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The Gauntlet: Guns N' Roses |
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Guns N' Roses Album Review
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Tracklist
Welcome to the Jungle
Sweet Child o' Mine
Paradise City
Patience
Don't Cry
Live and Let Die
November Rain
Yesterdays
The Garden
Dead Horse
Garden of Eden
Estranged
Since I Don't Have You
Running Time: 75 min.
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Over the stunted course of G N' R's career featuring (most of) the classic lineup, the group amassed a rather large collection of videos, many of which are produced like small motion pictures. The three videos from 'Appetite For Destruction' are probably the nearest and dearest to most metalhead's hearts. The clip for 'November Rain', of course is a full blown epic which took the national gross product of a developing nation to produce. The jewel of this collection however is 'Estranged', a remarkable visual display that includes clips of the illustrious W. Axl Rose heading to the looney bin and porpoise riding, of all things.
This assemblage was originally released on VHS quite some time ago and this is the biggest problem here. Many fans who already own this on tape will be quite disappointed that there have been no additions to the DVD. This makes the whole project somewhat of a rip off, accounting for the fact that most diehard Guns N' Roses fans had bought this when it was originally released and at that time, Geffen should have already been planning to release it in the DVD format. George Lucas has been playing the same games with his Star Wars movies, releasing 'The Phantom Menace' on VHS, then following up with a DVD release a short while thereafter. This stinks of a shady marketing gimmick designed to get fans to pay a lot more money than they should have to for exactly the same product. So by the time you buy the VHS and the DVD, you've sunk almost $50.00 into 13 video clips which is a complete scam all the way. Here's the kicker. When Lucas pulled this type of an illusion off, he at least added some extra footage to give the package some value and give the die hard fans who support him a reason to want the DVD version. Sadly, Geffen did not even think enough of Guns fans to do that. They spent as little as possible on the packaging and production of this disc and offered no extras whatsoever. They did, however offer an eight page full color booklet that has absolutely nothing to do with the band whatsoever. Instead of some cool liner notes, you get a book of advertisements for fine products by artists such as Abba, Hanson and Engelbert Humperdink and having said that, hopefully they fired the marketer that put this together. Guns fans could care less about this garbage. Liner notes, pictures, bonus footage, commentary...something, anything!
If you bought the VHS, you can upgrade to digital if you think that it is really worth the cost, but the best advice is to sit on your hands and wait, because this will be reissued in the future when Sanctuary gets around to milking their newest cash cow.
Review by: Erin Fox
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