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The first time i heard gnr was only 3 years ago. The first song was probably scom but i got a loan of appetite and i skipped through the first two songs until i came to nightrain!! Then i was hooked!!!! My brother also liked them but now he doesnt so i got all of the albums from him!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard SCOM on the radio prob about 5 years ago. Asked my best friend if he had heard of a band called guns n roses, he said have i!!
he played me appetite.
I got appetite and played it to death, i was hooked on raw rock n role guns n roses.

Then in my friends car a year later he played my UYI's At the time my fave song was shotgun blues lol, so crude and kick ass, but then i started to love the emotional songs like estrange and nov. Now TWAT is my fave song.

This will probably be moved to Dead horse so ill reply quickly. My memory is Vague but i think it would have been 18 years ago i would of been 9 years old i remember watching Sweet Child on the TV (ITV Chart Show) thinking what a cool video and song and my dad saying the Guy in the top hat with the Guitar looked Cool but he wasnt so keen on the singer i im not sure if he already had the album at this point or if he brought it soon after but that was the Start of my obsession with GNR

Yea this really is a dead horse topic but...

I was 13 and watching MTV and saw the video for SCOM, when MTV still actually played music during the day, that was it....31 now and still obsessed! :peace:

WTTJ back in the day ;D ('87 prolly although i never got into them until Lies was released)


mmmmm hmmm...me too :hihi:

I was about 7 years old and a 'rocker' guy was walking down the street with an old school ghetto blaster on his shoulder playing Paradise City at full volume.  I think it was 1989.  I then got my mum to buy me the album

My Dad got the Greatest Hits when it first came out, and he played it to death in the car. Ever since I've been hooked.

Mine was Welcome to the Jungle on the Dirty Harry Dead Pool Movie.....ran out to get the album the next day....

I was like 12, and I heard WTTJ, and said, "Who the fuck is this???".  The rest is history.

The first time I heard them was in San Andreas. I didn't get hooked untill I saw a Yahoo article about the leaks and I being the downloading motherfucker I am, I downloaded them.

I saw the video for Don't Cry many many years ago.  It must have been 1996 or thereabouts, and I'm only 17 now, so I didn't really pay much attention and promptly forgot all about it for years.

In about 2002 I switched on a radio just before the rock ending of November Rain, and the arcing guitar hooked me straight away.
"Who's this?"  says I.
"I think its Guns N' Roses," says my dad  "It sounds like Axl."
"Who's Axl, the guitarist?"
"The singer."

I assumed that he was dead, as the video for Don't Cry with Axl's grave (the only bit that I remembered, I didn't even remember the song) was all I had known of them before.  Shortly after that I saw Sweet Child on TV.  I was hooked.

I was 7 - found an AFD tape in my brothers room and jammed it in. The only band Id really listened to before then was the Doors.

First time I heard them was in January of 1989: Paradise City Video on MTV at 2:00AM
Bought the CD and recorded it on Casette the next day, and heard on for about 6 month every day on my walkman....

I dont remember it, but it was 1987.
my dad bought AFD in the states, brought it here and played it.
there's a photo somewhere of me sitting on a speaker with AFD cover in the background.
(I was only 2 back then).

first time I remember listening to GNR on my own was in 1991, and it was "think about you".
it still is my favorite track.

As far as I can remember, it was at summer camp.  We were coming back from the beach, headed towards our camp site and some kid was blasting Appetite in his ghetto.  He kept playing the record over and over the entire time we were there.  By the end, everyone loved it and was singing along.

Dead horse indeed, but hell its GNR..  first heard SCOm, in summer of 87 on KNAC in Cali while on vacation. HAd no idea who the hell the band was cause I kept hearing the tune from the mid-end, and the DJ'S never said who was playing.TILL the very last day lsitening to my walkman, to KNAC on the plane back to NY while we were still taxi'd in the runway, the DJ says something to the effect and LAs own Guns n Roses. and I heard the song finally from the begining, the opening riff!.

Needless to say been hooked ever since , 20 yrs later .

That has got to be the funniest way to discover Gn'R.

