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Guns N Roses

Simo

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Not that I know of Nuke.
The only official releases I can think of are the 3 'making of' videos (dont cry, november rain and estranged), the Live in tokyo and a DVD of all the video clips.

Where did you get the Freddy Mercury Tribute? I bought the DVD and was disapointed that it only has the night time part where different members of different bands jammed with each other and queen.

There was a day time part to that concert where they all played with there real bands wasnt there?
 

Nuke

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Yes there was a day-time part, but no it wasn't released on dvd (they couldn't get all the bands' lables to agree to it or some stupid sh*t).

I have the vhs version (which I bought quite a few years ago) of the FM Tribute as well as the dvd. There was two versions of the vhs released. One contained one cassette that had both parts of the show, and one (like mine) had two cassettes (a double-cassette vhs!): Tape 1 had the 'warm-up' acts (for lack of a better word). IE: Metallica, GNR, Extreme, Bob Geldof, Def Leppard, and the Elizabeth Taylor speech. Tape 2 had the 'Queen+__________' section of the concert.

Both cassettes had omissions from the shows. Spinal Tap was one act who didn't make it to Tape 1 (there was another one too but my mind's gone blank as to who it was!), and some songs from some acts didn't make the cut either for whatever reason.
From Tape 2, Robert Plant joined Queen to do 'Innuendo', but he refuses to let it get released because he buggered it up and doesn't want to look bad! Fair enough too. I've downloaded the video of that song from the concert, but it's not too bad! He just forgets the words in the middle a bit, that's all.

From the day-time part of the concert, I'd say Metallica, Extreme (doing a Queen medley!), and GNR were the better ones. All groups appeared to be on top of their games that day in my opinion.
 

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