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Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
Just read this over on HTGTH via MyGNR, would be pretty cool if it turns out to be true. Along the UYI lines.
http://twitter.com/#!/IzzysArmy
Yes its true...izzy is releasing a new album. U willl recgonize a guest singer on one track
28 Aug
Ill give u a hint to the singer: he wanted you to feel his serpentine in 1987
28 Aug
@PrivatePookie YES FUCKING WAY!! Thats right, Axl will guest spot on a song from #whatalife dont know which one tho.
28 Aug
“@MKaipio: @IzzysArmy Is it gonna take 14 years for Axl to get his vocal done?”lol i dont think so...izzy wouldnt allow it
28 Aug
Wait, what? Axls only backing vocals guys...just found out. O well. Its still him!
28 Aug
Rememver these r "rumors neither confirmed nor denied by izzu" as he was nodding his head up and down 
28 Aug
Id like to apologizefor my potty mouth last ni...eh fuck it. No harm done, right?
28 Aug
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Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
My biggest memory of the day UYI got released?
Going to Sound Warehouse in Pontiac to buy them. Lying directly to my moms face about what a Parental Advisory sticker meant. Having my mom double check with the clerk ringing us up and me giving him the "PLEASE DEAR GOD GO WITH THIS LOOK" from behind my mom. The clerk going along with it and me getting away with it.
That is until we got about 5 miles down the road and my mom demanded to hear either UYI. I knew what was coming but I had to comply. I put UYI I in and we made a u-turn on M59 right when the "FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOU!" hit in the middle of RNDtH.
I also watched my mom read the clerk the riot act just before watching them refund the purchase and walking out WITHOUT UYI.
Yep. That happened.
Awesome Story!!!!
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
russtcb wrote:My biggest memory of the day UYI got released?
Going to Sound Warehouse in Pontiac to buy them. Lying directly to my moms face about what a Parental Advisory sticker meant. Having my mom double check with the clerk ringing us up and me giving him the "PLEASE DEAR GOD GO WITH THIS LOOK" from behind my mom. The clerk going along with it and me getting away with it.
That is until we got about 5 miles down the road and my mom demanded to hear either UYI. I knew what was coming but I had to comply. I put UYI I in and we made a u-turn on M59 right when the "FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOU!" hit in the middle of RNDtH.
I also watched my mom read the clerk the riot act just before watching them refund the purchase and walking out WITHOUT UYI.
Yep. That happened.
Awesome Story!!!!
Awesome but somewhat annoying.. I think it's the mom factor.
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
My biggest memory of the day UYI got released?
Going to Sound Warehouse in Pontiac to buy them. Lying directly to my moms face about what a Parental Advisory sticker meant. Having my mom double check with the clerk ringing us up and me giving him the "PLEASE DEAR GOD GO WITH THIS LOOK" from behind my mom. The clerk going along with it and me getting away with it.
That is until we got about 5 miles down the road and my mom demanded to hear either UYI. I knew what was coming but I had to comply. I put UYI I in and we made a u-turn on M59 right when the "FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOU!" hit in the middle of RNDtH.
I also watched my mom read the clerk the riot act just before watching them refund the purchase and walking out WITHOUT UYI.
Yep. That happened.
Hahaha! That put a smile on my face! Great story! 
As with many of you, UYI have a special place in my heart as well!
I was 14 in '91. A few years before I went totally apeshit when I heard Paradice City for the first time. But in '91, my mind was blown again with the release of YCBM!
But the most important thing that happened to me regarding GNR (and with music in general), and it is a little bit embarrassing, is that I kind of started to understand music/lyrics.
It happened one day in '91. I was sitting in my mom's livingroom listening to UYI1 on vinyl with headphones on. November Rain was playing. Then the lines that says "It's hard to hold a candle, in the cold November rain" slipped into my ears.
At that moment, it suddenly dawned on me that that doesn't litteraly mean that it's a pain in the ass to hold a candle out in the rain. But that it was a metaphor for something else. Something deep and mysterious. Something that I could apply to things that was going on in my own life at the time!
I fell in love with music (and GNR) at that moment, on a level that turned it into my obsession.
And to this day, it still is!
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
Russ, you should've gone with UYI II intead. Probably would've been safe until "Get In The Ring" at least. I remember my mom hearing Axl's diatribe during that tune once. She was none too impressed. Didn't take it away though, just told me to turn it down. Unlike Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power", that one she did take away. The song title "Fucking Hostile" didn't help my cause. I eventually got it back though.
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
My biggest memory of the day UYI got released?
Going to Sound Warehouse in Pontiac to buy them. Lying directly to my moms face about what a Parental Advisory sticker meant. Having my mom double check with the clerk ringing us up and me giving him the "PLEASE DEAR GOD GO WITH THIS LOOK" from behind my mom. The clerk going along with it and me getting away with it.
That is until we got about 5 miles down the road and my mom demanded to hear either UYI. I knew what was coming but I had to comply. I put UYI I in and we made a u-turn on M59 right when the "FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOU!" hit in the middle of RNDtH.
I also watched my mom read the clerk the riot act just before watching them refund the purchase and walking out WITHOUT UYI.
Yep. That happened.
It's stories like this that make me realize how lucky I was to have parents that were very liberal when it came to my music tastes. At 12 they bought me AFD, the singles, and I had all those AFD shirts(I think 5 were in stores at the time). Also bought me Lies when it came out. Hell, after hearing me play AFD almost continuously for 7th and 8th grade, my dad started liking them to the point of wearing GNR shirts as well. 
He took me to the Mountain View concert in 91.
My dad was dealing drugs for awhile and in 1990 he saw one of his friends wearing a GNR necklace. You old timers might remember how Circus and Hit Parader sold those necklaces and other trinkets of all those bands at the time. It was one of those. He gave the guy some dope for it and brought it to me. He also acquired a GNR cigarette lighter from someone and I have never seen that anywhere before or since. Wish I still had it even though it ran out of fluid a couple weeks after getting it.
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
monkeychow wrote:So some UYI memories.
I was 14 when the album came out in 1991.
My best mate and I had a taped VHS copy of the LALD video clip and would watch it in the dark - letting the light from our old CRT television act as an actual strobe light in the room, and we'd go nuts like we were on stage with GNR.
Then with T2 if just felt like the whole world was about "You Could be Mine" for a while - that song at that time just kind of captured a spirit in the air or something.
Pretty much spent the next few years digging into every cut on that album and getting obsessed with each song one at a time. If you listen to them start to finish it really is a genius body of work.
misterID wrote:I remember all the girls in sixth grade talking about Axl's nipple ring in 91
I remember 7 and being into Terminator, and just an innocent little kid and watching the YCBM video when it premiered on MTV (or somewhere around when it was brand spanking) and just...
just...
Being blown the fuck away. Speechless. Is it cool? Is it scary? All I knew was what I heard sounded cool as fuck and I wanted to be IN THAT VIDEO, and I never looked back. Little did I know how much influence GN'R would have over my life from then until now.
To this day, I think the You Could Be Mine video is far and away the best video they ever did, and to this day I think the 1991/UYI-studio GN'R is THE definitive Guns N' Roses.
That's ultimately the lasting impression of Guns N' Roses. Use Your Illusion for me, represents the alpha/omega of anything and everything that ever was, or ever will be - Guns N' Fuckin' Roses!
The YCBM video without the Terminator parts is even better, imho. 
