Here Today... Gone To Hell!

October 27th 1987 the Paradise, Boston

I had been listenin to Appetite  since it's release, and had recently picked up a copy of Live Like A Suicide ,  I was kind of a loner at the time, and although i probably could have found some one to go with me I did not even try, This was going to be a solo mission.
? ? ? ? ? I did not find out they were playing until the day of the show, I called for tickets, I was told there was a dozen left. I jumped in my car and drove as fast as i could to get the ticket.
? ? ? ? ?I was fast enough, I got my one ticket, and headed for Downtown Boston......
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? ? ? ? The Show.....Hard to explain in words......Plugged straight into their amps , no effects, almost no background vocals, just balls out loud noisy and brilliant. They were not perfect musically, but rock n roll was never meant to be. they had the drive , the determination, the attitude, and of course the songs. They did not care about nothing, except the fact that they were going to be rock stars. It was the best show i have seen in my lifetime, so far. They had all the elments you need for rock n roll, they were raw, they were hungry, they were talented, and the five of them could write songs and play like no one else could, and no one else since has even come close. The chemistry , hunger and desire blazed in their eyes. If there is a god of rock n roll , he was smiling down at his greatest creation.......? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?It changed my life, I was 16 and decided that night, I was gonna dedicate my life to playing music. 3 years later i would be playing on the same stages that guns started on, The Whiskey, The Roxy etc.., I would live the rockstar life in Hollywood, Steven Adler  would come to one of my parties,I would have a drink with Slash  @ the Rainbow, and even an Axl Rose  sighting every now and then. This whole direction my life took was all inspired by the decision I made at the paradise that night................................? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The next day i would meet the band at a record store signing, Although this would not be the last time i would talk with them, it was the first. and it adds to the memory of the show..
? ? ? ? ? To this day i still have a cassette tape recording of the show, i found this a couple weeks later through a bootleger,The sound quality is not the best, but i have held onto it for almost 20 years, If you knew me, and my drop everything and move on attitude that leaves behind many of my possesions, you would know what an accomplishment this is for me, As I look back I now realize it is one of my most prized possesions, I have the moment in time that my life changed recorded on tape...................

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Aslo you should change the title to MY GNR STORY. Otherwise people click on this thread thinking its a story about GnR, when its a story about you and how GnR changed your life.

A little Jelousy, ??? , and it is about Gn R

Wow! What an original GN'R story! and never published too! Lameass.. :P

Sad man :yes:

You already posted it in the "Your GN'R highlights" thread. I guess that's enough.