Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone - Live at the ritz 88

[@tomkelsey2303]

1988 GNR was untouchable.

[@gunsnrosesdefinition7672]

1983-mid1987 W. Axl Rose is untouchable

[@waynefilkins8394]

This country has fallen so far lol

[@spencerdobkin9479]

'86 to '90 best band ever. Their prime.

[@peterbabooram7798]

Hell yeh

[@mooknick242]

damn they were on top of the game back then

[@matthewadams1874]

Wasn't they just 🤯

[@jjcaron72]

Axl was in sick shape vocally here. Absolutely insane.

[@yankees29]

@@jjcaron72unreal

[@shanksmcnasty6650]

This performance was actually pretty sloppy tbh, besides Adler

[@Lunarshadows-dz4cu]

I watched this live on MTV when it aired. Since I lived in the eastern time zone nothing was cut out. Being a kid in the 89s, it was great! 😂

[@bluesoddity2094]

Yes!

[@yankees29]

I remember

[@bluesoddity2094]

I taped it and got the whole broadcast. Can't find THAT version on "Knockin On Heaven's Door" anywhere. .

[@5150zig]

Same here

[@youngguns6610]

Best performance ever of the song.

[@gunsnrosesdefinition7672]

I believe it's the Mr. Brownstone on Marquee Club 1987 3rd night

[@Rilez616]

@@gunsnrosesdefinition7672 link bro or invalid

[@thiagosouza4002]

Rock in rio 1991

[@marcosimmons185]

Slash’s solo in Tokyo 1992

[@adamcitrix1170]

@@Rilez616 kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXjQXoGklsploKM

[@GeneralTHC]

Boy, I'll never forget 1988. I was 15 going on 30. Guns N Roses was the greatest thing in the world for a teenage boy in the late 80s.. Er, maybe make that second greatest thing in the world. I actually remember hearing this record in the second half of 87. End of 87 is when Welcome to the Jungle started picking up steam on MTV. This would have been the spring of 88, and by the summer they hit #1 with Sweet Child O' Mine. And they carried on kicking that ass all thru the grunge era before the big flop in the mid 90s. But it was marvelous while it lasted.

[@timbaker4253]

Yip. It was GnR mania at my high school. Everyone was signing their songs during break time and in class. We also had the Hysteria album around that time which was massive too. And lots of other good stuff too. We have no idea how fortunate we were to have these great albums as soundtracks to our teen years.

[@michaelallgood5868]

I was 9!!!! Still was so into it even at 9.

[@mrmo4176]

I got to see them open for Aerosmith at SPAC that summer while Sweet Child was #1. A few of the guys including Axl came out on the lawn during Aerosmith's set but not many people even recognized them yet, Axl just looked like an everyday scumbag in the trailer next door 😂

[@jannorris4140]

Man, this gives me goosebumps. Havent felt this way about music in 35 years lol ... Well, maybe when i heard Nirvana....

[@zachlafond2652]

must build time machine to go watch this live

[@barryosullivan1486]

Fantastic song on a fantastic album

[@sarahmatz4858]

The sound is explosive.

[@CarlosGonzalez-sz4jh]

God Adler was so damn Good and had a distinct groove. Really miss him after he left

[@stephenotoole408]

He diddnt leave he was fired

[@Centerpointless]

He was dancing with mr brownstone too much so they fired him :(

[@mich_flac]

@@Centerpointless😂 and 😢 so unfair when they’re all addicts themselves

[@samcarter3242]

Could of rehired him when he got better

[@Kevin-be9iy]

@@mich_flacsteven’s was really bad hence effecting his ability, and axl wasn’t as bad with drugs as the rest

[@MrASIDS]

a legendary concert and above all a good sound signed mtv. I read that the band was tired that night, that says it all. in fact we have very few good quality video testimonials from that time which is why the ritz is referenced. in fact the band sounded perfect in 1988. izzy said that when steven broke his arm he was temporarily replaced by a technically very good drummer but that strangely nothing worked without steven. that's what I think. steven axl slash izzy duff for ever gnr 88 🙏🙏🙏🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏👍

[@gunsnrosesdefinition7672]

Ritz 1988 and Melbourne 1988 are the only concerts on pro shots which is released on that year

[@Bastard_children]

Steve energy was bigtime

[@eastcoastmonkey]

Yes - when you come up with the drum parts and you actually write the song with the band - in my opinion, you will always play it better for that reason. Because it is suited to you. I never thought too much about how drummers have a personal swing - one that is all their own, until I really listened to Steven play the songs and then heard others play them. I absolutely love this show because it is one of the few times that they give Steven a decent amount of screen time. And I'm so glad they did, because this is one of his best performances of Brownstone and Rocket Queen. He looks like Animal from the Muppets up there on stage! That's the level of energy he put out! (I don't want to put down Frank, but I have heard that he leaves a part out of Rocket Queen that is supposed to be in there, and I gotta say - if that is true, then that sucks! I mean, that song is 'probably' AFD's track with the best drum section.)

