tylerdurden wrote:

tokyo was awful in every way....

first off... sold separately..when that came out.. i had a job making $50 a week.. and up in the sticks the only place i could find it was at some mom and pop store for $27.99 a piece (on VHS).... but it was gnr.. i HAD to get it...

i bring it home and UGH...

why tokyo????
the crowd was awful... axl's voice was shot..... there were a few bright spots.. but to have that show as the definitive slice of that time period is LAME.
the paris show should have been released on DVD.. i mean.. c'mon...
the PPV production value... the setlist.. the guests... axl was in top form.. he had the captain caveman beard...the Beatty rant aside.. what would have been so terrible about that...? Realease it now ferrchrissakes... have the "it's so easy" vid as an extra... along with the 88 ritz show... ok.. now i'm rambling...

yeah paris was great....i still have that on VHS from the day it happened on PPV...the st louis show woulda been a good one...even though it's not a complete gig, but still it woulda been a perfect way to show the world the GnR attitude...but i suspect that flaunting the incident would not have been good for axls court appearances

and i agree with your assessment of Tokyo vhs's tyler...i was the exact same way when i saw it/bought it/watched it

the indiana gig with shannon hoon woulda been a great one to release too...or the marathon LA gig