What ever occurred to Axl Rose’s re-recorded model of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction?

The vocalist confirmed within the late ’90s that he’d labored on one other model of the legendary 1987 album with new musicians, nevertheless it was by no means launched publicly. Now that Slash and Duff McKagan are again within the band, it is uncertain that it ever will likely be.

But it did exist.

Why Axl Rose Re-Recorded Appetite for Destruction

In November of ’99, Guns N’ Roses launched a double stay album titled Live Era ’87 – ’93, which featured recordings from numerous performances between these years. Rose advised MTV’s Kurt Loder in a 1999 interview that the stay document was meant to function a farewell launch from the outdated lineup to their followers.

When the singer was requested if the brand new Guns N’ Roses lineup would proceed to play the outdated materials, he assured they’d, and added that he re-recorded all of Appetite except two songs, which they changed with “You Could Be Mine” and “Patience.”

“Well, we had to rehearse them anyway to be able to perform them live again, and there were a lot of recording techniques and certain subtle styles and drum fills and things like that that are kind of ’80s signatures that subtly could use a little sprucing up… a little less reverb and a little less double bass and things like that,” Rose elaborated.

Only a brief clip of the audio from the interview was ever shared on-line, which you’ll hearken to beneath.

Axl Rose Interview With Kurt Loder (1999)

The Musicians on the Alternate Version of Appetite

Rose acknowledged that Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails), Tommy Stinson (The Replacements), Paul “Huge” Tobias and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails) have been the musicians he re-recorded the document with.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do with it, exactly, when I would be putting that out. But you know, it has a lot of energy. Learning the old Guns songs and getting them up, you know, putting them on tape, really forced everybody to get them up to the quality that they needed to be at,” Rose added.

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“Once the energy was figured out by the new guys, how much energy was needed to get the songs right, then it really helped in the writing and recording process of the new record.”

Only One of the Recordings Has Ever Been Shared Publicly

You might recall Sheryl Crow’s cowl of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” within the 1999 Adam Sandler movie Big Daddy, however a part of Rose’s alternate model of the tune was additionally featured throughout the film’s credit.

A stay model of “Sweet Child” performs at first, then it switches over to the re-recorded rendition. It’s the one clip from the re-recorded model of Appetite that is ever been formally shared. The alternate recording of the tune begins at about 3:07. You’ll discover Rose sings the “Where do we go now?” part in a different way from the ’87 model.

Listen beneath.

Guns N’ Roses, ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ (Big Daddy Credits)