Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction | Full Documentary | Izzy Stradlin

Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction | Full Documentary | Izzy Stradlin | Malcolm Dome

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Featuring unseen archive footage including rare performances previously unavailable on film along with candid reflections on the album by guitarist Izzy Stradlin. This is the ultimate independent critical review of the album which changed the world.
The album was released to little mainstream attention in 1987. It was not until the following year that Appetite for Destruction became a commercial success, after the band had toured and received significant airplay with the singles "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child o' Mine". The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 and became the seventh best-selling album of all time in the United States, as well as the best-selling debut album. With over 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is also one of the best-selling albums of all time.
In a retrospective review for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Ann Powers wrote that Guns N' Roses "produced a unique mix of different rock values", such as "speed and musicianship, flash and dirt", on an album that "changed hard rock's sensibilities at the time." Stephen Thomas Erlewine also viewed it as a "turning point for hard rock" in his review for AllMusic and felt Rose's singing and songwriting are enhanced by Slash and Stradlin's dual guitar playing, which helped make Appetite for Destruction "the best metal record of the late '80s". According to Jimmy Martin of The Quietus, as the 1980s' best hard rock album, Appetite for Destruction had an "unrefined, punk quality" that marked a "shift away" from hair metal bands commercialized by MTV. According to Billboard magazine's Christa Titus, Appetite for Destruction appealed to rock music's various listeners because the band incorporated "metal's forceful playing, punk rock's rebellious themes, glam metal's aesthetic, and bluesy guitar riffs that appealed to purists." Russell Hall, the features writer for Gibson's online publication, said the album "injected a much-needed dose of ’70s-style rebellion into the frothy pop metal of the '80s", by "combining the swagger of late '60s Stones and vintage Aerosmith with the menace of punk and a trash-glam aesthetic".
Director: The Creative Picture Company
Cast: Izzy Stradlin, Malcolm Dome, Chris George
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@jameshutchinson568 7 ай бұрын

In the past 50 years, there is NO rock band that generated as much excitement and fan appeal as Guns N' Roses when they were huge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Easily the biggest rock band in the world since the Rolling Stones and Beatles in the 1960s. The fact that they had such a heavy sound, but were still able to transcend heavy metal and gain such a huge following is a measure of their greatness. I'm glad they finally got back together, but I wish they had done it a long time ago. They could have created so much amazing music over the past 20 - 30 years.

@ivarcollison5965 5 ай бұрын

Totally agree 💯

@mikesmouse7779 Ай бұрын

Yep and then they complete blew it by being the band that released the Use Your Illusion albums :(

@jay60092 Жыл бұрын

I first heard this band when I was 17 years old......I'm 52 now and still listen to them every day!

@thomashargrove2991 Жыл бұрын

I heard them when I was 14. I'm 49 and listen everyday too. No band compares to them.

@Wesmancan 11 ай бұрын

I grad in 87. Partied hard to the album of the same year.

@jay60092 11 ай бұрын

Just saw them in Glasgow UK fucking awesome!!

@marinamarchese6748 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely *****Likewise***And, even after over thirty years down the line from their debut, The Legacy of this Unique, Supremely Great Rock 'n Roll Band Rules, and still keeps inspiring the generations to come!

@Visual_Writer 10 ай бұрын

Similar with me, 47. As a kid I did drugs while listening, nowadays I listen to them while I go jogging. 😂

@mischalecter8555 Жыл бұрын

I swear I won't ever get over this band, Axl Rose will have my heart till the end of the world

@christineadjei9143 Жыл бұрын

Axl Rose is a phenomenon, he might have been messed up from his upbringing, but he is highly intelligent, and very eloquent when he speaks. His voice is totally unique, and GNR is like no other rock band, they are the greatest rock band ever without a doubt.

@spaceman8839 Жыл бұрын

Axl has talent but he also has the Michael Jackson disease of excessive plastic surgery, 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

@fenrisstark997 Жыл бұрын

Also, he IS the one who made GNR who they are today. If he had not sacrificed his voice, they wouldn't have grown so much. If he hadn't stopped doing drugs before everyone else and held the end on this matter, they would have died. Slash and Duff wanted to make songs about sex, drugs, and alcohol only. If they had their wishes fulfilled GNR would have released 10 different appetites for destruction and the band would've died out just like Motley Crue did. Axl composed November Rain in 86 and had to spend years convincing the rest of the band to release it. His though personality and dictatorship was what kept the band together and the gears turning. If it weren't for that, Use Your Illusion would have never been released, along with songs like Sweet Child o' Mine and many other of their biggest hits, their over the top clips that exploded MTV would never have happened, the band would have never made history like they did, and Slash and Duff would've OD'ed.

