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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 AugIll 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 AugWait, what? Axls only backing vocals guys...just found out. O well. Its still him!
28 AugRememver these r "rumors neither confirmed nor denied by izzu" as he was nodding his head up and down
28 AugId like to apologizefor my potty mouth last ni...eh fuck it. No harm done, right?
28 Aug
Apparently this was all a big hoax. Being shot down as fake on HTGTH. Sorry for getting anyone's hopes up.
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
faldor wrote: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.
Oh I tried my friend. I left the part out. I already had the cassette single for YCBM so I knew at least Civil War was a safe but and could've lasted all the way home. But I pulled I out of the bad first and quickly threw it back in to go for II. My mom must've knew something was up because she said "NO. The first one" ...the rest is detailed in the above traumatic experience.
Great story, that gave me a chuckle. Moms are slick like that. Can't sneak anything by them. I'd often play Pink Floyd's "Mother" for my mom and she completely agreed with the lyrics.
I too became a fan of GNR because of the UYI's. I remember when AFD came out, I was 8. I remember one of my friends had it and played it. Thought it was pretty cool, they said the "F" word a lot. But at the time I was more into Def Leppard and Bon Jovi. It wasn't until the UYI's till I really got hooked onto GNR. I remember riding the bus in middle school and the "cool kids" at the back of the bus would blare "You Could Be Mine". I knew at that point, nothing would be the same. I got the UYI cassettes and wore them out. At the time, I would take many weekend trips with my parents up to Cape Cod. A good portion of those car rides would be spent with my walkman listening to each cassette front to back. And while I listened I would read along with the lyrics to each song, look at the pictures, read the liner notes. Just totally immerse myself. At some points, my mom would ask me what I was listening to and asked if they could hear some. So I queued up "November Rain" and she loved that. I knew my limits though, so I stopped it at that.
Good times!
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
Definitely good times. I also have to give total credit to UYI for getting me turned on to GN'R and MTV at JUST THE RIGHT TIME.
I didn't watch the channel. Too young, and I had to CONSTANTLY change the channel when mom walked in. She didn't want me seeing "that Madonna".
But seriously, I got to catch all that shit right at the explosion of "we're gonna rule the world", then I got to see grunge take off and all those fucking hilarious interviews Alice In Chains used to do with Riki... great times, great years.
For some reason (RAP) by 1996 or so I was checking out. AIC's Unplugged appearence was the last thing I really remember. By the next year or so, they had already moved on to Creed being the epitome of "rock", and even Metallica was like 'old hat'. Those were SAD days...
That network hasn't been the same since. When you think about it - what a loss. By 1998, little did we know... Metallica, GN'R, AIC, Nirvana, Soundgarden... all were finished in one swoop.
Axlin08 wrote: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.
Yeah but the thing is, without the Terminator clips... I would've never ever gave the video or Guns N' Roses a second glance. I was too young. The Terminator brought me in... "first one's free"
I've been a junkie ever since - 
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Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
I remember listening to UYI up at ten in my room and singing along, I roared "you, you can suck my ass!!" along with Uncle Ax as I stolled into the kitechen drying my (then very long) hair.
I looked out from under the towel and my mother was sitting there having coffee with a neighbour looking really embarrassed.
"What the hell was that?? Turn it OFF!!"
What made it worse was my 5 year old sister was playing on the floor and she started marching around shouting "you, you can suck my ass!!" over and over again..no idea what she was saying.
My poor mother didn't know where to look..
Re: 20 Years of Use Your Illusion (New GW article scans inside)
I remember listening to UYI up at ten in my room and singing along, I roared "you, you can suck my ass!!" along with Uncle Ax as I stolled into the kitechen drying my (then very long) hair.
I looked out from under the towel and my mother was sitting there having coffee with a neighbour looking really embarrassed.
"What the hell was that?? Turn it OFF!!"
What made it worse was my 5 year old sister was playing on the floor and she started marching around shouting "you, you can suck my ass!!" over and over again..no idea what she was saying.
My poor mother didn't know where to look..