[@donaldknitter6978]

I love when Axl wraps that banner like a coat and does his sway thing! I actually watched this as it happened, live on MTV. Maybe 1987 or 1988

[@agasa7]

Tシャツの上にジャケット着てるだけなのに何重にも重ね着しているように見えるステキ！　この頃が一番イケメン

[@tiendakhaf1435]

Best time to watch best performance and not busy recording the show with cell phones.

[@taniaplecas]

👍

[@taniaplecas]

I would rather leave my phone in a safe locker and enjoy a real life performance!👀🎸🎶📺📱💯

[@straightcashhomey1261]

Slash had a great sound and monster riffs

[@staceyemmel8915]

Still does!!!

[@greggie0707]

The energy was untouchable!!!!!

[@buxtonman1]

looks like slash is loader up with h. dont know how he plays so good all f up?? he is great!!!

[@jeremytaylor206]

It's cause he probably is, he wrote this song while strung out on herion.

[@Mr.Cynical92]

Slash said that he used heroin while off the road. He used alcohol heavily on tour in it's place. Which is why GNR toured in 1991. Axl said on That Metal Show interview that he didn't want to tour but either their manager or the record company said that Slash was probably going to overdose on heroin if they didn't go on tour.

[@VioletSkye19]

It’s word play, the song name, brownstone is used a lot for buildings particularly over in the US, a lot of heroin is brown, stone, well, shouldn’t have to say it. It’s pretty clever when you think about it

[@joshuablair252]

@@Mr.Cynical92 I don’t really believe that after going through addictions now. I read that autobiography too. It’s easy to hide that shit when you’re addicted

[@fermincruz3217]

You must be one of the judges from America's got talent ???

[@exit3073]

Best GNR song in my opinion...it rocks from beginning to end

[@LARSENALmtl]

Amazing.

[@pel666]

One of the most underrated riffs ever...guitarists wet dream!

[@seannburns5422]

As bad as I hate to say it. Slash basically based this riff off on sweet emotion. Just picture sweet emotion riff slowed down just a bit. But he (slash) has always stated he's a Aerosmith guy as far as riffs are concerned

[@rbilleaud]

Other guys wanted to be Slash, I wanted to be Izzy. So chill and laid back, but he was the genius behind all their hits - with the exception of November Rain, I'll give that one to Axl.

[@tylerdalton6940]

Yup Izzy wrote this about being addicted to heroine

[@Metal_Horror]

I'd rather be Duff.

[@MrGunwitch]

Nah Slash was the genius. All the iconic guitar work is him.

[@ye6973]

Great artists all of them but none of it happens without the combo of Axl & Slash

[@zusanli251]

You should give it to Slash. He performed the epic solos that made that track what it was

[@dealerslicenseops]

As an FYI as a kid I used to think MR. Brownstone was Axl's landlord that was being mean to Axl , harassing him for late payments

[@skaterboi4peace]

Love early axls voice live !!

[@barbarascaccini3182]

Awesome performance, my favourite of this song....the entire live amazing, incredible....

[@edwardfetner2513]

Axl's Indiana drawl really comes out at the beginning lol, amazing

[@MicheleBiase-o9v]

Yes it was wild had best concerts in my home town of New Haven Connecticut ❤❤❤❤❤❤😮😂😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😮

[@denmasAnom7]

Mantap 🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@Piblox2020]

Melhor de todos! Amo até hoje!!!😢😢❤❤😂😂

[@Darchy006]

They're just amazing.

[@MarcosVAlves87]

Amazing live performance

[@EYEBA-11]

THIS IS THE REAL GNR I GREW UP ON...PRICELESS....

[@zboys4586]

Oh to be a young man in America year of 1988. I remember it well. The end of the great anything goes to X-ES decade. Mine go to 11

[@johnblaskovich5677]

2023 bud. :Suicide doesn't stop life from possibly getting worse,It's stops life from possibly ever getting better. R.I.P David Palladino/Kevin Phillips. Your loved bro. Stick Around

[@jessierubio246]

..the lyrics lyrics mention how the band would take heroin before performing at concerts. "The show usually starts around 7, we go on stage around 9" means they were two hours late for the show because of the drug. Group guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin wrote the tune while they were sitting around Stradlin's apartment complaining about their addictions to heroin, for which "Brownstone" is a slang term.