@MAJKA-hg3bd Жыл бұрын

Amen!

@m.m4982 Жыл бұрын

AC DC is greatest with Bon or Brian. GNR is great but too inconsistent. Only 2 good albums.

@hotrodmodelcars9060 11 ай бұрын

I wish they had a clue on how to set up a drum kit 😂

@vmhvampir Жыл бұрын

Growing up with sexual abuse myself i have always understood his anger issues. One of the best bands ever, and what a voice that I understood and still do.

@leejones1041 11 ай бұрын

sweet child o mine, is a song about rescuing a child rape victim, someone finds the child in a cellar being kept a prisoner, the guitar solo is the child terrified that going up the stairs will bring more violence to them, the note exchange between the guitar and you is meant to describe a child trying to find the courage to leave rape imprisonment by walking up the stairs out of his prison. based on a real event. they are good people, izzy straddlin, not so much, he was mde to fuckoff.

@jessielakes8118 11 ай бұрын

I think we've all been sexually abused. So it seems.

@nahiyanalamgir7056 9 ай бұрын

Slash said that Axl is the best vocalist he ever worked with.

@danielsmith9476 Ай бұрын

@@nahiyanalamgir7056yeah weiland had half the talent with the same temperment

@joeduffy3309 9 ай бұрын

History will show this is the greatest rock album of all time

@jameshutchinson568 7 ай бұрын

Guns N' Roses definitely has to be in that discussion. Appetite For Destruction has to be the greatest rock album of all time. Just an AMAZING record that is still underappreciated to this day, despite its mega success. The "heavy metal" label has hurt Guns N' Roses a little, but they are SO much more than that.

@joeduffy3309 7 ай бұрын

@@jameshutchinson568 They are so much more, as shown again in the UUI double album where between the two one could easily find 12-15 brilliant tracks. Tracks that are also greatly under-appreciated. The likes of Estranged is a masterpiece although owing the length of the track rarely played on the public airways.

@jameshutchinson568 7 ай бұрын

@@joeduffy3309 Estranged is one of my favorite G&R songs. Really underappreciated.

@missczucher 6 ай бұрын

Eu concordo

@nyrckr 3 ай бұрын

@@joeduffy3309 12-15 brilliant tracks 😂👌

@jackdempsey9644 11 ай бұрын

Everyone says Slash and Axl were the formula, but Izzy was secret ingredient that made the band magical. Never was the same without Izzy, and once Axl added the backup singers and biker shorts it was RIP. What a great band they were as Axl, Slash, Izzy, Duff, and Steven 🔥

@minners71 10 ай бұрын

Don't agree, Steven was the secret ingredient and once he left that was it.

@johnanderson60 9 ай бұрын

@@minners71 Go listen to Izzys 12 solo albums... The rest of the lot dont have that many combined. It is and has the core sound of GNR... IZZY RULES

@Novotny72 9 ай бұрын

@@minners71Duff's on record saying they kept trying to keep Adler as punk as possible, as he had a tendency to going total metal. However, I totally agree his playing was a big part of the sound.

@nahiyanalamgir7056 9 ай бұрын

@@johnanderson60 I don't think quantity has anything to do with it. I do agree that Izzy is one hell of a song machine!

@nahiyanalamgir7056 9 ай бұрын

@@Novotny72 Not surprising since Adler is a huge Kiss fan haha

@charlesmiddleton3247 Жыл бұрын

I'm going on 70 and have gotten into the late 60's, 70's music but really rocked to Guns N Roses from their beginnings. Had the privilege of seeing them in 87 I believe at a local bar with a group of co-workers from the hospital I worked at. They were just getting going but I knew at the time, they were going to kick some hinny in the music world. I briefly had a conversation with Axil letting him know they were awesome. I was like 10 feet away from them playing. I wish I would have gotten their autographs.

@dr.bonscott3962 Жыл бұрын

Appetite was an unbelievably amazing album. Start to finish.

@stratonicc2651 Жыл бұрын

weakest link was anything goes, but id take that over songs like my world anyday

@silasmarner7586 Жыл бұрын

Steven Adler, "not the greatest drummer in the world"? Pshaw there! He was a MASTER of the small kit, far better than came later. 'nuff said.

@aus-rider Жыл бұрын

Steven had natural rhythm and swing, when Izzy left the band not long after Steven got booted out, he said the rest where still doing drugs, I was clean and the band just didn’t sound the same without Steven, but also understood they had to get another drummer in as the two albums were behind two years.

@ryanjavierortega8513 Жыл бұрын

Phenomenal Drummer, the pop on that record is incredible

@freddiesmith7821 11 ай бұрын

They still haven't found any drummer as good as him

@stefanomazzarello4771 11 ай бұрын

Guys, in my opinion, Matt did more than a great job with Guns 'n Roses, i absolutely loved the Use your Illusions tour...

