In 1991, Guns n’ Roses was riding high with their smash double album ‘Use Your Illusions’ dominating the charts but at the movie box office, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the blockbuster boss with one of the best sequel films of all time, ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’. The two rocking forces came together for a music video for ‘You Could Be Mine’ which you can watch above, with the Terminator stalking the band while they perform. The closing scene where the Terminator scans the band with his AI telling him that attack Axl Rose was “a waste of ammo” is pretty funny if you catch it.
Here is the scene where the song was used to show off John Conor being a bad boy with Budnik from ‘Salute Your Shorts’.
The GnR Central YouTube channel gives a nerdy deep dive into how the song got connected for this massive collaboration, the origins of the memorable song, and how it all happened.
