Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Since it is the week of Appetite for Destruction, why don't we all recollect on the very first time we heard it!  The 5 W's: Who? (if you were with someone) What? (...er what format did you buy it in Cassette, LP, C.d.) Where?  When? (time, a general date, age)  Why? (what made you wany to listen to it) etc...

And so here it goes:  I was 14 years old and it was in Aug/Sept 87' and I remember sitting in my bedroom on the floor listening to it on theis little piss ass stereo.  I loved Jungle from the moment I heard it on the Pepsi Power Hour on Much Music and I knew I had to have it.  And honestly, when It's So Easy and Mr. Brownstone played, I thought for sure it was Slash singing  :rofl:  I just imagined that that voice had to come from him....and I didn't realize it was actually Axl until I saw them live in Halifax in May 88' and they opened with ISE and I was like WTF?  :rofl:.  Hearing GN'R for the first time was a life changer...I had to have every Hit Parader, Circus and Metal Edge magazine with GN'R in it....I had the band plastered on my walls...crazy shit...  Man it's a Great album!  I also remember everytime Axl swore I was like "oh, shit" better turn it down before mom hears.  :hihi:

by my self

CD

in my room

about 7 8 years ago

because i fucking felt like it


:beer:

Who: parents
What: CD
When: Christmas 2005
Where: My house
Why: I felt like it.

I remember seeing Welcome To the Jungle on MTV in early 88 and that was it...I was hooked.  My mom bought me the tape and I rocked out.  Then Sweet Child O' Mine hit the singles chart and the rest is history.

Heard SCOM on an old show that came on WTBS called 'Night Tracks'


I fuckin hated it.

Heard it the next week, Kinda liked it


I remember coming home from the record store with a .45 of SCOM and my brother came home an hour later with a .45 of SCOM

I still own SCOM, WTTJ and PC on .45 vinyls.


We were poor growing up and didnt buy a whole lot of Full albums. SIngles were real cheap though so Id just buy those.


Anyhow, i saved up my money when UYI's were comin out, A friend of my brothers was tellin me about it and how awesome they were gonna be.

I bought UYI 2

Fell in love with the band and bought the other Cassettes right after.

Appetite was amazing.

First time i heard Out ta Get me, I was floored. Rocket Queen for the longest time was always my favorite song on AFD.

Age 14 (1980s)
Where: blasting from my brother's bedroom on his tape recorder
Got him in trouble for having the music so loud.......

1988- school friend vidoetaped SCOM, watched it over and over again in music class (all girls catholic school)..... ;D

 
A friend in school borrowed it to me in 1st grade :peace:

Flipping the TV with no sound on at my Dad's. Sleeping on the sofa. They keep showing a video of this band at a huge venue. Obviosly they're not the headliner but they're OWNING that gig. Everything is chaos. Immediate. There's a surge. They look, feel, are genuine.

I turn up the TV.. and it's Paradise City. I'm floored.

Get back home and hurry down to the old record store in town. Called Skiven ("the disc"). Us rock n rollers, intellectuals, punks, beatniks and everyone inbeteween shopped there and NOT at the mall with the suburdan crowd. Nah.

I knew the owner and came there frequently. "There's something... you GOT to hear," she said.  She pulled out the last copy from in the back, under G. Original Williams cover (this was 1988).

"Funny you should mention it... , what's it about?"

"Well," she continued, "it's about the RETURN of rock n' roll as we know it and these guys won't last long so hear them NOW!".

Bought it, went home.. from the first moment Jungle hit... I was flying.

Been flying ever since.

