| Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I (World Tour 1992 in Tokyo) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 44 reviews)
Sales Rank: 9960
Category: Video
Actors: W. Axl Rose, Slash, Duff Mckagan, Matt Sorum, Gilby Clarke
Publisher: Geffen Records
Studio: Geffen Records
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Label: Geffen Records
Format: Color, Live, Ntsc
Language: German (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 90 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 6302643449
UPC: 720643952138
EAN: 9786302643442
ASIN: 6302643449
Release Date: December 8, 1992
Theatrical Release Date: December 8, 1992
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 Good DVD to rock to August 2, 2008
This is a good DVD featuring one of the greatest rock bands of all time. It is a good DVD to watch before going out for the night with friends. Everyone in the band is on top of their game, making this an essential DVD for GNR fans!!! I highly recommend!!!
guns n roses March 27, 2008
WHAT A WONDERFUL DVD. IF YOU ARE A GUNNER AND FIND AXL'S PERFORMANCES BREATH TAKING.....THIS IS A MUST FOR YOU !!!!
 Live Show December 29, 2007
It's worth owning. I've seen the band together and they were great. The disc audio is not the problem, as is the audio for Axl's mic in the beginning tracks. It's like any concert. The sound is never flawless thru-out. There is no behind the scenes, or anything special. Buy it used for a cheaper price.
Worlds most dangerous band attack Tokyo November 17, 2007
I remember a live review by the Australian metal rag Hot Metal of a Def Leppard gig and the point made was that hospitals have a certain smell. That sanitised smell. Well this may be a live visual document of what was billed as the worlds most dangerous band but it's also the closest I've ever seen them seem sanitised.
Luckily for the band they'd written such a stack of excellent wattage that wandered between hard rock and metal. The set list for this first of two live videos released together and later transferred to DVD with no extras reads like a rivetheads wet dream. Songs like Nightrain and Mr Brownstone, visceral and doomed workouts from the debut that work their insinuating charm onto the listener, set the scene excellently. Live and Let Die provides a lighter moment and a certain fun factor before things get downright mean with It's So Easy. The music from the later Illusion albums is more polished, less vicious but more mature in it's rawk metal attack. Bad Obsession sounds like pretty much nothing from the debut and is obviously a work of a band on a slightly different wavelength creatively, Attitude and Pretty Tied Up set the scene for Welcome to the Jungle to lay waste to your last shreds of optimism.
With Axl wailing all over the place with THAT voice and the band a very well oiled machine the gear changes come easily, really by this time the band pretty much over-rehearsed. Which leads to a feeling of safety (see my opening paragraph). Despite this Don't Cry was a hit for the band and it follows up the aforementioned rockers. Then we get the funk metal of Double Talkin' Jive which provides, along with Bad Obsession, a rock track with a change of pace from the earlier material. Civil War rips along, though the feeling that they had to include at least one of the more marginally politically aware tunes does give you the impression that the set list was picked out with perhaps too much care. Which sounds stupid given my love of professionalism in bands, but the feeling with this whole release is one of over refinement. Wild Horses, the horrid Patience (how was that a hit?), and finally the monumental November Rain close out this dose of hard rock/metal that pretty much sums up the 1992 state of the commercial art for this genre.
With good production values - I saw the band on this tour and was impressed with the sound - this live release sees one of the greatest hard rock and metal bands ever to stalk the earth treading the boards - and have a look at the size of this stage. You don't get a stage that big unless your bigger than Ben Hur, so to speak.
It's been said by other reviewers that here the band look like they're going through the motions. Dead tired on their feet and playing by rote. All that would probably be right. But it's still great music and is the only live document we have of this band before the disintegration. Unless of course we one day get a release of the MTV special gig the band did on the tour for their debut - now THAT was a gig and a half. As mentioned above, this was transferred over to DVD with no extras (typical of the band) and so obviously get that in preference to this VHS release. But when all is said and done, if your a hard rock fan then you really should get this, and fans of the band really should get hold of it because they'll love it despite it's few faults.
It could have been done better. January 3, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The video is ok, the audio is not that good. If you want to crank some G N R play a cd.
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