Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide
1986 EP by Guns N' Roses
Live ?!★@ Like a Suicide is an EP by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on December 16, 1986, on the Uzi Suicide record label. It is a faux live recording, with crowd noises added in the studio, as the band was told it would be too expensive to record an actual live recording. The record itself was reportedly limited to only 10,000 copies, released only in vinyl and cassette formats.
The tracks were later re-released along with four new acoustic songs as the album G N' R Lies (1988).
In 2018, they were included as bonus tracks on the super deluxe edition of Appetite for Destruction and featured seamless crowd noise between the songs along with a fifth song, "Shadow of Your Love".
Background
The four songs on the EP were selected from the band's demo tapes: two are cover versions and two are originals. The EP was a faux-live recording with overdubbed crowd noise, but these are in fact studio performances.
According to Steven Adler's autobiography, My Appetite for Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N' Roses, the entire EP was recorded at Pasha Studios in Hollywood with pre-recorded audience applause and cheering in the background, as Geffen's engineers told him "it would cost too much to actually record a live record". Duff McKagan says in his autobiography, It's So Easy (and other Lies), that "the crowd noise...is from a 1970's rock festival called the Texxas Jam. We thought it would be funny to put a huge stadium crowd in the background at a time when we were lucky to be playing to a few hundred."
"Reckless Life" is the opening track on the EP. It opens with Slash shouting "Hey fuckers!
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