This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Ian Dury may have coined and popularized the phrase Sex And Drugs And Rock ’N’ Roll, but L.A. Sunset Strip sleaze gods Guns N’ Roses truly personified it — and perhaps even perfected the formula, as this two-CD live set clearly illustrates.
Recorded over the course of seven years, these 22 tunes could — and in many cases, did — serve as a virtual template for hair-metal bands who tried in vain to duplicate Axl Rose’s alley-cat screech, Slash’s crash-and-burn guitar riffs and their Marlboro-and-Jack Daniel’s-fuelled odes to hard drugs (Mr. Brownstone), kinky sex (Pretty Tied Up), misogynistic murder (Used To Love Her) and the seedy underbelly of their hometown (Welcome To The Jungle). Rock ’n’ roll may never be this unrepentantly trashy again. Pity.
