GUNS N' ROSES Use Your Illusion II DVD 1992

The Use Your Illusion tour was the last time the world got the real thing, and Tokyo 1992 caught them at the absolute peak of the chaos. Axl in cycling shorts and a kilt, Slash with a cigarette permanently attached to his lip, a band that somehow held together long enough to play stadiums on two continents and still feel like they were one bad night away from implosion.

Use Your Illusion II is the companion document to one of the most excessive tours in rock history, pulling from the same Tokyo run as volume one but digging into the second record's sprawling, operatic side. November Rain, Estranged, You Could Be Mine, this is GNR at their most grandiose and their most genuinely dangerous, a hard rock band that accidentally became the biggest thing on the planet and was visibly uncomfortable about it. Essential viewing for anyone serious about the era where metal and alternative were fighting for the same airspace and nobody had declared a winner yet.

DVD. Live recorded Tokyo, Japan, 1992. USA release.

Fans of: Aerosmith, Skid Row, Mötley Crüe, Velvet Revolver, Alice Cooper