Live Review: Guns N' Roses/ Skid Row, Great Western Forum, Inglewood, 29th July, 1991

GUNS N' ROSES (and SKID ROW) have rarely sounded better or more inspired. For two-and-a-half hours the band performed 10 songs from the not-yet-released albums, Use Your Illusion I and II. Between songs, Axl told the audience that they had just finished the new album:

"The motherfucker is done... It's amazing the amount of pressure that people can exert on five drug addicts."

At times, pushing his voice to a degree of hoarseness, the unshaven singer was absolutely brilliant throughout. Opening act Skid Row (whose album Slave to the Grind took a bow at #1 on the charts here) put on a show that sent chills around the audience.

Despite what has been written about Sebastian Bach, this is a dynamic, pure rock performer that loves his music and his audience. Encore song, "I Remember You" had great harmonies and Sebastian close to tears due to the audience reaction. Overall, one of the best shows i have ever seen in LA! (Backstage, Sebastian told me that she is looking forward to playing Wembley... Don't miss it!).

Barbara Shaughnessy
Riff Raff
September 1991

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!