EXTREMELY RARE - circa 1986/7 november rain GUNS N ROSES

[emokiller907]

Such an underated piano player/composer, he really is great

[emokiller907]

This sounds so beatles like.. never noticed it before

[waxl1974]

Pure genius! Axl's voice in this early version pierces all levels of consciousness, it's as if you are in the room with him. There is no other like him and no one will ever come close.

How many more of these treasures are locked away? sat on a tape somewhere waiting to be heard. GNR forever <3

[1694isa]

AI MEU DEUS!!!!É TALENTO DEMAIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXX­XXXXXXXXXXXXLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[TheCandy6661000]

best version of november rain i heard in a long time love u axl long live old gnr

[migmar5150]

WOW!!! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! So many times, as a musician, I hide these types of recordings...but, it's truly amazing to hear the original, un-polished idea from those who you've held in high regard for two decades, or so!!!!

[ragamuffin33]

Wow.Incredible.Sad and beautiful.

[MademoiselleChanel94]

I think my heart just melted....

It makes me so sad that Axl is treated so horribly, when he can write and perform so beautifully ♥

[TTOMO]

@MademoiselleChanel94 Case in point, Chinese Democracy is excellent and the show I went to a month ago was also excellent (I hate to be a shill, but I also have some HQ videos I filmed from that concert on here as proof of how great the current GNR is.).

[FantastyckplastycK]

wowo this is gold! where do ppl get such stuff?!

[YouGotJEWD]

This is fucking awesome...

[rikardoaxl]

axl rules

[luckymisfit420]

this is the best version of this song should have put his one on the albulm!!!!

[1006195]

Tommorow is going to be the 17 of November 2011, Listen to this song Motherfuckers. Or i'll take your brain to another Deminsion. 

[1006195]

<3

[jimemtp]

Is it just me. or is this version better than what's normally heard?

[Violin1209]

It's not AXL77 it's Axl Rose for sure.

If you have any doubt watch AXL77 November Rain cover... it's very different to this.

[MirelleGunner]

Guns de volta, NOW! 

[MrPENGTINGZ]

this is what he sounds like without audience pressure?...dayum this is nice

[antonyfarmacos19]

van a desir qe soi un puto pero amo a axel i a los guns de antes

[Lexx198]

He was the best. It's literally just him playing. He was great solo, but with Slash as a duet they were even better.

[vanessatravelling]

Of course this is Axl! Everyone who is a little bit into GnR has this version on a bootleg. It has been around for ages.

[vanessatravelling]

Just Axl on the piano shows the beauty of the song even more.

I've known this song for more than 20 years and it still touches me

[dizzyguns10]

i love the old gnr, but even now axl is god

[logelamutp]

the greatest song ever written november rain and seize the day

[supercow34]

Also, This is NOT Axl77

[wassy666]

who ever is sayin this aint SIR rose shud get a fuckin hearin aid shimples!!!

[oneAXLinamillion]

I wouldn't have put SLASH in this vid.

[RockerFlyingV]

SO TALENTED

[jacobste]

This is the greatest piece of modern music ever put on tape, period.

[gtggtgdarkside]

this is Axl77.... good cover... THIS IS NOT AXL ROSE !!!!

[hendrixius]

@gtggtgdarkside you are dead wrong - I have had this exact version on a bootleg CD since around 1993/94, which was long before YouTube or Axl77 started posting his covers.

Besides, dude isn't bad, but his impression isn't this good...

[gtggtgdarkside]

@hendrixius I said some time it was bad?

so I do not think this version is even with Axl Rose, it would be impossible.

November rain and distant, are personal letters from Axl Rose, retraction events in his life, events that in 1986 axl never imagined that it would pass.

(Use your illusion 1. 1991 - November rain)

[supercow34]

@gtggtgdarkside A lot of Guns N' Roses songs were written between 1985-1986. This one and Don't Cry are both on the Use Your Illusions 1 album, BUT they were written around the time frame of 85' to 86'. There's quite a few vids of Don't Cry from 85'-89', and November Rain from 86'-87'.

[logelamutp]

@supercow34 0 dislikes yes

[decristo1021]

@supercow34 Yeah....also, if you look at the liner notes of Appetite, isn't the line "With your bitch slap rap and your cocaine toungue, you get nothin' done" written? Obviously, from You Could Be Mine

[Dranzira]

@gtggtgdarkside Not really. It has been mentioned by Tracii Guns that Axl was working on November Rain (at least the piano music for it) since as early as 1983 when Gn'R haven't even been formed yet. But he struggled to finish it and never really played it because it was incomplete (and probably didn't fit the rock'n'roll image that they were trying to build up... but that's just my guess).

[FantastyckplastycK]

@Dranzira of ccourse it didnt fit at first at first, NR would never make it on AFD!

[ProfessorKA0S]

@gtggtgdarkside I'm not so sure....this sounds like the real deal to me. I've heard axl77 before and if this is him its his best one yet!

[TheAerosmith3]

Wish the sounds quality was a bit better...Whered you find this???