@Wesmancan 11 ай бұрын

I Thai k it was the dope that got him canned. And there are far better drummers around for shore.

@tanniestienie7833 7 ай бұрын

1st album i bought was appetite for destruction. i was 14. I'm now 50! I still love that album! I saw them live in 2018 in south Africa. I was so disappointed. We are all old and tired. Especially my beautiful axle. They are still a rock powerhouse make no mistake. They defined my youth, and made me a headbanger for life! I will always be a loyal fan, no matter!

@minn-dakturfmaintenance684 Жыл бұрын

Axl rose is highly intelligent individual. When this record came out, it blew everybody away. It was unreal. And everything else that followed by this band was nothing but great. The lyrics to use your illusions 1 and 2 are just phenomenal.

@oldboy4271 Жыл бұрын

Even listening to Chinese Democracy, if you ignore the millions of dollars and time sink put into it, and the fact that its not really Guns & Roses, there are some good songs on there and Axle explores different genres, I look at it like an Axle Rose side project....

@minn-dakturfmaintenance684 Жыл бұрын

@@oldboy4271 he did hit some high notes and there was very complicated parts in that record. The dude is just remarkable. Love him or hate him, he just does it and it works. I wish I could be that talented. I can barely tie my shoes, let alone make noodles right.

@oldboy4271 Жыл бұрын

@@minn-dakturfmaintenance684 Right on, I just wish we had more records from them but he and the band are legends and big part of my childhood right up to adulthood!

@minn-dakturfmaintenance684 Жыл бұрын

@@oldboy4271 oh definitely I’m with you in all that. I agree 100%. My life at times were songs he wrote, the feelings, situations all of it. Was a lot to due with Guns N Roses. I’ve learned a lot thru his music and lyrics and his interviews

@oldboy4271 Жыл бұрын

@@minn-dakturfmaintenance684 Right on!

@BL1TZEN Жыл бұрын

I have to say, as a 50 year old man having really liked the songs Paradise City and Sweet Child O' Mine over the years - I had NEVER listened to Appetite For Destruction in my entire life until 3 days ago. It has been on non-stop ever since and I feel blessed that I got to experience it as a 'new' album at this point in my life. Loved it that much I even bought the T-Shirt. Literally!

@gm2407 Жыл бұрын

It is a mind blower of an album if you hadn't heard any of the songs before. Great album.

@AcmeRocket 9 ай бұрын

We had weed too in the 80's😂

@FrostbiteBaby Жыл бұрын

Izzy is not in this documentary. There’s two short clips of interviews from back in the day. I fell for it and clicked on this thinking he was actually going to be on it. I should’ve known, though. Just a heads up for anyone who is thinking about doing the same. They should remove his name from the title and description.

@bradc32 Жыл бұрын

Izzy was the band....

@jamesmccormick875 Жыл бұрын

Did anyone else get annoyed by that music critic. He really loves the sound of his own voice.

@jeremywanner4526 6 ай бұрын

The one who’s teething are to big for his mouth?

@jeffcardcard5070 Жыл бұрын

GNR Set the world on fire when Welcome to the jungle finally got played on MTV .The album had sold 200 thousand copies and in 2 weeks after. They got on MTV the album had sold upwards to 2 million. Guns N Roses came along and made rock n roll DANGEROUS AGAIN

@jeffcardcard5070 Жыл бұрын

@@sea-dawg Sweet child of mine was amazing and MTV was playing it every 30 minutes it did have a huge impact on gnr and the way they took the rock and roll scene like no other band before or since. But welcome to the jungle did get gnr the attention they needed and when it was played on MTV the album went through the roof

@gm2407 Жыл бұрын

Took David Geffin calling in a favour as one of the big MTV carriers was pushing to keep them off the channel. Also took a big name in Geffin's organization to stake his rep to Geffin to ask him to use the influence and get them on MTV. GNR had a great sound but needed the propper exposure

@Captain_Rhodes Жыл бұрын

I bought this album when it came out. I was only 8 years old and my mum took me to the shop to buy the cassette. I still remember buying it. It was the second album I ever bought (after michael jacksons Bad)

@volbeatnl Жыл бұрын

It came out on my tenth birthday ( 7-21-1987 ) I got it as a present, this album blew me away from the first note!

@cameldiaz Жыл бұрын

It was my first. I saved for weeks to buy it.

