[~SweetChildOfMine~]

I have done a search and I know there is a simular thread to this but I wanted this to be just a poll, you don't have to post a post (I can't find a way to make it a 'poll only')
But this is just a thing I like to find out, I guess I just find it interesting to see.

Anyway, which one of the options above is the closest to how you would describe you found out about the original Guns.

As for me; after a split and through a freind while on a school trip to Iceland, knew about my music taste and recommended them to me.

This post has been edited by ~SweetChildOfMine~: 17 October 2009 - 04:47 AM

[LightningBolt]

After the break-up; from my brother.

[ItsSuchACrimeUKnowItsTruee]

Late 2008 from a friend.

inb4hurrbba/rancidpunks

[FuddMckagan]

Late 2006

I started listening to them because I was bored. Yup. The transcript goes something like this:

Tv:"Blah Blah Blah...Guns N Roses"

Me: "Hey I've heard of them. Didn't they do that Welcome To The Jungle song?"
*Goes on computer-downloads Jungle. Listens to it about 30 times in the next 2 days.
A few weeks later, gets AFD for christmas...and the rest is history.

[Jackie Moon]

first heard of gnr around 94, from relatives, only really knew the big songs, jungle, november rain, paradise city, sweet child.

fast forward to 03. i was the starting goalie for our high school hockey team, we had a big game and the entrance music was jungle, gave me goosebumps, coming out to a sold out crowd going crazy, the opening riff of jungle screaming out and im the first one on the ice, it was a big moment. so when i got home i downloaded live era jungle, then decided to check out a few other songs. the first one i downloaded was my michelle.

it changed everything.

this was at a time when bands like good charlotte, blink 182, nickleback reigned. girls dont like boys girls like cars and money? my michelle was the grittiest, dirtiest, most legit rock song i had ever heard. it just oozed authenticity. thats when i realized gnr was the real deal and bands like billy talent just never looked the same.

i was always interested in CD, liked the songs i had heard, but i didnt get invested in it. i knew it might take years for it to come out / it might never actually come out so i kept my distance from it for quite awhile. in 06 when the first 2 minutes of better leaked, i was hooked. i knew the new band had potential and thats when i started getting anxious for CD.

summer of 08 is when i became more of a nu-guns fan than an oldguns fan. up until then i was all about slash, my sigon the forum used to be slash. then i read his book that summer and realized he isnt all he seems. his book left me disillusioned, unimpressed. then i started watching buckethead videos on youtube and realized just how amazing / talented /versatile he is. i used to be like the others "HE LOOKS WEIRD AND ALL HE DOES IS MAKE NOISE GRABLE GRABLE GRABLE". then i got my head out of my ass. i think bucket was perfect for CD, in the same way slash was perfect for appetite. its not about whos better ,i think they both fit their respective albums perfectly and thats what matters.

i love both old and new, both have significant personal meaning to me, but at this point im looking forward, without any hurt feelings over the past. i wish other people here could move on too. your missing out, you really are.

[Ninette Rose]

I am one of the unfortunate that discover them after the split up....(well i was born in 1990 so...) (

and i learned them pretty randomly..i knew this one girl that was a die hard fan of them and he told me once that she loved them..sometime later i was reading a rock magazin and it was praising ''Appetite..'' and i decided to go searching for the songs but i didn't ...after months i saw ''Don't cry'' in the facebook page of a friend and listened to it and got immediately stunned..then the same guy posted sweet child o'mine and all of a sudden GN'R was my FAV BAND OF ALL!!!!!!!!!!!<33333

it changed me completely!!!!<333

[hans_moleman]

Close to the end, through my sister. I was only 8-9 years old

[Rock_And_Roll_Over]

I have a 30 gig iPod so I can put whatever I want on there, I guess I had dragged GNR on without knowing. I was reading a biography (I forgot which one) and Guns was mentioned and I just thought, "Hey, if ______ toured with them and they were huge, I might as well give them a listen." After listening to the UYI albums I was hooked

Let me just say that the most frustrating thing about that is that I have never gotten to see them live .

