Guns N' Roses May 24, 1991 Alpine Valley Music Theatre East Troy, WI, United States Use Your Illusion World Tour
Disc 1: 01 - Introduction 02 - Right Next Door To Hell 03 - Mr. Brownstone 04 - Bad Obsession 05 - Dust And Bones 06 - Double-Talkin' Jive Motherfucker 07 - Civil War 08 - Introduction Of The Band 09 - Matt Sorum Drum Solo 10 - Drum, Bass and Guitar Solo 11 - Godslaughter 12 - Pretty Tied Up
Disc 2: 13 - Patience 14 - Knockin' On Heaven's Door 15 - Live And Let Die 16 - Estranged 17 - Welcome To The Jungle 18 - You Ain't The First 19 - Sweet Child O' Mine 20 - Paradise City
I did not attend or tape this show so this will be relatively short and sweet. I acquired this tape almost 20 years ago at a record show at Serb Hall in Milwaukee, WI. I bought it directly from the taper and paid about $15 US. We had just moved to Milwaukee and I kept seeing all these billboards that said "Alpine Valley is Paradise City" or words to that effect. I had no idea where Alpine Valley was and even though I'd been taping my own shows for a while, I had no strong urge to see these guys as I thought that Axl was pretty much of an asshole. Thank God for tapers ! The show sounds pretty good so I thought that I'd up it for the enjoyment of all the Dime GNR fanatics. I'm not sure if this has been on Dime (I've been here for 7 years BION) but it hasn't been here for at least 3 years so here goes. No hiss/speed problem/ distortion. A little audience chatter but nothing to make you go postal. There's not a lot of bass response in this recording. There is a hilarious bit of "taperspeak" or one of his friends on one of the tracks. Something about sliding down the hill on yer ass... IIRC, this was taped from the lower lawn really close to a bank of hanging monitors and it sounds very loud and clear. I edited out some screaming, lengthy bits of applause, the Scarface intro and a weird cartoonish outro, both of which would've violated Dime rules and didn't make any sense anyway unless you were there. All music and stage banter obviously was left intact. All Axlspeak is present in its obnoxious glory ; what an ego !!!!! Well, that's all that I have to discuss so let's get this show on the golden road to spiritual enlightenment......
No buy, no sell, no mp3. Please seed this as long as you can. I will post a sample to help people decide if they want this but trust me, it's a fine-quality show. Listen to this on headphones for an enjoyable experience! Well, thanks for reading this and Mr. Natural would like to add these few comments: have fun, don't slide down the hill on your ass and by all means, enjoy the concert!!!
2 CDs Audience 2nd gen Unknown mic > unknown analog tape recorder > unknown master tapes > Maxell XLII 90 & 60 high bias 2nd gen cassette tapes >SONY Stereo Cassette Deck TC-WE475 > ZOOM H2 Handy Recorder >SanDisk SD 2 GB sound card (tracked wav files here) >transferred wav files to HD > Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (retracked and edited wav files here) >Trader's Little Helper (encoded wav to flac, level 8, aligned on sector boundaries) FLAC 50:02 & 53:32 min. A-