@tomking7080 Жыл бұрын

@@volbeatnl I was also born in 1977 and I remember when Appetite came out. The girl that lived across the street from me,Jen, was 13 years old and she had this red and white long sleeve where the sleeves were red and the rest of the shirt was white. It’s was a G N R shirt. It was the GNR cross with the band members on it as skeleton heads. I had the biggest crush on her , I liked girls at a young age. I remember that summer everyone was playing that album in my neighborhood. One of my other neighbors was 16-17 years old and he would be blasting this album out of his Trans-Am. The 80’s were definitely a wonderful time. All my older friends always say that the 80’s were the best. But I guess whatever era it was where you first started getting laid and partying was the best decade. It was the 90’s for me. Graduated high school in 1995 and went to college that same year

@Epic_C 10 ай бұрын

Same for me. Was born in 81 and I remember playing my NES, The Legend of Zelda, and listening to Appetite for Destruction on cassette religiously. Danced to the Paradise City video on MTV. Good times.

@Captain_Rhodes 10 ай бұрын

@@Epic_C yes me too. but I had Link with the golden cartridge

@Themparktycoon2world 7 ай бұрын

Saw them live 4 times back then. Three shows were pure hard drive with a touch of greatness!!! Then the last show was the Metallica & GNR Tour and they were 2 hours late and Axl couldn’t sing the music suffered and you could tell the end was near. It wasn’t meant to go forever but when it did go it was so much fun!

@TheStream 7 ай бұрын

That's amazing! Thanks for sharing

@yvonnecarabajal3840 4 ай бұрын

I saw this show in Las Cruces NM August of 1991 I think it was.... GnR was headlining. They were also 2 hours late and for this reason Metallica stole the show They rocked Aggie stadium for almost 3 hours so by the time GnR took the stage we (the thousand of fans ) we're wore out and wasted from the heat the libations and Metallica.. Axl through a fit and walked of stage told us all to fuck off. LoL But we screamed and hollered until he finally came back. After the show Axl got into an altercation with Mike Patton vocalist for Faith No More who quit the rest of the tour that night. It was the best concert I've ever been too. I love G n R and Metallica til I die!!. Those are 2 of the greatest.

@marcgambone4240 Жыл бұрын

I'm always curious how a band gets so popular over Seas with the language barrier. Pretty cool

@amsterdamoriginalsaustralia Жыл бұрын

Steven Adler drumming is iconic on AFD and the early days beforehand. If anyone else was on the stool it would never have sounded better than Steven.

@Wesmancan 11 ай бұрын

And then he got hooked and cooked. It’s to bad.

@amsterdamoriginalsaustralia 11 ай бұрын

@@Wesmancan yes

@Scottocaster6668 Жыл бұрын

All these documentaries are over ten years old. R.i.p. Malcolm Dome (the bald music journalist interviewed) AFD was the perfect debut album. I said it back in '88, "They won't top this with their next album"

@Wesmancan 11 ай бұрын

No but illusions was a damn good follow up. And lies was decent to.

@mairyhuff7102 Жыл бұрын

I can't even begin to guess how many gigs I've seen in person or on TV (mainly tv) but live at the ritz 1988 will always be my favourite ! I'd never ever seen anything like it in my life I thought Izzy Stradlin was the coolest guy on the planet

@guitarlover302 8 ай бұрын

100% agree saw it on Christmas Eve in UK blew me away and still does ! Such good musicians individually together such power ❤

@mr.timebombman2230 Жыл бұрын

There was certainly a paradigm shift in hard rock when this album came out. Very few bands had this effect on music in their career. Of course the same happened when the whole grunge/alternative movement hit in the early 90's, where every record company was scrambling to sign the next Nirvana type band or whoever, Guns never lost their popularity like most of their peers from the 80's did. A lot had to do with Axl and his outlandish and polarizing nature of course, but still, the music is what set them apart. Would have been interesting to see what they might have come out with had the original band stayed together back then.

@robertpoindexter8616 9 ай бұрын

Chinese democracy would have come out in the mid 90s and it would have been a waaaaay different album not to mentions what albums we could have had after that…I was legit sad when this band broke up

@ryansmurda1552 8 ай бұрын

GNR was to the 80s what The Beatles and The Stones were to the 60s. Revolutionary band that forever changed rock and roll. I liked the bands of the 90s like AIC and STP but they kind of ushered in the grunge alternative rock era. GNR was the last true rock n roll band IMO.

@christinaweinmangeriatrics1689 3 ай бұрын

I remember getting this album for my 11th birthday in 88. Steven Adler was one of my first crushes. I loved Guns N’ Roses. I still haven’t seen them live it’s on bucket list for sure. I can’t believe they are still rocking out.

@cdub5033 7 ай бұрын

I got the Appetite album when it first came out in its original LP cover, which was banned in favour of the now common cross on a black background design. saw them live for the first time at Donington Monsters of Rock Festival.

