What song got you into gnr / your first impression?

[YouCouldBeMine]

SCOM = me finding the coralation between my favorite movie and YCBM = purchasing Live Era = Estranged = 2002 VMA's = hardcore fan ever since

[Ignatius]

I love these D? J?vu sp? threads...

Mine was SCOM back in 88. I posted the story a couple of times, but I don't mind doing it again. A friend of mine had just gone to Ireland to spend the summer and brought back AFD ( with he original cover) We were not really into heavy music then ( shit, I was 12) so all we'd listen was from Geroge Michael, to Jacko or Inxs.

I loved SCOM from the very first moment I heard it. Then Paradise City and Think About You cause it came right before Sweet Child ( remember, this was vynil...)

It's been a while...

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Mine was SCOM back in 88. I posted the story a couple of times, but I don't mind doing it again. A friend of mine had just gone to Ireland to spend the summer and brought back AFD ( with he original cover) We were not really into heavy music then ( shit, I was 12) so all we'd listen was from Geroge Michael, to Jacko or Inxs.

I have almost the same experience as you.  And you already know about my old habits of listening to pop music  

In '89, my older cousin showed me the AFD cassette and told me how awesomely bad-ass Axl & Slash were.  Then I heard WTTJ, SCOM, and all the rest.  I was only 10 so I didnt get the lyrics.  But I did sing along to Paradise City.  Ahh, the memories.

Hey Chinasky, do you remember what you thought when you first saw the original rape cover?  At that time I didnt even know what rape meant, so I just wondered why the girl was lying there with her underwear around her ankles.  I thought the robot was really cool.  

[C0ma]

Picture if you will......................

It's the first day of school, September 87'. A new kid has moved to town, his name is Jesse Janes. He walks into class and the first thing out of his mouth is....."Welcome to the Jungle, we've got fun and games"
I said to my self, what is wrong with this fucking kid?? We've got fun and games??? What kind of shit is that?
After a few days he had brought a small boom box to school with the AFD Cassette. When I heard the opening riff to WTTJ I couldn't believe what I was hearing, and I had to hear more. The next day I pedaled my bike down to Strawberries and bought AFD, that started the addiction that has gripped my life for the past 17 years

[darknemus]

I will never forget this as long as I live.. It was right after Christmas Break in school.. early '87.. this kid on the bus (who's older brother lived in L.A. apparently) was playing a tape on his walkman.  It turned out it was a cassette copy of Live Like a Suicide.. like 3 or 4 generations old, at least - sounded like crap... I said "what are you listening to" he said "a band my brother likes, Guns n' Roses" - so I asked if I could listen.. I slipped on the head phones and it was "Nice Boys".. for some reason.. perhaps due to my adolescence, perhaps the music, perhaps the lyrics.. perhaps an amazing combo of everything, it 'clicked' with me.  I asked the kid for a copy of the tape.  The prick charged me 5 bucks, but I got my GNR fix

(And then, when my Aunt bought me AFD as a gift.. well.. lets just say my family was very much regretting buying me the kickin' stereo for the bedroom  )

-darknemus

[freddiebrph]

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was living at home and had no car. I was laying on the couch and MTV was premiering the new gnr song "sweet child". I kind of likes jungle, so I thought I would give it a shot. After the song played, I thought to myself that this was the best song I have ever heard! I ran upstairs, borrowed my moms car, and went and bought the album. They have been my favorite band ever since!

[badapple81]

KOHD was on TV (the clip from the Freddie tribute) and I thought Axl was the coolest motherfucker ever!

[D]

KOHD was on TV (the clip from the Freddie tribute) and I thought Axl was the coolest motherfucker ever!

and u were right!

[NickNasty]

"Shotgun Blues", April 1996
I had heard all the hits, but never got into the band until my best friend showed me UYI2...the "suck my ass..." line was hilarious and brilliant...I bought the albums the next week and never looked back  

[younggunner]

Back in 2000ish I was making a mixed rock cd from napster. I new of WTTJ and PC but only hear dthem occasionaly. I put those 2 songs on because I figured they were good anthem type songs. Then I said you know what let me find out what else this band plays. DOwnloaded a bunch of songs off Napster. I played Dust N Bones and ever since then Ive been hooked. I was like wow this isnt even supposed to be a ht and its a great song. Within that yr I bought all of the albums, listened to them about a zillion times. Then I said I should check out a bootleg. I was blown away by Axls performance.

