Appetite for Destruction is 35 Today

35 years ago GnR released their first album , an album that influenced a generation of musicians and introduced us to the crazy world of W. Axl Rose and the boys.





Those were the days.

a reply to: gortex

Has there ever been another album with that many hits on the same piece of vinyl?

Top 5 albums of all Time.

Saw them with Metallica at Arrowhead stadium in Kansas city 30 some years ago . What a great show.

Great album and damm Im old

a reply to: gortex

Those were the days.

That's a beautiful statement, it reminds me of every dying generation before.

a reply to: Terpene

We're not dying , we just moved over for the young-uns.

a reply to: gortex

Yes, I remember it well. First time my mates and I heard it was at someone's house party. I was 19 and already into metal. Basically, it was the only album we listened to for six hours.

The vinyl was so scratched up from playing it to death, by the end of the night we all pitched in to buy the guy a new record and stylus for his record player.

Some recent footage. Axl's vocal cords are done in.

a reply to: gortex
I dunno, there must be something wrong with me. You couldn't get away from "Sweet Child o' Mine" since it was on MTV every 30 minutes. It was a pretty good song so I brought the album. Played it once and put it away. I grew up on metal and hard rock (Sabbath, Nugent, Aerosmith, Mott the Hoople, BOC etc.) it just didn't grab me the same way.

a reply to: gortex

My husband could mimic the guitar playing perfectly to every song on that record. He had a Marshall full stack amp and a Gibson electric guitar. I think I heard it a hundred times. lol. I still crank it up tho, great album !

Didn't Axel end up in the funny farm for a while? Probably all the drugs?

a reply to: [post=26595354]horseplay[/pos

Didn't Axel end up in the funny farm for a while? Probably all the drugs?

He was always a loon. The drugs probably amplified it ten-fold. He had a weird childhood, for starters.

a reply to: underpass61

Mott the Hoople

I heard "All The Way From Memphis" at a music store the other day!

a reply to: ColeYounger

Mick Ralphs was a badass guitar player. I was bummed when he left Mott for Bad Co., but it ended up working out for both bands.

a reply to: gortex

The big hair and guitar solo's were never really my thing but I've got to say I think its a class album.

Some mates of mine got my Dad to listen to it for the first time a few weeks ago - he's 78 - and his reaction was 'Yeah, its not bad is it'. Now that is huge praise coming from my Dad.
I put The Bollocks in his CD player and made him listen to that for the first time. His response was 'Now that is #ing brilliant'....he didn't say that 45 years ago when I was listening to it non-stop!

originally posted by: Encia22
a reply to: gortex

Yes, I remember it well. First time my mates and I heard it was at someone's house party. I was 19 and already into metal. Basically, it was the only album we listened to for six hours.

The vinyl was so scratched up from playing it to death, by the end of the night we all pitched in to buy the guy a new record and stylus for his record player.

Very similar first time I heard AFD I got woken up at 4 am on a Wednesday, I walked out into the living room with the stereo blaring Sweet Child O' Mine and my 2 roomies were dancing with 3 strippers. We didn't go to work that day.

a reply to: Freeborn

Dads age well when it comes to music.

My dad used to hate stuff I would play when I was young like Smashing Pumpkins or Radiohead.
Then fast forward like almost 20 years he was like, can you burn that for me? lol

a reply to: putnam6

Were they hot?

originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: putnam6

Were they hot?

No, this isn't Hollywood but we got drunk as hell among other things.

One thing I like about that G'N''R album is, that was the debut, and your favorite album from them.

End of story for me.

Iron Maiden for example, I feel I've missed how many studio albums and tours for over 20 years?

Don't care, still wanna hear what I did when I as 16.

And that band, with that line-up ...

Nope, we didn't want it to age with us.

It must be forever young.

originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: gortex
I dunno, there must be something wrong with me. You couldn't get away from "Sweet Child o' Mine" since it was on MTV every 30 minutes. It was a pretty good song so I brought the album. Played it once and put it away. I grew up on metal and hard rock (Sabbath, Nugent, Aerosmith, Mott the Hoople, BOC etc.) it just didn't grab me the same way.

You're not 'alone' in that camp. I held the same feeling.

Alexa, what was #1 song on July 21, 1987?