‘Shadow of Your Love’ Is Now in the Top 10 Mainstream Rock Songs Chart

According to Billboard, Guns N’ Roses newly released single ‘Shadow of Your Love’ has moved up seven spots to number 9 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs Chart. This is the third week the song has been on the Billboard charts. it debuted at number 31. You can check out the whole chart here. Check out Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose talking about ‘Shadow of Your Love’ below!

Demo Tape From 1986 Was Up for Sale According to RecordMecca.com

According to RecordMecca a Guns N’ Roses Demo tape from 1986 has apparently been sold. It comes from Bryn Bridenthal who was the publicist for Geffen Records when Guns N’ Roses were signed to the label. She would be involved with the band until the late 90’s.

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“An incredibly rare Guns N’ Roses demo tape from their earliest recording sessions, given to their longtime publicist, Bryn Bridenthal in mid-1986. This tape includes 24 songs recorded during their first demo sessions in early 1986, and their June 1986 sessions at Sound City Studios (produced by Nazareth’s Manny Charlton) and Pasha Studios (produced by Spencer Proffer.) Bridenthal’s letter of authenticity explains “I was at the annual Rock n’ Bowl event at a bowling alley in LA when my buddy Tom Zutaut looked me up and said I had to go with him to see a band he was signing. So we left for a late show at the Whiskey. The band was visceral. I was mightily impressed, and not just by the singer’s leather chaps and g-string. That night, after the show, I met Guns N’ Roses. It was love at first song for me and the attitude of the group intensified that commitment. These were real, unpredictable rock gods in the making. I joined the their team. No pay. I just wanted on board.

Which was important later on when Capitol Records wanted to sue me for working a non-Capitol band “on their time” whilst I was briefly employed there. Fortunately no pay put it in the realm of a hobby. To me, it was more like a religion. After the show at the Whiskey, Tom gave me this demo cassette and the band became the center of my universe for many years to come. Bryn Bridenthal, GNR publicist and head of publicity for Geffen Records.” Bridenthal personally represented the band from those earliest days through the mid 1990’s. We acquired this original demo cassette directly from her, and it comes with her signed letter of authenticity (we have blurred out her address and phone number on the scan here, for her privacy) and a digital transfer of the demo tape. All songs are unreleased, though some have been bootlegged; the songs that later appeared on the “Live Like A Suicide” album are alternate or unsweetened versions. Side 1: Think About You/Welcome to the Jungle (with false start)/Don’t Cry/Nice Boys/Back Off Bitch/Anything Goes/Mama Kin/Heartbreak Hotel/Instrumental/Jumping Jack Flash/Jumping Jack Flash (acoustic jam)/Nightrain – East Coast Junkie/Think About You (partial, same version) Side 2: Out Ta Get Me/Rocket Queen/Nightrain/My Michelle/You’re Crazy/Paradise City/Move To The City/November Rain/Shadow Of Your Love/Reckless Life/Rocket Queen (partial, same version.)”