"More Than Words" by Extreme. Since this was their first song release, it fooled all the Gramma's out there to get this 'soft rock duo's" album. Only to find out that these guys can ROCK!!! 😊
Waiting for a Girl Like You foreigner Feel Like Making Love bad co Cowboy Song thin Lizzy All My Love led zeppelin Love Song Tesla If I’d been The One 38 Special
..Prof. doesn't want me to do my chores today, DOES he!?? ..ha-HAAA!! (CONT.) Angie - Rolling Stones Sweet Child O' Mine -G N' F-N' R Beth -Kiss Is This Love - Whitesnake (..David pullin' Tawny on that BED, Man...) Every Rose Has It's Thorn -Poison Silent Lucidity - Queensryche Carrie - Europe Fly To The Angels - Slaughter Heaven - Warrant Love Walks In - Van Halen More Than Words - Extreme (...yeah, yeah, splittin hairs..but, they WERE Hard Rock...) Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger (...LOVED this tune!) I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi ....I gotta stop, I'm gettin a HEADACHE, rememberin' all these tunes...that I bought on CASSETTE SINGLES! ...ha-HAAA!!
I’ve been friends with Vicky, GNR’s ex-manager, since those days in the 80s - and I heard the contact lens story from her… not long after it actually happened! We all knew these guys were going to be huge, but had NO idea how huge! We loved the irony of Patience being sung by the guy who had no patience at all. I adored your story about the song dedication. It sounds like something out of a John Hughes movie.
One of my friends looked me up on FB and the first thing he says is 'I remember your phone number', which was at the time 594-AXLE. Sweet, sweet memories. I was in 11th grade in '88. Then a car accident in early eighty nine while three months from graduation. Went back and graduated in '90. There is no keeping the wild and young down and out.
One of the things I like about you as a host Adam is your willingness to give of your self and share a little of your past. Thanks so much for all this great content!
Can't really talk about Lies without "One In A Million" where Axl used the N-word. Was a shock when I heard it. Great song and vocal performance that was marred by that utterance.
Adam you REALLY make me miss the 80s, graduated in 1989 at 17 yrs old. GNR, Whitesnake, Motley Crew, Van Halen still going strong - man they rocked the radio back then. The nostalgia you describe can be overwhelming at times, don't stop
Same!! But I also remember how it all changed when my best friend came home ffrom college, put a tape in my little boom box and said: "Listen." "Smells. Like Teen Spirit" came on, and I haven't looked back at hair bands until I started watching THIS guy, lol.
Professor, thank you for doing this one. “Patience” is a phenomenal song. It’s probably my favorite song of the late 80s era just because of how great it is!
That whistling... When I entered high school in 1991 in Johannesburg, the matriculating year (The Seniors) used to get an assembly in the school hall in honor of their class just before they sat their final exams, my first year in the school, and the first "Final Assembly" i`d witnessed saw them all walk down from the balcony to the stage to GnR`s "Patience"...I knew the song, as did a small amount of the guys and girls with me in Standard 6 (First Year)...we were all whistling along as they all filed onto the stage... Still to this day the one memory I have of this track is ...not that I actually had the album on cassette tape and had heard it many times over, but all those people getting ready to leave the relative safety of high School and head out into a the big wide world...
Axl Rose was incredibly incendiary, utterly fearless, and in your face. He channeled his bottled-up rage from his childhood into his performances. Unfortunately, he also channeled it in other incredibly destructive, harmful, and alienating ways. A tortured soul for sure.
"You Could be Mine" was on Use Your Illusion II, not I, but it's a simple mistake as they were released side by side. I had no idea that it was about the same girl in "Patience" though. What a difference! It just goes to show how ups and downs in relationships can completely change one's perspective.
That's right. "You Could be Mine" was also written in the "Appetite" days, which is why it sounds much more like that era of Guns. Still wish the "Illusion" records weren't so overproduced. The production they had on "Appetite" was perfect for that band. It sounded great and was just raw enough. As much as I love the music, the Illusions were WAY too slick-sounding and G 'N' R lost a lot of their impact because of it. They also don't swing the way the early stuff does. A lot of that is due to Adler being gone. Matt Sorum is a very solid drummer, but he doesn't have the same sense of groove. Steven Adler and Slash had been playing together for years. That was an important part of the original chemistry of the band. My two cents!
Use Your Illusion was originally planned to be a double album but opted to split it into two albums. this kind of thing was not new. Kiss release 4 albums on the ssame day when they release 4 solo albums. Bruce Springsteen 1 year after the release GN"R Use Your Illusion albums. did the same thing. when he release 2 albums on the same day. Human Touch and Lucky Town. Green Day almost pulled the same stunt but release their 3 albums Uno, Dos, Tre a few month apart.
My favorite band *ever*. AFD is one of the best albums ever recorded. UYI 1 & 2 have gotten better over the decades, and show the genius of Axl Rose. Chris Cornell's version of Patience is... brilliant. I'm lucky that I was in LA to grow up in this era, it helped drown out the pop music of the era. GnR filled a void in music at the time and then grunge came along and changed everything. But I'm still a GnR superfan at 54, and that will never change.
I'd love to hear the "Illusions" remixed and remastered. Hey, it could happen! That's very cool that you got to live through Guns' heyday in Los Angeles as a young person. I'll bet you have some incredible memories!
Patience is a wonderful song and the video was everywhere. To me it highlighted that the band was more than just a metal/rock band by highlighting their versatility. Lies doesn't seem to get the credit it deserves and Used To Love Her might be my favourite song from it. I like how it's cheerful song style is contrasted by the dark subject matter.
@@ProfessorofRock wasn't the song about a dog? I thought I had heard that before, but maybe I'm having a case of Mandela effect... Edit: nvm. Just got to the part in the video where you mention the dog story.
@@michaellorenz7177 As you now know, yes it was about a dog but at the time I remember a fair number of people claiming it was about a real murder Axl had committed. They wanted him locked up, investigated, the whole works and all based off nothing. 😅
It's the flagrant racism in the verses from One in a Million that really tanked that album, and why it gets so little attention from the band. Funny thing is...the verses seem to have nothing to do with the chorus..either lyrically or , even, musically. It's like 2 separate song ideas were cut & pasted together - (which is totally a thing that happens when bands are trying to squeeze out an album..) Axl outright drops the N-bomb - talk about the "invincible" rock star effect! 😳 Especially when your gun lead guitarist is half black! (Slash's father was white, but mother was black, as in African-British). ...proving there was actually an ungodly amount of Patience & tolerance in that band...in all BUT Axl! But Axl still managed to chew through each and every one of them. Patients always has its' limits..
As far as great songs with whistling tunes, you left out a really great one in Wind of Change by the Scorpions. That one was quite the beautiful tune to a song that important for the time. Patience was a song I dedicated to my first wife. We had seen some struggles and it seemed to fit right in with my world at the time. However, that marriage wouldn't last. I married my current wife. We've been married 25 years now.
There is a live track on a "Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen" album where the band is whistling in multi-part harmony. Very impressive, and very cool.
1.Billy Joel- The Stranger; 2. Otis Redding- (Sitting On) theDock Of The Bay; 3.Lovin’ Spoonful- Daydream; 4. Paul Simon- Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard; 5.Supertramp- Goodbye Stranger; 6. Bobby McFerrin- Don’t Worry Be Happy; 7.Peter Gabriel- Games Without Frontiers. (Best songs with whistling)
The first time we were introduced to this song, they performed it live on an awards show. I know I wasn't the only person who had to have this song after hearing that performance!!! Definitely #1 in our hearts, even though it fell a little bit short.