 :peace:

i saw wttj on mtv early 88 and was like whoa whadda fuck is that! it was among with other clips of bon jovi,cr?e,poison,whitesnake and some lame hair bands shit that i cant recall their names and looked like totally out of this world.

at the time i was a maiden and heavy metal fan but this one video made me forget about them, after a couple o'weeks i found and bought afd cassette and the first tune i listened to was iso cuz the shop played this a zillion time and i forgot to rewind, i didn't mind and kept listening, i was shocked with all songs bcuz it was like nothing i heard b'fo. i ran to my friends' house and make him listen to it and we both became obsessed with gnr that day. i went back home and wrote gnr big to my two white tshirts with marker pen.

btw i became very popular at school to discover this band cuz boyz were more into poison and bon jovi,girlz into boy bands adn cheesy pop bandz, but in a short time being a gunner became very popular and i was like the firestarter :)

i first saw and heard 'paradise city' in 1989 on mtv. it blew me away. the intro with the high voice, the drum roll, the attitude, the clothing, ... it just had everything i never even heard off but loved from the first minute i saw it! the white jacket that axl wore with the gn'r circel-logo on it, slash with his top hat, i couldn't get enough of it. i went to the record store and bought the single on vinyl, copied it to a cassette so many times after each other until one side of the cassette was filled with PC! rewinded it and turned it so many times whole day long! i was in love with the intro. not very long after that, i bought AFD on cassette and went nuts! so did my parents haha because i listened to it every day, every time. and now 20 years later, i still blast that record (on cd now  ;)) out of my stereo every once in a while.
fan for life!

Alone
LP
At home
'88
On the recommendation of Kerrang!?? :o ?:-[?

I'd love to read the reply of mysteron  :P ;D

I remember my older sister like Guns N' Roses when I was about 8 or so, she was 15.  It wasn't cool to like anything your older sister did, so I decided I hated Guns N' Roses.  That didn't last long, since they soon became my favorite band.  I remember listening to AFD in my parents car, again probably 10 years old or so.  I was with my friend and I was worried that after Jungle, It's So Easy was coming on and that didn't have the most appropriate language for a 10 year old to listen.  I think I told my parents to fast forward through that song.

I remember the opening strains of Welcome To The jungle on headbangers ball when i was 12. Changed my life. 20 years later, I got to see Axl perform for the first time. I think I may have owned 5 different copies of that album in LP, casette, cd and mp3 formats. I played the tape out so much I broke the fucking thing. I thik every song was my favorite at some time or another, but Rocket Queen remains my favorite because of the ending. That record is perfect. Every song. Every note. Every lyric. To think, five rats off the strip managed to survive their circumstances and eachother long enough to produce one of the most memorable recordings of all time. Thanks, guys. I taught my four year old girl to sing Sweet Child O' Mine. Her favorite part is "Where do we go?" Think I'll wait to play her the rest of the album, uh....another 30 years or so.

Peace.

I think it was Mtv. But our local rock station played them too. All I know was, I was blown away. Still am!!! I have to admit I wasn't a huge fan at first. I didn't want too love this band. I thought they all were going to end up dead the way they were going. And with good reason (I thought that) But when talk started about the Ill's. I just couldn't take it anymore and fell deep into it!! I would have to say what totally did me in was the Article Axl first did for the cover of Rolling Stone!!! That article brought out shit I had been hiding inside for years. After reading it, I couldn't hold it anymore. Like a lot of gnr fans I could relate to some of the shit Axl was going threw. And it always helps to here it from someone else.
Sorry I kinda changed the subject on this one...
peace out amyl

Hearing Paradise City for the first time when I was 7-8 years old. That would be in between 1993 and 1994. I'm 21 now and still listen to this album all the time

I had my parents buy it for me after hearing that one song.

It was 1987, I was 7 and I was in the car with my Dad, my brother and his friend.   My brother said listen to this and put in the tape.  Right when I heard it I thought wow this is amazing.

