Hollywood Rose - The Roots of Guns 'n Roses (2004)

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01. Killing Time
02. Anything Goes
03. Rocker
04. Shadow of Your Love
05. Reckless Life
06. Killing Time (Gilby Clarke remix)
07. Anything Goes (Gilby Clarke remix)
08. Rocker (Gilby Clarke remix)
09. Shadow of Your Love (Gilby Clarke remix)
10. Reckless Life (Gilby Clarke remix)
11. Killing Time (Fred Coury remix)
12. Anything Goes (Fred Coury remix)
13. Rocker (Fred Coury remix)
14. Shadow of Your Love (Fred Coury remix)
15. Reckless Life (Fred Coury remix)

The Roots of Guns N' Roses is a compilation album containing old songs of Hollywood Rose, released on the 22 June 2004 by Deadline Music (Cleopatra Records).

The album, produced by Chris Weber ex guitarist of the band, contains several demos, the first five are original versions, the following five have been remixed by guitarist of Guns N' Roses Gilby Clarke, and the last five have been remixed by Fred Coury, the drummer of Cinderella, who took part in a tour with Guns N' Roses when Steven Adler broke his wrist.

The tracks remixed by Gilby Clarke, "Shadow Of Your Love" and "Reckless Life" had been registered with the first guitarist of Guns N' Roses Tracii Guns.

The songs "Anything Goes" and "Reckless Life", were later recorded again by Guns N' Roses and were released respectively on the albums "Appetite For Destruction" and "G N' R Lies".

Surprisingly Slash, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler were credited to be the composers, together with Axl Rose, Chris Weber and Izzy Stradlin, of "Anything Goes", "Shadow Of Your Love" and "Reckless Life". These songs were originally performed by Hollywood Rose and were only later performed by Guns N' Roses. In fact, when Rose, Weber and Stradlin composed these songs, they were not yet in touch with Slash, McKagan or Adler.

On January the 18th, 2005, the Japanese version was released by Sony, together with a bonus DVD.


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