Lies is a killer piece of work. My friends and I were about 11 when it came out. It was definitely a bit too 'adult' for us but we had already discovered 'Appetite' so, screw it. We were all in! Check out 'Welcome to the Sessions' if you want to hear some cool G n' R cuts.
@aspalovin Same here and I still have the original record I got when it came out too. I remember being bummed by the black stripe over the topless chick on the sleeve. Lol. Amazingly I still have my original Appetite record as well as Poisons Open up and Say Ahh, Hysteria from Def Leppard, Bon Jovi New Jersey and Slippery and Aerosmith Pump. They've all been well played and have some scratches but still sound great. Just wish I took better care of the covers and sleeves because if they weren't so worn I imagine some of those 1st pressings will probably be worth something one say.
Can't really talk about Lies without "One In A Million" where Axl used the N-word. Was a shock when I heard it. Great song and vocal performance that was marred by that utterance.
I’m about the same age as you I believe…living during this time I have a special appreciation for the excitement of ‘new’ GnR music. Lies was fantastic and I loved Patience and Used to Love Her and burned up that old cassette tape when it came out. I still remember my mom dropping me off at midnight so I could buy UYI 1&2 immediately once it was released. Such great memories of my fav band of all-time!
GNR is the band that made my wife fall in love with me. She was wet and I gave her my GNR shirt to wear so she would be dry. 20 years later we married. She still has that shirt hanging on the wall like a Picasso or Van Gogh. To Her it's priceless.
Oh crap, I thought this was going downhill into "blue movie" territory fast, partway into your second sentence! I was like....🙆♂️NOOOooo! ..oh, ok! Well, alright then.
Patience is my favorite song. The first time I heard it, my father and I were leaving the house to go on a hike, I was maybe six years old, I was eager to get out of the house and as we were putting our shoes on, "Patience" video started playing on MTV, and my father said, "Hold one we'll leave after this" I was so annoyed and wanted to hate the song? Especially since I'd had a cassette of Appetite, that I had hidden in my room and only would listen to it with headphones late at night because I knew my parents wouldn't approve of a six year old listening to such an album. So when I first heard "Patience," I wanted to hate this "whimpy" song, but within 30 seconds, I was engrossed. When we pulled into the trail head parking lot, the local radio station just started to play it. My dad shut the car off, ready for our hike, I exclaimed, "wait! that's the new Guns and Roses song" he turned the radio back on and listened one more time. As we headed to the trail I remembered saying, "they allow snakes in hotels?"
Every time I think of a classic song that includes an epic whistle, I think of Winds of Change by The Scorpions. Nice backstory of Patience and I appreciate your personal anecdotes. The 80's. What we wouldn't do to get some of that time back.....
Axl Rose said in an interview that he loved the way Ronnie Van Zant wrote songs. He went on to say that Skynyrds "Tuesdays Gone" influenced the writting of Patience in other words Tuesday Gone influenced Axl to write Patience ( Axl said this in an interview.) If you really listen to the song you can hear RVZ'S influence on the song.
First record on cd I bought was gnr lies. Along with (Welcome to the jungle, iron maiden piece of mind and Hysteria) and I bought a CD Walkman. One small critique you could be mine was on use your illusion II. Great stuff Professor!
@@jrobertlysaght T2 came out right before The "Use Your Illusion" albums. "You Could Be Mine" was the first single off of the second of those and off the T2 soundtrack.
Aww, your dedication story is heartbreaking. How many of us associated a hit song with the one we wanted to be with? For me, it was New Kid in Town that always made me think of the guy I liked since he was essentially new in town. I don't think he ever knew, though. You had some stones, man.
Absolutely love Guns N Roses saw them live back in 2016 not in there hay day but was still incredible and of course they played this classic dimmed the light and everyone got out their cell phones I’m like where are the lighters at haha. But just was incredible to witness. Adam professor of Rock I love your stories and all you would go through for love and rock really incredible and inspiring!! ❤️🤘🏼makes me want to do the same!! Much love
Thanks for opening up and sharing your story about your call-in to the radio station, even if, as others have pointed out, you violated "bro code" by trying to poach your friend's girl. Like you, I've learned the hard way that the grand romantic gestures that look so cool in the movies often don't play out that way in real life. 💔
I mean honestly they never released anything NEW after he left so duh of course it wasn't the same!. The covers album the Spaghetti Incident was just that a covers album and anyone could have played rhythm guitar on it.
Izzy was not only undervalued in GnR, he was and and still is the soul of the band. The "reunion" without him is a farce all because Axl (who legally is and owns the name "Guns 'n' Roses"...long story, look it up) didn't want to pay Izzy his rightful fair share during these reunion tours.Without Izzy's songwriting that was the core of the band, especially on Appetite, no way the band would have scaled the heights they did. Axl would do well to remember that.
Patience was better and more popular than all 3 songs above it the charts were wrong (again). I still find myself randomly whistling this tune without thinking. People don't give Izzy Stradlin enough credit for what he brought to the band. I still love his band the Ju Ju hounds and shuffle it all is a masterpiece. Great #1 in our hearts professor! Keep doing 90s too. Many great songs
Don't forget, Sitting On the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding. This song inspired Sting to whistle in his song, " If it's Love" on his latest release, The Bridge. I always ♥ a hard rock band ballad.
You forgot the most famous whistle in any song 🎵. The theme to Andy Griffith Show. I use to have an autographed copy of Sukiyaki from the artist before we left to return from Japan back to America!
I was at the concert in Montreal when James got burned, Axl had a hissy fit and wow what a riot that ended up being!!! Oh the 90's...lol...GNR is part of the soundtrack of my high school days....
Been subscribed for a few months, and always love the content. The story of how you dedicated the song to the girl, even down to describing the at the time popular term “going with” really stuck a,chord. Painted a perfect image of what high school life was like back in the 80s.
Man, I absolutely loved the band when they came out with appetite for destruction. I was obsessed with sweet child of mine lol. I think my brother got me the album for Christmas and it was one of my favorites. I remember seeing patience on MTV and I knew I had to get the cd. I was shocked when I heard a few of the songs but later on I was like oh wow. Patience was amazing and I love it to this day but I feel like I can only listen to a few songs from appetite now because I don’t swear anymore and I just feel that certain songs don’t resonate with me anymore.
My favorite band of all time bar none. Well done video. Man the music we could have had if they could have figured out a way to keep it together but holy shit the music the put out!!!
I don't know sometimes less is more and more is less. LOL like Alice in Chains, Leonard Skynard and a few other I can't think of right this second. You never had to say their latest album wasn't as good or up to par like some bands, Metallica for one comes to mind. That's my opinion and the reason they are one of my favorites.
I remember this song getting played when about 7 of us, went camping in a wood, in the summer of 1989. It was on a cassette and played on Colin's ghetto blaster. lol
An overlooked 'Ballard' is Judas Priest's - Before the Dawn from their 1978 album Killing Machine, otherwise known as Hell Bent for Leather in the US. This album, their 5th, is the first to feature the leather and studs look that they became renowned for. It was also their first foray into a more commercial sound whilst retaining the dark lyrical themes of their earlier works. It was also the last album to feature the bands original drummer Les Binks.
As soon as you told the story of your crush on your best friend's girl and posted the pic of Cindy from Can't Buy Me Love... all the memories came flooding back! Gosh, we are one and the same!
