ruttu69 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 MTV Uplugged aired regularly from 1989 to 1999 including artists like Kiss, Alice In Chains, Neil Young, even Poison… I don’t get it why didn’t Guns N’ Roses take part of this as they were on MTV all the time. Has Axl or Slash ever talk about it publicly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Slash had mentioned in 1995 that Axl wanted to do MTV Unplugged (but Slash didn't want to?): Slash: [...] We do what we do the best that anybody does. Let's just go out and do a club tour, a theatre tour, and fucking get back down to where we have some validity with an audience that we can relate to. But Axl was all fucking.. he wants to be on MTV, he wants to do Unplugged, he wants to be this, he wants to be that. So we didn't see eye to eye, and that's where a lot of that bullshit got started, and of course it was blown out of all proportion in the press [Metal Hammer, November 1995] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jekylhyde Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Such a shame. Would've been epic. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckgent Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 I'm sure they were booked to record one at the Kremlin in Moscow during the illusions tour and cancelled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownUnderScott Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 2 hours ago, ruttu69 said: MTV Uplugged aired regularly from 1989 to 1999 including artists like Kiss, Alice In Chains, Neil Young, even Poison… I don’t get it why didn’t Guns N’ Roses take part of this as they were on MTV all the time. Has Axl or Slash ever talk about it publicly? Would have been amazing in their prime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dean Posted July 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2021 Some bands have done PPV's throughout this pandemic. I'd still love to see Guns do an all acoustic show that is released to the public/televised. It'll never happen, but it really would have been fucking sweet. Just look at L'ARC and Rose Bar when Axl was killing it? Phenomenal. Probably doing something like that, a one off, in 1995/6 maybe would have helped ease the tensions within the band. Just plugging in and doing their back catalogue in an intimate venue. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaguns1982 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Didn’t new gnr do some acoustic gig like 10 years ago? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t-p-d-a Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 i love Guns N' Roses Unplugged. I really love bootlegs like The Central, CBGB or the Skin N' Bones Tour with the acoustic set... or Rose Bar and Slash with Myles Kennedy The Max Sessions. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay.Of.Execution Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 22 minutes ago, megaguns1982 said: Didn’t new gnr do some acoustic gig like 10 years ago? Obviously that doesn't count 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweersa Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 10 hours ago, megaguns1982 said: Didn’t new gnr do some acoustic gig like 10 years ago? They did. I think it was s surprise too to those who were there. If so, imagine that! 9 hours ago, StayofExecution2020 said: Obviously that doesn't count Axl sounded way better back then. Any other perceived negative difference is nostalgic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 I always thought they should have just cleaned up the audio on Argentina 93 and released it as an official live acoustic album. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axeli Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 2006 acoustic was nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tadsy Posted July 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2021 See this is the problem right here, one of them wants to do something, the other one doesn’t and there’s no compromise. would it have killed slash to do it? What’s it cost him? 3 hours of his life!!!! so many missed opportunities. This example is exactly why the pair of them pissed 30 years of prime career time down the toilet. Both of them are dumb fucks. 🤦♂️ 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaskingApathy Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 14 hours ago, megaguns1982 said: Didn’t new gnr do some acoustic gig like 10 years ago? 14 hours ago, StayofExecution2020 said: Obviously that doesn't count Yeah and it was pretty horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
something.always Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 14 hours ago, megaguns1982 said: Didn’t new gnr do some acoustic gig like 10 years ago? UYI-era GNR had the Dust n' Bones tour featuring acoustic sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamillos Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 5 hours ago, something.always said: UYI-era GNR had the Dust n' Bones tour featuring acoustic sets. Skin N’ Bones Tour 1993 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 8 hours ago, Tadsy said: See this is the problem right here, one of them wants to do something, the other one doesn’t and there’s no compromise. would it have killed slash to do it? What’s it cost him? 3 hours of his life!!!! so many missed opportunities. This example is exactly why the pair of them pissed 30 years of prime career time down the toilet. Both of them are dumb fucks. 🤦♂️ Axl and Slash are not stupid. at the time, Slash was probably resentful and fed up with Axl on some level. they both experienced great success so it probably meant each of them thought they knew best. When someone else pisses you off, do you go out of your way to do something you're not that into in the first place? I think Slash wanted to go back to the same mode the band was when they started out/scale back before all the shit around the music started. Maybe MTV represented that to him at the time, just more lame shit, who knows. Point is my best guess is that he wasn't going to compromise with Axl on a lot of shit at the time cause it doesn't seem like he felt Axl tried to meet him half way. and Slash's career was just fine after he left Guns. Artistically, at the very least he never matched the greatness of Gn'R imho, but there was no indication he was particularly interested in doing so. Not if it meant doing shit that was out of his wheel house. (like laboring over a set of tunes in the studio for example) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ©GnrPersia Posted July 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) They did already. And it has a combo song in the set made of Welcome To The Jungle & You're Crazy. Edited July 25, 2021 by ©GnrPersia 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnR Chris Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Unplugged back in the early '90s would have been stellar. I always view it as a missed opportunity. "Used to Love Her" and "You're Crazy" from The Late Show in 1988 were excellent. Rose Bar and L'Arc were so cool too. Basically, anything from GNR with new arrangements would be fantastic. Imagine a six-song set of Axl sitting at the piano and singing "Catcher in the Rye" and "Perfect Crime." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttu69 Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 1 hour ago, ©GnrPersia said: They did already. And it has a combo song in the set made of Welcome To The Jungle & You're Crazy. What the hell has that do with MTV Unplugged? Yes they have played songs acoustic over the years, that was not the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom-Ass Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 1 hour ago, GnR Chris said: "Used to Love Her" and "You're Crazy" from The Late Show in 1988 were excellent. Epic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
©GnrPersia Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 2 hours ago, ruttu69 said: What the hell has that do with MTV Unplugged? Yes they have played songs acoustic over the years, that was not the point. That was a sarcasm. Btw unpluggeds are acoustic so there's a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, ©GnrPersia said: That was a sarcasm. Btw unpluggeds are acoustic so there's a point. maybe the special thing about the better MTV unpluggs was that the vibe was different and it was a full show. The venue and the fact that it's filmed and broadcasted all those things could have influenced the show and could have even made it unique. It happened to other bands that did it well. I think it could have worked with maybe giving Slash the ability to play an electric where it's suitable. Could have been different enough from just the acoustic live sections from the past and the semi acoustic/acoustic shows to make it a cool idea that was worth trying. Edited July 25, 2021 by Rovim 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
©GnrPersia Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 10 minutes ago, Rovim said: maybe the special thing about the better MTV unpluggs was that the vibe was different and it was a full show. The venue and the fact that it's filmed and broadcasted all those things could have influenced the show and could have even made it unique. It happened to other bands that did it well. I think it could have worked with maybe giving Slash the ability to play an electric where it's suitable. Could have been different enough from just the acoustic live sections from the past and the semi acoustic/acoustic shows to make it a cool idea that was worth trying. Oh absolutely sir. You know GNR is a band of lost opporunities. They could do unplugged, S&G (like S&M), release Snakepit albums as GNR & many more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitchisback Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 MTV unplugged is back I believe. Could be part of the next chapter lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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