Live !?*@ Like A Suicide |
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Reckless Life |
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Live !?*@ Like A Suicide Released: December 23, 1986 Label: Uzi Suicide Tracks: 4 Running Time: 14:05 Produced by: Guns N' Roses & [partly] Spencer Proffer Engineered by: Unknown Mixed by: Hans Peter Heuber & Alan Niven Mastered by: Unknown Recorded at: Unknown Mixed at: Unknown Working title(s): - Additional Information: This was recorded to put something out before the debut album. It was released on the band's own label, Uzi Suicide. "Shadow Of Your Love" was also recorded for "Live !?*@ Like A Suicide". |
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The Cover |
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In Their Own Words |
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Tom Zutaut: The idea was to put out a home-made
record that the band would make, something that caught the wildness of the live show, and
would get people excited here and in England. Slash: We wanted an inexpensive dedication to all the kids who helped us get by when we were really low and had no money and were living in abandoned apartments. The kind of record that not everyone will have, because we're only printing 10,000 copies initially.1 Izzy: There was some material which won't be on the Geffen album. Duff: It turned out real good, it really got… it got us a real good back-bone on, you know, audience. 'Cause it's real raw, so all of our hardcore audience is like, real fuckin' sleaze-bags and shit.2 Slash: We financed it off... pretty much the bulk of money that we had, you know, accumulated there and there.3 Slash: We did it in one day.4 Slash: You get four songs and a beautiful picture on this one. Slash: We came up with the idea of releasing the EP on our own label, which we insisted was financed by Geffen. It would appear to be a "live" EP on an "indie" label but in truth it wouldn't be either. We called the label Uzi Suicide and the EP Live Like A Suicide. It was untouched demos of four songs we'd been playing since our first rehearsal: Aerosmith's "Mama Kin", Rose Tattoo's "Nice Boys", and two of our own, "Move To The City" and "Reckless Life". [...] [Tom Zutaut] believed the EP would attract eligible producers.5 |
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The cover photo for "Live !?*@ Like A Suicide" was taken by
Robert John. It features Axl and Duff, and it was designed by Slash.