This type of music was made for the young men who where adrenaline junkies full of testosterone, it took everything to a new level from partying, working 💪 out,sports ,driving fast, to fast girls, you name it ,it was cutting edge. So glad I got to experience it ,it was just exciting and fun !
Very cool to see you checking out my favorites from the 80’s T, I still really love and still appreciate the bands and music /videos. This video was actually filmed a little over two years after the Appetite for Destruction album was released in July 1987 so they blown up big time and toured the world in support of the album, which started with Mötley Crüe and their Girls, Girls, Girls album came out that same year (‘87, that is). If you watch again and listen to what Axl said to introduce the song, they “spent $150 grand on something we want to see” and he mentioned that it was going on the “home video”. Peace!
This entire album is awesome. Guns N Roses actually came in just at the end of the "Hair Band" era, and were a little different from bands like Poison, Motley Crue, Warrant, Ratt, etc. I think these guys were just hard rock and they had their own sound. I was blown away the first time I listened to this tape.
@@capoditutticapos19 it was a combination of loads of things. Punk; the ramones and Dead Boys and the stooges. glam punk; new York dolls and hanoi rocks. Then there's Motorhead, kiss, slade, Mot the Hoople, Nazareth, van Halen and some metal bands.
From GNR: Nightrain, Rocket Queen, Out To Get Me, Mr Brownstone, My Michelle, You Could Be Mine, Civil War, Right Next Door To Hell, Don't Damn Me, Estranged, Shadow Of Your Love, Better, I.R.S, Sorry
I cannot tell you how refreshing this was after a decade of "Turn up! ... the radio!" and "Talk dirty to me!" na na na na na na na yeah, this was the real sh!t. Technically harder than whatever was passing for metal at the time. Grunge didn't appear out of nowhere. Rock and roll should never be a thing your parents "don't mind". In 87, Guns saved rock.
This entire album ( and specifically this song) take me back to high school years, being drunk at the local summertime fair and winning prizes like switch blades at the low -brow booths. I never thought I'd miss that life so much!
The girl in the S&M outfit chained up is Axl's former wife Erin Everly (Daughter of Don Everly,of The Everly Brothers). Sweet Child O' Mine was written about her
Well I used to listen to a lot of Speed Metal when Guns and Roses came out so I consider Guns and roses to be hard blues rock. I absolutely loved their music especially the debut album Appetite for Destruction. I had this on cassette tape lol and I played the heck out of it as did my friends. 🤘🏼
Same with me. I started listening to Metallica and Slayer right before Squirt guns and posers came out. I always liked their music but I just laughed at all my friends that said it was so heavy
@@lespaul2000 Same as Patrick above, Metallica and Slayer but also Megadeth, motorhead, anthrax - keep in mind it was the 80's, I also loved listening to some Punk, I call it metal punk. Suicidal Tendencies and Minor Threat were two of my favorites. During the 80's Judas Priest , Screaming for Vengeance Album was really good. There is so much more now, at times i feel a bit lost. lol.
That mid to late 80's observation you made reminded me of how different the world was back then. I would do almost anything to go back. You said it accurately too, there was a lot of hybrid styles. Most seem to agree that hard rock/heavy metal peeked between summer of 91 and summer of 92. There was absolutely no such thing as the internet or downloads to sabotage how these bands were making great money. Cassettes were $11.99 and CD's were $17.99. The record companies did not get a percentange of merchandise, publishing, or touring either like they do now. That video was filmed right before the infamous four night run with the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum. According to their autobiographies, Steven, Izzy, and Slash were deep into heroin and cocain addiction at the time of filming that video. Axl allegedly berated David Bowie in the audience at that Cathouse concert. Very hard to believe they all looked so athletic and healthy.
Guns n Roses were the best selling touring band of all time. In the 90s they sold more albums than the Beatles. Made more money off Use Your Illusion 1-2 than the Beatles ever made at that time. Then they got weird and shitty. The end.
