Description

The Use Your Illusion album was massive sellers and they helped the band become one of the biggest hardrock acts of the early 90s. The supporting tour was huge as there were demans from all over the world. The tour ran from January 20, 1991, to July 17, 1993. It was not only the band’s longest tour, but one of the longest concert tours in rock history, consisting of 192 shows in 27 countries. It was also a source of much infamy for the band, due to riots, late starts, cancellations and outspoken rantings by Axl Rose. The tour was massive not just in the number and size of performances, but also in its technical aspects and the size of the crew. A total of 130 working personnel traveled with the band, using two different stages to enable faster setup. The trade magazine Performance named the tour crew Crew of the Year for 1991. For the 1993 leg of the tour some things changed and they designed a tour to be less extravagant and more minimalistic than the grandiose shows that came before it. The 1993 part of the tour went under the name of The Skin N Bones Tour. Duff McKagan revealed in 2015 that the band didn’t make profit on the tour until 1993 due to the extravagant costs. The shows were all varied, as a setlist was never chosen by the band. They did, however, usually open with Welcome To The Jungle, Its So Easy, Nightrain or Perfect Crime and close with Paradise City. For the Skin N Bones Tour the band included an unplugged performance in a living room set in the middle of the show. Even Izzy Stradlin returned for several shows in 1993, deputizing for an injured Clarke. Slash remared in 1994 that; The band had such a ball. We managed to tour for two and a half years, against all the fuckin’ odds. It really was a fuckin’ endurance test of pretty big proportions. Izzy Stradlin however had a different opinion of his performances with the band in 1993; It was weird. We toured Greece, Istanbul, London. I liked that side of it – seeing some places I’d never seen… [But] money was a big sore point. I did the dates just for salary… [At the end] I didn’t actually say See you, cos they were all fucked up… It was like playing with zombies. This Acoustic album features live material from different citys and sources taken from the unplugged session of the 1993 Skin N Bones tour.

Track list:
1. Dead Flower
2. You Aint The First
3. Used To Love Her
4. Patience
5. Imagine
6. Knocking On Heavens Door
7. One In A Million
8. Used To Love Her
9. Patience
10. Mr Browstone
11. Move To The City-with Rolling Stones
12. Salt Of The Heart
13. Its All Right