[vincimus29]

@leoncorbalan: I really have to agree with you.

[Flavaddicted3]

this video is awesome! love the way axl sings the song

[97AsV]

thumbs up if you can hear slash playing the solo in your mind

[jcmmissespxa]

sick piano...

[CROSSBONESXIII]

@jcmmissespxa

SICK PIANO....LOL...DON'T THINK I'VE EVER HEARD THOSE WORDS UTTERED....

[jcmmissespxa]

who is banging that piano

[ksviro]

@jcmmissespxa Axl, I belive. He wrote most of the song, and deffinetely made the piano part

[quietmoose]

At first I was a bit sceptical that it would be pretty much the same just with only piano, but damn as it went on it impressed me more and more, 2nd half was awesome

[FelicianB]

Such a fuckin beautiful voice. Such a lovely soul talking

[Fangalatic]

@ballbreaker828 Really, you are already saying that the album version was released after... BUT CAN'T YOU HEAR THIS IS THE DEMO? There are tons of GN'R songs on this format around. DEMO dude, look it up. Even "Don't cry" was the first song they wrote and there are demos around. They recorded and released it years later.

[maximusprimus1]

alot of u r saying this could not be frm middle 80s when in actual fact axl wrote must of the illusion album songs long before the concept of use your illusion pt1 and pt2

[MegaGeno71]

When i saw a title, I just had to see, what's this o_O ... And, now, I'm speechless ... This is WONDERFUL!!!

[theSels]

Axl you`re a god, i pray to you!!!

[AmauryW871]

the best version of November Rain i evr heard. wonderful !

[TheAlexandria1965]

Axl Rose has the most talented voice in the universe.

[Sgnoraa47]

This is simply incredible.

[thescutt]

Axl Rose is a one-off talent and an incredible artist - FACT.

How many of today's pop idol, x factor, American idol prefabricated over night 'Artists' could write a song of this caliber?

How many these 'Artists' write a song??

If the ignorants of today's starved and molested musical gene pool had an ounce of true talent or at least appreciation, then we might all be a bit better off.

Never has the saying 'Music to my ears' been any more true.

Ignorance should carry a death penalty.

[Bang4URBux]

@thescutt so true, talent personified

[dustyloufenton]

@thescutt Couldn't have said it better myself!! What an epic statement 'today's starved & molested musical gene pool". Classic,brilliant hit the nail on the head, RIP to actual,dare I say it, 'old school' talent...

[parisprada777]

old Guns come back to us now

[gfgranja]

The last Rockstar, a true genius!

[Rosesfan1]

This is heartouching

[adrianosdesign]

oh my god.. what a rock n roll voice.... there would've been no guns n roses without Axl.. not to mention Slash... Guns N Roses ! This is the greatest band ever to me.

[lugiomay]

Well, that isn't exact... The earliest version recorded is in the album "Make my day", it's all on acoustic guitar and the lyrics are a way different from the studio version... Great version anyway ;)

[drummer1brt2gzs]

Axl is brilliant!!

[negernegersson]

GnR have contributed lots to rock n roll

very cool and very awesome version

[strokerwondering]

I just keep playing this song again and again and again and again and again.

[timetwisterr]

this is the "BEST" version of November rain!!!! <3 beautifully played !!!

[palomaamaral17]

7:15 to 8:00, very beautiful and very true.

I love Axl! ^ ^ A truly fantastic artist.

[jetbirdzme]

Great try

[ruderrrr]

well the truth is most of the songs they written already during Appetite ,they just decided some like You Could Be Mine or this for example wont fit the hardrock compilation of songs on appetite cause appetites mainly about thyre beginnings and living in l.a.(also Axl didnt wanted this on Appetite ,just be left for a next album)

[sdavis732010]

love the stripped down version r.i.p gnr

[thatsafreakbaby]

See thats the thing besides him being a selfish egotisitcal fucking dick most of the time in public and i say public becuase i heard he can be a great guy...people forget that this guy is one of the most talented musicians of all time and think he used all the demons in his childhood to drive himself to be the best and granted along with that he had a natural born talent but axl is a tortured soul but one of the most mystic talented guys youl ever hear

[wanawjecy]

oh my god,it's unbelievable,why the hell,didn't they put it (and don't cry and knockin' on heavens door)on appeitie for destruction,then it could be the greatest and best album ever

[steve171274]

@wanawjecy It is the best album ever.

[MrMarlboroman88]

Axl Rose is a bad motherfucker

[kman3275]

this song was pretty old. PCPA!!

[SuperJoshishere]

OMFG Axl and that piano makes a better song than the one out now I think axl is the rock god and everyone needs to wish they all get back together and be friends

[ZombieRedeemer]

you will never hear a band like the original line up for Guns N Roses for hundreds of years

1985-1998 R.I.P old Guns

[decristo1021]

@ZombieRedeemer Even though there is some great stuff on the Illusions, Appetite really was it...that's the only time this band "special"....after this, they were just a good hard rock band with some great songs. When they lost Adler, that was it. When they lost Izzy, it was a lost cause.