One small correction for you.... The Gibson EDS-1275 was a double neck electric Slash used to play the song live. At the time Slash used Guild acoustic guitars. Great video!
Thanks so much for this coverage I didn't realize Jeff did most of the writing of this song. Yes Jeff is Izzy's real name. Jeffy and Bill (Axl) were a year ahead of me in high school and what I remember of them is mostly Axl seemed to be in trouble a lot. I had no negative memories of Jeff and had his cousin in a class and always felt there was more to him than the surface. Always good to know my feeliings were true. I have a lot of respect for Izzy cleaning himself up and not risking that.
patience is such a peaceful and beautiful song and if you ignore all of the drama that is guns and roses they are just an gritty down and dirty rock and roll band that made some classic music and that's what they should be remembered for
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 it's all about the music and that's why fans such as ourselves tune into Adam's channel everyday to continue and connect our love of music and that's why we're here to keep this community going
That song never upset me or any other fans I knew. In fact, a buddy of mine in Jr. High would whistle the intro while waiting for class to begin. We might even sway back and forth while doing so. Good times.
I was an up front Fan. Tiny female, i kept my place holding the rail & was able to breath cus of that space & fresh air between stage. Could NEVER be close enough or have their music loud enough & Spent many pumped up nights in line to get there. Went to every show in Texas. Waved them through arena gates from atop of my car, got to give them my map when they were lost downtown Dallas looking for a street /hotel entrance in the middle of the night, took a spit bath & nap in a gas station on the way to another show & woke up w/ their busses parked next to me. Made great $, bills were low & saved every penny for GnR tickets, Concert Ts & specialty collectors records. THOSE WERE THE DAYS!
If the thumbnail didn't say 80's hit, I would have immediately guessed Queensrÿche with Silent Lucidity. Fantastic song, and definitely in my Top-10 all-time favorites.
I get their place in the time line and they were huge when they 1st hit the scene. And I'll admit I liked them when they 1st came out. But being heavily rooted in bands like Priest, Maiden, Metallica, Ozzy, Anthrax, and most other radio rock and metal they grew tiresome and Mr. A's antics turned me off of them. Most of the others members of GNR have done well after moving on andre better for it. GNR will always have it timestamp on that period and theta no doubting their contributions.
I love your content and respect your knowledge so much I Hate to nitpick.... but did you just call Guns n Rose's a "thrash" band? I generally associate that term with Anthrax, S.O.D., Slayer, Forced Entry etc.
I remember the day the song was released, our local radio station prepared us ahead of time that they were going to play it on that day, and throughout the day. I was so excited and couldn't wait to hear it. I am a heavy sleeper. But for some reason, I woke up around 5am, which was literally unheard of for me. But 2 minutes after waking up, my radio, which had been on all night, I heard the dj announce that now was the time to premiere the new gnr song. It was like the universe wanted me hear it at that moment, alone in the quiet dark. I was 14 and in love with the entire band, my own version of beatlemania. I felt like I was the only person in the world who heard it. It was magical! Silly teeanage girl! Lol!
I got grounded for whistling that J. Geils song when I was eight or nine. My mom was… weird. Geminis, man. 😂 This summer and autumn, I’m looking at the Tetons out the front window about an hour and a half drive from Blackfoot and the kids around here are just as sweet and precious now as you were then. There’s so much to be said for growing up in a special place like Idaho. ❤️ It took me a long time to come back around to GNR. If it wasn’t new wave, progressive, shoegazey, industrial, or techno, for years I wanted nothing to do with it. Strangely, it was leaning into obscure jazz that eventually led me to every kind of metal(!). Thank goodness for cheap used CDs racked in back rooms of thrift stores, because I’ve discovered and rediscovered so much great stuff that way.
Patience was my first dance song at my wedding. To my surprise my wife picked it. GnR was my favorite band and I guess after being together almost 10 years she thought it fitting since we finally tied the knot.
One of my favorites is by Led Zeppelin and its "Thank You", which I think was written by Plant about his then wife, Maureen. Its a sad love song somehow.
Dude, that was a great story! Cheers for sharing. I had a similar experience with Sweet Child of Mine. But I didn't request it on the radio, & her boyfriend didn't know I played it for her at a party, as he was busy puking in the toilet. She knew, because I never broke eye contact with her after I put it on
I will never forget the day I purchased that Album. I was 17 and grew up in a small town outside of Omaha NE. I remember it was a cold winter day and my friends and I went to Pickles records and tapes in Omaha NE. The roads were covered with snow and ice. We were driving down an incline and lost control of the car. We slid down the road across the street and stopped in a parking space bouncing off a parking curb right in front of the record store, completely unscathed. I bought GNR lies on audio cassette and listened the crap out of it. For months I alternated between Appetite and Lies.
As a gunner, I thought the song he was talking about was One in A Million. That really pissed people off lol. Seriously though, you should do a video about One in a Million, I think it is worth a video. I saw them live in St.Louis 2017 with my brother, got t-shirts, had the time of my life, I'll never forget it. Oh by the way, don't cry tonight, there's a Heaven above you. God Bless.
Patience is by far one of my most favorite songs, and most definitely my favorite G'N'R song. When my boyfriend and I met face to face, at karaoke (we met on a service online, and then arranged to meet. He is a karaoke junkie, sings [a lot], and i just sit and listen/watch), he asked me what song I would sing if I actually did sing. I said Patience, because it is my favorite song, and I think would be the best for my voice (for the record, the one time I have sang a song at karaoke, it was actually Right Now by Van Halen, because it spoke most to what I was feeling/going through then). He sang it for me later that night, and it has since been our song.
I used to play this son with my band. And I was singing the "high voice" final part. Can´t help spotting the back cover of "Diver Down" on your background. Cool album too. That could be another great episode ;)
This is a work of the band proving that they have a range. No, face ripping Metal is not the only thing we can do. And for the time, if you didn't have Ballads you weren't with the time according to radio.
I worked with a guy who was friends with Axl, he was thanked on Appetite, he said he did not know Izzy well but the relationship was Izzy would get fed up with Axl and quit on several occasions and Axl would be obsessed with getting him back in the band. Axl respected Izzy a lot. No one ever wanted to kick Izzy out for drugs either due to an incident where Izzy almost landed in jail and was then one small step away from possibly going to jail Izzy was the first to get off drugs.
This hits ALL THE FEELS🥲15/16 yrs. old when G🤘🏻N🤘🏻R arrived! Couldn’t have come at a better time! TOO many memories to even wrap my head around. Had tickets for the Use Your Illusion tour. Long story. Couldn’t go. FINALLY, on the 1st leg of the Not In This Lifetime tour, saw them in Nashville at Nissan Stadium. Chris Stapleton opened. Perfection! And yes, no Izzy, but got to see Adler come out and sit in. It was TOTALLY worth the wait🤘🏻🎸🎩
Hey Professor rock, I absolutely love your channel. Your stories actually remind me of me especially your story on this Patience episode. I think I did something similar when I graduated from high school in 96. I wonder how you got started because I do tours in San Francisco and so much of what you do, I have been doing for 20 years, educating people on music and going to the Record Plant in Sausalito. Anyway, man, I would like to invite you to come check out Dylan’s Tours in San Francisco and come take a tour and learn about some of the awesome music that was recorded over at the record plant. From one music junky to another.
Growing up I remember I used to watch MTV with my brothers and mother. I really didn't get into G&R until I was eleven and T2 was out in theaters. When MTV used to play You Should Be Mine then that's when I really got into their music. Then there was Sweet Child of Mine, Live and Let Die and November Rain. Also at that age I had a small crush on Slash. I was eleven what more can I say?
