Guns N Roses

April 7, 2009 at 1:38 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Guns N Roses

Guns N Roses (or Gunners to their fans)… People will remember them for their hugely successful albums and singles in the late 1980s and early 90s. Their classic line up of the band consisted of lead singer Axl Rose, a man known for his flaming red hair and raspy voice. Top hat wearing guitarist Slash, and fellow six string king, Izzy Stradlin. Blonde bass player Duff Mckagen, and Drug abusing drummer Steven Adler. This bunch of misfits and high school drop outs took the world by storm, their success was huge and their debut album is the fasted selling debut album in history. So to say the least, Gunners were a very, very good band. They released hit after hit. Their trademark songs Paradise City and Sweet Child O’ Mine are instantly recognizable and are still played all over the world on radio today. They have had number one hits, record breaking tours. They played at the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert at London’s Wembley Stadium, this event was broadcasts to over a billion people world wide. They have been called the most dangerous band in the world and for good reason; their antics have sparked riots and protests, people have even been killed at their concerts, crushed by the amounts of fans who turn out to see them. Yes, Gunners at their peak were massive, bigger than massive. Their was a point in their remarkable carrier when they were the undisputed number one band in the world, in fact even Ozzy Osbourne was calling them the next Rolling Stones. But all this happened many years ago. In a period of less than 5 years Guns N Roses went from being the biggest band in the world to a complete train wreck… they were destroyed by their own success, this musical catastrophe can be credited to Axl Rose. Starting with Steven Adler, Axl slowly went about destroying what he had created. In the space of a few short years Axl had either fired or treated his band mates so badly that they quit. In fact, by 1997 no original member of Gunners remained apart from the red baron himself. And then came Chinese Democracy, the most expensive album ever made. Axl had been promising Chinese Democracy’s release since the early 90s… come 2008 it has finally surfaced. But by then planet earth had forgotten Axl. What did he expect? The man has fired his friends and rejected the world that loved him; he all but disappeared after Guns N Roses released their last album to feature Slash and Duff (an abysmal collection of covers named ‘The Spaghetti Incident’) and apart from the odd tour, you would be hard pressed to know that Axl was even alive. Well I guess the world now has Chinese Democracy, which isn’t really a bad album, but the amount of money Axl used on this record is ridicules (over 14 studios were listed in the credits). You are now 47, Axl isn’t it about time you grew up?

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