![]() With hindsight, the Chicago session wasn’t a complete disaster. ![]() I mean, honestly, I’d have preferred to do a record with just 10 f_ing songs that were a bit more straightforward, but it was an opportunity to finally get the band to work again.” Looking back on this frustrating period, lead guitarist Slash told Classic Rock, “It was definitely exploratory compared to Appetite For Destruction. Often bored and distracted, the rest of the band couldn’t agree on the direction their new music should take. Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin often failed to show, and Axl Rose drifted in and out of the session. Indeed, when they tried to compile new material at an initial pre-production session in Chicago in June 1989, Guns N’ Roses were in disarray. Yet, while both volumes of Use Your Illusion are now widely regarded as Guns N’ Roses’ most seminal artistic statements, creating them almost finished the band off on more than one occasion.
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