I don’t know of/remember any GNFNR fan(s) who were pissed off about “Patience”. Nor were they ever considered a “thrash band”, as described in this video. GNR was hot-to-the-touch in 1988/1989, and we were absolutely starved for anything new, and very much appreciated GNR Lies on the whole, including “Patience” and its accompanying video.
Ironically the song came at a time when Rose couldn’t even finish a single show without walking off the stage or pissing off his fans and band mates alike
He was something else. I absolutely loved the man as a teenager, but I don't think anyone has ever done so much to destroy their career and ruin everything for everyone. Such a shame. He would have benefited greatly from some intensive counseling and personal care. He was capable of channeling his energy into great things, but way too much of it was not channeled in a productive way.
I saw GnR with Metallica during that tour. Axl walked off during You Could Be Mine after throwing down his mic. I guess it wasnt working good enough for him. He came back out a few minutes later and they started the song over. Classic Axl.
Dude, Adam, I have to applaud you! At least you had the balls to PUBLICLY profess your love to your crush!! It’s something I wanted to do, over and over again for the different crushes I had over the middle school and high school years (‘92 grad here). YOU ROCK!! I’m sorry to hear that gut punch squashed your willingness to go after your crush!! I would have hoped for a “happy ending” where she dump him and choose you for having the balls to publicly profess your feelings to the entire school. Oh, well…C’est la vie, my friend.
Appetite For Destruction saved my life. I used it as a form of anger management therapy. Back then I needed an outlet to express my anger and found it through that album. I would pop that album in the stereo and express my anger through dance. An hour of GNR per day on the living room "dance" floor saved me from being eaten away by my intense anger.
Two things kids born after the 80s never worried about, buying a new cassette cause you wore the one, or many before it, out playing it and long distance calls. I know the professor has mentioned the buying a new cassette before. But I totally forgot about long distance calls and their costs. Hell I still have my San Diego number living 1000s of miles away. I think most of my cassettes were eaten or burned by the deck in the car from cruising the loop after getting kicked out the bowling alley pool tables.
I was 11 at the time. One of my favorite songs. There's a second when the video goes black and I thought the video and song ended. I almost turned off the TV then it came back on lol. I ran up a phone bill back in the day. Don't remember how much it is wasbut my parents were mad. A song dedication to your crush that took guts. Loved the story.
I went to see G&R with Iron Maiden at Cal Expo in the late 80s. It was an outdoor event & it was starting to rain. Axel refused to go on. People were leaving. Iron Maiden covered the time, so I stayed. It was amazing.
From your comment about your age at the time of the release of this album, I think we're very close in age. I just turned 46 in May. I discovered this album quite by accident. I was at the record store at the mall and I saw it in the cassette bin. Of course I bought it because of how much I loved Appetite. It was soon after that that they premiered the video for Patience on MTV. Before the internet, I just had to go to the record store as often as I could to find good music. My very first CD was actually both Use Your Illusion albums. My dad bought them for me for whatever event that coincided closest with their release. Whether it was my birthday or Christmas, I don't remember.
I remember when they released Lies. We were all dying for the followup album to Appetite. Instead, we got a package of what was essentially repackaged leftovers, only it was just half a package. While it wasn't a bad album, it wasn't in Appetite's league. By the time Illusion 1 & 2 came out 2 years later, the anticipation was at a fever pitch. Both were good albums, released 30 days apart as I recall, but nothing ever quite measured up to the raw intensity of Appetite. Subsequent albums The Spaghetti Incident and Chinese Democracy were far too little too late, and with FAAAAAR too much unnecessary drama. The band split in the mid nineties, with Duff and Slash forming Velvet Revolver, and Axl retreating into some self-induced psychosis. I loved the man...wish he'd been able to hold it together back when they were all in their prime.
When the headbangers lose their tiny minds as soon as they hear it - you know you're listening to something special. In the case of "Patience" it illustrated the depth of Guns n' Roses as artists.
I always loved "Patience" cause I could whistle the whistle part because I was only able to whistle sucking in which I always thought that was the way to whistle in the microphone. I can still whistle that part today flawlessly.
To answer your question ProRo. Beth KISS 💋, Sweet Child of Mine Guns 🔫 and Roses 🌹! Even though Sweet Child of Mine was totally ripped off from Australian Crawls Unpublished Critic! Please go and watch the music video here on UA-cam! It was made in 1981.
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest ballad recorded by a hard rock or heavy metal band?
"More Than Words" by Extreme. Since this was their first song release, it fooled all the Gramma's out there to get this 'soft rock duo's" album. Only to find out that these guys can ROCK!!! 😊
Waiting for a Girl Like You foreigner
Feel Like Making Love bad co
Cowboy Song thin Lizzy
All My Love led zeppelin
Love Song Tesla
If I’d been The One 38 Special
Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin
Every Rose Has its Thorn, Poison
Winds of Change, Scorpions
..Prof. doesn't want me to do my chores today, DOES he!?? ..ha-HAAA!! (CONT.)
Angie - Rolling Stones
Sweet Child O' Mine -G N' F-N' R
Beth -Kiss
Is This Love - Whitesnake (..David pullin' Tawny on that BED, Man...)
Every Rose Has It's Thorn -Poison
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
Carrie - Europe
Fly To The Angels - Slaughter
Heaven - Warrant
Love Walks In - Van Halen
More Than Words - Extreme (...yeah, yeah, splittin hairs..but, they WERE Hard Rock...)
Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger (...LOVED this tune!)
I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi
....I gotta stop, I'm gettin a HEADACHE, rememberin' all these tunes...that I bought on CASSETTE SINGLES! ...ha-HAAA!!
That's like asking which of your kids is you favorite 😁
I’ve been friends with Vicky, GNR’s ex-manager, since those days in the 80s - and I heard the contact lens story from her… not long after it actually happened! We all knew these guys were going to be huge, but had NO idea how huge! We loved the irony of Patience being sung by the guy who had no patience at all. I adored your story about the song dedication. It sounds like something out of a John Hughes movie.
Patience being sung by the guy that had NO patience at all! Now that's funny.
How cool is that! You should sit down with Vicky and write a book of the start of a legendary group.
@@MyName-pl7zn No kidding!
@@MyName-pl7zn Vicky does have a book - it’s called Appetite for Dysfunction
@@JanissGoddess I must read it, is it a good read? Amazon?
One of my friends looked me up on FB and the first thing he says is 'I remember your phone number', which was at the time 594-AXLE. Sweet, sweet memories. I was in 11th grade in '88. Then a car accident in early eighty nine while three months from graduation. Went back and graduated in '90. There is no keeping the wild and young down and out.
One of the things I like about you as a host Adam is your willingness to give of your self and share a little of your past. Thanks so much for all this great content!
Can't really talk about Lies without "One In A Million" where Axl used the N-word. Was a shock when I heard it. Great song and vocal performance that was marred by that utterance.
Adam you REALLY make me miss the 80s, graduated in 1989 at 17 yrs old. GNR, Whitesnake, Motley Crew, Van Halen still going strong - man they rocked the radio back then. The nostalgia you describe can be overwhelming at times, don't stop
So true. I was 16 years old in 1989. I listened to all those bands as well. It was a great time to be young.
Same!! But I also remember how it all changed when my best friend came home ffrom college, put a tape in my little boom box and said: "Listen."
"Smells. Like Teen Spirit" came on, and I haven't looked back at hair bands until I started watching THIS guy, lol.