I was addicted to GNR. SO i searched the internet and found sites like these. ANd just read, read and read about the band and its history. I have probably read everything on gnr.

As the months went on I began to become fascinated with Axl. His music, personality etc. As I scoured the sites I found out about RIO3. I remember downloading the clips of the new songs on my shitty ass modem and being amazed by it. Then I bought the tape and the rest is history.

Then I discovered the message boards and just read them and never registered or anything. Just observed. then about a year later I began to get involved. Particularly on old cd.com and gnrx...i have always read this site but never joined. enough  of that...

[Flyguy_1ca]

it was 96 or 97...school was out so my brother and I were staying up late and he had rented the use your illusion vhs'....so he plugged them in and told me to sit and watch.  I myself never listened to music at that time, and new nothing of GNR....

I remember listening and thinking that guy has a very scratchy voice....but quickly found myself really getting into it...(as was my brother)...we watched both tapes back to back and I remember afterwards saying to my brother that I wished it was longer  

A couple weeks later we were watching the best videos of the 90's or something like that ...and november rain was like #2 I think....and I loved it....so a couple days later I went and bought that CD....loved it and quickly got all the rest of them.

My brother was only a casual GNR fan...he bought AFD and the 2 illusioin CD's and that's it.....I became much more of a hardcore fan...but it was in a lot of ways thanks to him that I became a fan.

[ktucker450]

For me it was when I heard Knockin on Heaven's Door playin in my older brother's car.

[Gunner80]

Welcome to the Jungle.

[ClintroN]

You Could Be Mine around 91, i was rather young to n' didnt know who wrote it, about a year later i found out and hired it from a librarey

Mined you i was 9 when i found it n' My World was the shit, i used to run around school screaming the words...YOU WANDA STEP INTO MY WORLD...

I  get a kick out of people baggin' out My World, i fuckin' love it!!!!!!

[Skeletor]

Mine's kinda similar, I was 10 or 11 years old when You Could Be Mine came out, and I've been a fan ever since. (unlike Clintron, I knew who's song it was, though )

[ClintroN]

ease up mate
everyone's gotta start somewhere  

[christina_rose]

I remember when I was maybe 8 or 9, my cousin was telling me all about this band he liked called Guns N' Roses. This was after AFD came out. I don't remeber much of the conversation or anything. I just remember talking about it. I know I had AFD and Illusion 1 and 2 on tape. I'm not sure when I bought them. But I remember the song that got me there. I flipped on MTV one day, and saw November Rain. I watched the entire video, having no clue who it was. When it was over, and the little thing came on the TV saying it was GN'R, I knew I had to have their music. I thought Axl was amazing. I guess I became somewhat obsessed. Of course my timing was all wrong. I started really following them in '90 something, right when they broke up. I have been faithful since then. Novwmber Rain still pulls at me every time I listen to it, although I have to say my favorite song by far is Sweet Child.

[elmaestro]

The first video I saw was 'Welcome to the Jungle', it must have been early 1988 (?). Soon after I got the vinyl. But what really blew me away was the live version of 'Knockin' on heaven's door' from the Ritz. They played that video repeatedly on MTV Europe back then. I couldn't wait to see them live, which I did in 1991 in Mannheim, Germany: my first concert ever!!!

[KeVoRkIaN]

Welcome to The Jungle hooked me, Paradise City sold me, Madagascar saved me.........

[ASTON]

WTTJ when it 1st came out/ funny story my daughter  who is in catholic school 3rd grade who i never introduced gnr came home a couple of month's ago and asked me if i ever heard of a song where they say the grass is green and the girl's are pretty cuz she and her freind's  were singin it on the school bus . now she goe's crazy when she hear's it . i guess all girl's love that song lol.then she heard WTTJ on the radio the other day and said mom thats gnr isnt it? i know it is cuz it sound's like the same singer that sing's PC.