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Location:
Indianapolis, IN Date: April 7, 1990
Information: Farm Aid IV show, that also was the last show Steven Adler did with the band. This was the only gig Guns N' Roses did in 1990. It was the first time "Civil War" was performed live and the only time "Down On The Farm" was performed live before returning 2006 to the setlist again. |
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| Songs: 2 Playing Time: 12 minutes Introduction Line: None Venue: Hoosier Dome Other Headliners: Bonnie Raitt, John Mellencamp, John Hiatt, Carl Perkins, Arlo Guthrie, Garth Brooks, John Denver, Bill Monroe, Alan Jackson, Asleep at the Wheel, Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Elton John, Lou Reed, Don Henley, Crosby Still & Nash, Neil Young Attendance: Unknown | |||
Recording Info |
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| CD | DVD | Audio:
Yes (Soundboard [Westwood One]) [12 min] On Bootlegs: After The Big Long Blank, Brazil, Civil War, Covering 'Em, Dreams And Illusions, Heaven War, Live In Japan (3 Days In Tokyo), Live In Rio & Indianapolis 1991, Live In Stuttgart '92, Live USA, Nice Boys, Sessions 1987-1991, The Story Vol. II, You Could Be Mine, WAR Sound clip: N/A |
Video:
Yes (Pro Shot [TV]) [12 min] On Bootlegs: Screen shots: N/A |
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In Their Own Words |
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Steven: The last show I ever played with them was over at Farm Aid. And to this day, I never heard the original version of "Down on the farm." I guess some punk band did it, and we’re on stage and all of a sudden Axl goes; "This is a song 'down on a farm." And I yelled at Duff: "I go, Duff, Duff, what the fuck is this, how does this go?" And he just clapped his hands and just says; "just do this (clapping hands) boom, boom, boom." And that song came out so kick ass, because I knew what Duff was gonna play before he played it. Yeah, each of us knew what we were gonna do before, we were, each of us were gonna do it. And I mean, if somebody was gonna hit a wrong note, which rarely happened, or something, we knew it was gonna happen before.1 Steven: When I tripped on that cymbal, when I jumped up there, if you watch you can see, it fuckin’ woke my ass up! I needed that to happen, if it didn’t that show might have sucked! Obviously I went out there, and we hadn’t played as a band, even in rehearsal, well maybe we did some recording, but we hadn’t rehearsed in a month before that show! And I never played that song, “Down on the Farm” I never even heard it in my life, and we played it, and it came out fucking great, and “Civil War” came out amazing! So it woke me up, and I think it even woke the other guys up. My friend Brooke gave me these bootleg shows, and I watched Farm Aid, and I was smiling when I was up there. Slash: We did [the UK Subs] "Down On The Farm" at Farm Aid, but I can't remember how that came up.2 Slash: I would imagine that when we did Down On The Farm we were just doing it for the fun of it. And it was sounding good so we recorded it. And then we went and played it at Farm Aid.3 Slash: We got an offer to play Farm Aid in Indiana on April 7, 1990. That gig got us fired in the same way that those gigs with the Stones had done for us not too long before.4 Slash: We put together a few songs just for the show; we worked up a cover of the UK Subs' classic "Down On The Farm" and we fine-tuned "Civil War".5 Slash: The second we walked out onstage, Steven took a run up to the drum riser, which is a pretty big platform that's hard to miss, and took flight. [...] Steven hobbled through the show, and our performance was dodgy at best, though well received by the Farm Aid crowd. [...] There couldn't have been a better way for Steven to reveal to us that he'd been lying about being clean.6 |
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