1989 High School Graduate Alum, then went into the Air Force, wow what a change
I always LOVED the last 2 minutes of the song. And always HATED it when the radio stations cut it off.
Same!!! I was going to mention that!
Me too! Such a powerful part!
The coda is the best part. Absolutely.
I know! Some radio stations these days still cut Sweet Child O Mine because of its length! That's blasphemy!
@@jennifercoopman never liked the radio version
Professor, thank you for doing this one. “Patience” is a phenomenal song. It’s probably my favorite song of the late 80s era just because of how great it is!
That whistling...
When I entered high school in 1991 in Johannesburg, the matriculating year (The Seniors) used to get an assembly in the school hall in honor of their class just before they sat their final exams, my first year in the school, and the first "Final Assembly" i`d witnessed saw them all walk down from the balcony to the stage to GnR`s "Patience"...I knew the song, as did a small amount of the guys and girls with me in Standard 6 (First Year)...we were all whistling along as they all filed onto the stage...
Still to this day the one memory I have of this track is ...not that I actually had the album on cassette tape and had heard it many times over, but all those people getting ready to leave the relative safety of high School and head out into a the big wide world...
I love the end when Axl switches voices from sweet to scary intensity.
It gives me goosebumps every time.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Same. Four minutes of this sweet melodic ballad and then he flicks the switch...
@@MrOctober44 It’s awesome.
Axl Rose was incredibly incendiary, utterly fearless, and in your face. He channeled his bottled-up rage from his childhood into his performances. Unfortunately, he also channeled it in other incredibly destructive, harmful, and alienating ways. A tortured soul for sure.
“Scary Intensity”…? I think you’re exaggerating a bit. What is scary OR intense about it?
"You Could be Mine" was on Use Your Illusion II, not I, but it's a simple mistake as they were released side by side. I had no idea that it was about the same girl in "Patience" though. What a difference! It just goes to show how ups and downs in relationships can completely change one's perspective.
That's right. "You Could be Mine" was also written in the "Appetite" days, which is why it sounds much more like that era of Guns. Still wish the "Illusion" records weren't so overproduced. The production they had on "Appetite" was perfect for that band. It sounded great and was just raw enough. As much as I love the music, the Illusions were WAY too slick-sounding and G 'N' R lost a lot of their impact because of it. They also don't swing the way the early stuff does. A lot of that is due to Adler being gone. Matt Sorum is a very solid drummer, but he doesn't have the same sense of groove. Steven Adler and Slash had been playing together for years. That was an important part of the original chemistry of the band. My two cents!
Use Your Illusion was originally planned to be a double album but opted to split it into two albums. this kind of thing was not new. Kiss release 4 albums on the ssame day when they release 4 solo albums. Bruce Springsteen 1 year after the release GN"R Use Your Illusion albums. did the same thing. when he release 2 albums on the same day. Human Touch and Lucky Town. Green Day almost pulled the same stunt but release their 3 albums Uno, Dos, Tre a few month apart.
also from T2 more importantly
Axl's vocals at the end really showed his versatility. They weren't thrash, though.
no they weren't thrash. metallica motorhead wasp with blackie lawless were thrash, slayer was thrash
@@richardmcginnis5344 that's what I meant. I missed the weren't.
They always give my ears emotion.
Anthrax, Slayer, Metallica Megadeth were the big 4 and Anvil being next tier.
He lost me when he called them a thrash band. He lost all credibility.
My favorite band *ever*. AFD is one of the best albums ever recorded. UYI 1 & 2 have gotten better over the decades, and show the genius of Axl Rose. Chris Cornell's version of Patience is... brilliant. I'm lucky that I was in LA to grow up in this era, it helped drown out the pop music of the era. GnR filled a void in music at the time and then grunge came along and changed everything. But I'm still a GnR superfan at 54, and that will never change.
I'd love to hear the "Illusions" remixed and remastered. Hey, it could happen!
That's very cool that you got to live through Guns' heyday in Los Angeles as a young person. I'll bet you have some incredible memories!
Patience is a wonderful song and the video was everywhere. To me it highlighted that the band was more than just a metal/rock band by highlighting their versatility. Lies doesn't seem to get the credit it deserves and Used To Love Her might be my favourite song from it. I like how it's cheerful song style is contrasted by the dark subject matter.
Very dark song! It ruffled so many feathers in my town! Ha ha.
It really does show the diversity of the band, doesn’t it?
@@ProfessorofRock wasn't the song about a dog? I thought I had heard that before, but maybe I'm having a case of Mandela effect...
Edit: nvm. Just got to the part in the video where you mention the dog story.
@@michaellorenz7177 As you now know, yes it was about a dog but at the time I remember a fair number of people claiming it was about a real murder Axl had committed. They wanted him locked up, investigated, the whole works and all based off nothing. 😅
It's the flagrant racism in the verses from One in a Million that really tanked that album, and why it gets so little attention from the band.
Funny thing is...the verses seem to have nothing to do with the chorus..either lyrically or , even, musically.
It's like 2 separate song ideas were cut & pasted together - (which is totally a thing that happens when bands are trying to squeeze out an album..)
Axl outright drops the N-bomb - talk about the "invincible" rock star effect! 😳
Especially when your gun lead guitarist is half black!
(Slash's father was white, but mother was black, as in African-British).
...proving there was actually an ungodly amount of Patience & tolerance in that band...in all BUT Axl!
But Axl still managed to chew through each and every one of them.
Patients always has its' limits..
Oh man, I had almost forgotten about Exclamation perfume. Every girl smelled like that stuff when I was in middle school. Thanks for that memory!
You’re such a great storyteller Adam! Thanks for sharing this vignette of the Soundtrack of your Life
As far as great songs with whistling tunes, you left out a really great one in Wind of Change by the Scorpions. That one was quite the beautiful tune to a song that important for the time.
Patience was a song I dedicated to my first wife. We had seen some struggles and it seemed to fit right in with my world at the time. However, that marriage wouldn't last. I married my current wife. We've been married 25 years now.
There is a live track on a "Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen" album where the band is whistling in multi-part harmony. Very impressive, and very cool.
1.Billy Joel- The Stranger; 2. Otis Redding- (Sitting On) theDock Of The Bay;
3.Lovin’ Spoonful- Daydream; 4. Paul Simon- Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard;
5.Supertramp- Goodbye Stranger; 6. Bobby McFerrin- Don’t Worry Be Happy;
7.Peter Gabriel- Games Without Frontiers. (Best songs with whistling)
Great choices.
The first time we were introduced to this song, they performed it live on an awards show. I know I wasn't the only person who had to have this song after hearing that performance!!! Definitely #1 in our hearts, even though it fell a little bit short.
....you don't know HOW short....look at the Top Ten they were sharing, when they peaked at #4, June 1989, in me comment....WHEW.....
I remember that! Good memory Bill!
Was that the awards show that Don Henley subbed for Adler?
Lies is a killer piece of work. My friends and I were about 11 when it came out. It was definitely a bit too 'adult' for us but we had already discovered 'Appetite' so, screw it. We were all in! Check out 'Welcome to the Sessions' if you want to hear some cool G n' R cuts.
Ya I was only a few years older than that. That album really ruffled some feathers!
I’ve heard that it is emotionally very dark!
@aspalovin Same here and I still have the original record I got when it came out too. I remember being bummed by the black stripe over the topless chick on the sleeve. Lol. Amazingly I still have my original Appetite record as well as Poisons Open up and Say Ahh, Hysteria from Def Leppard, Bon Jovi New Jersey and Slippery and Aerosmith Pump. They've all been well played and have some scratches but still sound great. Just wish I took better care of the covers and sleeves because if they weren't so worn I imagine some of those 1st pressings will probably be worth something one say.