[parchementandquills]

this is amazing...

[guiriffer]

Prova de que uma canção deve nascer boa e funcionar da forma mais simples possível! Guns rules!

[RE3CEYYY]

This is real!, u can tell the back vox are izzy and duff, listen to the first time they played it live in Indiana

raw G'N'FN'R

[spanish4100]

when did find this?

[7bluesbro7]

fake, it's not axl

[LBCheerleader09]

@7bluesbro7 you are a retard

[charlene3399]

awesome !

[1234whatever]

No guessing please... who is playing the piano? If it's Axl he's got some chops I've never seen live. Beautiful.

[TheThorben96]

fuck fuck fuck mean ! it´s sooooooooooo AMZING ♥ ! :)

[Provowon]

HELL YEAH fuckin amazing. They should have put this on GN'R LIES !!

[ajaxrulzz]

Damn the again part is great!

[tjompus]

The pain in Axl's voice in the again and again part that was so mysteriously removed on the UYI-version is matched by Eddie Vedder in "Black" only.

[mushroomleg]

@tjompus eddie vedder should never be compared to axl rose!!! don't be gay. D:

[ROCKERRRR1]

@mushroomleg Eddie Vedder is badass but Axl Rose is badass too so I love both

[fmuler]

Thanks a lot for sharing!!!

[Madeleine145]

Where did you find this?! Love it!

[maleenich]

WOW AMAZING!!! i fucking love axl ♥

GNR <3

[callvict123]

awesome!

[sluisjordao2]

parabens cara video muito bom Brazil city Franca São Paulo

[genoa2878]

GnR wrote almost all their songs very early on and just used what they needed to when it was time for a new album

[porfirioaguiar]

is, very, very, very GOOOOOD!!!!!THANK YOU BOY!!!

[freafollingalianz]

little lars in the middle.good times

[Miele983]

he's so a good singer, and piano player... it gives me shivers, really. I could cry... this is music...

[katchup]

shame he cant sing it like that anymore but was lucky enough to get to hear him sing it live in the late 80s....still the best live song i've heard

[billygnrvr]

@katchup well they played it for the first time live in 91' so kinda hard for you to have heard it in the late 80's live..

[stringualong]

Thank.You.Very.Much.!!=)

[gbnelezen]

Thanks for sharin this, what an awesome rendition of the song. Axl rules !!!

[talinnxcelya]

Axl wasn't with Guns N'Roses when he sang it.

He started to wrote November Rain in 1983 and he sang it before he finished to write it.

(excuse my english...)

[pinkpanther446]

Just listening to this puts tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. It's so unbelieveable that Axl had been working on this song since 1983. Just breath taking !

[leoncorbalan]

This is a true rock ballad. The man, the Piano and a story to tell. The result is November Rain.

Axl´s voice is so full with emotion. The Piano sounds so great that is spine tingling.

All in all, this version of November Rain is way better than the studio version.

[jhghob]

that is true music

[GunsnAerosmith]

I love the piano too .When you hear Axl play it , it is spine tingling. I just love his style x x x

[bizzjoe]

i have no problem holding the candle.. it just keeps on going out... then i ask myself.. why am i holding this fucking candle

[GirlofanAlchemist123]

And it's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain...

Love that part!

[gnr409]

ohh god i lovee axll so muchhh he is perfectt

[freackmary]

Axl's voice.........it gives me the shivers..

[terrorsaum]

OMG AWESOME

[PitaWindstar]

Beautiful!!!

[rish1979]

definitely like this version better than the original..brings the piano out a lot more and i'm def a piano fan. is that Duff doing background vocals?

[jimmaaaa]

Fuckin awesome! Sounds beautiful with just Axl singing and playing piano.

[slashfan]

I must say... it's better then the recorded song... don't get me wrong, the one on uyi is still a great song... but this one has more feeling in it...

[RosarioNahu]

Axl and a Piano, not anymore

[ironpurle1]

Slash and a Guitar

[kultu55]

It's a demo tape from '86.

There's a whole compilation of Guns N' Roses demo stuff, all bootlegged i guess, from i don't know where.. it's a 4 CD set from all the good Gn'R years.

"Guns N' Roses - 1985-1994 - Rarities (4CD Set)"

Disc 4 Track 7

NOVEMBER RAIN

Recorded in 1986

Musicians: Axl Rose (vocals, piano)

Another early demo of this Use Your Illusion epic. This is a longer version with Axl on piano that sounds more similar to one on the album.

[rish1979]

where can you buy it?

[cges76]

It surely can be from 83. Remember that this song was written a long time ago. Tracii Guns says Axl used to play it on the piano, even before GNR was born.

[KelmiFIN]

nostalgig :DD

[okloipon]

it's really nice.but can i ask where did u find it??

[ofekgnr]

amazing....he should preform it live again!

[DundeeHool82]

That was not 1983/84 .. later, much later, I am sure.