1992 - Axl throwing the microphone during Knockin' On Heaven's Door on Freddie's tribute. 14 years since then...it's not silence  :hihi:

well, it was 1988 - i was 13 then - and i saw paradise city on tv.... that was it! i got hooked? :D then a friend of mine got a videotape of Ritz 88 and we were watching that tape every day!


since then, i m a big fan ...


PS: 31 now , got a daughter , she likes GnR too? ;D ;D next generation keep up the ttrandition ;D ;D

Shit you greeks age fast

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: what you mean??? i wrote 1988 -  :rofl: :rofl:

PS: you must be the guy i met just before the Athens show ,waiting for the doors to open - you were with Christos  :beer:

Yes that was me  :beer: Shit that was a month ago now how time flys  :smoking:

i feel like it was yesterday though :) :P

Probably Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on TV in '92 when I was 7 or something. My dad was a big Queen fan so sat down to watch it with him. Think tbh, it was a bit like 'what do those guys looks like, long hair with a kilt and a guy with a top hat on!' Hehe

Think once the GH came out though I properly listened to the music and loved it. Think I've listened to the gunners every day since!

Great thread!

Saw the video for Paradise City on a video show that used to be on ITV on Saturday lunch times, can't remember the name, but when G n R came on it totally blew me away. This was in '89, so I must have been 13 years old.
I remember thinking,  who are these fuckers? And I've been totally hooked ever since,
G n R forever man!  :beer:

I had heard some GN'R songs before on the radio but was too young and not into music yet... Then I saw a live version of Welcome To The Jungle (probably on MTV) and I had never seen soo much energy on stage. Axl was running from one side of the stage to the other, the inflatable Appetite For Destruction monster was there. Slash, Duff and Izzy were as wild as ever and I really got a kick out of watching this. I was probably 11 or 12 at the time. So maybe the visual aspect of GN'R was what draw my attention first.
At school my friends were also into GN'R and we discussed the lyrics (like "I know how you feel inside, I've been there before") and music. Some years later I was the only one at school who was still into GN'R. It was uncool to listen to GN'R but I couldn't help myself and GN'R became my addiction.

Madame Wongs, then the Troubadour 1985 when I first saw them play.  Axl came on stage wearing thong, chaps and a scarf.  I fell in lust and been there ever since.  They summed up my teens and how I was feeling about everything then.  Loved them ever since.

exact same for me, remember stopping in my tracks when I saw Axl,  :drool:what a babe i said who is that?  now I am 41 and probably more obsessed!!

Yes!! Love those chaps and that thong, man he was so so hot :love: that outfit, or what there was of it!!

Yeah, he used to come on stage and within the first song or two he'd turn around and shake his ass at the crowd, the women went crazy.  Good times.

2001. I was only 11, my sister had just got Live Era. WTTJ was the one song that really got me into the band.

I saw Welcome to the jungle on mtv back in the 80is .. i was hooked instantley

my father got an AFD and i always look at that.... for the guys in the booklet  :drool:. then me and my cousin buy and album and became fans. that was the last year. now i'm 13  :hihi:

First song that got me in GNR was November Rain something like 2 years ago , I heard this song on VH1 and every time I watch the video I put TV louder , and realy start to like the song , then I heard WTTJ on TV , but didnt knew that is GNR , only when I watch jungle 2 time I saw that is GNR . Bought  UYI 1 ( NR ) and that how the story began . :love:

First time I heard GnR I was about 12, back in 1988. Myself and an older neighbour I used to hang about and smoke with was always playing tapes to me that he'd copy off guys from his boarding school. I remember listening to The Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones and then he came along with this recording of Appetite for Destruction, it sounded amazing and as a kid back in 1988 it was great to hear someone swearing in a song. I recorded about 5 songs off him that night before I had to go home and went to bed playing the songs. Next day I ran over to record the rest. After a few weeks I went and bought Appetite on tape. I was blown away when I saw them on TV, they looked as cool as they sounded. They were on Headbanger's Ball playing The Roxy and it was class/ I remember my mother giving out to me and telling me to go to bed cos it was on kinds late but I pleaded with her to let me watch it. Soon after bought GNR Lies and probably had one of my first wanks looking at the inlay card :D looking at the naked woman. I thought these guys were the baddest and greatest band ever. During the summer I'd cut grass to be able to afford to buy a new GnR T-Shirt every week