The first time i heard Guns N' Roses......

[Bumblefeet]

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!!!!!!!!!!!

[andypa1]

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.

[anythinggoes]

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

[Bandita]

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!

[Neemo]

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

....31 now and still obsessed!

mmmmm hmmm...me too

[Red1]

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

[Verse Chorus Verse]

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.

[KeVoRkIaN]

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

[WhatIsItMan]

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

[HungerForChaos]

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.

[Gargh!]

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.

[Tomorrows]

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.

[Speedy Gonzales]

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....

[Lucky]

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.

[GNVR]

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.

[jazjme]

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 .

[Verse Chorus Verse]

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.

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

[Six Strings]

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

[crash_diet]

well, it was 1988 - i was 13 then - and i saw paradise city on tv.... that was it! i got hooked? 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? next generation keep up the ttrandition

[anythinggoes]

well, it was 1998 - i was 13 then - and i saw paradise city on tv.... that was it! i got hooked? 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? next generation keep up the ttrandition

Shit you greeks age fast