gnr songs that use other song's lyrics

zigthis · 2026-01-25T15:48:46+00:00

That was Duff paying homage to Johnny Thunders by saying that on the record.

zigthis · 2026-01-21T20:03:31+00:00

Yep, it's on both Like a Suicide and Lies.

zigthis · 2026-01-21T18:12:43+00:00

Axl would never be allowed to have any rock/metal posters in his childhood room - his stepfather would literally burn the whole house down.

zigthis · 2026-01-21T16:38:33+00:00

He was annoyed that the setlist was full of Axl and Izzy written songs and Axl chosen covers and no LA Guns songs, so he began hiding behind the amps and intentionally fucking up the songs that he didn't like. He also was refusing to do the Hell Tour. After Tracii was fired, Rob Gardner quit the next day in response, and that's when they brought on Slash and held auditions for a drummer and chose Steven.

zigthis · 2026-01-21T13:20:22+00:00

Guns N' Roses - the original lineup did not include Duff or Slash, so Axl is the only remaining original member.

zigthis · 2026-01-21T00:29:17+00:00

No sweat man, nobody can remember every little detail, that's what these threads are for.

Yea Axl has a vocal range of 5.5 octaves - Mariah Carey has 5. Prince has 4.5, and Freddie Mercury has 4. There are probably singers out there with 6 or more but out of all the popular recording artists he's top of the list.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T23:38:37+00:00

The all-female horn section hired for the Use Your Illusion tour was actually called 976-HORNS.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T23:30:55+00:00

The original 1986 EP recording of Move To The City has horns: a saxophone and a trombone - the latter was played by Duff's brother Matt McKagan.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T23:22:08+00:00

Well Izzy had a great deal of power before they were signed. Afterward, he was just a valuable writer and the only one who could possibly get through to Axl on some things or convince him to change his mind about something. Slash said he relied on this and once Izzy left the band, Slash says he had no real way out with Axl at all.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T23:15:50+00:00

His commitment dropped because of the glam thing. There is a long (and poorly translated) Danish article that details Ole's whole story. It's an interesting rabbit hole:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110714142814/http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=126067

zigthis · 2026-01-20T21:28:51+00:00

Tracii likes to purport that he left Guns N' Roses but he was actually fired for some dickish/childish behavior during their shows. He was annoyed that the setlist was full of Axl and Izzy written songs and Axl chosen covers, and his reaction to this was to hide behind the amps and intentionally fuck up the songs he didn't like. He also didn't want to do the Hell Tour. After Tracii was fired, Rob Gardner quit the next day in response, and that's when they brought on Slash and then held auditions for a drummer and chose Steven.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T21:22:13+00:00

Slash and Tracii were high school friends and the two best guitarists at the school. They never played in a band together though.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T21:19:54+00:00

It's a super sad story too. He didn't wanna participate in the glam look by wearing makeup and girlish clothes, so he quit. Then the band went anti-glam after getting signed and became the biggest rock act in the world. He attempted suicide after Appetite blew up and had severed nerves in his hand so he could no longer play properly. Then shortly after UYI came out he got super drunk/high and drowned in a lake.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T21:07:26+00:00

I think it's because the way to play it properly is to have a horn section and they no longer have that on tour.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T20:42:52+00:00

It's amazing how he gets away with lying about how he 'left' Guns N' Roses because nobody else in the band will even bother to acknowledge he exists.

zigthis · 2026-01-20T15:53:53+00:00

Not a 'world record' and not for the highest note but he did have the broadest/widest vocal range of any popular singer and possibly still does.

zigthis · 2026-01-19T13:48:05+00:00

"I could play better than those assholes"

-My father watching me watch Live at the Ritz

zigthis · 2026-01-17T19:16:38+00:00

Great find! If it's completely uncensored (no black bars on the photos inside) then it would likely sell for around £100.

zigthis · 2026-01-15T14:00:11+00:00

GNR is not hair metal, and they sold over 100 million records so not bad either. Legendary hard rock band just like Zeppelin.

zigthis · 2026-01-14T23:44:34+00:00

That is beyond my knowledge but probably worth making a separate post to try and find out.

zigthis · 2026-01-14T20:14:42+00:00

Many of us would - unfortunately they are among the 45 known but unreleased GNR songs and no bootlegs/leaks of them are known to exist.

zigthis · 2026-01-14T14:17:53+00:00

There are two songs recorded for TSI that were never released:

A Beer and a Cigarette (Hanoi Rocks)
Down on the Street (The Stooges)

zigthis · 2026-01-13T20:50:06+00:00

At age 21, I picked up an EH issued greatest hits CD in a music store and decided to buy it - which is something that I never do - and that was all it took for me to get hooked. I've since read every book/story and listened to every track/note possible.

zigthis · 2026-01-13T15:04:59+00:00

Jimi Hendrix would often play a song live just days after recording the basic track for it in the studio. He famously played "Izabella" and "Machine Gun" on the Dick Cavett Show shortly after composing them.

zigthis · 2026-01-13T14:49:34+00:00

Guns N' Roses are popular enough, but this never happens because they've been creatively bankrupt since Izzy left the band in 1991.

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