@eatassonthefirstdate 2 ай бұрын

bro that thing is worth a lot of money, like 4 figures. don't ever sell it.

@ruthuhl1969 Жыл бұрын

Grew up in the 80s myself and there wasn't any awareness about that kind of traumas someone like Axl had to go through. It is ( and was then) sickening to watch people like him showing such obvious symptoms (from drugs to aggressions, paranoia, promiscuity etcetc )and everybody just complained about his behaviour or took advantage. I knew people then who suffered that kind of traumas and showed much of the same symptoms and they where just good to gossip about or hate them. I'll always feel sorry for him.

@barry1369 Жыл бұрын

If you look at him now it was clearly a symptom of what happened to him. Now he’s got something close to a family and is a lot nicer and calmer

@dannyx2197 11 ай бұрын

You feel sorry for him ... sure he will appreciate it ...

@ruthuhl1969 11 ай бұрын

@@dannyx2197 Well right, he would spit at my compassion, comes from someone who was just a young girl back then, far away with no idea what's going on, who never met him. And he also would spit at my fury about all that, because the more I hear about, the more that narrative stinks a bit imo.

@ponzo1967 8 ай бұрын

Matt is a more sophisticated drummer sure but Steven had a sound of his own and it had a massive impact on their early sound.

@ericpigg2689 4 ай бұрын

Agree 100%. Steven had what I call "groove" for lack of a better term (I am not a drummer). Even when he joined them onstage in 2016, you could hear the difference in the sound. He is not the greatest drummer on earth, but man what a fit for that band.

@silasmarner7586 Жыл бұрын

Ack! Yes it was a SUPER ambitious album but I like Use Your Illusion (particularly their best tracks) as good as Appetite for Desctruction.

@guitarlover302 8 ай бұрын

66 and still love G and R ❤️ with Izzy sounded so powerful 😊

@hawaiian8213 Жыл бұрын

I love when I am provided the opportunity to say "If you don't like GnR, then we probably shouldn't be friends ". I've said the same of other bands, but the impact of GnR is something quite else. 😘

@hawaiian8213 Жыл бұрын

Awesome and ditto

@hawaiian8213 Жыл бұрын

@Axlroseofficialchat.. awesome and ditto

@synns6898 Жыл бұрын

My 3 favourite albums of all time are appetite and both illusion albums, all 3 albums are amazing.

@fabcondo7191 Жыл бұрын

I’m glad Michael Dome was in this because he’s the only critic in this doco that has a clue what he’s talking about with the band , the other too guys look like they got there stories from other docos

@michaelharrington75 11 ай бұрын

2 is spelled 'Two'. "Too" means 'also'

@aliasfakename4183 8 ай бұрын

I agree with the fellow who said he was glad they made the two Use Your Illusion albums. There are so many great songs and hidden gems there, and it would have been a shame if they never saw the light of day.

@armonsoregaw2040 Жыл бұрын

Appetite for destruction was one of the most influential hard rock/metal album.

@user-zx3dx2rj1w 9 ай бұрын

Izzy is the best, as a whole-it’s all of them together that make the band

@jeremiahstarcher8675 Жыл бұрын

I'm almost 45 and Axl and GNR is a once in a lifetime thing. An amazing and truly brilliant artist! Appetite was real as it gets amazing, represented us street kids and how we grew up across the country and use your illusion 1 and 2 were fn art and good music, let not forget lies. I was lucky enough to experience two of these things once I a lifetime things, GNR and Nirvana! You can't put this shit into words folks, if you know them you know! If not sorry you missed it, it was and still is the realist and truest shit I've experienced next to life.

@bluepointblues5438 Жыл бұрын

The Best Rock Album of All Time....

@MegaGemini99 Жыл бұрын

Appetite is still reckless and timeless

@jamesstaggs4160 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing that Axl stage dive in one of their videos over and over again when I was a kid but I never noticed how committed he was to the dive. He went in like it was water and nor concrete out there. As far as cameras at shows go I almost don't even want to go to one any more. All you can see is a bunch of assholes holding up their phones so they can watch it later. Watch it now dumbest, I saw A Perfect Circle a few years ago and Maynard made everyone put up their phones for the whole show under the threat of getting kicked out. Only one person did. Great show. Felt like it was 2003 again. I could see the band without having to look through a sea of black rectangles.

@saltpeter7429 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that phones at rock show's thing...pretty lame. I saw Slash and the Conspirators a few years back, I was flying high again. The sea of cell phones glowing about was wierd. Oh well, I just ignored and wiggled my way up to the front to watch him RIP an absolutely from the gut hypnotic solo. He broke a string and kept going, wouldn't stop, even when the roadie's were trying to bring him another Les Paul he was like " Screw it!". The neat little fungus I had digested before the show really started going to town right at that point. Killer.

