MTV Agreed to Play BLACKLISTED BAND 1 Time at 4 AM… Record Went to #1 OVERNIGHT! | Professor of Rock
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- Dangerous, volatile, and even outright destructive, today’s band is what rock is all about. Guns N’ Roses Broke onto the scene in the mid-80s, their hard-hitting music and reputation absolutely freaked out the media establishment… Radio refused to play their 1987 Masterpiece Appetite for Destruction, they were blacklisted by MTV, oh and parents confiscated what few tapes actually got sold… As unbelievably talented as these guys were, their music was never going to see the light of day. But just as their label was about to give up on them, one never-say-die A&R man threw up a Hail Mary called Welcome to the Jungle. He begged his boss to call in a favor to MTV and this band’s video of Welcome to the Jungle was given one solitary play on the channel… in the worst possible time slot. would it work? Find out the all-time rock and Roll Underdog story of a band that went from never heard of ‘em to the biggest debut album ever.
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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. In this show, we break down songs, albums or events that kick open the door to an artist or band’s career and give them the momentum to rocket to long-term success. On previous episodes, we have covered School’s Out by Alice Cooper, Cum On Feel the Noize by Quiet Riot, and She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult. For today’s installment, we’re taking the night train to the Jungle Baby. I’m talking about the breakthrough hit. Welcome to the Jungle by Guns ’N Roses from their 1987 masterpiece debut record Appetite for Destruction.
Guns N’ Roses's classic lineup was stabilized on June 4, 1985, when lead guitarist Slash and drummer Steve Adler joined the trio of Izzy Stradlin on rhythm guitar, Duff McKagen on bass, and intrepid frontman Axl Rose. The young band played their first live show together just two days later and soon after set off on a trip now known as their “Hell Tour.” This haphazard run up the Pacific Coast from California to Seattle, Washington definitely lived up to its name.
According to the book Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses, the members of GNR made the trip to Seattle in one vehicle while roadies drove their gear up in a second. Unfortunately, both vehicles broke down on the way and Guns N' Rose had to hitch-hike the rest of the way to Seattle… with their guitars in hand. The rest of their equipment was supposed to follow in their wake. But that never happened. The band arrived to play a Seattle show with the band the Fastbacks who loaned the guys their drums and amps for the night.
Reportedly GNR was only paid $50 for the show and had to cancel all the other gigs they’d booked since they had no gear. It was an unmitigated disaster. The band had to bum a ride back - Розваги
Poll: What is your pick for greatest debut album in rock history? Where every song was AMAZING?
The Cars - The Cars
Boston's first album.
Cracked Rear View Hootie
Script For A Jesters Tear Marillion
for me, in my era, it has to be appetite.. we were around 10 or 11 when that came out and it was lightning, taboo, forbidden fruit. Borrowing my older sisters 80's tapes like Cory Hart, Falco, Brian Adams as my intro to rock and pop etc,,,, This peeled my face off!
I choose The Cars debut also.
I’m a senior citizen. When you shared your memories of you & your father listening to each other’s music and creating a bond forged in Rock, you were telling the story of the bond between my son and me. I’d take him to see classic rock (my son called it “before they die tour) and I’d listen to his music as I fixed snacks for him and his friends & explained the influence that I heard in his music if they asked me . I wasn’t the Cool Mom. However, I was the Smart Mom who could fix snacks, chat, then LEAVE!!! My son & his friends turned out great. They tell me that they share music their kids. Music brought our families together. The Circle Is Unbroken 🤘🎸🎧
Ah! Thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad you have happy memories that will be in your heart for all time. Very poignant post.
Before they die tour 😂
I love this post. I played a game with my two daughters in the car when they were young. I’d play classic rock and they would either have to tell me the band or the song. If the guessed correctly, I’d switch the radio to their music (90’s pop). I’d have to figure out the song or band to be able to switch back to my music. My youngest daughter loved this game. I would talk to her about the classic rock songs. I’d tell her listen to the lead singer’s voice (David Lee Roth’s scream, Steve Perry’s voice and style, Robert Plant’s overall genius, Glenn Fry’s grittiness as opposed to Don Healey’s smoothness and Lou Reed’s poetic verse,etc.) and listen to the sound of the instruments. She learned the riffs of Jimmy Page, Jimmy Hendrix, and Jeff Beck. She saw how John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Wanda Jackson influenced early rock and roll musicians. Now, this child of mine loves all music as much as I do. She has learned and shared her insights with me on every genre of music. She will send a song to me so we can talk about the style, the way it makes us feel, etc., and I do the same with her. She listens to everything from Mississippi Blues to Taylor Swift, and can tell you something unique about it all. You can ask her the lyric of any Beatles song, and she can sing it and tell you what album it’s from. She is doing the same thing with my grandson, and he loves it. She makes this music loving mom proud!
