Guns N' Roses
The Band: Guns And Roses
Venue: Montezuma Hall; SDSU
Location: San Diego, California USA
Date: February 8, 1988
Source: Audience
Lineage: Master cassette>cdr
Title: Chrystal Meth City
The Taper: The Mad Taper
Recording Equipment: Sony Cassette recorder,
model unknown
Engineering & mastering: John Atyim
Artwork by: Eric
Label: Let It Rip Productions
Set list:
(79: 53)
1. It's So Easy
2. Move To The City
3. Mr. Brownstone
4. Out To Get me
5. Sweet Child 'O Mine
6. I Used To Love Her
7. My Michelle
8. Rocket Queen
9. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
10. Welcome To The Jungle
11. Night Train
12. Patience
13. Paradise City
14. Mama Kin
Lead Vocals: Axl Rose
Lead Guitar: Slash
Rhythm Guitar: Izzy Stradlin
Bass Guitar: Duff "Rose" McKagan
Drums: Steven Adler
It's not every day you see a recording like this surface. I finally got permission from the taper to bring this recording out to you. From what I've gathered there was no known source to this show in the trading circles. I searched the internet high & low and nothing pertaining to this show turned up.
So... here it is !
Guns & Roses in their prime, the boys are playing a pretty tight set and Axl's voice is strong, singing on all cylinders hitting the highs & the lows this night. At the time this show was recorded, Guns & Roses were showcasing new songs from their "G'nR Lies" album. The master cassette used for the transfer was starting to suffer from "tape oxidation" at the very beginning and at the end of the show-I don't think you'll notice that too much as I gave my very best efforts in the digital
restoration part of doing this production. I think you are really going to like this show!
There is feed back coming from the speakers every now and then and no noise or hiss reduction was used in this production. I did add some bass eq to balance this recording, and the reason for that is the taper doesn't recall where he was standing when he recorded this show, he recalls he was extremely stoned on marijuana and mentioned to me that it was loud as hell in that Montezuma Hall at SDSU. This is evident in the recording itself, the band is almost overpowering the taper's recording equipment. The taper refers to himself anonymous as the; "Mad Taper", he's brought you other recordings in the past under Let It Rip Productions.
Well, anyways, I'm just glad to bring this show out to you all and as with Let It Rip Productions, just trade 'em, torrent 'em and please do not exchange currency for the recordings we bring to you because this recording, and especially this recording, is intended to be shared amongst fans.
Enjoy !
John