Who: Parents
What: CD/Cassette
When: 3 years old, '89.
Where: In a car.
Why: Because I was a toddler that hated pop music.  :peace:

I remember really liking GnR as a real little kid, say 6-7 cause my older brother did. And based off the NR video I just thought they were really cool. Fast forward to Christmas of 93'. I'm 9 years old and my aunt gives me a gift card to the wiz. I went there and decided to pick up Appetite simply cause it had the most songs I recognised hearing before. It was the first album I had ever bought. I listened to it non-stop on my sisters cd player for days. I just couldn't remember ever having been so into something before. And the funny thing is I've had the same copy for almost 15 years and it plays perfectly. Does not skip or anything. Compare that to some cd's I ended up buying 3-4 times.

Who: Myself
What: CD
When: Around 2004/5 i think???
Where: In my room I guess.
Why: Because I liked Greatest Hits.

Spring of 1988, they came through Providence Rhode Island and all my friends older brothers and sisters went to see them.  Everybody I was friends with had the cassette.  I saw it at a grocery store called Almacs and made my mother buy it for me.  I was 14 at the time, I ran home and immediately put it in my cassette player and threw on my headphones.  The rest is history. :peace:

In a caravan with my best mate. I was 11 years old :smoking:

Who? - alone
What? - Vinyl
When? - The day it was released in the UK, July 1987
Where? - Just at home in my bedroom
Why?- Saw the cover of the album, had heard of them but never listened to them.  Loved the cover and just had to buy it to see what the fuss was about.  Been hooked ever since and still have that same record with the original rape scene cover and inner sleeve (although nowadays I only play the cd).

Actually, I heard it after the Illusions... quite weird indeed lol. But after listening to it for the first time, like 4 years ago,  it is by far the best album I?ve heard.  : ok:

Who- Some girl I was with
What- cd
When-94
Where-Rehoboth Beach
Why-My dad got me into GnR back in 91, after he left, I inherited his cd collection

Are you me??



Actually, UYI I was the first GNR album I bought (after Greatest Hits, but that's not technically mine). AFD was next. I have this habit of not paying proper attention to what I'm listening to because I used to play albums on the computer when I first got them. (I play them in an actual CD player with earphones now and force myself to pay attention :hihi:) Had to listen to it a few times to get familiar with the songs. I knew WTTJ, SCOM and PC of course but Mr. B, Nightrain and Michelle soon became favourites. Now it's all classic. Rocket Queen is now #1 for me.

I was 9 or 10 ('87/'88).  A school friend brought round Appetite on cassette and we played it side after side after side ALL NIGHT!!! 

It was just the most amazing thing i'd heard, was into Maiden at the time and this was so much more "REAL".  It was dirty, sleazy, nasty rock.  Even though at that age, I didn't understand what the songs were really about, I knew the album, and by extension, the band, were something really special.

A dear friend(RIP) turned me on at his place Memorial Day '89 after a festival we had attended. It played to our lifestyle perfectly.

Who:? By myself
What: CD
Where: In my bedroom
When: 1998/1999? - so I was 16 or 17
Why:? I bought it the day I saw Big Daddy in the theater.? I heard SCOM over the closing credits-- I'd heard it before, of course, but for some reason this time I had to buy the album.?

It was only $9.99 at Wal-Mart, but it was edited.? It turns out, the songs weren't edited, just the liner notes-- the Wal-Mart version doesn't include lyrics or a picture of the original cover in the packaging.? I didn't realize I was missing anything until I saw someone else's copy.

I actually heard UYI 1 first-- I bought it on cassette in '96 or so after the pro wrestling company ECW used November Rain for a video montage.

Oh geez, this is gonna be a difficult one...my memory sucks ass :hihi:

I had watched WTTJ on MTV a few times, and I didn't go bonkers over it. ?Then I saw SCOM, and the little aspiring teenager I was fell in love with it. ?This was, what? 1987? 1988?  I was alone, as usual, when first heard SCOM

I can't remember where I got ?AFD, I just had it one day. ?Listened to it constantly. ?On cassette, of course, CDs were only a dream then :hihi: at least for me.

Then, I kinda dropped out of the music scene. ?Lots happened in my life, and I couldn't pay attention anymore. ?The Illusions actually surprised me lol

off topic- Almacs! lmao, what a name from the past! My mom shopped there too!

