Popular music begins and ends with high school and college students. I was a freshman in high school in 1995. There was only one kid other than me who wore GNR shirts, and he was a complete fucking loser. He use to call my name in class all the time and be like, hey... guess what me and my friend did over the weekend? Then he would go on to tell me they got high or drunk and jammed to Guns N Roses etc. But it was always said as if it were a dirty secret, because by then, in the US, GNR was lame. It was NIN, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains... stuff like that. GNR might as well have been Poison. It was that antiquated.