My first hard rock concert experience was in 1990 when I was 15. I was involved with an older gal at the time, and she wanted me to come with her to see Skid Row opening for Guns 'n Roses. Well...I was deeply into thrash metal during that period but agreed to accompany her if she supplied my ticket, hotel room, and some "refreshments" lol She was ecstatic and took care of the arrangements. We get to Birmingham and get settled in our room before making our way to the horse racing track where the event was being held. It had stormed something fierce the night before and was actually still drizzling rain when we arrived. Making our way through the gate I noticed a fellow who is already passed out in the nearby bushes. The place is quite muddy and becoming more so by the minute. By showtime, the mud is almost ankle deep, and countless numbers of people are covered head to toe. Skid Row takes the stage and absolutely slays their set. After waiting 35-45 minutes, G 'n R finally kicks off into their performance. Mud and plastic cups are flying all over the place; a few of the cups end up on stage. Axl gets pissed off and says that if any more cups end up on stage, he's leaving. Well...almost as soon as the words were out of his mouth another cup flies free and lands a few feet from Axl. He slams the mic down, stomps off stage, soon followed by the rest of the band, and they do not return. I think they played 3 or 4-ish songs in total. Personally, I didn't care because Axl's vocals up until that point were less than impressive. The next morning, my lady and I were listening to the radio...and they start talking about the show last night. Apparently over 100 abandoned shoes were found in the mud. Skid Row - 👍 Guns 'n Roses - 👎 🤘
There is an uncensored version of this video, but I can’t imagine RU-vid would allow it. Another one you have to check out is Night Train - by Guns N Roses. Every song on this album is amazing. They were the ultimate doing drugs, dating models, cussing, getting in fights, offending everyone type of band. Truly rockstars. Axl Rose would get in fights with the crowd. Look it up.
This song and Appetite for Destruction came out in 1987. There was a version of this video but it was never released- the woman in bondage with Axl Rose's wife, Erin Everly. The video was completely re-edited and released officially for the first time several years ago.
You guys know the story of LA guns and Hollywood Rose.... I don't know if the RU-vidr does but I don't see any comments talkin about that. Thanks to the channel
From what I remember looking back on it now, the 80s started with distinct(ish) bubbles - NWBHM like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, Thrash like Metallica and Megadeth, Glam metal like Motley Cure and Poison, and Hard Rock like ACDC or Alice Cooper; etc. By the end of the decade (and especially on into the 90s) there were a million genres with individual songs (let alone bands) criss crossing around all of them. A bit like dog breeds: Labradors and Alsatians and Frenchies are all different, but share much in common and differences are not always universal
DUDE I was the biggest GNR fan in 87 you have ever seen, I was listening to nothing current in 87 until GNR hit the scene about the time I was learning guitar by playing LYNYRD SKYNYRD and Jimi Hendrix ...I wanted to be Slash so bad it aint even funny. lol...seen them live in 88 open for Areosmith. Song came out in 87
T!!! What’s up brother!..Ok real quick I know you’re busy..the only “hard rock/metal bands” that caught flack in the 80’s were the “hair bands”..however for the most part a band didn’t come under that banner even if they really looked the part unless they also sucked too..off the top of my head two bands that unfortunately got mixed in with that category at times that were way too talented and successful were Def Leppard and Motley Crue..Guns n Roses was and still is considered by many including myself even though they were way too combustible for longevity to be one of the greatest hard rock bands of all time..don’t think you and Tasha have really delved deep into their material but I think you two have developed a good ear for great music and you guy’s will become huge fans..they really do have tracks for everyone but my favorite is still “Mr.Brownstone” and “Nigh train” classic material..and then a newer one I really like is “Better” can’t miss with any of those and many others..my gut feeling is that Mr.Brownstone will immediately be one of your favorite tracks not just from G n R but from that whole era as well I’m confident🤞🏼🤞🏼..if not I’ll suspend myself from the channel for a week pending appeal of cours😀..all seriousness I’m hoping you two go down that road especially G n R it would be a lot of fun to see👍🏼 God bless you two🙏🏼
G&R were the king of sleaze rock.Believe it or not, the critics loved their music.They weren’t another glam band, but more like a classic hard rock band, and they were real, not some posers. They lived their songs, and they lived rock & roll.
The record actually debuted in 87'. Easily of the strongest debut records ever made. It set the 1980's on it's ear that's for sure. Love your channel my man!!
JUST FOUND channel :) your NEWFOUND joy for this music makes ALL metal heads proud👍🤘! INCIDENTALLY... GN'R (tho' same era) were always considered STEP ABOVE their contemporaries.
This album got out as i was in first grade at school at 1987. I propably heard first time GNR song at 1988 from radio and it was Welcome to the jungle. Damn! I was sold at that moment. So i´ve listened GNR 34 years now.
Hair/glam are such derogatory terms, I don't know why people keep using them, especially when they like the MUSIC! Which is obviously a harder and heavier type of rock & roll.