Lets see, I was one of the first kids to get into rock around 5th and 6th grade. I was innto linkin park at the time (kill me later) and on vacation my dad boght this 2 cd gold scorpions greatest hits. I thought that was the shit, so naturallly I started looking for similar music. I bought Nirvana (rip my balls off later) AC/DC and then I became obsessed with metallica. So I heard Jungle for like the first time consciously and Im like, that is the fucking coolest sounding guitar I've ever heard! I saw pictures of slash and he was in like some comedy central cartoon so I was joking with my friend like how slash from guns n' roses has done everything there is to do and talking about how fucking cool he was. Fast forward to late 2002. My friend really liked guns and I had my ipod for the first couple days and all i had were the standards off of appetite (SCOM,Jungle,PC) so I though I should download a bunch of songs so i got about half of appetite. THen I downloaded the whole thing and i was laying in bed listening to my ipod while i was going to sleep and I listened to appetite all the way through and I wake up and Im like "That was the best fucking music to ever grace my ears" the rest is history
 :peace:

I remember seeing WTTJ on MTV in '87 or '88? (yes - really!? they still played vids back then).

Shortly after I think my Dad bought the album and dubbed a copy for me.? But believe me, Camp GN'R - I will make up for this.? I'm still gonna buy Chinese Democracy three times.? : ok:

The first time I listened to Appetite in its entirety was in the summer of 1992.  I got into GNR during the GNR/Metallica tour because I was 10 years old and that was the only thing MTV talked about all summer....I already knew the songs like Paradise City from hearing them on the radio the past 4 or 5 years.  The copy of Appetite I had was a copy on a blank tape...within the next few weeks I had bought all of their albums on cassette and then Cd about 6 months later when I got my first cd player.

late 80's before the areosmiths tour

friends montero

cassette
 me and 2 other friends

hook line and sinker from day 1

Who: My best friend
What: Juke Box
When: 1988
Where: Eveley's Arcade
Why: Everyone in my home town stacked the JB with GN'R songs, that's all that played there. Eventually, like 6 months later I bought the Cassette and never looked back.

Who: Biker neighbor
What: Tape
When: 1988
Where: Blasting from a balcony
Why: Geatest music in the world

Who: By myself, at my aunts house on the computer.
What: CD
Where: At my aunts.  :P
When: Ummm, this had to have been around March 2005.  I was 16 then, and I had no idea shit like this existed.  :hihi:
Why: Well, our closer Eric Gagne used Jungle as his entrance music, and I loved the fact that when Jungle came on, you knew that the game was over.  And in January 2005, I saw Grand Theft Auto commercials and they used Jungle.  So later that night, I decided to obtain a downloading service and to get Jungle.  I listened to it the rest of the night.

A couple of weeks later, I was going through my cousin's album collection, looking for GN'R.  I found Appetite and listened to Jungle, but I stopped right after!  I was too afraid to go all the way!  And I wasn't much of an experimenter.

A couple of weeks later, I was staying over again.  In goes AFD.  For some odd reason, I forgot to press repeat after Jungle, and It's So Easy came on.  I decided to give it a chance.  At the 1:35 mark into the song, I knew there was no looking back and that my life would completely change from after that point on.

