NICE BOYS
DON'T PLAY
ROCK N' ROLL
Live ?! * @ Like a Suicide
is an EP
by American
hard rock band
released on
December 16, 1986,
on the UZI Suicide
record label.
When referred to
by band members,
they have simply called
the EP
Live Like a Suicide.
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 reissue 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!
Suck on
Guns N' fuckin' Roses!"
This song was
originally written by
Hollywood Rose,
which had included all
the members of
Guns N' Roses
except
Duff McKagan
at one point or another.
It was included
in the Hollywood Rose
compilation album
The Roots of Guns N' Roses.
"Nice Boys"
is a cover of a song by
Rose Tattoo.
"Move to the City"
features a horn section
and is also from the
Hollywood Rose era.
The fourth track
on the EP is
"Mama Kin"
which is a cover of
a song by Aerosmith,
a band
Guns N' Roses
has cited as one
of their
major influences.
One song
considered for
this EP was
"Shadow of Your Love",
which never made it
onto the album,
and later released on the
"It’s So Easy/Mr. Brownstone"
single
and the
Live from the Jungle EP.
TRACKLIST
Reckless Life
(Live)
Reckless Life
(Live)
Move To The City
(Live)
Mama Kin
(Live)
Shadow Of Your Love
(Live) [*]
You're Crazy
(Acoustic Version)
Reckless Life
(Sound City Sessions 1986) [*]
Nice Boys
(Sound City Sessions 1986) [*]
Move To The City
(Sound City Sessions 1986) [*]
Mama Kin
(Sound City Sessions 1986) [*]
Shadow Of Your Love
(Sound City Sessions 1986) [*]
Heartbreak Hotel
(Sound City Sessions 1986) [*]
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