right by its side at the upper top left corner hidden by the inverted-mirror technique -- in which you invert the image and then invert it again and it disappears covers #7 and #9 are inside the basket 👽 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Its Tino Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 On 1/16/2018 at 5:37 PM, ludurigan said: thing is axl and his art directors (stephen relda, michael nagakcam and jeff lebbasi) used the same technique he used for the songs in the album they blended the covers yep, they blended all the 9 covers -- believe it or not, but there were actually 9 covers, not 4! -- and they are all in there if you look real hard at them -- or if you read the spoilers below SPOILERS ALERT most of the covers (#2, #3, #5, #6 and #8) are mingled with the ground and the wall. the easiest to notice is cover #5 (the red hand with the little creatures) which can be spotted quite easily on the upper left corner right below the word "guns" cover #4 is right by its side at the upper top left corner hidden by the inverted-mirror technique -- in which you invert the image and then invert it again and it disappears covers #7 and #9 are inside the basket Yup, already knew that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 I'd love to have a Red Hand CD/booklet some day, the booklet art is great. I like the Grenade cover (used to have a T-shirt of that lying around somewhere), but the interior artwork is terrible. Shame these didn't get vinyl releases so the artwork would be large format; would also prefer they didn't have the writing on right on the cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianluca87 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 someone knows how many copies are printed with red hand cover? and for grenade one? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlRoseCDII Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 I dunno, whatever happened to love fist? 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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