@@michellepelton1448Fantastic!!👍😆
14 years old, up all night watching MTV (this were the days), and I got to witness this video being played for the first time. Within hours I scraped up enough money to buy the album. Only problem, there wasn't a record store anywhere near me that had it in stock. Everyday for the next few days I would go up to the record store and check. Finally it arrived. It would be a solid year before it came off my record player. Mind blown!!
I remember some VJ chick talking about a new buzz feed video and then the song came on and it just blew me away!
Did you end up with a restricted label? The original ones came out with a scene depicting a woman having a shirt torn off
Wierd that MTV thought 4 am on Sunday morning was the WORST time slot for an audience! Stoners and partyers up from Saturday night would STILL be up with music videos playing in the background - the PERFECT audience for GnR!!😆
Truth! We were just getting home from the bars at 4am!
Headbangers Ball came on around that time slot
I am positive this album saved my life. The Appetite for Destruction album, in cassette form, kept me awake on many late-night drives between US Navy training base NAS Memphis in Millington, TN, and my hometown of Kansas City, a roughly 565 mile drive, one way. I'd leave Millington around 3:00PM (I could leave earlier if I donated blood) and be in Kansas City at midnight, having run through this album multiple times. I'd turn around and do it again, heading back early Sunday afternoon, hungover and dreading my training. Thanks for keeping me awake and on the road, GNR!
Its still a kickass album...and the original cover for Appetite was awesome....1 of best albums I ever bought I'd say if not the best ...glad I got 2 see them twice during the illusion tours
My dad took me to see GNR in Newport Bay, CA in 1991. Skid Row opened up for them on the Use Your Illusion Tour. I was 11 years old then and I am now 43 and looking back I feel super privileged to have seen them. Thanks for the memberberries and history lesson.
I caught that myself, at Hershey park of all places, skid row were really impressive,and the show was perfect, at the top of there power, highlight,probably estranged, but it was all amazing!
Great line up. Skid row is under appreciated
This is one of those albums that you listened to in it's entirety. Every time you caught a song on the radio, you always knew what should be coming next.
True. I thought I was the only one that thought that.🤘
I was 20 yrs old in 1987. I was with my buddy, drinking beer at home, and watching Headbangers Ball. I saw Welcome to the Jungle and I’ll NEVER forget how awe struck I was at this monster band! I knew they were going to be huge and it wasn’t due to the video. That riff, those words and that overall sound was infreakincredible!!!!
I loved Headbangers Ball back in the day!!
I was 15 in 1987, I was visiting my dad in Simi Valley that summer (I’m from Michigan) and I would always put my cassette Walkman on and just walk around the town, went to a record store and Appetite for Destruction just came out that day, I got that cassette and god damn if I didn’t walk around like I wanted to fight just listening to that album, Welcome to the Jungle had me wanting to break shit, flex, fight, act like a fool… what a great fkn album that was/is.
THANK YOU>>THEY SEEM TO FORGET IT WAS HEADBANGER BALL THAT STARTED IT!!
I was going down on my girlfriend and got busted by her mom. We composed ourselves and turned on MTV; this was a Sat.night/Sunday morning. Changed our lives.
But without that video being played at all in MTV, would we know them? It's not the actual video or what's in the video, it's the fact that that we know gnr BECAUSE of a video, it really could've been anything in that video and it probably would still be the same effect
I was 14 living in SoCal when this album came out, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing one of it's songs every 5 minutes from cars driving by or radio stations you were listening to or even watching Mtv. It was like that for over 2 years, it was EVERYWHERE. One of the greatest albums of the 80's, and maybe even one of the best albums of all time.
My dad was a mail carrier in the mid to late 80s. One day he came home with a box of 4 CD's from a Columbia house wannabe. These packages were sent as bulk mail, meaning he was told to throw them out if undeliverable. We had just got our first home CD player and I listened more than anyone in the house so I was all about new music. The CD's were Depeche Mode - Some great reward, Elton John - Live in Australia, Dire Straits - Brothers in arms and of course GnR - Appetite for destruction. I was new to Depeche Mode and GnR and never heard such dark subject matter at 11, but holy hell did that expand my horizon and made me the metal enthusiast I am today.
I freaking love DM.
