Rose was arrested and charged with assault but released a few hours later on $5,000 bail, but his feud with Kantor lived on in "Right Next Door to Hell.If you're reading these words on the Internet, odds are you've acclimated pretty thoroughly to a digital life. Rose, in turn, told police that Kantor had repeatedly harassed him since the singer moved into his West Hollywood condo. 30, 1990, and throwing her car keys over his 12th-floor balcony. Rose wrote "Right Next Door to Hell" (or at least the chorus) about his neighbor at the time, Gabriela Kantor, who accused the singer of clubbing her in the head with an empty wine bottle on Oct. The opening track on Use Your Illusion I found Rose doing what he did best: settling scores in spectacularly petty fashion.
Read on for a track-by-track guide to the Use Your Illusion albums, with links to more detailed stories for each song. Use Your Illusion I and II showed Guns N' Roses variously at their most bombastic, tender and venomous, proving just how far they had come since the pre- Appetite days - and how much they stood to lose. The accompanying Use Your Illusion Tour lasted a whopping two and a half years, drawing massive crowds and generating endless controversy. The Use Your Illusion albums were also, like all things Guns N' Roses, wildly successful, debuting in the top two spots on the Billboard 200 and selling a combined 14 million copies in the United States. Fed up with the band's assorted vices and dysfunctional schedule, a newly sober Stradlin quit in November 1991, less than two months after the release of both albums. Drummer Steven Adler was fired in July 1990 for an inability to manage his heroin addiction and replaced by Matt Sorum. Like everything in their world circa 1991, the Use Your Illusion albums were messy, gargantuan affairs that claimed several casualties on their path to completion.
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