Use Your Illusion I & II: World Tour 1992 in Tokyo

Last year there was talk that Guns N' Roses were concocting a long-form video to unify their hysterically indulgent Use Your Illusion I & II: World Tour 1992 in Tokyo clips into one, presumably even more excessive, GN'R movie. At first glance, you might think these two tapes contain such scintillating goods, but as the cassette boxes' small print reveals, they're just two halves of a concert video — and a deadly dull one at that (apparently lifted from a Japanese TV broadcast, with interview segments retaining their subtitles). The wimpy sound mix doesn't do justice to GN'R as a hard-rock band, and front man Axl Rose's stage manner seems to confirm his avowal to MTV's Kurt Loder that there's a lot of other stuff going on in his head while he's performing. D

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