[@Delta1up.]

The whole first paragraph is total BS! Read Slash's autobiography and you'll learn Slash couldn't and wouldn't ever play in that condition and the others never did either. Also, it wasn't the "bands' drug of choice, just Slash and Izzy's for a while.

[@eastcoastmonkey]

I am the only one who swoons a little bit when I see Axl and Izzy singing with each other? It's almost too much to handle.

[@Barbara-jk5kd]

Me too

[@eastcoastmonkey]

@@Barbara-jk5kd 🤘

[@shahbanu-amestris]

It really looks like they're about to make out.

[@richardmanley2072]

I am originally from north jersey litlle falls nj i was at this ahow what a great memory

[@MérciaMarques-s1d]

Yes...............Ⓜ️

[@ryuzakisimms1019]

Gnarly performance. Slash and Axl Rose.

[@jgfunk]

Yet again no one gives Izzy the credit he deserves

[@bigbromiki1]

@@jgfunkIf you listen to Appetite left side is Izzy guitar, riffs are way cleaner

[@РусланСулейманов-т5н]

Офигенный Иззи 🤘

[@TaiwanFinance]

Straight edge faith in Jesus Christ , God Bless

[@jimgiles5741]

Could you all imagine a world without gnr

[@staceyemmel8915]

Hell to the NO!!!!!!

[@staceyemmel8915]

AMAZING!!! AS ALWAYS!!!

[@gordonm6108]

I always love how Slash really does look like a smelly junkie. What a riff.

[@wina018414]

I remember seeing this on mtv😢

[@moraleskush420]

Say whatever you want about these guys but at their prime they were pure rock n roll. Fucking badass

[@dawnhenderson9461]

Duff and Steven miss y'all ❤❤❤

[@gimmyherbert8217]

Axel hitting them notes

[@junemckirdle4969]

Legends 😊❤

[@Spankydoodle]

Gotta love the Axl dance.

[@Eden639]

Wished I had seen them back then. Axl is wearing so many rings, looks like he is also wearing a wedding band.

[@carloscastro-oy7rk]

Puro ponch!!! Steve Adler bien chingón!!! Ese toke

[@soundwave6189]

I posted this before but 0:57-107 is how those of us with Integrity dance while others bow down and do anything for money..It feels good to stand firm against the things that everyone else is doing..🤔

[@zzzzoom6387]

WOOOOOOOOOO Me Brownstone ✨

[@shahbanu-amestris]

2:04 This is a more romantic duet than "I Got You Babe" or "Islands in the Stream".

[@pablogrijalva1581]

Man if these dudes would have lasted just two or three more years. They disbanded right art the start of their Peak

[@ginaiscaro7675]

I love your music 😊

[@charlesgauldin8010]

Fukn ROCKS

[@mrsteveispleased]

❤🎉 🌹

[@hasymeer5865]

The only different about them is when they choose to become pure Hard Rock. Literally every band during that time become Glam/Hair metal.

[@beefcake0354]

no Izzy, no Steven .... no Guns n' Roses

[@nazroajoesofea3566]

Yes👍

[@jgfunk]

💯

[@ronieryadin9912]

Bener pisan

[@NamikSokolovic3778]

But they were even better with Matt Sorum, and Matt is a better drummer than Steven by at least 100 light years

[@robw7676]

​@NamikSokolovic3778 Nope. Matt is a great drummer, but he doesn't have same the groove/swing Adler brought. Take Izzy and Adler away and the GnR sound becomes flat and mechanical. It's all about timing and feel, not technical ability.

[@juliogrossi1982]

35 years ago!

[@nowaythishappened]

Sick slash gtr solo

[@maxplascencia]

“Now you all know we is filming tonight. For the MTV”

[@eastcoastmonkey]

If this song doesn't make you want to dance, then you have no soul. Or heartbeat. Or something like that. 😆

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@craigstrauss9831]

Louder the better.

[@XXX-yt5po]

高校ん時見たよ。今も通用してる

[@gimmyherbert8217]

Wayne's world had Aerosmith... Ozzy in little Nicky...blues brothers.2 awesome ending ...guns n roses needs a movie cameo

[@Delta1up.]

They had one although their part was way too brief. They were in The Dead Pool which was released in '88 and featured Clint Eastwood and the completely unknown actor (at the time) Jim Carrey. Check it out sometime, and look for the GnR guys in the funeral scene. The song Welcome To The Jungle was also spotlighted in one scene in which Jim Carrey is supposed to be the actual vocalist. Definitely worth taking the time to watch!