I was 13 years old. Let me give an idea of my musical situation. I had been listening to Backstreet Boys , NYSYNC , and random crap pop or rap acts. But all of a sudden I found an interest for what I thought was "rock" I had got Good Charlotte and Simple Plan cd's I thought i was cool. My uncles one day heard me listening to a simple plan cd , and where like  ??? hell no that won't fly. They burned me about 70 cd's of what they said was "real" music stuff like Pearl Jam , Alice In Chains , Nirvana , Rage Against The Machine , but the problem was I didn't have a cd player to listen to. So I went to the store to get some a cd player , and the clerk was like you can get a free cd with the purchase , so i'm looking around didn't know what to get and my mom goes, Look get this THIS is music. I was like sure screw it why not , I got AFD. On the ride back home I listened to it but thought nothing special of it , considering all I heard was WTTJ and I'd heard that before. I went through a giant Nirvana phase , and one night I put the cd on and really listened to everything , and I was completely mind blown and the whole thing. Of course since I began playing guitar in the "Nirvana" phase this was godly to me to hear Slash play was pure awesomness. I also remember looking up the best solo's of all time and SCOM was in there , and I was always puzzled because I thought the solo's where the little "mini" solos in between the chorus and verse. When I heard that solo for the first time I knew I wanted to be a guitarist and I had found my guitar hero!! To make things even more interesting later that year this kid at school , little asian nerd kinda dude , was like hey I found these cd's in my attic you might like them....Those cd's my friends, Use Your Illiusions I and II.  :peace:



SO WHY DONT JUSS F' OFF!

Ahh YES I remember hearing that and thinking , these are the guys that embody me. They dont take smack , they do their own thing. Thats it time to listen to AFD , GNR is really a band that always inspires me to keep going as a musician!!  :beer: :beer:

Who: my dad
What:  AFD on cassete
When: I was 7, summer of 88' SCOM was blowin up...BIG TIME!!!!!!
Where:  Jamming it on the way to his place
Why:  why not

the year was 1991, I was 11 years old.  :)   I fell in love with GnR after seeing the YCBM video which was on CONSTANTLY at the time.    But my mom was really really catholic and refused to let me have cds with the "Parental Advisory" stickers on them, not to mention we lived in St. Louis and this was right around the same time that shit happened so my parents thought Axl was an asshole.   I had a buddy copy GnR Lies and AFD for me, and after the Illusion albums came out I snuck out one night, rode my bike to the record store, and bought them all on tape.  :P

I remember at first I just listened to Welcome to the Jungle over and over again, I dont think I gave the rest of it a chance for like a week.  :hihi:

Damn so long ago! It would of been around 87-88 when MTV was playing the hell out of Welcome to the Jungle. I was 7 my sister picked up the cassette, and I instantly stole it. After a couple months of non stop play I remember begging my mom to buy me another copy because the damn tape player ate the cassette. She was hesitant because of the explicit lyrics sticker lol! I remember that tape being held together by masking tape  :hihi:. I was hooked from the first listen. Mr. Brownstone was played over and over, hell the tape eventually had a drag in the song from being over played.

Who: MTV and my sister
What:  AFD on cassete
When: I was 7 in 1987

Who? - Alone
What? - Cassette
When? - Spring 2000
Where? - On the train ride home from Central London
Why?-  I had just started buying albums, and I already knew that I liked Paradise City and Welcome to the Jungle. Whilst choosing the one album that I was going to buy that day (I didn't have a lot of money), I eventually narrowed my options down to AFD and Muse's 'Showbiz'. I think I made the right choice.

Who? - With a good friend of mine

What? - Compact Disc

When? - Summer 2006

Where? - In my friends bedroom, listening to music and generally chilling.

Why? - My friend had tried to introduce me to Gnr about a year earlier, but using Greatest Hits.  This hadn't really caught my attention much, as (in retrospect) it's a pretty poor playlist really.  But this time, he made me listen past WTTJ (quite a boring song imho) and we then got to It's So Easy.  This was much more like it, and with the amazing fury, anger and also the confidence.  Nightrain, Out Ta Get Me, Mr Brownstone.  What can I say, I was a hooked man.  Have been ever since. 

I remember watching MTV to catch Aerosmith and Def Leppard.  I was 10, and just getting into music.  I would stay up late and watch Headbangers Ball, and I believe that was the first time I heard WTTJ.   I taped Liva at the Ritz on my vcr, and thats how I learned all the songs.  Thats how I would listen to Appetite.  It was monthes before I got the tape.  I think I had a buddy dub it for me.  I remember thinking, "These songs dont sound right"  because I was so used to hearing the live versions.  Anyway, the rest is history. 

