Here Today... Gone To Hell!

According to my sources, this is his childhood home.
(http://img127.echo.cx/img127/1221/dsc020070ii.jpg)

bonus picture: The Brownstone Apartments, supposedly the inspiration for Mr. Brownstone.
(http://img127.echo.cx/img127/8587/dsc020095ke.jpg)

Should campare that house with his Mansion today!!!

cool 8)

Brownstone is a reference to heroin. It isn't about an apartment complex.

we gotta get ideas somewhere, Smells Like Teen Spirite's  taken from a deoderint can....isnt really about that is it!!!

True, but it's far more closely knit with the teen angst the song is pretty much about.

At least more than brown block buildings in relation to Mr. Brownstone...

what i mean is, people get there titles from anywhere.

Izzy came up with the title.

Mr Brownstone could easily be a reference to their delaer who lived in that complex?

Man wtf,   Brownstone     herion is the color of brown which is packed tight which looks like a fucken stone.  JEEZ.     If u truly dont know what ur talkin about   just dont say anything;

I said "supposed." It's just local legend that Izzy bought and/or dealt drugs there. It could even be a double meaning. Just thought it would be interesting to show.

Thanks man those pics are great  : ok:

StoneTempleRoses

thanx for the pics..


who the fuck knows where the name brownstone comes from...?????

heroin?   crack?     these apartments?   a dealer here?

Izzy could have been referencing these buildings.
I just hate it when someone presumes to know everything about something that they know nothing about, just because it is known that Brownstone was a reference to heroin for the Gunners. 
who's to say where Izzy got the name from.

cool pics.

thanks

cute.

Dont you just think it is weird that there is a complex called 'Brownstone' in the town that Izzy and Axl grew up in and they have a song called 'Mr Brownstone'?  Im not saying the song is about fun times they had in the apartment but rather he got the name for the song from this place.  Its obvious the song is about fucking heroin.  Now do YOU know what im talking about?

Also when have you heard (apart from GNR) that another sland name for heroin is 'brownSTONE'?  I havent.  Axl said in court that Izzy came up with the name.

I like the double meaning, Brownstone for heroin being brown and like a stone and they bought the brownstone from an apt building called brownstone.

Axls house looks like the one I grew up in for a few years.

it was damn smal

You got it Johnny! Good job!

Man, I wish I was the guy who lives there now! Imagine how cool that would be!

nice job Johnny, thanks for the pics!

the Brownstone buildings are probably the reason Izzy came up with that way of referring to heroin..
it's not like it was a trademark slang for heroin, at least not before GN'R got big (probably still isn't though ;D)!

In Robert John's book it shows Axl in front of the trees he planted when he was younger, certainly looks like similar surroundings.

And yes Mr Brownstone is about drugs and not an apartment block, but they had to get the name 'Brownstone' from somewhere, think about it before dismissing it.

Thanks for sharing  : ok:

Are the pictures from that book online anywhere? I know what the other side of the house and the other houses look like. I took it from that angle as not to show off a street sign or an address or anything like that.

I was tempted to go up and ask if they knew they were living in his old house, but I didn't. I felt like a detective or something parked across the street taking the picture, which is why I only took one. 

Didn't Kurt Cobain's childhood home sell for a lot more than it was worth, just because it was his house?

Don't know, but his house was much bigger than this one.

Actually, if you replace the wood panels by fake red brick, this little house is very similar to the one i grew up in in between 5 and 12 years old.

Thanks for the pics? : ok:

 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

Thanks for the pics!!!It`s a very small house, isn`t it?
Btw, about the "Mr brownstone" thing, i allways tougth it  came from the heroin thing because in my country getting hight with drugs is getting stoned. And so, just like heroin is brown ( i suppose) and the song says :"We`ve be dancing with Mr. Brownstone, he`s been knocking, he won`t leave me alone", i though that it was only about drugs ans had nothing to do with some building or what!!
Rock on  : ok:

Maybey someone who lived in that building used to knock on Izzy's door looking for drug money and wouldn't leave poor Izzy alone.... :rofl:

 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

Well being from Lafayette, I can tell you that the locals believe they are talking about this particular apartment building which is called "Brownstone". Also legend has it that they used to party hard over there. So maybe they were doing a little brown stone at Brownstone.

Next time I'm in Lafayette I'll snap a pic of Izzy's house he just sold.

