Your GN'R highlights?

[Carlos_f_Rose]

Back in 87 or 88 watching The Roxy show on Headbangers Ball whenI was about 14 before anyone heard of them.

Bought Appetite the next day

Incredible, Imagine a day when they werent famous...

[badapple81]

When Axl and Sebastian Bach sung Hair Of The Dog in 1990. I wish the song sounded as heavy and awesome as that on TSI. Axl and Sebastian looked like they were having a great time.

[Carlos_f_Rose]

When Axl and Sebastian Bach sung Hair Of The Dog in 1990. I wish the song sounded as heavy and awesome as that on TSI. Axl and Sebastian looked like they were having a great time.

yep dont forget, lars, james and duff

[badapple81]

I saw them in Sydney in 93..awesome

GN'R, Skid Row and Rose Tattoo 

[Amanda]

I saw them in Sydney in 1993 - it was awesome. I wish Id known then that it was the last time Id see GNR together.

[MR W,AXL ROSE]

but it wasnt the last time GNR would be together.as long as AXL has a awsome band behind him then GNR will still be together forever.anyway in 1993 the ORIGINAL GNR wasnt together.you saw a second GNR,so whats different now.

[Amanda]

Well I saw as close to the original GNR as you could get..yes, minus Izzy and Steven. Otherwise still had Duff and Slash.

Whats different now is we dont even know what Axl looks like this year, or if the CD will ever be released. Anyone that was around at the time of the original gnr knows that without at least slash in the band, its not really guns n roses. Its Axl Rose with a band. Im not dissing gnr as it is now. I for one hope that CD comes out, blows everyone away, and the band gnr is back. But in all honesty, speaking as an "old" fan, its not the gnr we used to know.

[Krash]

1. First pickin' up a copy of AFD at age 12 in the fall of '88, it was my dad's copy .? Listened to it, was floored, read the lyrics to Anything Goes and my jaw hit the floor.

2. Spring of '90, late age 13. Diggin through my stepmoms soapopera tapes so that I could Video tape a re-airing of Live At Ritz... taking it over to my cousins so that we could get stage ideas for our band ROCKET. Incidentally my cousin gave me this KRASH nickname that spring. My uncle later destroyed the Ritz video tape

3. Spring 1991, age 14. Moving back in with my mom and bringing a copy of AFD on white cassette.
All the 15-18 year old chick friends of my cousins in this town thought I was a total stud.? I used to walk around this one horse town (Twin Valley, Minnesota, pop. 800) with a Quasar boombox crankin' AFD.? My aunt asked one day back then "are you the one who walks down the alley all...NIGHTRAIN, NIGHTRAIN". I just smiled.

4. Fall of 92 or spring of 93 (i think, i drank alot then). Driving around the Fargo dome parking lot (Fargo, ND) with my now deceased buddy Mike Sackman listening to the band pummel through the walls as we couldnt afford tickets.

5. Fall 2002, my dad mailed me a performance of WTTJ with Buckethead on gee-tar. Cool....

6. Fall 2005 (age 29), Teaching my little 17 year old brother the intro to SCOM and most of Anything Goes on guitar.

6. Joing this fine info filled GNR board.... rock on guys and gals..........

I'm sure I'm forgetting other tickling moments........

[Jonathan]

When Axl and Sebastian Bach sung Hair Of The Dog in 1990. I wish the song sounded as heavy and awesome as that on TSI. Axl and Sebastian looked like they were having a great time.

yep dont forget, lars, james and duff

You don't actually see James..

[Evolution]

Hmm, i think i will add the leak of I.R.S onto my list. Pretty exciting as HTGTH was down at the time. I had to register on the mygnr forum ffs.

[The New Fiona Apple]

Back when there was news

[GNRBABY]

NYE 1991 Miami 14th row baby!

[Carlos_f_Rose]

When Axl and Sebastian Bach sung Hair Of The Dog in 1990. I wish the song sounded as heavy and awesome as that on TSI. Axl and Sebastian looked like they were having a great time.

yep dont forget, lars, james and duff

You don't actually see James..

I was referring to the whole gig they gave Johnatan.

[GNRBABY]

Back when there was news

 ....no shit!  Good one Fiona!

[MarioGunner]

I Became a fan quite late
Dec. 1994? ? My first trip to the US, after having a shitty tape of AFD, which i fell in love with. I got to Virginia, and with my money bought the 5 gn?r tapes, afd, lies, UYI 1 n 2 and TSI. A night after that my aunt says that she doesn?t know what to get me for x-mas, so i bought the 5 cds... , i was so ignorant, I didn?t know about the tokyo tapes.

Dec 1997 I got my hands on the hard to find UYI 1 n 2 tokyo vhs tape, and also the making fucking videos trilogy.

VMA 2002, Without any previous notice, i?m watching this thing cause jimmy fallon kinda makes me laugh, and suddenly he says something about a surprise, and some time later he whistles patience, i ran around the house like a maniac cause i knew that gn?r was coming, what i would see i didn?t know, but i had to find a vhs to record it, and thank god, i was able to do so. Felt nostalgia for the old gn?r, but still made me go crazy about hearing something new.

Now i have a nice dvd collection, i feel blessed, someday, someday, i?ll get to see them live.

[Karma_Police]

I guess seeing them on the Skin & Bones tour with my older brother. Tha was my first concert. Another highlight/lowlight was the Vancouver riot in 2002. It sucked that Axl didn't show but I can always say I was part of an official Guns N' Roses riot.

[Ericnor]

I don't post too often at this forum, but read through this topic and thought I'd add some of my experiences:

1) January 1990, listening to Nightrain at a party for the first time. After that I was hooked.
(At that time I had only heard Paradise, Patience, Sweet Child before this day)

2) August 1991. GnR cancelling the Oslo gig after riding the train for 7 hours. Worst day of my life at that time.

3) Seeing GnR in Oslo in 1993. Great day, even though the show wasnt their best, and Axl kept running on and off stage all the time.

4) VMA 2002. I was home, after taking my appendix a few days ealier, lying in bed at 5 am in the morning, recovering and watching the show. I am not a too emotional kinda guy, but seriously, I was standing up in my bed when Jungle came on. Awesome feeling. (After some days of pain and surgery that was a hell of a treat for me).

-Eirik

[adlerforever]

buying appetite for destruction. i'm a young gunner so i wasnt alive when they were around, but my dad got me into them and it brought us closer together

[mnsotapop]

Driving 16+ hours roundtrip for Alpine Valley Concert before Illusion I and II came out....

Target Center in Minneapolis...about 15 feet from stage...

all the other GnR concerts I've been to....

My mom hiding my Appetite cd before guests would come over?

[nonlinear]

faith no more/metallica/GNR at metrodome in minneapolis when i was in grade 8