@irajaflorenz Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👏👏👏la gente e’ idiota oggi!!!!

@coolintruddle Жыл бұрын

My first experience of GnR was a friend saying he got a vhs of a band from L.A. They weren't like anything I had seen or heard up to that point. They weren't like Zeppelin, they weren't like Slayer. I looked, but I couldn't find an album anywhere. I think it was called Live At The Roxy. A couple of months later, the Welcome to the Jungle video came out on Much Music and the record store finally started carrying Appetite.

@TashaLewis72 11 ай бұрын

I made sure in 1989 when I was 17 and got my first car that AFD was the tape I had in my car stereo. Blaring it out every day. As a young girl in middle-class Surrey it got me some stares I can tell you! Good times. Wembley in 91 at age 19. GnR made my late teens the time of my life. Cannot underestimate the impact their music had on me. And nothing much influences me, but their music did. Axl Rose - love that guy.

@Desireesorenson 5 ай бұрын

I immensely eny all of you that were lucky enough to see these guys live ❤ I was only 10 or 11 when they first came out my dad really loved them! My GNR was the 90's with Use your illusions 1,2 all wrapped up beautifully with Terminator 2 it was phenomenal and I can't believe it's been 33 years since all these amazing bands were tearing up the music scene 😢and I couldn't get enough of it I wore my tapes out! Long live 80's and 90's Hard Rock / Heavy metal🤘🖤

@AK-hk3hs Жыл бұрын

Great show Guys ...thank you. But just a small tip for the interviewed "Expert" who answered all with "I think...". ... here s the thing ....we all think , hey. Experts talk about what they know... not about their opinions.

@nyrckr 6 ай бұрын

Never has a band so promising fallen apart so quickly , they should have put the nail in it by 92 , it was clearly over by then !

@historicalfashionpassion3504 Жыл бұрын

It’s true!....G&R do have a wide appeal. I’m not into heavy rock or metal, because I like a tune to my music. G&R give you fantastic heavy metal, with tunes. Slash is a fantastic lead guitarist and creates these most memorable and sing to tunes, and when Axl isn’t screeching out the thrashy bits, he actually had a very good singing voice. A very talented bunch of guys, good looking, talented and appealing to a massively diverse audience!

@armonsoregaw2040 Жыл бұрын

Compare to thrash metal and hardcore punk, hard rock/heavy metal is more appealing heavier sub-genre of rock n' roll. Normal music listener would like to listen to Guns N' Roses than to Slayer.

@faosa73 8 ай бұрын

I agree on the need for two double albums, otherwise the long tracks would not be there. Coma is still one of my favorites that no one knows

@danhenry8163 7 ай бұрын

Appetite for Destruction is forever destined to always exsit, one of those "greatest human creations ever" type of things.

@talesfromtheclassroom 9 ай бұрын

Axl Rose is arguably the greatest frontman of all time (he certainly is to me). Who cares if he's "not a very nice bloke"?

@flowerchild89 3 ай бұрын

I wish I had seen them in concert!!!

@anakinchosen Жыл бұрын

The sweet child of mine song is beyond legendary,axl remains a royal 🤴 king .

@hamisharchibald5270 Жыл бұрын

I miss the original G'N R. I purchased Guns N' Roses on Bru Ray with a concert that is recorded in 3D that included a two CD as well. I thought I was buying the Appetite for Destruction. And when I got home I realised I CD disc's also had Chinese Democracy, Another Brick in the Wall (part 2). Then I released it was Appetite for Democracy. I was a bit disappointed it wasn't the original Guns N' Roses. I miss the original. I'm from New Zealand and a couple of weeks ago the members of the Guns N' Roses were in NZ for part of their World tour. I wish I 🤞 went as won't get that Opportunity to see some of the original Rock/Heavy Metal bands together. Guns N' Roses isn't the same with the original band members and no one would have the voice of Axl Roses. Axl and Slash are the 2 most important members of Guns N' Roses

@julesmpc1314 7 ай бұрын

Thats why its art....when it comes from deep places either good or bad

@joebloggs619 3 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@nodrog5150 5 ай бұрын

Busy reading 3 books on the Guns....I always thought it was Axl that was the problem but no! Steven Adler was the first to start playing up because of his addictions and couldn't play his drums, then Izzy Stradlin decided it was all becoming too much and bailed out. Then Slash and his addiction finished the relationship between him and Axl. And thru it all Axl was the one who kept his Dream together. Rock on Axl your Awesome and an icon.🤪🎸🇬🇧

@LeeAdrian777 Жыл бұрын

Incredible doc! Thanks for posting.

