Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I just read an article on Ultimate  Classic Rock regarding 17 altered cover art on albums. AFD was one of them. I have a question and not sure if anyone can answer it. Aside from the Paris pay-per view concert, does anyone know why Guns never brought out the inflatable monster or marketed it? Looking at it retrospectively, I think they could have gone the Iron Maiden route with it.

They used it on the 1992 tour. Not just in Paris.

And, no idea. GN'R's never been that kind of band with a band mascot I guess. The image isn't tied together with a specific mascot like Iron Maiden.



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Really?! I only remember seeing it on the pay-per-view. I don't remember seeing it at Giants Stadium in 92 during the concert.  Interesting.  I think it would have been cool if they did went with a band mascot.  Thanks Jarmo.

I saw it in some other show clips as well. I assume they used it in more than one show.

While not exactly on topic, remember the controversy in 2012 when they used part of the Appetite For Destruction artwork at the Joint....




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When was it they used Mao and the red hand. It was just for a few concerts, right?

Yeah, it was in 2011, on the Latin American tour.

And I think also at the start of the North American tour as well.




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I think it is more a heavy metal thing, band mascots. Other examples of the practice are Megadeth's Vic Rattlehead, and Mot?rhead's Snaggletooth. Guns were a bit more, rock n' roll/hard rock, a bit more, Rolling Stones. They did have a logo (like The Stones' lips) which was originally the two revolvers which Slash designed for the old flyers; the logo then got augmented with the bullet and then that blood splatter on Illusions.

He also was never given a name, that creature in the Williams picture, was he? I think he would have needed a name to sort of, catch on with the fans. From my limited knowledge of Maiden, Eddie developed from this plastic head which they had at the local pub shows. He then acquired the name, 'Eddie the 'Ed' ('Eddie the Head'). It just, rather developed when they started using him in their artwork.

I wonder where it is these days?  What a collectable that would be.

Something to have in the garden perhaps?

What artwork was used exactly again?  Thanks

That was the banned cover.

I believe it was the use of the rape imagery, which was the problem with the album way back when.

Yes, in Las Vegas 2012 it was the banned original Appetite For Destruction artwork. The Hard Rock actually modified the image during the residency after a shitstorm in the media.


In 2011, there was a giant red hand used on side of the stage and opposite was the head of Mao.




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