UYI boxset will be released 11/11/22. In Slash We Trust. * Now available *

[Chris 55]

26 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

This. Why would they not release it in 4K now? 

I hope it turns out to get a release in some streaming service. 

It's sourced from a 4K and down to a 2K for the blu-ray. I should look really nice but I agree, a 4K disk is much needed. 

[El Guapo]

44 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

This. Why would they not release it in 4K now? 

I hope it turns out to get a release in some streaming service. 

That would be great, Amazon Prime maybe.

I won't buy the damn box set when I really only want this Blu Ray

[Voodoochild]

14 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

That would be great, Amazon Prime maybe.

I won't buy the damn box set when I really only want this Blu Ray

I thought about Apple TV+ because the audio used the Apple Remasters label. And the streaming quality is very good (they also have other music related videos, but more documentaries).  

[-W.A.R-]

3 hours ago, Italian girl said:

This band lives too much in the past.

Atleast they are putting out footage people want to see and not the usual low effort stuff like creating a youtube/spotify playlist.

[Italian girl]

1 hour ago, darkside259 said:

dude that concert is like the holy grail what r you saying?

They should have released It 30 yrs ago!

[Kelmi]

Cant wait to watch it on youtube! I hope its not edited like Hollywood action movies where there is no time to focuse on anything.

[Beto 22]

6 minutes ago, Kelmi said:

Cant wait to watch it on youtube! I hope its not edited like Hollywood action movies where there is no time to focuse on anything.

The snippet looked like that. With images of other songs too

[darkside259]

1 hour ago, Italian girl said:

They should have released It 30 yrs ago!

yes but they dont)? whats you r point, the thing we have are mostly for pirates!!! we r like Tortuga island here

[Spike Killer]

5 hours ago, Dean said:

Full YCBM performance dropping tomorrow

 

The footage looks really great - even better than the clips that were posted on youtube around 2010 from the person who filmed it.

I'm very curious how they'll edit the whole thing or it it will be sliced with video tape footage.  If the whole performance was captured with one or two cameras (?), I don't know how they'll make it dynamic like that throughout the duration of the show.

 

[Tom-Ass]

They are advertising ot as a full performance, so hopefully it is all footage from the one song. 

[RussTCB]

6 hours ago, Dean said:

Full YCBM performance dropping tomorrow

 

Dude, you gotta put spoiler tags on a post like this. NONE of us were ready for GN'R to properly promote something! 

[darkside259]

1 minute ago, RussTCB said:

Dude, you gotta put spoiler tags on a post like this. NONE of us were ready for GN'R to properly promote something! 

RIGHT almost a heart atack here in the worck

[StrangerInThisTown]

10 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

Dude, you gotta put spoiler tags on a post like this. NONE of us were ready for GN'R to properly promote something! 

TBH still, they should have just dropped the YCBM single WITH that footage instead of just uploading the audio first. Not as boring, more attention. Don't get why they did it like that. What's the advantage? There still has to always be wrong with something. When there is an obvious superior way of doing something, count on GNR to NOT do it lol.

Edited October 5, 2022 by StrangerInThisTown

[TheSlashrose]

34 minutes ago, Spike Killer said:

The footage looks really great - even better than the clips that were posted on youtube around 2010 from the person who filmed it.

I'm very curious how they'll edit the whole thing or it it will be sliced with video tape footage.  If the whole performance was captured with one or two cameras (?), I don't know how they'll make it dynamic like that throughout the duration of the show.

 

9 cameras i guess

[UncleJosh]

Can't wait to see the video tomorrow. Hopefully it is edited sensibly and NOT like a music video.

[Chris 55]

3 hours ago, UncleJosh said:

Can't wait to see the video tomorrow. Hopefully it is edited sensibly and NOT like a music video.

you mean like a live performance or not a "music video' like It's So Easy was?

[UncleJosh]

2 minutes ago, Chris 55 said:

you mean like a live performance or not a "music video' like It's So Easy was?

Yeah not like It's So Easy.  No quick cuts with footage from other moments.  

[saint_seiya_aka_buckethead]

the camera man also filmed the Nirvana Live at the Paramount concert. All 16mm footage!

[linkthegu1]

1 hour ago, UncleJosh said:

Yeah not like It's So Easy.  No quick cuts with footage from other moments.  

I think it is like It’s So Easy because the description says “The official music video for You Could Be Mine”, but that’s what I understood 

[vicson]

I find it funny that in the trailer there is not even one image that's with the band playing YCBM. there are all shots of them performing other songs. I guess it's a kind of trailer for the whole blu-ray.

[Italian girl]

10 hours ago, darkside259 said:

yes but they dont)? whats you r point, the thing we have are mostly for pirates!!! we r like Tortuga island here

it's my problem, don't worry I live too much in the present, without looking back

[SilverMachine]

4 hours ago, saint_seiya_aka_buckethead said:

the camera man also filmed the Nirvana Live at the Paramount concert. All 16mm footage!

It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the clip - you can see such a similarity in the colours. 16mm is so evocative.

[SilverMachine]

I'm with others on this thread that this was in so many ways, GNR's imperial era - pre-Izzy departure, pre-Nirvana.

As disappointing as it is that there's no proper unrealised songs, outtakes, demos, etc in the boxset, I'm really stoked for the New York film as I can see it capturing the band at arguably its peak. A proper counterpart to the Ritz MTV special from 1988.

For those who weren't there, it's very hard to describe the anticipation in the lead up months to the release of the Use Your Illusion albums.

