How big or popular GN'R on their heyday

[chrosken]

I'm a new member but has been visiting the HTGTH site since 99.  It was one of the best GN'R site on the net if you want to get info on GN'R.  Anyway, I just want to ask few things about GN'R popularity back in the days. 

How big or popular GN'R during 1987 to 1993? 
Were they really the world's number 1 band? 
Which of the current artist now on the music scene would you compare GN'R?

[mikegiuliana]

they were the number one band, and there isn't a  band today even close to their top fame.. Metallica was pretty huge in 91-92 with the black album..  There literally were a million fans everything everywhere was gnr, t shirts buttons magazines mtv news videos etc.. They were tops

[Dr. Blutarsky]

I don't think we've had a real rock star since Axl.

GNR were from the street, not manufactured by the industry.

Seems like Nirvana gets all the credit for bringing something new to a fairly stale music scene, but GNR did the same thing 4 years before Kurt Cobain. Kurt just pretended not to like success, which seemed cool in the early 90`s.

GNR were at the top in the late 80's/early 90's no doubt about it.

[mikegiuliana]

GNR were from the street, not manufactured by the industry.

that's what I loved about the most of the strip era of rock

[Minneapolisnewsman]

I don't think we've had a real rock star since Axl.

GNR were from the street, not manufactured by the industry.

Seems like Nirvana gets all the credit for bringing something new to a fairly stale music scene, but GNR did the same thing 4 years before Kurt Cobain. Kurt just pretended not to like success, which seemed cool in the early 90`s.

GNR were at the top in the late 80's/early 90's no doubt about it.

Only U2, Eminem and Metallica have been as big as GNR was in the past twenty-five years. ?One could argue, GNR were the biggest band since Zepplin.

[estebanf]

I think Guns N' Roses was the number 1 band in the world between 1992-1993 (no doubt about it) but I DONT THINK the band was #1 BEFORE that period.

Today, there is no band with the success and the talent GNR used to have. ?Korn? No way.

[trojan]

the only band i can see today thats mainstream and has gnr influence/sound is avenged sevenfold, they're quite good, their like iron maiden/gnr/neo classical/numetal  quite interesting.

[Negleyjj]

I'm younger so I wasn't really around then either, but my cousin phrased it this way:

"Imagine taking the popularity of Green Day, combining it with U2, and taking it to the next level"

(This comment was made when their CDs were new and you couldn't go 5 minutes without hearing Vertigo or Boluvard of Broken Dreams)

[Thorazine Shuffle]

Even Mick and Keith said that GNR we're going to be the next Rolling Stones....and you see how big the Stones are.

[Dr. Blutarsky]

When MTV used to be a music channel GNR were played almost every hour it seemed.

[Butch Français]

as big as a band gets.

[badapple81]

They were just massive. Listening to GN'R and having their albums was the coolest thing at school. In January 1993, Guns N' Roses toured here and played in front of 80,000 people in Sydney, then in Melbourne. There was a Guns N' Roses competition on TV where you collect Coca Cola vouchers or something similar to win a car or guitar signed by Slash, and you could redeem them at any 7-11 for an Axl Rose bandana and Guns N' Roses tour stickers ?

[nesquick]

FUCKING HUGE
Axl and Slash were Rock Legends, every kids wanted to be like them. Oh man, it was a great time!

[McDuff]

FUCKING HUGE
Axl and Slash were Rock Legends, every kids wanted to be like them. Oh man, it was a great time!

yeah that's true,I miss those good old days

[plasmabeam]

FUCKING HUGE
Axl and Slash were Rock Legends, every kids wanted to be like them. Oh man, it was a great time!

I still want to be like Axl and Slash 

[warrocks]

FUCKING HUGE
Axl and Slash were Rock Legends, every kids wanted to be like them. Oh man, it was a great time!

yeah that's true,I miss those good old days

  ,me too!those were exiting years!! all younger and adults people dressed up like axl or slash, I remember the tv contests to look for the axl rose wanna be or slash hahaha. 

[dave-gnfnr2k]

They were Beatle big in 1991/92.

[oldgunsfan]

During the AFD days, when SCOM hit, all cliques in my high school like GnR.  Headbangers, burn-outs, guidos, preppies, nerds, even the rap faction liked them.  Haven' seen that since.

[McGann]

Back in '91
In the year-end Rolling Stone
They went month-by-month

And covered music
And events through the whole year.
Not only was Guns

In almost EACH month
But they had THEIR OWN CHAPTER
Right in the middle.

Splash

/Mike

[Mike McKagan]

Anybody like me old enough to remember what a watercooler event the video trilogy was?  Some small part of their hugeness in the early nineties was definitely due to trying to figure out what the hell had happened to Stephanie Seymour's face that required a mirrored casket divider.  By the way, does anyone actually know the answer to that question?  It's been bugging me for almost fifteen years!