laffy Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Anybody here been to Lafayette? I lived there for five years and I'm constantly baffled about how something like Axl Rose could emerge from the emptiness there. He was still pretty young when he left for Los Angeles, but do you think any of his inspirations came from Lafayette? Has he ever talked about it? Or did he leave the place with nothing but family tragedies and bad memories and on his back? When living there I just could not imagine a person like him walking the streets of Lafayette. He truly is one in a million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailaway Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Anybody here been to Lafayette? I lived there for five years and I'm constantly baffled about how something like Axl Rose could emerge from the emptiness there. He was still pretty young when he left for Los Angeles, but do you think any of his inspirations came from Lafayette? Has he ever talked about it? Or did he leave the place with nothing but family tragedies and bad memories and on his back? When living there I just could not imagine a person like him walking the streets of Lafayette. He truly is one in a million.Which side of the Wabash did you live on? The Purdue side or the "other" side? There is a difference.People are basically a combination of heredity/environment/life experiences,both positive and negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffy Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 I lived on both sides of the river, West Lafayette and Lafayette. I assume Axl grew up in Lafayette. Yes this quote probably sums it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill Devil Hill Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 The brightest stars come from the cloudiest skies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I think of "Breaking Away" as far as where he was brought up. But a lot of people have kind of boring or unusual upbringings, sometimes it factors in to their work, sometimes it doesn't. I wouldn't be surprised if he went there when he was trying to do some soul searching during those "lost years". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailaway Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I lived on both sides of the river, West Lafayette and Lafayette. I assume Axl grew up in Lafayette. Yes this quote probably sums it up.Look up the GQ interview with Dana Gregory,forgotten the Author's name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquor & Whores Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Is Axl's family house still to see in Lafayette now? Or other place he lived in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Maybe his siblings are the better ones to ask about growing up there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyL Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 yeah I been there. Strange people there. the only nice person I ran into was a lady at AppleBees and a lady at the Knights in Hotel. Otherwise I was treated like a total outsider. And I never mentioned too anyone that I was a gnr fan, not my style to do that kind of thing. I am from small town midwest and we don't treat strangers that way. We welcome them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Money Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Supposedly, Axl is a fan of a pizza place there... Arnie's Pizza? I've never been there but I imagine it's much like the shitty town in Southern Illinois where I was raised- Mt. Vernon, IL. People are strange there. When I go home for a visit, I'm unfamiliar to many of the current residents or I suppose that just look like an outsider. I walk into one of the restaurants and people just glare at you. It's always a strange feeling. Aside from visiting my family, I hate going there, but I guess I have my own version of Arnie's Pizza back there... Pizza Man. If I were a famous rock star, I would have them cater my concerts when I returned to the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snooze72 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Is Axl's family house still to see in Lafayette now? Or other place he lived in?His grandmother still lived in that house up until five years ago or something. Columbian Park is just down the street, it's not going anywhere. One of the Arni's (I think there are two), in the same corner as the Frozen Custard place, are still there. Those were the hangouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAYLOR Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 didnt his grandmother pass away a few years ago. he was supposed to be close to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlinkafayette Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 nothing wrong with Lafayette actually, its a smaller town with not a ton to do. Izzy has a home there still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snooze72 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 didnt his grandmother pass away a few years ago. he was supposed to be close to her.She passed away within the last year I think. She had moved to another state five years or so before that. He grew up living in her house, she doted on him, but he never went back to visit much. He pretty much divorced his whole family, her included. Well, not so much the siblings. Depending on what day it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAYLOR Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 tks for that i always wondered, imagine divorcing all ur family although a know he had a shit upbrining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snooze72 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 He didn't have a shit upbringing with his Grandmother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One.In.A.Million Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) I remember an Axl quote about Lafayette, it might have been used to describe is inspiration to November Rain. Some about watching ice dropping and freezing from a roof on an old house, on a winters day.....really makes me feel Axl never had much to do back there, and probably why he got into alot of trouble etc.Must have been a boring place, and someone like Axl would have indeed of gravitated towards LA. Edited March 25, 2012 by One.In.A.Million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesterdaze Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 It's actually not a small town whatsoever. By small town, it's not Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, but save for huge rock bands visiting or having professional sports teams, the city has everything else to offer. Before I visited, I figured Axl grew up in something like a trailer parkl with one gas station in town. Lafayette has every restaurant, department stores, parks, schools, etc... I actually think Axl might secretly wish he now had the simple life he grew up in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyL Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 It's actually not a small town whatsoever. By small town, it's not Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, but save for huge rock bands visiting or having professional sports teams, the city has everything else to offer. Before I visited, I figured Axl grew up in something like a trailer parkl with one gas station in town. Lafayette has every restaurant, department stores, parks, schools, etc... I actually think Axl might secretly wish he now had the simple life he grew up in.yeah I always got a kick out of him calling it a small town. It has some of those small town things going on but its not small town. lol I grew up in small town USA! lol Hell Lafayette is the big city compared too what I grew up in. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 It's actually not a small town whatsoever. By small town, it's not Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, but save for huge rock bands visiting or having professional sports teams, the city has everything else to offer. Before I visited, I figured Axl grew up in something like a trailer parkl with one gas station in town. Lafayette has every restaurant, department stores, parks, schools, etc... I actually think Axl might secretly wish he now had the simple life he grew up in.Was it a small town when he grew up there? (i.e. 60s-70s)Apparently it had a ~40K population back then (the 2010 census coming to 67,140) and was mostly factories. That's bout all I know. Axl once stated that the church their family went to and the community developed practically in front of him as he grew up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iftheworld Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Lafayette mall is pretty sweet. It gives the Kokomo mall a run for its money. I prefer Kokomo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyL Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 well I grew up in a town with about 1,000 pop. So too me 40,000 is quite big. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAYLOR Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 a didnt mean by his grandmother a meant his mum and dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snooze72 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 a didnt mean by his grandmother a meant his mum and dadI meant his grandmother. He spent far more time with her than his parents. (And it was just his stepdad who was an ass). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailaway Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 a didnt mean by his grandmother a meant his mum and dadI meant his grandmother. He spent far more time with her than his parents. (And it was just his stepdad who was an ass).Being Abused and mindfucked,and kicked out isn't a picnic in the Park.Knowing ur mother stood by and allowed/enabled it to happen is a fucked thing.All evidence points to the local police having issues as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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