Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion I Ii 1991 Rar
Eduviges Gearlds
Slash has stated that most of the material for the album was written on acoustic guitars in a couple of nights at his house (the Walnut House), after several months of non-productivity.[8] According to Slash "Breakdown" was one of the most complicated songs to record on the album; the banjo, drum, and piano parts were hard to synchronize and drummer Matt Sorum "lost it" a couple of times trying to get the drums just right.[9] The song "Locomotive" was written in a house Slash and Izzy Stradlin rented in the Hollywood Hills following the Appetite for Destruction tours.[10] The song shows the group dabbling in funk metal,[11] and is also the only song on either album where the phrase "use your illusion" appears as a lyric.
GUNS N' ROSES - USE YOUR ILLUSION I & II Super Deluxe Seven-CD + Blu-ray and Super Deluxe Twelve-LP + Blu-ray box sets feature a whopping 97 songs, 63 of which are unreleased audio and video tracks. The original studio albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II are both remastered for the first-time from high-resolution 96kHz 24-bit transfers from the original stereo 1/2-inch analog master tapes. The box set features an impressive, anamorphic illusion showcasing each of the two covers at different angles. The Twelve-LP box is pressed on 180-gram heavy weight audiophile black vinyl with six premium tip-on gatefold jackets. Both Super Deluxe Editions also include the complete live audio recording Live In New York, taped at the Ritz Theatre on May 16, 1991, with sound newly mixed from original multi-track tapes. This legendary show is one of three warmup shows for the Use Your Illusion Tour and features Izzy Stradlin on guitar, the original version of "Don't Cry" and a special performance of "You Ain't The First" both of which features the late Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon on guest vocals. Also included is the complete audio recording of Live In Las Vegas taped at Thomas & Mack Center on January 25, 1992, newly mixed from the original multi-track tapes and features the band's new guitarist Gilby Clarke. The bonus disc is a Blu-ray Video of the complete Live In New York concert film, newly transferred from 35mm film prints to 4K UHD and presented in 1080p 24fps HD, in its entirety, along with audio mixed in Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround, and PCM 48kHz 24-bit stereo. The Blu-ray menu features the brand-new live music video "You Could Be Mine." This is the first-time release of any complete audio and video concerts from the Use Your Illusion era GN'R.
The year of 1991 saw the rise of a rock 'n' roll masterpiece, Guns N' Roses double-disc extravaganza, Use Your Illusion. Today, Rap Metal and boy bands rule the airwaves. Sadly, all that's left of Guns N' Roses is the promise that legendary frontman in retirement, Axl Rose, will rise to the occasion and return to save Rock n' Roll.While Pop music waits for Axl, Vedanta Gallery has come up with an antidote of sorts, a raunchy show about sex and rock 'n' roll with a lineup of young and upcoming art stars. The show, "Use your Illusion," has been organized by Vedanta's own Kristen Van Deventer (who runs KDP, a video resource service found at www.k-d-p.com) and Julia Fischbach.Joshua Okon, one of the founders of alternative space La Panaderia in Mexico City, could be considered the Axl Rose of contemporary American art. Loud and aggressive, Okon uses the violence of his immediate surroundings to conjure short narratives that offend any moralistic perspective. In Cockfight (1992), a two part DVD projection priced at $6,000, two young girls curse and make obscene gestures at each other. At times, it seems that Okon's actors are directly confronting the gallery-goer. Cockfight also pokes fun at the machismo inherent to Latin American culture by providing the girls with the foul language and extreme behavior associated with Latino men.Also by Okon are two large size C-prints in which the two Latinas make vulgar gestures -- one shows off her ass to the camera and the other makes a piggy face. Reminiscent of the classic Realism of Gustave Courbet, Okun's dramatic photos possess a distinctive personality and attitude worthy of rock-icon status.Jay Heikes, an artist based in Minneapolis (and who was recently included in the collections of Altoids and the Walker Art Center), uses Gothic or "Death Metal" lettering to design images that he works into collages, sculptures and video. The structure of the lettering is altered to the point of abstraction, forcing the viewer to regard the text as decoration. Heikes' transformative act is an ironic gesture, since Death Metal logotypes are purposely designed to be unreadable.In Untitled (Behemoth), a cutout of the word "behemoth" is imposed on the top of a picture of a lake, creating a sort of melted image that's creepy and fun. Behemoth looks like a homemade poster for a Friday the 13th movie.In Candle (2002), a grouping of cut wool, felt and denim lies flat on top of a low white pedestal. The cutout text is loosely based on the lyrics found in Candle, a tune by rock band Sonic Youth. The texture of the different fabrics, mixed together with the color and the drip style of the cutouts, forms a sculptural collage that looks like a bird's eye view of a Jackson Pollock painting.Also by Heikes is White Light, a one-minute animation of drawings made by the artist on top of '80s music video footage. The animation is a nostalgic tribute to videos that have been put out of rotation at MTV."Use Your Illusion" the art show, just like the record, has its share of b-sides. L.A. artist Benji Whalen paints nightgowns on top of the naked bodies found in the glossy pages of porn magazines. The good thing is that the paintings do not aspire to be anything else than what they are, pretty pictures. This honest approach makes the girls in the paintings look so cute and innocent that passing judgment on them or in Whalen's paintings would be a crime.Another b-side is provided by recent UIC graduate student Melanie Schiff in the series "Sleeping Boys." In a sort of performance, Schiff invited a selected group of young men to spend the night at her place, and in the process, managed to photograph them in their sleep. The large-scale color portraits of the boys, wrapped in white sheets, are slick, sweet and really beautiful. But the problem with "Sleeping Boys" is that the images lack vital visual and conceptual information that could be helpful to the viewers. And one is left to wonder whether the work is intended to be a feminist view on the idea of the male gaze, or just a simple exercise in cool decorative photography.Confusion is also found in a series of three photos of record covers mounted behind Plexiglas. Among those photographed are the Beatles's White Album and Loveless by the group My Bloody Valentine. The photos are not of the original record covers but of reproductions made by Schiff. Although the artist channels Sherrie Levine, the outcome is pure academic trickery that can't help to justify why in the world Schiff makes art of what's already great art. And I'm not just talking about the cover art but of what's inside the covers, the music, which is even better art.Even though at this point Schiff's work feels young -- the artist does have the attitude and skills of an artist with a lot of promise.
PEDRO VELEZ is a Chicago-based artist, critic and curator.
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