Can't really talk about Lies without "One In A Million" where Axl used the N-word. Was a shock when I heard it. Great song and vocal performance that was marred by that utterance.
I’m about the same age as you I believe…living during this time I have a special appreciation for the excitement of ‘new’ GnR music. Lies was fantastic and I loved Patience and Used to Love Her and burned up that old cassette tape when it came out. I still remember my mom dropping me off at midnight so I could buy UYI 1&2 immediately once it was released. Such great memories of my fav band of all-time!
Lies takes me back to summer of 1989. We played that cassette along with appetite sooo many times.
GNR is the band that made my wife fall in love with me. She was wet and I gave her my GNR shirt to wear so she would be dry. 20 years later we married. She still has that shirt hanging on the wall like a Picasso or Van Gogh. To Her it's priceless.
Oh crap, I thought this was going downhill into "blue movie" territory fast, partway into your second sentence!
I was like....🙆♂️NOOOooo! ..oh, ok! Well, alright then.
Patience is my favorite song. The first time I heard it, my father and I were leaving the house to go on a hike, I was maybe six years old, I was eager to get out of the house and as we were putting our shoes on, "Patience" video started playing on MTV, and my father said, "Hold one we'll leave after this" I was so annoyed and wanted to hate the song? Especially since I'd had a cassette of Appetite, that I had hidden in my room and only would listen to it with headphones late at night because I knew my parents wouldn't approve of a six year old listening to such an album. So when I first heard "Patience," I wanted to hate this "whimpy" song, but within 30 seconds, I was engrossed. When we pulled into the trail head parking lot, the local radio station just started to play it. My dad shut the car off, ready for our hike, I exclaimed, "wait! that's the new Guns and Roses song" he turned the radio back on and listened one more time. As we headed to the trail I remembered saying, "they allow snakes in hotels?"
Every time I think of a classic song that includes an epic whistle, I think of Winds of Change by The Scorpions. Nice backstory of Patience and I appreciate your personal anecdotes. The 80's. What we wouldn't do to get some of that time back.....
Another bonafide classic!
Good call.
I have a plan for getting the 80s again. It is called living past 79.
@@danstone8783 Nice.
It's why we all love Stranger Things.
Axl Rose said in an interview that he loved the way Ronnie Van Zant wrote songs. He went on to say that Skynyrds "Tuesdays Gone" influenced the writting of Patience in other words Tuesday Gone influenced Axl to write Patience ( Axl said this in an interview.) If you really listen to the song you can hear RVZ'S influence on the song.
I can totally hear the RVZ/Skynyrd influence. That makes sense. He too was an incredibly honest lyricist and performer. No pretense.
First record on cd I bought was gnr lies. Along with (Welcome to the jungle, iron maiden piece of mind and Hysteria) and I bought a CD Walkman. One small critique you could be mine was on use your illusion II. Great stuff Professor!
Yep, I was going top of head and misspoke. good catch!
yea, but to be fair wasn't "You could be mine" written for Appetite, but got cut? I remember it being used for T2, well before the illusions as well.
@@jrobertlysaght T2 came out right before The "Use Your Illusion" albums. "You Could Be Mine" was the first single off of the second of those and off the T2 soundtrack.
Aww, your dedication story is heartbreaking. How many of us associated a hit song with the one we wanted to be with? For me, it was New Kid in Town that always made me think of the guy I liked since he was essentially new in town. I don't think he ever knew, though. You had some stones, man.
Absolutely love Guns N Roses saw them live back in 2016 not in there hay day but was still incredible and of course they played this classic dimmed the light and everyone got out their cell phones I’m like where are the lighters at haha. But just was incredible to witness. Adam professor of Rock I love your stories and all you would go through for love and rock really incredible and inspiring!! ❤️🤘🏼makes me want to do the same!! Much love
Hay day??? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Were they bailing hay? Try heyday, buddy. Smh...
Thanks for opening up and sharing your story about your call-in to the radio station, even if, as others have pointed out, you violated "bro code" by trying to poach your friend's girl. Like you, I've learned the hard way that the grand romantic gestures that look so cool in the movies often don't play out that way in real life. 💔
Izzy was GNR’s secret weapon, never the same after he left.
That's an absolute fuckin fact. Would be akin to ACDC with no Malcom.
@@joshuagibson2520 which it has been since 2014. R.I.P. Malcom.
Truth
I mean honestly they never released anything NEW after he left so duh of course it wasn't the same!. The covers album the Spaghetti Incident was just that a covers album and anyone could have played rhythm guitar on it.
Yeah it seems like it happens quite often the band fires the songwriter for some reason or another and then they have no more hits!
Izzy was not only undervalued in GnR, he was and and still is the soul of the band. The "reunion" without him is a farce all because Axl (who legally is and owns the name "Guns 'n' Roses"...long story, look it up) didn't want to pay Izzy his rightful fair share during these reunion tours.Without Izzy's songwriting that was the core of the band, especially on Appetite, no way the band would have scaled the heights they did. Axl would do well to remember that.
Patience was better and more popular than all 3 songs above it the charts were wrong (again). I still find myself randomly whistling this tune without thinking. People don't give Izzy Stradlin enough credit for what he brought to the band. I still love his band the Ju Ju hounds and shuffle it all is a masterpiece. Great #1 in our hearts professor! Keep doing 90s too. Many great songs
This one straddles 80s/90s
@@ProfessorofRock yes it is right on the line, love your channel, fantastic information
I agree. I love the original “Rock On” a lot more than the Michael Damian version. “Patience” should absolutely have been a #1.
Don't forget, Sitting On the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding. This song inspired Sting to whistle in his song, " If it's Love" on his latest release, The Bridge.
I always ♥ a hard rock band ballad.
“Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” is a classic, for sure. I always join in with him humming to that whistling at the end since I cannot whistle myself.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 😊❤
You forgot the most famous whistle in any song 🎵. The theme to Andy Griffith Show. I use to have an autographed copy of Sukiyaki from the artist before we left to return from Japan back to America!
I was at the concert in Montreal when James got burned, Axl had a hissy fit and wow what a riot that ended up being!!! Oh the 90's...lol...GNR is part of the soundtrack of my high school days....
Been subscribed for a few months, and always love the content.
The story of how you dedicated the song to the girl, even down to describing the at the time popular term “going with” really stuck a,chord. Painted a perfect image of what high school life was like back in the 80s.
Was 10-12 in these years 87-89, great years , great music, great toys, still had my innocence.
patience is my favorite guns and roses song. so beatiful and simple. and the voice change up at the end is so freakin good.
Man, I absolutely loved the band when they came out with appetite for destruction. I was obsessed with sweet child of mine lol. I think my brother got me the album for Christmas and it was one of my favorites. I remember seeing patience on MTV and I knew I had to get the cd. I was shocked when I heard a few of the songs but later on I was like oh wow. Patience was amazing and I love it to this day but I feel like I can only listen to a few songs from appetite now because I don’t swear anymore and I just feel that certain songs don’t resonate with me anymore.
My favorite band of all time bar none. Well done video. Man the music we could have had if they could have figured out a way to keep it together but holy shit the music the put out!!!
So true. It's pretty sad.
I know, right?
I don't know sometimes less is more and more is less. LOL like Alice in Chains, Leonard Skynard and a few other I can't think of right this second. You never had to say their latest album wasn't as good or up to par like some bands, Metallica for one comes to mind. That's my opinion and the reason they are one of my favorites.
