Guns N' Roses (EP)

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Released 1988 Artist Guns N' Roses Label Warner Music Japan Producers Vic Maile, Mike Clink		Length 25:58 Release date 28 June 1987 Genres Hard rock, Heavy metal

Recorded Studio tracks: 1986–1987 Live tracks: June 28, 1987 Venue Marquee Club, London (live tracks) Live from the Jungle (1988) The "Civil War" EP (1993)

Guns N' Roses is the second EP by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released in 1988.

Background

The record was released in Japan only and features "Sweet Child O' Mine" from the album Appetite For Destruction plus tracks that had been previously released on the 1987 maxi singles of "It's So Easy" and "Welcome To The Jungle". It appears to be self-titled, as no title apart from the band's name appears anywhere on the cover. However, the EP is often called Live from the Jungle, named so because part of the large red text on the album's obi strip reads ライブ・フロム・ザ・ジャングルガンズ・アンド・ローゼズ ("Raibu furomu za janguru / Ganzu ando rozezu"), meaning "Live from the jungle: Guns N' Roses". This is a reference to the song "Welcome to the Jungle", even though the song itself doesn't appear on the EP. The record has been released in vinyl, cassette, and CD format.

Tracks one, four and five were recorded live at the Marquee Club in London on June 28, 1987. Track two and three sound like live recordings, but are actually studio recordings with overdubbed crowd noise. Track three was originally released on the EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and later on the album GN'R Lies. Track 6 is the studio version from Appetite for Destruction. The cover features the banned Robert Williams artwork also used (but very briefly) for Appetite for Destruction.