[Satanisk_Slakt]

I can't say when I became a fan. I know that I got Appetite in Christmas present when I was under one years old. I guess my mum bought it more for herself than for me, but well... According to my sister I used to love when GN'R was played on the stereo when I was 1-3 years old. It's kind of hard, because this is things I don't have any memories of, I've just been told. I also know that I've pretty much always loved them. I know that when I was in school and everyone listened to Aqua, I listened to GN'R and AC/DC instead.

[The Glow Inc.]

Late 2006.

Believe it or not, I used to be a Slash fan. I really liked Slash's Snakepit and his contribution to Michael Jackson's B&W.
However, for a long time I didn't like GnR because I thought it sounded outdated mainly because of Axl's voice which I didn't like. I was really into Mike Patton and to me, Mike Patton stood against everything that GnR represented : stadium rock, huge mainstream band, rockstar divas etc...
I was really into Buckethead, Primus and NIN too and to me, Axl was just playing a cruel joke on these bands by hiring their members for his cover band.

However, I was also a HUGE Bumblefoot fan so when he joined, I decided to check it out.
The first good thing I came across from the new band was a TWAT leak ( I had heard Silkworms before and thought it was atrocious ).

That leak completely changed my perception of Nu-GnR and of Axl.

[JONEZY]

November 1987(Thanksgiving Day). My brother lent me a tape of Appetite, listened to it the whole way to my grandparents house. Was hooked immediately.
I follow the current band(Axl and friends) but only for the music. I have no interest in seeing this new-GnR live. They won't come to St. Louis anyway, which
is the nearest city. I'm not gonna travel to see this new band. I've seen 1 riot, don't want to see another one.

[MetalForever]

I became a fan around January 2002, from my sister...Sometime between Rock in Rio 3 and the 2002 Asian tour, because I was already looking at MyGNR when the Asian tour happened, and I remember being shocked about how different Axl looked from the pictures from the 90s I had seen.
My sister became a fan sometime in the late 80s. She saw the original band at MSG in 1991, and Giant Stadium in '92
My dad first became a fan of Guns in the Summer of 1988, and bought AFD not long after.

[Orsys]

I first got into GnR the first time I saw the Welcome to the Jungle intro scream. Wow, that was different and whose that guy in the funny hat? I walk and hike a lot and AFD was perfect for it.

But a die-hard fan, that didn't come until later. At 34, my fiance passed away and I walked a lot to deal with it. I had Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged in order on my 'walkman'. It seemed to pull all the grief out of me and I listened to those songs over and over. The solos in Estranged take you from down in the dumps to walking taller. But my near obsession with GnR actually came recently when I happened on the Makin' the Videos for Estranged and learned that those songs were a trilogy. I couldn't believe it since they were so important to me in my own grief. Then I saw an interview with Axl Rose and Kurt Loder. And that's when I realized Axl was hot. I was fascinated, bought a biography of the band, and Slash's autobiography, and began listening to all of their other music. I bought Chinese Democracy and loved it. I'm 49 and going to my first GnR concert. I am stoked!!

This post has been edited by Orsys: 23 October 2009 - 05:01 PM

[RickRoses]

sometime during grade 4..... im in grade 11 now so thats about 7 years ago... actually i can vividly remember watching the 2002 VMA's live, as it was happening, going "what the fuck is this!?!?! this dude looks fucked! but i think i know that song..." but i didnt care too much. only a few months later did i realize what i had seen, hahaha. i also vividly remember (still in grade 4, remember) walking around with my discman trying to convince everyone in my class that "November Rain" was the most epic song ever. seriously......


my dad got me into GNR (which is funny coz he doesnt like CD, but its his fault i love it so much) when he played Appetite in the car one day. the cd is mine now, and its beat up so much it barely works anymore. haha.

[ssiscool]

August 2004. Playing pool in a mates garage and Paradise City come on.