I remember this song getting played when about 7 of us, went camping in a wood, in the summer of 1989. It was on a cassette and played on Colin's ghetto blaster. lol
An overlooked 'Ballard' is Judas Priest's - Before the Dawn from their 1978 album Killing Machine, otherwise known as Hell Bent for Leather in the US. This album, their 5th, is the first to feature the leather and studs look that they became renowned for. It was also their first foray into a more commercial sound whilst retaining the dark lyrical themes of their earlier works. It was also the last album to feature the bands original drummer Les Binks.
As soon as you told the story of your crush on your best friend's girl and posted the pic of Cindy from Can't Buy Me Love... all the memories came flooding back! Gosh, we are one and the same!
One small correction for you.... The Gibson EDS-1275 was a double neck electric Slash used to play the song live. At the time Slash used Guild acoustic guitars. Great video!
Axl couldn't find his contact lenses? Maybe he should have had some Zenni eyewear.
18:45 loved your story! I could relate especially with the T&C surf design pic you posted. 1980's kids!
Great video. You put a lot of work into this one and it shows. Loved the Q103 story as well. Great job!
Thanks so much for this coverage I didn't realize Jeff did most of the writing of this song. Yes Jeff is Izzy's real name. Jeffy and Bill (Axl) were a year ahead of me in high school and what I remember of them is mostly Axl seemed to be in trouble a lot. I had no negative memories of Jeff and had his cousin in a class and always felt there was more to him than the surface. Always good to know my feeliings were true. I have a lot of respect for Izzy cleaning himself up and not risking that.
Can’t forget about ‘Winds of Change’ by the Scorpions when it comes to memorable songs with whistling.
Thank you for keeping Rock alive 🙏
patience is such a peaceful and beautiful song and if you ignore all of the drama that is guns and roses they are just an gritty down and dirty rock and roll band that made some classic music and that's what they should be remembered for
Good comment. You nailed it.
You nailed it!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 it's all about the music and that's why fans such as ourselves tune into Adam's channel everyday to continue and connect our love of music and that's why we're here to keep this community going
@@georgemathie8123 💯
That song never upset me or any other fans I knew. In fact, a buddy of mine in Jr. High would whistle the intro while waiting for class to begin. We might even sway back and forth while doing so. Good times.
I was an up front Fan. Tiny female, i kept my place holding the rail & was able to breath cus of that space & fresh air between stage. Could NEVER be close enough or have their music loud enough & Spent many pumped up nights in line to get there. Went to every show in Texas. Waved them through arena gates from atop of my car, got to give them my map when they were lost downtown Dallas looking for a street /hotel entrance in the middle of the night, took a spit bath & nap in a gas station on the way to another show & woke up w/ their busses parked next to me.
Made great $, bills were low & saved every penny for GnR tickets, Concert Ts & specialty collectors records. THOSE WERE THE DAYS!
If the thumbnail didn't say 80's hit, I would have immediately guessed Queensrÿche with Silent Lucidity. Fantastic song, and definitely in my Top-10 all-time favorites.
I get their place in the time line and they were huge when they 1st hit the scene. And I'll admit I liked them when they 1st came out. But being heavily rooted in bands like Priest, Maiden, Metallica, Ozzy, Anthrax, and most other radio rock and metal they grew tiresome and Mr. A's antics turned me off of them. Most of the others members of GNR have done well after moving on andre better for it. GNR will always have it timestamp on that period and theta no doubting their contributions.
I think a lot of people felt that way. Great way of summarizing it.
I love your content and respect your knowledge so much I Hate to nitpick.... but did you just call Guns n Rose's a "thrash" band? I generally associate that term with Anthrax, S.O.D., Slayer, Forced Entry etc.
I remember the day the song was released, our local radio station prepared us ahead of time that they were going to play it on that day, and throughout the day. I was so excited and couldn't wait to hear it.
I am a heavy sleeper. But for some reason, I woke up around 5am, which was literally unheard of for me. But 2 minutes after waking up, my radio, which had been on all night, I heard the dj announce that now was the time to premiere the new gnr song.
It was like the universe wanted me hear it at that moment, alone in the quiet dark. I was 14 and in love with the entire band, my own version of beatlemania. I felt like I was the only person in the world who heard it. It was magical!
Silly teeanage girl! Lol!
My sister was about the same age back then. She was also totally hooked on G’n’R. She had the cassette and pretty much wore it out.
I got grounded for whistling that J. Geils song when I was eight or nine. My mom was… weird. Geminis, man. 😂
This summer and autumn, I’m looking at the Tetons out the front window about an hour and a half drive from Blackfoot and the kids around here are just as sweet and precious now as you were then. There’s so much to be said for growing up in a special place like Idaho. ❤️
It took me a long time to come back around to GNR. If it wasn’t new wave, progressive, shoegazey, industrial, or techno, for years I wanted nothing to do with it. Strangely, it was leaning into obscure jazz that eventually led me to every kind of metal(!). Thank goodness for cheap used CDs racked in back rooms of thrift stores, because I’ve discovered and rediscovered so much great stuff that way.
Patience was my first dance song at my wedding. To my surprise my wife picked it. GnR was my favorite band and I guess after being together almost 10 years she thought it fitting since we finally tied the knot.
Awsome. We used welcome to the jungle as our walk in music.
One of my favorites is by Led Zeppelin and its "Thank You", which I think was written by Plant about his then wife, Maureen. Its a sad love song somehow.
Dude, that was a great story! Cheers for sharing. I had a similar experience with Sweet Child of Mine. But I didn't request it on the radio, & her boyfriend didn't know I played it for her at a party, as he was busy puking in the toilet. She knew, because I never broke eye contact with her after I put it on
I will never forget the day I purchased that Album. I was 17 and grew up in a small town outside of Omaha NE. I remember it was a cold winter day and my friends and I went to Pickles records and tapes in Omaha NE. The roads were covered with snow and ice. We were driving down an incline and lost control of the car. We slid down the road across the street and stopped in a parking space bouncing off a parking curb right in front of the record store, completely unscathed. I bought GNR lies on audio cassette and listened the crap out of it. For months I alternated between Appetite and Lies.
Ouch! That personal story. I can feel that from here.
As a gunner, I thought the song he was talking about was One in A Million. That really pissed people off lol. Seriously though, you should do a video about One in a Million, I think it is worth a video. I saw them live in St.Louis 2017 with my brother, got t-shirts, had the time of my life, I'll never forget it. Oh by the way, don't cry tonight, there's a Heaven above you. God Bless.
Patience is by far one of my most favorite songs, and most definitely my favorite G'N'R song.
When my boyfriend and I met face to face, at karaoke (we met on a service online, and then arranged to meet. He is a karaoke junkie, sings [a lot], and i just sit and listen/watch), he asked me what song I would sing if I actually did sing. I said Patience, because it is my favorite song, and I think would be the best for my voice (for the record, the one time I have sang a song at karaoke, it was actually Right Now by Van Halen, because it spoke most to what I was feeling/going through then).
He sang it for me later that night, and it has since been our song.
Magnificent personal storytelling there, my friend. The essence of the late 1980's. I salute your courage in taking a chance on love.
I used to have that Guitar Magazine with Issy and Slash on the cover!
My so called friends back then all kept stealing this album from me. (cassette form) I'm not sure how many time I had to repurchase it.
The Andy Griffith show has the best whistling by far!!