Mr Brownstone is heroin. In LA, as well as most of southwest USA most of the heroin comes from Mexico and is a black tarlike type of heroin, instead of the white or brown powder heroin found in midwest or east coast USA or Europe., plus the lyrics obviously show its about heroin not apartments or crack or whatevever. "used to do a little but a little wouldnt do it so a litttle got more and more" " stuck it in the middle shot it in the middle, should have known better.... Id leave it all behind" BTW i thought Smells like teen spirit did come from the deoedeant in some way, like Kurt Cobain  used to fyuck a chick who wore teen spirit and after they fucked everyone would say kurt smells like teen spirit, Im not sure that the lyrics of the song really have any connection to that, I just thought thats where the title came from

Who cares about were the name was picked, if the song is great the rest is pure bullshit!  :P

Mr. Brownstone is a heroin dealer that supplied the band. I remember once seeing him on a talk show where he said "he had supplied a now big rock band in L.A. but won't name who they are and that they wrote a song about him". He called himself Mr. Brownstone. Twas either Maury or Sally show. Not sure because it was a while back.

More likely to be "Dr. Feelgood".  Of course Mr. Brownstone is about heroin, but it doesn't mean that the old apartment block didn't give Izzy the idea to call it that for his song. 

Thanks to Johnny Nightrain for posting this.  So much of early GnR had to do with where they came from, it's nice to see their place of origin.  And perhaps especially poignant considering with what Axl says went on in that house. 

Yeah, a lot does have to do with where they came from. Like, jumping into the river too many times to make it home. The Wabash is a big river that runs right through the city and was probably the inspiration for that line. "Paradise City" is supposed to be about Lafayette, too. I think Axl said it was him going back and forth between here and L.A. And the lyrics "out back on the highway, on 65" is a reference to I-65 which is the major highway that runs just outside of town. Though, I swear it says I-65 in the song, not "on 65."

Could be, but there actually was a famous "Dr. Feelgood" in the 60's.

I don't think so. Probably about Los Angeles.

Axl compared Indiana to Auschwitz.



/jarmo

Izzy said this about "Mr. Brownstone" in Hit Parader in 1988:

"It can mean a million different things to a million different people. It's like when you listen to a Zeppelin song, what do you think? I have all kinds of fucking wild ideas about what "Custard Pie" is about."

Axl said this about "Paradise City" in Hit Parader in 1988:

"The verses are more about being in the jungle; the chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere. It reminds me of when I was a little kid and just looked up at the blue sky and went "Wow, what is all that, it's so big out there." Everything was more innocent. There are parts of the song that have more of a down home feel. And when I started putting the overlayers on the vocals (I put five tracks on there), it seemed that it came out like some Irish or Scottish heritage."

Ok, I thought you meant Paradise City, the title, is a reference to Lafayette. Like with the Brownstone reference.

But if you mean the song is about living in a place like Lafayette and wanting to get out of there, then I can understand it.



/jarmo

Nope, I am 100% positive he called himself Mr. Brownstone. Otherwise, I wouldn't have mentioned it.

Where they did heroin, perhaps?

I don't know why I'm arguing this, but why would he call himself Mr. Brownstone and not name the band?  And the lyrics of the song suggest not an actual person but the spector of addiction itself. 

And N.I.B., I'm quite certain they didn't do heroin until they went to L.A. 

Has anyone besides me ever seen heroin? It's brown rocks. Brown rocks=Brownstone. Get it?? The next time I see some sort of building with the word Jungle on it, I'm going to post it and say this is where Axl wrote Jungle. Cant wait to see how many people believe it.

if it's known that Axl used to host something in this building, then I could see the similarities of what you are saying and the Brownstone story..

I never claimed it to be anything specific. If you would read, I said that it was local legend and I thought it would be interesting. I even posted the Izzy quote where he said it could be anything.

Yes I have seen heroin and yes the song is definetly about heroin but doesn't it strike you as odd that there is a building called Brownstone in the same town that the person who wrote the song Mr. Brownstone came from?

Anyway here's a song I think we can all agree is about Indiana: http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=090F9X5MNS6LH16NDQ0O10M4OP

 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

Its hard to believe so much suffering and pain went on in such a beautiful location. All that shit that Axl's father and stepfather put him and his brother and sister through.

 :peace:

nice pics  : ok:

and brownstone could quite possiblt have a double meaning.

ma m8 told me something about those brownstone flats. he sed that they were the inspiration of mr.brownstone aswel.




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Heh... wow, his house looks so typically redneck (except for the good condition its in)! All that's needed is for the truck to be a bit more banged up (and the house), and there to be random beer cans flung everywhere! :rofl: Oh, and an old guy with a bigass beard and a rifle sitting outside in a rocking chair wearing a beer hat and old dungarees with a mangy dog sitting next to him!
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On the topic though... there probably was some random guy who lived in one of those apartments (or owned them! Perhaps that's where the apartments got their name!) who was either a heroin addict or a heroin dealer, and that's what introduced Axl and Izzy to the drug. Plus it was also probably the brown rocks kind too, just to have the whole triple coincidence thing!

Must have been a pretty small house for Axl, his 2 younger siblings and his parents back then.