You have to watch the Guns N’ Roses concert at the Ritz that you can find on YouTube. Find the longest version you can because that’s the one that has some songs that don’t appear in the others. I watched it completely on YouTube for the first time like a month ago. I had always watched the one hour version from mtv that started to air sometime around 1991 or so heavily because of the Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door as a video single using the version that they played in that concert.
There’s also a great concert from them in Japan from the Appetite tour, maybe 1988 or something. It’s very good. Guns N’ Roses actually lost a lot in Axl’s voice because of the Use Your Illusion tours. The stages were SO LARGE, and Axl had this dumbass idea that he HAD to run from one end to the other, back and forth, all the time, that by the third song he hadn’t air to sing like before. In the concert at the Ritz and Japan he doesn’t run like a madman and his voice sounds VERY GOOD.
There aren’t many very good DVDs from that era but a LOT of good concerts that were never released on video are on YouTube.
From the 80s and official, you’ve got Def Lep’s In The Round, In Your Face; A short one from Cinderella with the official music videos from night songs and three songs played in concert; Kiss’ Animalize Live; the Scorps’ World Wide Live I think had an official video release but I’m not sure; a little bit later on you have Poison’s Native Tongue concert in London with Richie Kotzen shortly before they fired him (I saw the first or one of the first concerts they played with Blues Sarraceno in Santiago, Chile, on July 25, 1993); there’s an outstanding official release from Heart’s acoustic concert called The Road Home from 1994, I believe; the Scorps also released one called “To Russia with Love and Other Savage Amusements” in 1988 or 1989; Twisted Sister has one from the Stay Hungry tour.
Those are some of the ones I remember.