I had heard a few songs from it like WTTJ, SCOM, Nightrain, PC, ect in late 1992 . My mum's friend went to Bali in early 1993 and brought me home a present, Appetite For Destruction (about a week before GN'R played here).
I listened to it by myself on tape as soon as she gave it to me. Every morning before I went to school I would listen to it. I could normally get to PC before I had to go so for like a month after I got AFD I thought the Mailman would be at my joint coz I could hear the Whistle in PC but I thought it was coming from outside. LOL. I felt so stupid when I finally realised it was in the song.
I was 8 years old turning 9 and now I'm 23 and this album still kicks the arse of anything else in my collection.


 :peace:

WHO?: On my own

WHAT?: Cd

WHERE?: In my bedroom
 
WHEN?: Summer '98

WHY?: Its groove, the rithym, the sound, everything. N it's Appetite For Destruction

I ended up fallin' in love with everything, the image, the band, the lyrics, I listen to it everyday. It's my vains, my head n in my heart, that was the real GN'R!

 :love:

First time I heard AFD all the way through was July 88 on vacation with my family and family friends.? I was 11.? My parent's friend's son played it for me.? I was already very familar with WTTJ which I thought was great.? However when I heard Its So Easy for the first time I was blown away.? Had never heard something like "why don't you just, fuck off!" on record before.? Got my own copy a few weeks later and the rest is history.

let's see... 11 or 12 years ago.. i had already heard UYI I and some other random stuff, i think Lies too... anyway, i wasn't fully into them yet and i bought AFD in some used record store around here.  i still have that copy and it grew and grew on me after that.  I didn't like some songs at first, of AFD and the other albums but eventually i got into most of them and from then on, the myth and legend grew and here we are....
its hard to believe its been 20 years since appetite came out!

Me and my buds

Tape

Car we were in

88-when MTV played music all day!

I had never heard anything like WTTJ before and wanted to hear more from the band.

Who - by myself

What - vinyl album - still have it

Where - my room (living back with my parents, again)

When - Summer of 88;  I was 26 yrs old

Why- Heard SCOM on the radio and thought this band was the greatest thing I'd ever heard - was going to be up there with the Stones & Zeppelin; THEN I saw the video and was done, bought & sold!  The tophat, the leather, the cool T-shirts, the bandanas, the tattoos, the long hair.  That was IT!   Biggest, bad-ass, band I'd ever seen! 

Bought the album, the very next day,  and loved every second of it, from the start!   

Still love it!  AFD is, hands down, for me, the best R&R album ever made.   

 

 

i cant remember... too much kid!!

It was September 88 and I was 9 years old.  I got my parents to buy me the tape at the mall.  My mom gave the cover a good hard look (this was in the PMRC days and everyone was paranoid about this "devil rock" the kids were listening to) but she let me get it anyways.  I told them to play it in the car on the way home.  First song, WTTJ, no problem.  Then It's So Easy comes on and it's just a barrage of F-bombs towards the end.  Most people wouldn't even flinch today but in '88 at 9 years old that was a pretty shocking thing.  I'm thinking "oh shit" my parents are going to take this tape away from me.  But they were totally oblivious.  Probably the only thing from that age that I still listen to.

I remember not liking It's So Easy right away. i thought it was a different singer. :rofl:

Me too, I thought it was Slash!!

Who:  My cousin and father
What:  Vinyl
Where:  Living Room
When:  1988--I was seven years old at the time
Why:  Cousin thought the record was really cool so he bought it over for my dad to hear.  Been hooked ever since!

Bought the 'Appetite For Destruction' cassette at the mall on October 10, 1987 after seeing the "Welcome To The Jungle" video on MTV. After listening to it once, I knew this band was going to be something special. I was 16, and was the first person I can remember in my school who got into GN'R early on. I recall sitting in study hall with my Walkman listening to it, and one of my classmates asked me what I was listening to, I told him Guns N' Roses. He was like, "Who are they?"