There was so much mystery surrounding the band during the down time of 89-90. Reading the rumours of it being a double album in the music press and being drip fed song titles and and warm up gig reports on MTV - it's very hard to convey the excitement during the summer of '91.

You Could Be Mine drops on radio and it absolutely lives up to expectations. Then the video drops and you have the association with one of the most anticipated and coolest films of the year. Civil War as a B side also hits the spot and points to a more expansive outlook for the band both musically and lyrically.

The day YCBM debuted on the radio I had a pretty important maths GSCE exam. I was 16. There was a big build up to the song being played for the first time on Radio One in the UK. This was a big deal in itself as rock music rarely got a look in on mainstream radio in the UK at that time in a world of Stock, Aitken and Waterman manufactured pop.

I was late making it to the exam as I had to hear the song and record it. I must have worn out the tape with all the repeat plays of the song over the course of that week on my Sony Mega Bass Walkman, all with the DJ's (I think it was either Simon Mayo or Simon Bates) flabbergasted response to Axl's wail at the end of the song - something that's still engrained in my consciousness when I hear this song to this day.

I was lucky enough to be at the Wembley '91 gig in the August of that year (I won tickets from a local cable TV operator - I could never have afforded them at the time).

I've been at a number of gigs that are now regarded as seminal - Nirvana at Reading '92, Oasis at the Marquee, The White Stripes at the 100 Club, The Strokes at Heaven, Bowie at Glastonbury, the Stone Roses reunion gigs. As special as all of those gigs were - GNR at Wembley in '91 really stands out for me.

There was a palpable sense of danger - it's easy to forget that this was their first gig in the UK since the Donnington tragedy and the UK was still coming to terms with the fallout of football stadium disasters like Hillsborough and Heysel. It was a hot, late August day, the crowd were hyped, drunk and there was an air of genial, anti-authority sentiment and lawlessness with all the boob flashing and human pyramids that was going on. It felt like it could all kick off.

Skid Row and Sebastian, for better or worse helped stoke up the crowd (NIN had been on earlier as first support - contrary to what was said at the time and since, my recollection is that they got a good reception, despite being stylistically different to what many at the gig would have been expecting of a support band for the headliners) and the tension and excitement for the headline act was nothing like I can remember - just off the scale.

Instead of starting with a familiar Its So Easy or Jungle, Guns started off with Perfect Crime - pure cocaine whiplash stuff with Axl singing at a million miles an hour with a fucking kilt on. Hearing all these new songs live was kind of mind-blowing, as was just seeing the band up on stage - there were strong rumours in the press of the band being on the brink of falling apart in the run up to the show and not turning up.

Seeing Matt play for the first time (the perception now of him is that he's a bit dorky, but back then, even with his perm, he was pretty cool - fresh out of The Cult and hearing THAT drum solo for the first time was pretty rad), seeing Slash take the Godfather solo and become a bona fide guitar god, Axl's mad outfit changes and rants, the general looseness and almost punk energy. All of this was amazing, but my abiding memory was the buzz of hearing the new songs - Estranged and November Rain were the two that understandably stood out and were the ones I was left thinking about after my ears finished ringing days later.

There were highs for the band afterwards for sure, but for me that gig marked a point the band would never be able to return to and stands out as the most memorable gig I have ever attended.

I saw G'n'R less than 12 months later at the same venue and the difference was stark. The high profile coverage of the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert earlier in 1992 meant the band were very much household names in the UK. The show was well reviewed and went down well with the crowd. 

But for me as a young fan it now felt like something had been lost.

An edge had gone and the additional musicians aimed at fleshing out the sound had only served to diminish things as a whole - they just didn't seem cool to me. More than anything, the loss of Izzy and his effortless, detached cool and loose playing (despite how low in the mix he was) had left a void. His departure felt like a change in sensibility for the band - everything now seemed overblown, caricature and a bit showbiz - something that had been reinforced by the big budget videos. 

They were now also falling out of step. Just in those short few months the sands had really shifted. It seems a cliche now to say everything changed once Smells Like Teen Spirit came out in the autumn of '91, but from my vantage point it absolutely changed the landscape.

If you bought into Nirvana and its worldview, seeing someone walking around East London rather than Sunset strip wearing leather trousers and a Harley Davidson t-shirt immediately felt ridiculous, while songs like Back off Bitch and Get In the Ring now came across as juvenile and embarrassing rather than edgy or anti establishment.

While they didn't fare as badly in the fall out as the other cock rock, hair metal bands, G'n'R were now a band of their time. 

I'm rambling and I feel like I'm on my way to writing a novel (congratulations if you've got this far). Reading back the last few paragraphs, it feels like my sentiments towards the band are somewhat negative, but that wasn't my intention for this post. 

I guess what I was trying to convey, was that around the time of the NY filming, G'n'R had lightning in a bottle.

The high point of a band is usually fleeting - that's the beauty and inherent sadness of passing time, ageing, chance, and changing culture. Life basically. 

This footage will likely capture an era when the band were absolutely on top of the world. It's been in a vault for decades and may change some of the conversations around the band and make naysayers realise just how great they really were.

I absolutely can't wait to watch it.

Edited October 6, 2022 by SilverMachine

[nikosgnr]

18 hours ago, Dean said:

Full YCBM performance dropping tomorrow

 

A band who nowdays relies completely on nostalgia of their great days. How do you call that?

[Kelmi]

27 minutes ago, nikosgnr said:

A band who nowdays relies completely on nostalgia of their great days. How do you call that?

I call that amazing! Bring on more Pro Shots!!