I saw the original line up back in 90 or 91 back in canada at the PNE and the Cult opened for them. My older brother saw GNR-Metallica with Faith No More and Skid Row earlier in Boston..
Now here’s the fun part.
remember the Vancouver riots? I had tickets to that one LOL including the follow up vancouver riots part 2.
Oh yeah, I remember reading about Vancouver.
I never saw GnR past the original lineup. Appetite was and still is one of my favorite albums, but I wasn’t a huge fan of the Illusion disks and by that time wasn’t going to concerts near as much anyway. Well, at least the ones I went to I remember a bit better lol.
Think back to around the mid to late 80’s and I can safely say I’ve seen every hard rock, glam metal, heavy metal and even death/black metal act that made any waves at the time - though it is all quite a blur now. Everything from Motley Crue countless times (along with any other band like Poison or Whitesnake that attracted a lot of chicks), to Dokken, Ratt, King Diamond, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Slayer, etc, etc. Me and my group of friends basically went to every show we could from big arenas to the smaller clubs. Even saw folk bands like the Grateful Dead dozens of times before Jerry died.
My first concert was actually Judas Priest in 1982. It was the first leg of their Screaming for Vengeance tour.