Appetite change life when it hit. 30+ years later, it still rocks hard and the songs are timeless. They struck lightning in a bottle with that release.
I still put in earbuds, go out to the garage to work on shit, grab a beer and crank Appetite all the time! Been listening to it since 1988 and will never stop
I'm an 80's kid who cut my teeth on punk and thrash metal. I was punk and heavy metal long before it was cool. I remember introducing my friends, and after high school, my military friends to the newest bands. From 1984, I was the goto guy about small venue new punk and rock bands. I introduced co-workers and friends to Billy Idol, Psychedelic Furs, MDC, The Ramones, Velvet Underground. Also to GNR, Metalica, Bon Jovi, Poison, Anthrax, Iron Maiden. I live within the DC Metro Area, so we always had the newest bands coming to play, and I had an in. I knew several owners of club venues, and stores who catered to the underground punk/thrash metal crowds. So I usually had the inside scoop on the bands, dates, and ticket prices for the shows. It was a great time in my life. With you bringing back these great memories is fantastic for me. Now I'll be playing all of my 1,000 plus cassette tape collection for a few weeks now. I also have 2,000 + CD collection too along with several hundred vinyl records.
It was April 16th 1985, I was 14 years old, in 2nd period drama class, Smalltown, Arizona. This girl, Ruby Hess, had a recorded black market tape of "this badass band from LA." She put her walkman earphones on my ears and the opening notes of Sweet Child O' Mine blew me away and changed my life forever! Months later, they finally showed up on MTV!
About a year later, I saw them in concert as a double billing with Aerosmith... freaking spectacular!
I saw Aerosmith and gnr together too!! Great concert.
I remember watching Head Bangers Ball and hearing it for the first time, it may have even been the first time it was played because I remember the VJ announcing them as a new band. I went out and bought the cassette within a few days, I was stationed in Southern California at the time and the record store had some copies. I couldn't believe how good the whole tape was, I listened to it almost non-stop for like 5 months and had almost burned myself out on it before anyone I knew back home had even heard any of the songs. It really was mind boggling that it took so long to take off!
HB was a weekly devotion for me, and later, 120 minutes
You really do an amazing job of telling the stories of musical artists. The love for the music (& for your Dad) resonates and its just a feel good channel.😊 Guns & Roses came to Wellington NZ a few years back. I couldnt go to the concert as I had to work. My day at work was one I just wanted to forget. Feeling down I walked through the light rain back to the hostel where I was staying and headed to the shower to wash my day away. As I got into the shower a sound drifted through the window from the stadium a few kilometres away. Guns and Roses jamming out on a song for a solid 10 mins. I felt all the tension in my life just melt away to the sound. Even though I couldnt go, its an amazing memory. I listened to the rest of the concert from my room, feeling blessed.
I hadn't heard of them until I saw them open for Motley Crue in November of 87, and afterwards I was absolutely obsessed. I managed to get my hands on a dubbed tape that was only the first side on both sides of the tape, and would listen to it over and over again at night with the hair standing up on my arms throughout. It was ECSTATIC. Then I finally got the whole thing, and my mind was blown all over again. Rocket Queen is a seriously underrated tune of theirs. Great video. \m/
I had just moved to Hollywood the year before Appetite was released. A guy moving into our apartment building loaned me a copy on tape. The first time I heard it, I was blown away, and assumed it was a "greatest hits" album from a band I'd never heard of. Still one of the most astonishing debuts ever -
There are two moments in my life I remember in more detail than anything. Watching the live footage as 911 played out and the first time MTV played Welcome to the Jungle. I looked at my buddy and told him GNR were going to be huge.
Wow. Thanks for sharing.
Wow.
only 2 moments? your life is empty....sure you aren't just a synth?? PRESTON! WE HAVE ANOTHER!!!!
fukk that, RICK we got another skinjob for ya!
same thing for me with the first welcome vid.. I called several times the next day demanding they play it again... I still think it's the best straight up rock and roll album ever released.
Appetite for Destruction is one of the best flowing albums from start to finish. Each song almost seamlessly transitions into the next, moving to a real full experience. Not many albums really capture such momentum and consistent entertainment. Starts hard and finishes strong with Rocket Queen summing up a great album of interesting transitions.
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It is a really good album. I almost feel bad for young ppl today missing out on the art of an entire album.
@@laurenfazenbaker9777🤦🏼♂️
Who Made Who from AC/DC is another. Not that Maximum Overdrive helped it at all... LOL. GNR would still be a great band if all the BS had been left out.
