Karice Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 (edited) I first learned about Guns N'Roses when VH1 was playing a Video Countdown of Greatest Rock And Roll music songs ever and... Sweet Child Of Mine was on it and I liked the song. I remember thinking,"The lead Singer's voice is crystal clear and I can understand every word he is singing! 😏😀 Boy, I had no idea what I would be getting into with Axl later on when I found out how hard it is to understand what the hell he is singing a lot of times! 🤣😏 My local radio stations would ONLY play Sweet Child Of Mine, so I thought Guns N'Roses was a One Hit Wonder and wondered why they weren't a Band with lots of hits with how good SCOM is. I had no idea at the time they were a huge successful band with lots of hits, not just one 😏😀 One day, I was watching Welcome To The Jungle (This was when I still thought Guns N'Roses was a one hit wonder band) and wondering why the WTTJ Singer was ripping off the SCOM Singer and why he was even trying to look like him! 🤣😏 Wow! I was like the WTTJ Singer needs his own style, not be imitating the SCOM Singer. 😏 I went on a Website and called out the WTTJ Singer for ripping off the SCOM Singer and said, "I hope the SCOM Singer sues the WTTG Singer for ripping him off so bad. There's a big difference between paying homage to someone and ripping them off very deeply. This is the latter." I got the reply,"They're the same person, dummy!" I learned something new that day! 😏😀🤣 Edited September 6, 2022 by Karice 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkside259 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 i thought the same, when i was hearing for first time civil war i thought that they had two singers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karice Posted August 31, 2022 Author Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 hour ago, darkside259 said: i thought the same, when i was hearing for first time civil war i thought that they had two singers Speaking about Axl sounding like two different People, I remember hearing Patience on SiriusXM or something like that where you only hear the music and don't see the singers/musicians, and I thought,"Guns N'Roses must have gotten rid of the high pitched singer and replaced him with this deep voiced man. 🤣" I still am in awe how different Axl's high pitch singing is from his deep pitched singing. I remember hearing It's So Easy and being blown away by how deep he sounds on It's So Easy. I was like,"He sounds like James Hetfield from Metallica! 😱😏😀🤣 Another longer time Guns N'Roses Fan said something like, "Axl is known for singing both very deep and very high " 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6lake sa66ath Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Terminator 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screamin' Demon Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I was in my finishing years of High School & a fella introduced me to some hard rock & heavy metal music; being very energetic, hyperactive as well as full of anger due to my Narcissistic mother's abuse, I found that the music all resonated with my anger & rebellious attitude & I turned to it as a supportive vice. I found GN'R "You Could Be Mine" & fell in love with the song, remembering my childhood memories of it & took it all from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karice Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Screamin' Demon said: I was in my finishing years of High School & a fella introduced me to some hard rock & heavy metal music; being very energetic, hyperactive as well as full of anger due to my Narcissistic mother's abuse, I found that the music all resonated with my anger & rebellious attitude & I turned to it as a supportive vice. I found GN'R "You Could Be Mine" & fell in love with the song, remembering my childhood memories of it & took it all from there. According to Guns N'Roses themselves, their Appetite For Destruction Album was meant to be a voice for rebellious Teens! 😀🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screamin' Demon Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 9 hours ago, Karice said: According to Guns N'Roses themselves, their Appetite For Destruction Album was meant to be a voice for rebellious Teens! 😀🤣 Oh yeah I can see that; but nothing beats You Could Be Mine to me 🥰🥰🥰 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sausagebrain Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I first knew them as some 'heavy metal' band that the hooligan kids at my school were into. Who'd have thought that a nice boy like me would end up being a massive fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karice Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Screamin' Demon said: Oh yeah I can see that; but nothing beats You Could Be Mine to me 🥰🥰🥰 About You Can Be Mine, there was a Mickey version(very high pitched) vs Rasp version(low high pitch if this makes sense) on YouTube and at one "Mickey version," Axl out of nowhere said,"Ah," in a very high pitched voice that sounded hilarious! 🤣☺️ A comment said something like,"It's so disappointing when you pay good money to see a Guns N'Roses Show....and the Axl voice Wheel landed on Mickey! 🤣 On a serious side note, we're lucky Axl can still sing at all with that powerhouse screeching, powerful voice, loud, gutteral, rough voice he sang with as a young guy. Perfect Crime (live) is a perfect example of this. Also Sail Away (STYX cover) is also a perfect example of this. He starts off as so soft, low, and out of nowhere sings with a powerhouse, powerful, loud, gutteral, rough voice. He does something similar in Perfect Crime live. Perfect Crime studio version is hard to sing on it's own but the live version, he is really outdoing himself on the live version. Edited September 1, 2022 by Karice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prejudiced illusions Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 It was 1988. My best friends brother was lead singer in a band and played Appetite for us. Funny story, I made a copy on a 60 minute blank tape. The whole album didn't fit and I went for a long time without knowing Rocket Queen existed. I wore that tape out and bought the actual cassette. It was like a bonus track to me and quickly became one of my favorites. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karice Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, prejudiced illusions said: It was 1988. My best friends brother was lead singer in a band and played Appetite for us. Funny story, I made a copy on a 60 minute blank tape. The whole album didn't fit and I went for a long time without knowing Rocket Queen existed. I wore that tape out and bought the actual cassette. It was like a bonus track to me and quickly became one of my favorites. Ahh. The good old days of copying albums on blank cassettes. ☺️ I did this a lot when I was growing up myself. ☺️ Question. Appetite For Destruction Album is about 54 minutes.... How were you not able to record the entire album on a 60 minute cassette? 🤨 Edited September 1, 2022 by Karice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranich Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 My dad put like 10 Guns N Roses songs on my phone when I was in primary school. This was some kind of shady the best of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gdhehdh906zgdheheh Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. Ah great memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t-p-d-a Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I was 14 years old in 2004. I played this with my best friend on the PS2. Sadly he is gone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prejudiced illusions Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 23 hours ago, Karice said: Ahh. The good old days of copying albums on blank cassettes. ☺️ I did this a lot when I was growing up myself. ☺️ Question. Appetite For Destruction Album is about 54 minutes.... How were you not able to record the entire album on a 60 minute cassette? 🤨 No idea. Stupid 12 year old I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modano09 Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Axl must have been in the news a lot at the time because I was like 8 and my Dad told me to turn off that "Alex Rose" when the November Rain video came on. The first time I actually started listening to them was when You Could be Mine was in Terminator 2 and I had it on a mixed tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPR714 Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 (edited) Back in '86 or '87 when I first heard "Paradise City," on the radio. I thought it was a cool tune then I didn't hear it again for awhile. Then WTTJ came out and PC eventually came back to the radio. I believe the DJ at that time had a copy that he played until some upper management put a stop to it the first round. Then I saw the video on MTV. Back when MTV showed videos 98.9% of the time instead of the BS they show today. Edited September 2, 2022 by DPR714 Added info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modano09 Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 On 8/31/2022 at 5:05 PM, darkside259 said: i thought the same, when i was hearing for first time civil war i thought that they had two singers I thought when he used his deeper voice it was Slash. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbj_jam Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Heard wttj on telly, promotion for Live Era in 99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 In '88 from some girls in my class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karice Posted September 3, 2022 Author Share Posted September 3, 2022 27 minutes ago, Oldest Goat said: Was born in '91, remember seeing SCOM on MTV in the early 90s thinking Axl looked dumb because his hair was long, like girls. Little did I know he's much cooler than me! I remember someone asking something like,"Who is that red haired girl watching TV in the Welcome To The Jungle music video?" The reply was something like,"Red haired girl watching TV in the Welcome To The Jungle music video?" That's no girl, that's Axl Rose from Guns N'Roses!" 🤣☺️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VampireSoul Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Around when Lies came out, my sister had Patience on vinyl. I myself became a fan around 1992 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlashisGOD Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 I was at our local bowling alley and heard either SCOM or PC playing. Can’t remember which. This was probably 1988. I remember being mystified at how good the song was and I asked someone who was on the jukebox and they told me Guns N’ Roses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karice Posted September 3, 2022 Author Share Posted September 3, 2022 About Patience, I heard this deep sounding Singer and I remember thinking,"What happened to the high pitched Singer who sings Paradise City, Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child Of Mine?" 🤔🤨 Did they get rid of him and replace him with this Baritone Singer?" 🤨🤔I'm still in awe about Axl's multiple voice ranges. ☺️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGeneral Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Saw a compilation video of famous fuck-ups, one of them was Slash butchering the intro to (I believe) WTTJ. Then looked up the band and the first thing I watched was some Appetite for Democracy live video. In hindsight, I'm surprised I became a fan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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