Did you notice... the GN'R video breakdown thread

[nycangel]

wow this is a great thread. i found out a lot of interesting stuff thank you!

[Christos AG]

WOW, I had forgotten about this thread.

BTW, you can still find the It's So Easy first video (not the one from live era) at the downloads section of www.gunsnroses.gr

[Journeyman]

i would take this time to say something about the "slash double" in Estranged. it was a joke in the Making Of &/%"#? Videos....
it really is Slash playing. i mean, why wouldnt it? dont gimme that crap about risk and dangorouse... axl jumped from a fucking tanker!

and standing on a pillar aint any risk. in the making of... you can see the double was a joke, they are all laughing....

atleast, that is my opinion... ?

mine too

[Chief]

really good thread, thank you everyone. i just read through it and hadn't done it before...found out lots of interesting stuff!!!

[Shoco]

in YCBM, even tho its not on welcome to the videos, but anyway did anoyone else notice the bit where Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls the GUN out of the case containg the ROSE?? wonder was that done on purpose or was it just coincidence

[Sagolik]

very good thread!

[Lukin]

Before Welcome To The Videos came out I was a little special for having this one:



Now it?s just another piece of my Guns N?Roses collection, but still a pretty good one, hehe? ?

[LeftToDecay]

(Edit, OOPs yeah there was a thread just like this after all, i had missed it, thx for merging it)


Just watched Estranged video after a while.
I fucking hate it.
In one single (albeit very long) rock video, they have managed to stash;

- A goddamned Swat team.Flashlights, medical supplies and semi automatic handguns.
- Shrink team.
- Atleast 3 different limousines.
- A passenger jet.
- A helicopter.
- A moteherfucking Oil Tanker.
- Rowboat!
- Dolphins!
- Footage from Rock in Rio
- Typical selection of hot whores.
- Dolphins!

I don't know who wrote/directed the video but it is so tastelessly over done and over produced that it is sickening!
Most fucked up Michael Jackson videos(including one with huge Jacko statue and helicopters) look like an amateur punk band reharsal footage when compared to Estranged video, really.
Is it a video of Estranged? Or a trailer of a movie by James Cameron? I just don't know!
Of course, GNR wrestled in juggernautic mega-mammoth class back in 93 and thus, they had "right" to vomit out such overdone videos. But it doesn't mean they should have.

I do firmly believe it is mega super star bullshit such as Estranged video that alienated loads of teens from overly swollen  stadion rock to grunge.
I mean,
In other corner you got Axl jumping from an oil tanker, to be saved by Swat team riding helicopter-dolphins played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In another corner, you got stuff like Smells like Teenspirit, where Kurt headbags violently with these junkie teens and even janitor has great time!
It is very easy to believe it is stuff like  this that summoned a mental state somewhere along the lines of "GNR is a band 'they' ment for us, Nirvana is a band all about us."

More or less same crap applies to Don't Cry video aswell.But, unlike Estranged,  Don't Cry has lots of cool shit?, which does a great deal in helping to forgive the swolled megavideo-shit.
The Axl dealing with past lives/alter egoes/rebirth is cool shit?,the real(?)Axl buried alive is coolshit,  the "gunslinger Axl" at the start of the video is cool shit?, and the whole bunch of Axls with one hopping back to mirrow is too, cool shit?.
Then they just have to bring crashing cars and helicopters along.
November Rain is just BLAAAAAAAAAAH but somehow it isn't BLAAAAAAAAAH in annoying way.


(For the record I love Estranged and November Rain to death as songs, in case someone was paranoid enough to question that)

[Saul]

meh , for every "big budget" video from UYI there was a small low budget one to go along with it .. yesterdays , garden of eden ... 

[LeftToDecay]

meh , for every "big budget" video from UYI there was a small low budget one to go along with it .. yesterdays , garden of eden ... 

Yeah that's true
All 'big important' tracks got the unexiting "big budget" - treatment though.

[AmyRose]

I myself love the big videos.....hey, if you have the money to make big videos such as Don't Cry , November Rain and Estranged...I say go for it! I Never get sick of watching them.

[Loaded NightraiN]

isint there a post just like this??