[@gimmyherbert8217]

@@Delta1up. James bond 007 used their music

[@johnclaxton4809]

The Deadpool 1988

[@gcuf1359]

I'm 17 and questions to the oldies, how bad actually is heroin? My dad's 66 and he's like "it's the worst thing ever" but he's a nurse gives fent patches everyday. I have really bad pain

[@taniaplecas]

Hej B!!! 💖🙏🤩🥳🤪🎉🍿💋🍾🍒🎸🍭🎈🎉🧬👍👊🤟🤙✌️👐🙌👏👣🎊🌈🎶💯

[@aaronsaunders6974]

the little got mo & mo 🤭👍👀

[@glennhertel1165]

1988

[@Ruthbear]

More fun than Catfish. Grateful I was born in the 80s. LOL.

[@wildestcowboy2668]

Fun fact. . Axl was the least druggie of the band.

[@donnalasala48]

Axl was a bipolar control freak lunatic. He caused the demise of this band.

[@jt-ff3yx]

Like a freight train heading right towards you at 200 mph. I mean that in a good way. They were a loud, powerful force.

[@robwalsh9843]

The ironic thing about LA hard rock is that it had gone so far in copying what Eddie Van Halen did it had lost all the great grooving hooks that a rock guitar riff is supposed to have. When Guns n' Roses brought back the 70's rhythms it was a huge breath of fresh air compared to what all the hair metal bands were doing. It had swagger and balls.

[@caroldaly8730]

Heroin is a killer

[@Delta1up.]

no kiddin?

[@katherinejohnson4545]

💸💸💸👁️

[@johnblaskovich5677]

When song came out it wasn't heroin..It was Pablo Escobar Coke days.. song isn't about coke but it might as well been ...because I used to do a little ...but a little wouldn't do it....

[@Delta1up.]

It was mainly about heroin hence the name, but I'm sure coke was a heavy influence on the lyrics as well.

[@ricardojosearruda8052]

I got simply 35 years old of Guns n Roses.

[@MuhammadYusuf-ge8yh]

Axl as heart slash as brain duff as neck izzy as hand steven addler as foot One fof all, all fof one. Complattly

[@cheesymiccheeseballs8227]

I can't be the only weeb that thinks the opening sounds like Ready Steady Go's opening from FMA

[@BettyLawson-c1s]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 2:57

[@randomjive7310]

I wish axl wrote more songs in his low voice ❤

[@jamesvardeman3763]

act like you don't see me I'll act like I can't hair you

[@thomaspadron1689]

izzy was singing with axl rose

[@scoobydoo936]

Its brutal to listen to out of tune guitars. Its still a legendary gig.

[@jamesdelaney3797]

Back when Mtv still had SOME balls left

[@brianpatrickreddington1750]

slash is stoned and drunk you can clearly tell because he looks like he's about to fall over

[@craigstrauss9831]

Can't never play it loud enough. Nope.

[@ahehe6592]

Yowsa

[@gunsnrosesdefinition7672]

Yowsa means It's gone I see

[@chriswilder9767]

Axl rose is the king of rock n roll

[@alifwardana]

One team,,,

[@waynefilkins8394]

I was listening to this while taking kratom and I was like... wait a minute... I used to think it was about doing a little more, like working harder to get ahead or something, which was pretty stupid since it's g&r lol. Then I realized it was about drug tolerance, cuz kratom and caffeine are the same way, you have to keep doing more to get the effects lol.

[@Delta1up.]

I would be embarrassed if it took me more than one listen to the song to figure that part out lol. Yes it is very clearly describing the need for more and more because a little doesn't do it anymore.

[@waynefilkins8394]

@@Delta1up. I think I was like 10 when I first heard it so sort of had my mind made up on it then. I guess I should be embarrassed that as a 10 year old I wasn't thinking about drugs.

[@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec]

Brownstone is heroln. Good dope is brown powder.

[@leemblake]

Just do a lot and get er done

[@dixienormous4394]

Such a pity what happened to Adler, infinitely better raw rock drummer than Matt Sorum

[@WilliamNorthup-o1j]

I would have been scared shitless, without some crack and vodka(cheap vodka)

[@lukemiehe9924]

Mtv 107.9 fm....see why city took house,motive.. ..

[@brianpatrickreddington1750]

Steven is rushing the song

[@堂島一馬-k5i]

空耳から来た人

[@fermincruz3217]

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