@MegaGemini99 Жыл бұрын

The best debut album of all time in the time of Bon Jovi and poison

@davidsnyder2524 Жыл бұрын

BOSTON

@marcoe.6987 Жыл бұрын

1987 I remember when SCOM music vid was first released on MTV and bought the Vinyl LP. Such great album...nothing compares to it to this day

@aleksik4028 Жыл бұрын

So many corny/cliche statements like "Axl is clearly not a nice guy with whom you would like to sit down and have a drink".

@FrankQpublic-tn5yg 3 ай бұрын

When this album dropped I was 24 I hurt my neck headbanging to this ! Took a listen again last week and didn't realize the interplay of slah and Izzy - bomb ass arrangements. It's so easy is my nasty fave . Filthydirty five stars

@rodcornelius107 9 ай бұрын

Just enjoy the music myself

@bondalero0074 9 ай бұрын

I was in High School when Appetite for Destruction dropped like a 💣! We hadn’t had a badass band like them and AC/DC because I personally couldn’t compare to Motley Crue(Milli Vanilli Crue) or Ratt, Def Leppard were all cool bands from that time but definitely something cool about G-N-R! I saw them Live in New Orleans in 1992 with Metallica! What a show of two Mega-Headliners!#🎸🔥⚡️✨😈🤘🏻

@TalmadgeGray 8 ай бұрын

Same here. Great times!

@AndyKraig-np5qj 8 ай бұрын

Best band in the entire world, in the entire universe!

@kristinosborne5323 2 ай бұрын

❤ I love you guys! Take the world by storm Axel!

@francescadinardo1406 Жыл бұрын

Axl è il più grande frontman di tutti i tempi...solo lui può offrire uno spettacolo di tale grandezza energia!!carisma è genio!!!!

@danjohnson4082 3 ай бұрын

Musically not much separates Guns N' Roses from what AC/DC and Motley Crue had done, but it was that gritty punk inspired edge that distinguished them from the hair metal masses.

@craigcalder7264 5 ай бұрын

I still love the use your illusion albums

@florinbora755 Жыл бұрын

What an album this is... Guns 'n Roses are still selling out stadiums based on this one album from 35 years ago. Yes, there's good songs on Lies and on the Illusion records (quite a few written for Appetite but no space for them... I.e. November Rain) , but let's face it, the myth of Guns N' Roses is built on one album, Appetite for Destruction. Just shows how fuckin' epic it is, quite possibly the best ever written. That's also my only problem with the band... They have never ever been able to come close to this brilliance again...essentially this makes them a bit of a one hit wonder...

@stevepelham9010 5 ай бұрын

Those where the days. A bunch of guys where abel to make it. Scouts where out looking for promising bands. I was in back then, things where so dam upright and simple and lots of good music came out of it, propably the best productions ever.

@simonsitinjak 8 ай бұрын

6:15 Axl Rose is a natural man outside and inside. 8:02 Axl R 12:59 The key 21:30 23:56 About Axl Rose 31:06 Niven gives underestimates for this band 51:52 The wrong is Axl 53:25 Slash is always compromising with Axl 54:02

@lilabear5144 Жыл бұрын

WHY OMMIT the fact that Alan Niven and the rest of the band tried to FIRE AXL MANY TIMES which led to him asking them to sign over the rights to the name of the band (as self preservation). They couldve walked away and NOT sign it but apparently too high and drugged up to make an informed decision at the time. Also, Axl didnt do as much drugs as the other members. In fact, when they opened for the Rolling Stones, Axl called his band out for playing too much with Mr Brownstone which both Duff and Slash admitted really made them angry at Axl. Then, there was the cover song Sympathy for the Devil which as Slash (?) declared as the “sound of the band breaking up”. *This was made in 2005. Axl, Slash, Duff are back to touring again now.

@philkellr 22 күн бұрын

Malcolm Dome's remark that Slash killed the band by not standing up to Axl was very insightful and a great piece of psychology: When someone is committing obvious mistakes it's so much easier to just let it happen and blame the person afterwards. How great it would have been if Slash stood his ground.

@Kim-pq9sm Ай бұрын

My band❤

@davidyoung8875 Жыл бұрын

This band really is the only group to take up the mantle of Led Zep.

@AndyKraig-np5qj 8 ай бұрын

They were totally original and never once tried to be Zeppelin. Guns and Roses are in class of their own. Just fantastic.

@michaelglazier9932 5 ай бұрын

At their peak nobody could touch Guns N’ Roses… In my opinion the greatest rock band in the world! Axl with Tom Petty singing Free Falling is ridiculously good. Go watch so you can see what a real rock star vocalist performs like in his prime… 👍🏻

@CoreyT127 7 ай бұрын

Dude the original 5 formed in May 1985. And they got signed in March 1986! Only 10 months! And we’re probably headlining the clubs half that time?