I used to play this son with my band. And I was singing the "high voice" final part.
Can´t help spotting the back cover of "Diver Down" on your background. Cool album too. That could be another great episode ;)
I was a little kid, but I watched it on MTV all the time and my mom loved it!
Loved Joe Piscabo's tribute, Patients. ( We're all mental patients.)
Best rock band ever, Axl is an absolute genius
This is a work of the band proving that they have a range. No, face ripping Metal is not the only thing we can do. And for the time, if you didn't have Ballads you weren't with the time according to radio.
Another great history lesson from the Professor. I loved your personal story about the dedication too.
Izzy, Duff & Addler are one of the greatest rhythm sections of any rock band. GNR was just not GNR without them, at least for me.
Thank you. Great video!
I worked with a guy who was friends with Axl, he was thanked on Appetite, he said he did not know Izzy well but the relationship was Izzy would get fed up with Axl and quit on several occasions and Axl would be obsessed with getting him back in the band. Axl respected Izzy a lot.
No one ever wanted to kick Izzy out for drugs either due to an incident where Izzy almost landed in jail and was then one small step away from possibly going to jail Izzy was the first to get off drugs.
This hits ALL THE FEELS🥲15/16 yrs. old when G🤘🏻N🤘🏻R arrived! Couldn’t have come at a better time! TOO many memories to even wrap my head around. Had tickets for the Use Your Illusion tour. Long story. Couldn’t go. FINALLY, on the 1st leg of the Not In This Lifetime tour, saw them in Nashville at Nissan Stadium. Chris Stapleton opened. Perfection! And yes, no Izzy, but got to see Adler come out and sit in. It was TOTALLY worth the wait🤘🏻🎸🎩
Hey Professor rock, I absolutely love your channel. Your stories actually remind me of me especially your story on this Patience episode. I think I did something similar when I graduated from high school in 96. I wonder how you got started because I do tours in San Francisco and so much of what you do, I have been doing for 20 years, educating people on music and going to the Record Plant in Sausalito. Anyway, man, I would like to invite you to come check out Dylan’s Tours in San Francisco and come take a tour and learn about some of the awesome music that was recorded over at the record plant. From one music junky to another.
Growing up I remember I used to watch MTV with my brothers and mother. I really didn't get into G&R until I was eleven and T2 was out in theaters. When MTV used to play You Should Be Mine then that's when I really got into their music. Then there was Sweet Child of Mine, Live and Let Die and November Rain. Also at that age I had a small crush on Slash. I was eleven what more can I say?
I don’t know of/remember any GNFNR fan(s) who were pissed off about “Patience”. Nor were they ever considered a “thrash band”, as described in this video.
GNR was hot-to-the-touch in 1988/1989, and we were absolutely starved for anything new, and very much appreciated GNR Lies on the whole, including “Patience” and its accompanying video.
Ironically the song came at a time when Rose couldn’t even finish a single show without walking off the stage or pissing off his fans and band mates alike
He was something else. I absolutely loved the man as a teenager, but I don't think anyone has ever done so much to destroy their career and ruin everything for everyone. Such a shame. He would have benefited greatly from some intensive counseling and personal care. He was capable of channeling his energy into great things, but way too much of it was not channeled in a productive way.
I saw GnR with Metallica during that tour. Axl walked off during You Could Be Mine after throwing down his mic. I guess it wasnt working good enough for him. He came back out a few minutes later and they started the song over. Classic Axl.
@@travismiles5885 the first of four nights at the LA Coliseum opening for the stones he walked off during Mr Brownstone and didn’t come back
Patience was a song that we played in the Marines and sung along to on deployments. It was our version of the blues!
Dude, Adam, I have to applaud you! At least you had the balls to PUBLICLY profess your love to your crush!! It’s something I wanted to do, over and over again for the different crushes I had over the middle school and high school years (‘92 grad here). YOU ROCK!!
I’m sorry to hear that gut punch squashed your willingness to go after your crush!! I would have hoped for a “happy ending” where she dump him and choose you for having the balls to publicly profess your feelings to the entire school. Oh, well…C’est la vie, my friend.
Appetite For Destruction saved my life. I used it as a form of anger management therapy. Back then I needed an outlet to express my anger and found it through that album. I would pop that album in the stereo and express my anger through dance. An hour of GNR per day on the living room "dance" floor saved me from being eaten away by my intense anger.
21:08 First time I heard this album was on my was to school on the bus going to school. G"N"R was my fav band at the time!
They were a great band back in the day.
Those first few years were pretty legendary.
Agreed.
Two things kids born after the 80s never worried about, buying a new cassette cause you wore the one, or many before it, out playing it and long distance calls.
I know the professor has mentioned the buying a new cassette before. But I totally forgot about long distance calls and their costs. Hell I still have my San Diego number living 1000s of miles away. I think most of my cassettes were eaten or burned by the deck in the car from cruising the loop after getting kicked out the bowling alley pool tables.
I was 11 at the time. One of my favorite songs. There's a second when the video goes black and I thought the video and song ended. I almost turned off the TV then it came back on lol.
I ran up a phone bill back in the day. Don't remember how much it is wasbut my parents were mad. A song dedication to your crush that took guts. Loved the story.
I went to see G&R with Iron Maiden at Cal Expo in the late 80s. It was an outdoor event & it was starting to rain. Axel refused to go on. People were leaving. Iron Maiden covered the time, so I stayed. It was amazing.
@ProfessorofRock MICHAEL DAMIAN yes sir! 1989! 2years in the making. Lets go! #RockOn
From your comment about your age at the time of the release of this album, I think we're very close in age. I just turned 46 in May. I discovered this album quite by accident. I was at the record store at the mall and I saw it in the cassette bin. Of course I bought it because of how much I loved Appetite. It was soon after that that they premiered the video for Patience on MTV. Before the internet, I just had to go to the record store as often as I could to find good music. My very first CD was actually both Use Your Illusion albums. My dad bought them for me for whatever event that coincided closest with their release. Whether it was my birthday or Christmas, I don't remember.
Yup, the things we do for love! I love that story! It's totally 80s!
I remember when they released Lies. We were all dying for the followup album to Appetite. Instead, we got a package of what was essentially repackaged leftovers, only it was just half a package. While it wasn't a bad album, it wasn't in Appetite's league. By the time Illusion 1 & 2 came out 2 years later, the anticipation was at a fever pitch. Both were good albums, released 30 days apart as I recall, but nothing ever quite measured up to the raw intensity of Appetite. Subsequent albums The Spaghetti Incident and Chinese Democracy were far too little too late, and with FAAAAAR too much unnecessary drama. The band split in the mid nineties, with Duff and Slash forming Velvet Revolver, and Axl retreating into some self-induced psychosis. I loved the man...wish he'd been able to hold it together back when they were all in their prime.
When the headbangers lose their tiny minds as soon as they hear it - you know you're listening to something special. In the case of "Patience" it illustrated the depth of Guns n' Roses as artists.
I always loved "Patience" cause I could whistle the whistle part because I was only able to whistle sucking in which I always thought that was the way to whistle in the microphone. I can still whistle that part today flawlessly.
Sitting On The Dock of the bay's whistling is my favorite...that and Centerfold.
To answer your question ProRo. Beth KISS 💋, Sweet Child of Mine Guns 🔫 and Roses 🌹! Even though Sweet Child of Mine was totally ripped off from Australian Crawls Unpublished Critic! Please go and watch the music video here on UA-cam! It was made in 1981.
Patience is still one of my fave Gn’R songs, to this day.