Appetite For Destruction

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1987

Labels: Geffen Records, Uzi Suicide Records

This issue was manufactured using a standard Record Service Alsdorf stamper (as with all their initial 1987 pressings) for side G, but a US mother, galvanized by Sheffield Lab Matrix for Allied Record Company, for side R. Direct Metal Mastering as per DMM in runouts (side R only).

Issued in a semi-glossy cover and a printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and photographs. Embossed Warner 'W' logo on back cover, lower right corner.

First cat# on: cover (rear, spine, top seam), inner sleeve and center labels.
Second (the UK) cat# on: cover (rear, spine, top seam) and center labels (unlike on Appetite For Destruction, where it appears only on the center labels).

Runouts sides G / R: first string stamped (up to 1-A and 1-B2 respectively), the rest is etched.

This release features the original album artwork (showing Robert Williams' painting of a girl being raped by robots), which was later withdrawn and replaced with a tattoo-styled, skulls-and-crossbones motif.

[Back cover:]
Manufactured exclusively by Warner Bros. Records Inc. a Warner Communications Company [Warner 'W' logo]
© ℗ 1987 The David Geffen Company.

Manufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf. Pressé en Allemagne par Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf [Warner 'W' logo] a Warner Communication Company

[Inner sleeve:]
Recorded at Rumbo Studios, Canoga Park, CA. Take One Studio, Burbank, CA. Can Am Studio, Tarzana, CA
Mixed at: Media Sound, NYC
Album and Cassette Originally Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC
CD Mastered by Barry Diament, NYC
Tattoos by Robert Benedetti at Sunset Strip Tattoo

All Songs © 1987 Guns N' Roses Music BMI.
© 1987 The David Geffen Company.

[Center labels:]
Published by (G.B. Only): [Tracks 1-6, both sides] Guns 'N' Roses Music
℗ 1987 The David Geffen Company.
Made In Germany By WEA Musik GmbH [Warner 'W' logo] A Warner Communication Company