@petej.8676 5 ай бұрын

I saw GNR in the hey days 91and 92..91 in chicago with Shannon Hoon...the concerts on you tube..had suite tickets next to the stage left..we were about 20 feet from the end of the stage..Slash was flicking his cigs at us before hed tesr into a solo...then he switched to guitar pics..lol..one of the most memorable shows of my long life. ✌️

@TheStream 5 ай бұрын

Sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing

@franthevan65 Жыл бұрын

It was released 7-21-87

@williamwilson7322 Жыл бұрын

If every front man in music HISTORY,had a million feet they couldn't fill one of AXL'S shoes.

@Im.with.them.onthis Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@silasmarner7586 Жыл бұрын

Matt Sorum's drum sound was nowhere near Adler's, drugs or no.

@guidlines 20 күн бұрын

I bought this album after hearing Nightrain for the first time on radio, so I was kind of a late comer but I have no issues with the Illusion albums. I don't understand how that dude said it did nothing for him as there are no good songs on them. Those 3 albums are still on high rotation on my iPhone, along with all of the albums put out by Slash

@tommilitello198 11 ай бұрын

I think it’s hilarious that on every documentary about a rock band I see the comments are damn near the same,only the name changes,I didn’t realize so many bands changed rock forever lMFAO

@sumantari746 Жыл бұрын

Without adler n izzy isn't gnr

@asialevystone5287 4 ай бұрын

The best rock band of all time

@cristinavargas5737 4 ай бұрын

I Love Guns 🌹🌹🌹🌹

@michaeljones1445 9 ай бұрын

Is there anyone who loves his own voice with nothing to say, more than John Robb?

@keytone5184 Жыл бұрын

IZZY was the soul of G n R

@fredtheted2259 Жыл бұрын

Izzy and Steven gave them a great groove/swing call it what you like ,and they never sounded as good after those 2 left, 1 great album, the rest is crap

@mooknick242 Жыл бұрын

Izzy leaving was the end..his songwriting was essential to them and gave the songs a cool element that was missing after he left..he WAS the meat and potatoes of Gnr. That band is the most disappointing thing for me in my music lifetime..the very definition of flash in a pan, they really could have been the next Zeppelin or Stones such a disappointment. I saw them open for INXS in 87 and i just knew they were gonna own the scene..and they did briefly.

@giorgikobalava7430 11 ай бұрын

For all the praise Izzy gets I think his solo albums are mostly rubbish and he's overrated. Songs he wrote on his own are average at best. Others mostly Axl and Slash elevated his rather basic ideas and turned them into quality songs..

@roger26714 Жыл бұрын

at 14:37 the correct year is 1985 and not 1995.

@talesfromtheclassroom 9 ай бұрын

Use Your Illusions were great albums

@justincowen441 4 ай бұрын

Shout out to Don Henley on drums at 42:51.

@crazycatman5928 Жыл бұрын

I hated hair bands like poison but man GnR was cut from another cloth. Best 80s hair rock band for sure.

@karlimo4034 Жыл бұрын

Steven, Axl and Duff used spray in their hair for sure, but they were not a hair band, they were a Hard Rock band.

@nonstar8182 9 ай бұрын

Not sure why he keeps bagging on Adler. He was a great drummer for the style he was playing.

@diversionxj600s 9 ай бұрын

I was 14 years old when i bought apetite and Lies.. and i still have those LP´s and they are great, but ive sorted out Illusion 1&2 from many songs and im greatful that AXL did kick in for Brian in AC/DC wich is a far more better band :-)

@christopherreed2694 Жыл бұрын

They shot strait in the f...... sky like a flare

@swazeyfroztyfanta4524 4 ай бұрын

Axl is easily top 3 voices in rock n roll history

@user-ex3jn2bb7c 8 ай бұрын

Guns'n'roses they rocked and never roll rock on

@danielvanmeter9600 Жыл бұрын

My belief is Axl Rose 🌹 & Guns 'N" Roses is just one kick ass heavy metal/hard rock music 🎶 🎵 band that is more bigger than other bands like The Beatles, Elvis Presley,Jim Morrison & The Doors 🚪 & Led Zeppelin.Slash really plays a really bad guitar 🎸 🎶 too.There's absolutely 💯 % NO doubt this band is still really awesome & really very cool band to this date & day too!.

@Jasmine-dk2nt Жыл бұрын

I find it hard to believe that Slash and Duff signed any legally binding document without lawyers present, being a part of one of the most successful bands in the world. Sure, Axl had a lot of flaws, but I don't buy into the narrative that the others were some kind of "victims" when they signed over the rights to the band name to him.