Behind The Recording Of 'Appetite For Destruction'- Guns N' Roses' 

The blues man….Don’t forget about the blues. That’s what separated them.

@@joshuasmith83 ahh yes, the blues, you're absolutely right

Well said y’all. I was pretty young back then, but the impact they actually had on music back then is hard to imagine unless you were there and actually witnessed it to some degree. I don’t see a band having that kind of impact ever again. When you hear “they were the biggest band in the world”, it was no joke. All of a sudden, all the Hollywood bands start copying their look, MTV started playing their videos like countless times each day, Hollywood movies were using their music for their soundtracks, despite controversy in the media they started playing with other incredibly huge artists, the list goes on. And you can argue they sold out with the UYI albums, but I got the feeling they never lost that sense of exactly who they were…well, Axl may have changed a bit, but the rest were very much what you see is what you get kind of people, and none of them certainly ever apologized for it. They did things their way and that is why I love them!

Izzy and steven fucking ruled. So important to that album.

@@danzigmcnaniel5226 don't forget duff, duff or steven mentioned that they practiced their rhythm section skills by listening to Prince's 1999.

Lmao, absolutely not. Way too many bad tracks to even be in the top 100.... And not even the best gnr album, three good songs then a bunch of hateful trash like my Michelle.

@@trevorD1156 absolutely agree

@@trevorD1156 Lmao which gnr album is better??? Chinese democracy?!??

@@trevorD1156there’s about 30 million people that disagree with ya bud

​@@trevorD1156Found the swiftie among us...

Thank you! Great to hear that it’s appreciated 😃

Best selling debut album is Hybrid Theory by Linking Park.

@@serginhosena Stinkin Park doesn't compare to Appetite LMAO

What about Dr. Feelgood???

​@@serginhosenano Slipknot self titled. Their major label debut.

Why is motley being brought up?? Duurrrrrrrrrr

Steven = Swing Izzy = Swagger and correct never the same

Izzy was certainly the songwriter!! After him the songs don’t have the typical blues influence he brought to the band. Not even Slash’s songs have it 🎉

I’m not talking about the actual performances, but, UYI just doesn’t SOUND right by comparison. I’ve always felt the main culprit is Slash and Stradlin both reportedly abandoning their Gibsons for the recordings. And, Bill Price at the mixing console was definitely hit-and-miss, too.

I can’t believe that they plan to work on the next album without Steven and Izzy

@@martincloutier666 why would they include 2 guys who haven’t been around since the “reunion”?

Almost, sits behind oasis definitely maybe, these two albums are pure rock n roll, wether you like oasis or guns, these are two of best rock n roll debuts

They shouldn’t have overproduced don’t cry. The 1987 version is so much better

For me GNR lies is a great album combining Live Like a suicide. I didn't mind songs on the Illusions but it wasn't the same. Axl had a vision for guns vs where the band should have gone.

@@locks69 It's crazy that Don't Cry was written in 1985... I didn't mind Don't Cry in Illusions... November Rain is a killer more...

Illusion 1 and 2 has some great songs, but so much filler should have been one album. Lies has one of my favorite gnr songs one in a million

Thank you!

Thank you! 😃

Blame Rose's ego for the break up and for no more albums.

@@daviddoyle8956 you don’t blame you give thanks that we got what we did from them. All bands have egos. Is Pink Floyd diminished in some way because of Waters and Gilmour?

Thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it 😃

It is one of the best albums ever

That's because the guitar has very little to do with the tone. Didn't Jimmy Page also use Fender or something, and everyone said how great Gibsons sound?

@@metalzonemt-2 Haha, exactly!😅 It's just a shot on the "gear elitist snob" who always want the most expensive gear possible to sound good. I know people who are always on the lookout for the "holy grail" instrument and buying $10,000+ guitars (Gibson and Fender) thinking it would make their playing better or their sound cooler. But It's not actually the gear - it's the player and the songwriting that really matters. I'm really inspired by the Slash Fake Gibson LesPaul story, the Jimmy Page copy or the Brian May homemade guitar. Cheers!👌💯

@@metalzonemt-2 i was going to say the same thing its in the fingers not the label on the guitar

@togood2betrue3: about 30 million copies worldwide.

Thank you! And thanks for the suggestions!

Thanks for the info on the snare, maybe it was the one in the photo with the Gretsch kit. Looks like a brass snare.

Thank you! It's much appreciated 🙂

I saw that and cracked up!

I was looking to see if anyone picked that up 😂

It’s also what he spent most of his money on.

Me too! I suppose quite often people aren’t aware they’re creating history.

We were spoiled by all that footage of Metallica's Black Album being recorded haha I wish for that kind of documentation for all my favourite albums

Thank you!

Cheers! Definitely was a good decision, much prefer the swing!

Besides pearl jam lol

That would have been great, I did get a lot of the recording information from an interview he gave with Dave Pensado.

Thank you! Not sure about the master bus comp…

If it had strings on springs, it was never that stable to begin with. No matter what the advertising says. Depending on the audience or expectation, a trem guitar will have you in the ballpark if not in the infield on a good one. But it won't be dead nuts for long. Having to tune and retune every take, it would become a stress and easier to just go for hardtail if your style doesn't require the trem stuff. Cutting the strings wasn't the main reason that guitar wasn't going to work.

Definitely!

I’ll get working on it!

It's all in his autobiography, too. Quite a few incidents graphically detailed, with him jonesing because somebody had stolen his secret stash, and the band almost having to cancel a milestone-level important gig, and somebody dying on him, and him almost dying on somebody else, and what not. Some people have said that he's not entirely honest in the book, passing the blame on the OD death of a friend to somebody else, but it's worth a read. Duff's autobio, too. Very informative stuff.

Like what?

Yes! Definitely 😃

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I try and use pictures of the studios where I can.

Could be, seems to be a few differing accounts of what was used.

Thank you, I think that was from a Mike Clink interview on Pensado's place.

😂 good spot!

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No idea, I’m presuming someone misheard the name and he wasn’t famous then.

Yeah, obviously a very close band then. 😮

Steven's GF

It was three way with Axl, Slash and Steven's stripper GF.

😂

Yep, that's the one!

Use Your Illusion bored the shit out of me, huge disappointment after Live like a suicide, GnR Lies and Appetite.

Then don't watch, it's as simple as that.

lol whatever random guy

No good album? Appetite is perfection from start to finish. Zeppelin, Stones, Beatles, Aerosmith, Eagles. None have one great album. Maybe one or two good songs, and the rest is mostly fillers.

You’re obviously not somebody who grew up during that time and if you are then there’s something wrong with you