@RobertJohnPhotography Your work as a photographer with the band is outstanding. But you happened to film them as well. Were you in Chicago in 1989 when they were rehearsing and writing the Illusion material? If so, any footage?

Wasn't Nikki Sixx in London?

@@BeliaLastes Yes I think for a second. That was before Izzy was in the band.

​@@RobertJohnPhotographyyour photography work with GNR is legendary. I just got your book not long ago. The photographic history of GNR. It's awesome.

Pretty sure you have unseen footage from the band. Hope someday it will be released.

Being a Tulsa boy and musician myself!? My favorite t shirt is the black Church Studio;!

Waaay Kwel

@@justJodi1.0 You know I was a boiler tech in the Navy and worked in the noisiest environment ever, until I hit the Whiskey!

Lol. Love that

Righteous Brother;!

😊 that's funny lol

Axl needs to start doing lessons again (singing lessons). If I was Izzy I'd stay away from that circus.

Izzy steals Axl girlfriend...lol

Stolen

Thanks for the comment, mate and I'm glad you enjoyed. Just for context regarding the surfing videos: Surfing was one of the things Izzy took up during his break from GN'R. It leads on from Alan Niven describing what he was getting up to. With the greatest of respects, nothing was random about this video ;) Thanks again, dude.

@@AyewisDocumentaries hey, sorry, random was a poor word choice on my part. I’m a surfer and guitarist myself, and I thought the surf clips were just so high performance, makes one think Izzy is some ripping pro ha. I think some dude riding a longboard in California would have been closer to the mark, but being a surfer myself I’m probably the only person who thought this. Regardless I really enjoyed the video. I’m a big fan of Izzy, he’s so cool and talented. Peace ✌️

@@slashtrio All good, mate. I wasn't having a go, just wanted to add a bit of context. As a non-surfer, i get you're point now. Rock on and keep surfing, dude!

It’s not new

@@robmcvaigh796oh mb its new on KZfaq 😭

@@robmcvaigh796 mb I thought it was because I’ve only ever seen it on youtube

Absolutely. Raw, raunchy, hip swinging and brutally honest rock n fuckin roll. It was what was needed exactly at the time. My first time seeing them was right before they released Appetite. No clue who they were. But after that performance they had become my favorite band. Their Live show was complete debauchery. Like the album, it was fucking loud, raw and in your face. Although Slash was having challenges standing up, he still killed it. And like all the General Admission concerts back in the day, me and my crew were front and center at the stage. Unforgettable.

ITS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS EVER…IT IS THE BEST DEBUT ALBUM EVER!

*IZZY IS AMAZING* *HE WON* *CATER*

It’s’Drove’, which is on the ‘Concrete’ album.

It's like a version 2.0, ie it's brighter, edits are smoother, volume levelled and titles have been added etc

Little to no promo is my guess. He should have signed with a smaller label where he would have been their main focus.

@@TheChristafershawn idk I bought them....both...didn't have that same edge ... was very stale to me like the gin blossoms or counting crows...blues traveller.... idk...maybe that's on me but I didn't get it then...maybe ill go back an give em another listen

@@isaacshaver6218 Yeah I hear you. I remember back in the day hearing a few tracks from a friend who dug it because it was different but I do remember thinking it kinda vanilla, like the examples you gave. That said I bet if one was to revisit his old stuff it might be much more appreciated for what it is rather than what it isn't.

Yep, its just so inevitable that people would want to near Axl screeching over the songs to make them peek out of the trees. But being a person that quit a band myself I'd love to be in his shoes just to have that freedom.....and money Lol.

Izzy is clearly a talented musician but GNR was the sum of it's parts, for a few brief years. They all made GNR such an awesome band. On it's own, his music was musically very good but it didn't have the same force as when he was teamed up with the rest of the band. After UYI toured, I remember feeling that it was all about to come apart. I knew nothing then like we know now. Relying on some magazines and MTV etc. Adler was gone, Izzy was gone, Izzy had a solo album, Duff had a solo album. It was like I didn't want them to be successful solo artists because it would mean the end of something else that was bigger than all of them. Sadly it came to pass and we can only be appreciative that this group of guys were together making music for 6 or 7 years and none of them are dead!! It's remarkable that the reunion band has been back together for so long and yet they haven't created any new music of note. Certainly gives weight to the belief that they can't write the music without Izzy and also Stephen. You also need to remember that their life circumstances, that was the fuel for their raw music, have vastly changed. You can't fake that energy and bad ass attitude. They are still a very good gig to go and see but it's very different to them in their heyday.

I agree GnR the band died some time after Lies was recorded. They were still a band then. Somewhere around the success of Patience, publically, they stopped being the band we'd always wanted. They became Axl's day job. Still are. The first JuJu Hounds record said all I needed to hear, about where the good influences on those iconic songs, was.

Izzy was great. He was not going to commit to major tours and being in the biggest band at the time. He still wouldn’t commit even though it’s a professional band and yes Axl included. Adler was great on AFD but he isn’t the answer to what you want. You want AFD part II. It’s not happening. It would be fraudulent and silly for very wealthy musicians who are 59-63 years old to write songs about being broke or drug addiction etc.. Chinese doesn’t suck. A lot of it is really good.

You are lame.