Just a PG-13 taste of what the 80s rock scene was like for bands like GnR, Motley Crue, Van Halen who were at the top of the rock world at that time and were legendary party bands beyond what most normal people could possibly live through. Somehow most of those guys did get through it and still perform at a high level even today, saw Guns n Roses a few years ago and they were tremendous
Semi-informed thoughts on the hate that hair metal gets: it often seems to be pretty superficial - remove the look and you get an era of pretty fantastic and melodic guitar rock. I will say that lyrically the music from these bands which gained a foothold on MTV tended toward the material world topics tied to the rock star lifestyle, and it's easy to get turned away by the hairspray, makeup, and spandex they squeezed into, but I wonder how much of that image was the record industry squeezing them into a box which initially succeeded as the honest style for a few bands in LA's Sunset Strip scene in the late 1970's and early 1980's like Quiet Riot (1973, formed by Randy Rhoads, but re-formed in the early 80s), Ratt (1977), Hanoi Rocks (1979), and Motley Crue (1981). That's what business always does to art: attempts to mass produce it cheaply and pigeon-hole it into the accepted popular style to the detriment of all other styles (like ignoring thrash metal for the first half of the 1980's) 'til it's hated for its pervasiveness. They'll milk it for all it's worth until it becomes lifeless, and really that's what happens when greed takes the reigns from inspiration and infects it with ulterior motives, whether it's the companies or the bands themselves using a copycat methodology for success. Playing to the widest audience dilutes the intent and destroys authenticity. I figure if it's popular and receives airplay and the full backing of record companies, it's probably already old. Rock bottom there's a 3-5 year lag between an era's beginning and businesses trying to co-opt it so they can suck the blood from it. One of the most obvious examples was later-era gangster rap. It began with groups like NWA, etc, and by the end even Will Smith was trying to fit in to it.
Liking some Glam metal is a dirty little secret for a lot of people. I loved Black metal bands, death metal bands, heavy metal bands, but you throw on a Ratt song from one of their first two albums and you'll see me geek out. There are some decent glam metal bands. Many of the guitarist from those 80's bands can play almost any type of metal. Warren DeMartini is a brilliant guitarist.
One of my favorite gnr songs, off of one of the best debut albums in rock history, along with led zeppelin one and Metallica's kill em all. In the early 80's, before this genre had a name it was referred to as sleaze rock in the LA area. By mid 80's, everything with long hair and guitars from even mildly hard rock to thrash was lumped together as heavy metal. Rocket queen is a great track too! Axl is actually fucking a chick in the instrumental part where you can hear her sex sounds. I just suggest the whole album though.
"Featured Girls" YES!! Not just Girls but Girls who knew how and liked to have a HOT TIME. I now bow my head in silence because shortly after this, the Grunge Scene Destroyed the HOT CHICK era. P.S I like Grunge but damn, didn't they ever have a GOOD DAY? lmao
For their time and place they were the most dangerous Rock n Roll band in the world. The music was dirty and the lyrics weren't just highly singable, they kept people talking. Never metal, but unabashedly nasty rock they brought the listener into the gutter and taught us to like it. Mighty in all ways.
GNR is epic. I was alive and remember both times they broke! Hell, yes, GNR is not politically correct. I am a woman and I f---ing love GNR. I have The Spaghetti Incident on casette tape! LOL
Well,this was pretty much every night for the boys.Totally drunk,brutal,honest,and maybe two days for hangover nurturing. Hey Duff, where are you going tomorrow.?,Where am I.
Guns ‘n Roses bridged that gap that was needed between glam rock and grunge metal. If it wasn’t for them probably would of been no Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Smashing Pumpkins etc.
GNR saved Rock from grunge! No frills, no bullshit! Just straight up in your face rock n roll! Sad thing about this song. They got sued over the lyric “drink and drive everything’s in sight” cause a teenage fan died while driving drunk and listening to GnR.
Hey bubba, I am watching this GnŔ right now. You said, Its so easy was 1989. Sir being a gnr fan from since I was 10. I was 11 when this song came out. It came out in 1987. Not 89.
Banned from TV? They got banned for everything about this album from this song to the inside album art. The PMRC did not like Guns and Roses and that made them HUGE.
I heard a rumor that this video took so long to be released because for awhile Erin Everly,Axls ex wife wasn't on good terms with Axl and now since then they've been on friendly terms. I'm just glad it was finally released. 🤘
The brunette with curly hair all tied up is Erin Everly, Axls first wife. David Bowie was In attendance at the cathouse that night and allegedly tried it on with Erin and Axl punched him apparently
We had so much fun back then - we rocked the house down! Sadly now everyone just wants to fight and hurt one another to where no one wants to go out. Today's time sux
one of the reason GNR and other band were dress like that was for picture that they were paired for. They did bot have money and they were ready to to do anything that can bring money