Pretty soon though, more people in my school discovered GN'R, especially after the video for "Sweet Child O' Mine" premiered. That song really catapulted sales of 'Appetite', and by the time I had returned to school for senior year in September '88, the album had hit #1 and the "SCOM" single had hit #1 as well.

That cassette wore out a long time ago, but the memories remain.

Except for hearing Paradise City on radio a couple of times:

Who:  Class-mate
What:  CD on a portable CD-player. I listened to WTTJ and It's so easy and thought it sounded kinda strange but cool  :beer:
Where: Class-mate's bedroom
When:  Probably 1991
Why:  Class-mate thought they where good?

When:1987,  How:Casette, Did it change me: Forever,  I went from a 12 going on 13 year old straight kid to a Long haired metal lover.

I first started growing my hair then came the tight black jeans and Gunners shirts, then the ear pierceings, then the cigarette smoking

Then finally the Guns N Fucking Roses Tattoo's. It is fair to say this Album and Band changed my life forever. I grew out of the hair and tight

jean thing a fair while back now, but that dosn't stop me from still cranking Appetite out of my $8000 stereo in my work van at least once a week.

I love this band with a passion and I get so jealous reading about the people who met Axl on the Australian tour, because all I wanted when

I was a teenager was to grow up and be Axl Rose.

Oh and I forgot to mention, my bedroom walls and ceiling was covered 100% with magazine pictures of my Idols ( GNR FOREVER) :peace: :smoking: :beer:

When: 87' 
Who: Mr Jack Daniels   
Where: At Home
What: Vinyl
Why: Because Nothing Else Fucking Compared!!

when:1990 (ihad 11)
who:my friend ivana gave me a cassete where was paradise city,a dayafter she gaved me whole apetite
what:cassete
where:in my home

Who? - Myself

What? - CD

When? - 1992

Where? - In my house

haha, ya me too!!! same thing, but i saw jungle on a vhs that my older bro taped....i disocovered the magic of music after i heard appettite...

in my late teens...
with my girlfriend
at her parents place
because we thought it was the right time to do it...


and why is this in the GNR section?

erm....

lol indeed.

i cant remember

I was 10 years old it was 1991 or so. I heard a song from my sisters stereo as I was walking by and loved it. I don't know what it was but it just hit me. She turned off the stereo mid song and left with friends so I went into her room, and took out the tape and read guns n roses. I rewinded the song that was playing and played it again and listened to it from start to finish and loved it. As I got older I loved GNR even more.

The song that got me hooked? Rocket Queen. Still my favorite GNR song to this day.  :smoking:

What format?
CD format.

When?
I can't remember the very first time.  However, the first time I properly listened to AFD was in 2000.  I was 16.  When I was even younger (6-7 yrs old maybe?) - I had many cousins that were into GN'R.  Therefore, I heard AFD many times just by hanging' out with them.

Who was I with?
I guess I was alone (back in 2000).

Where?
Not sure.  Probably in my bedroom. 

Why?
I heard that Robin Finck was playing in a new version of the band.  Robin was a hero for me; an idol.  I bought my first guitar after watching shitty recordings of NIN @ Woodstock '94.   :drool:

I was 14, and i knew about them, but thought axl looked kinda gay and HATED the tokyo- vids ( still to this day ) so i didn?t care mutch..then a friend and me were drinkin some beers and watching the ritz show then we listened to AFD and i bought it...And know..I give everyone the finger :P :no:

...and where do you think it sould be masta!!! :rofl:

I thought it was a different type of "first time" thread...

He was being facetious. ?Wake up and smeel the coffee!

I'm 27 now and I can remember, in 1988, sitting in my living room and listening to Brownstone on cassette.  Not only did I think that it was Slash singing, but the song's grittiness and realism made me feel uncomfortable and dirty.