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USE YOUR ILLUSSION II - GUNS N' ROSES (1991)

With enough music for two albums, Guns N' Roses released Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II the same day. Use Your Illusion albums debuted at number 2 and 1 respectively on the Billboard charts, setting a record as they became the first and only band to date to achieve this feat.

"We all gathered at my house, and wrote more than half of both Use Your Illusion albums on acoustics, literally in two nights." (Slash)

Line-up

  • Axl Rose: lead vocals, piano, rhythm guitar on "Shotgun Blues", synthesizer on "My World"

  • Slash: lead & rhythm guitars, banjo on "Breakdown"

  • Izzy Stradlin: rhythm guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "14 Years", acoustic guitar on "Breakdown", sitar on "Pretty Tied Up"

  • Duff McKagan: bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "So Fine", percussion on "Locomotive"

  • Matt Sorum: drums, backing vocals, percussion

  • Dizzy Reed: keyboards, piano, organ, backing vocals

  • Additionnal musicians: Steven Adler (drums) / Howard Teman (piano) / Shannon Hoon, The Waters (backing vocals) / Johann Langlie (drums, keyboards & sound effects)

Tracklist

  1. Civil War (Slash / McKagan / Rose)

  2. 14 Years (Stradlin / Rose)

  3. Yesterdays (Arkeen / James / Billy / Rose)

  4. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan)

  5. Get In The Ring (Slash / McKagan / Rose)

  6. Shotgun Blues (Rose)

  7. Breakdown (Rose)

  8. Pretty Tied Up (Stradlin)

  9. Locomotive (Slash / Rose)

  10. So Fine (McKagan)

  11. Estranged (Rose)

  12. You Could Be Mine (Stradlin / Rose)

  13. Don't Cry (Stradlin / Rose)

  14. My World (Rose)

Recording guitars & amps

  • Gibson Les Paul Standard 1959 replica

  • Gibson Flying V 1959 (lead) (Knockin' On Heaven's Door)

  • Gibson Explorer 1958 (lead) (Locomotive)

  • Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 1956 (rhythm) (Estranged)

  • Fender Stratocaster 1965 (lead) (Yesterdays / So Fine)

  • B.C. Rich Mockingbird (lead) (You Could Be Mine)

  • Marshall JCM 800 2203 S.I.R. stock #34 modded by Frank Levi (for distorted sounds)

  • Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus (for clean sounds)

  • Mesa Boogie Mark III (for feedback sounds)

Interviews & articles

Singles

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