My dad, born in 1953, I didn't get him into Guns 'N' Roses, but I did manage to get him into Metallica. His favorite songs were Master of Puppets, and Shortest Straw. It was hilarious listening to him growl those lyrics!
Don't think my dad was into Guns and Roses though he probably heard their music.He would watch Don Kurschners Rock Concert and The Midnight Special.He grew up in the 1920s and 30s,.Would sometimes go George Devine,s Million Dollar Ballroom in Milwaukee withe people like Paul White Man, Cab Callaway, etc.
When I was in the Canadian Military, I served four - 6 month tours in a remote station (CFS Alert) located at the most northern location in the world. As part of my volunteer duties, I was a DJ at our radio station C.H.A.R.. On Thursday mornings, when members who served their 6 month tour were going home, i always played, "Paradise City". In Alert, the environment is a frozen wasteland desert. No trees, grass, and it was only a Military station and no towns near by. So from the lyrics, "take me to down to a paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty", it was as if the song was written for us. As well, in Alert, the sun is up for 5 months and down for 5 months. And I do mean down, just like at midnight for 5 months. The other 2 months are transitional months where you have day/night. Love all of your segments. Great job.
It was great to see GnR playing live again, especially at Glastonbury this year. Axl's voice doesn't quite have the range it did 20 years ago but damned if he and the band didn't give it their all. Also excellent to have an inside story from a channel member who was at the rehearsal. Another reason why this channel is a treasure. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Hey Baby Gerald!
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@@ProfessorofRock Massive props, Professor! You have the best channel and comment section on UA-cam. In a grim world you never fail to brighten my day!
Saw them a couple of years ago, and Axl’s voice was having a great night. He was still hitting the high falsetto notes over two hours into the show.
You mean that axl’s voice didn’t have the range it had 30 years ago?
MAN! I was there in 1987 when this song came out, and have been a GNR mega fan since. Yet I still learned new things in this video. Great job Professor!
Thanks Dustin! It's a great story eh?
I was in 8th grade when appetite was released and it changed my life. It introduced me to a whole new genre of music as my dad wasn’t a metal fan. I grew up listening to 50’s doo wop which gave me an apparition for that but I was hooked appetite has been my go to for over 40 years now. To think the most influential album in my life was almost buried in obscurity. I can’t imagine my life without it.
LOL, it always amazes me how diverse musical tastes are. I absolutely detested this band growing up but I won't criticize anyone for what they like. I'm in a band so I can appreciate that some people think we suck but others like us. Taste is personal, not right nor wrong. Happy listening. :)
I remember my mom and dad rocking out to this all the time. Im now 39 and I still roll the windows down and crank it up.!!!!!!!!
Still one of my top 3 favorite albums of all time hands down. Even after all of the years of bullsh^t that happened with GnR, nobody can deny the impact that this first album made on the music industry and future bands to come. I've always loved the lyrics for their songs and they really were ahead of their time compared to everything else that was out at the time.
Man I still remember sitting on my old electric kit when I was learning how to play Mr Brownstone, I'd spend hours upon hours playing. I had my old I-Pod plugged into the brain on the kit with my headphones, man that was SO much fun. Once the I-Pod broke I used my laptop, but I remember seeing the "times played" section on the playlist eventually a few months later. By this time I had this entire album on lockdown, I could play it from "Welcome to the Jungle" to "Rocket Queen", but the most played song "Mr Brownstone" said it was played 2117 times, lol.
I couldn't read music, so I'd play to ear and also watch videos of other people playing it or whatever song I was trying to learn. I'd hear little symbol hits or toms that I was missing when I'd be driving around, and I couldn't wait to get home so I could update the way I was playing it. Unfortunately it's been years since I've played music, ended up having to get rid of my kit when I loved out of state, smh. It's been years since I've played but I really want to start jamming again, definitely need something new to do in my life on my downtime.
WORD! I can go from ABBA to Enya to Iron Maiden in listening succession without even thinking about it LOL! It's all music to my ears no matter the genre!
Do it, man. Me and a whole buncha other folks here are believing in you so DO IT... no talk. Just DO.
You know Mr. Brownstone inside and out.
This album literally changedy musical direction as a kid. I was into the more pop laden 80's sound of artists like Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston etc etc. Then I heard Guns N Roses and the rest as they say, is history. I still listen to all that great pop music of the 80's, but metal has and will always have my heart and G'N R is a big reason why. This album was everywhere!
I know what you mean. It's one of those transcendent albums!
They put the “hair” in hair metal!
That's me with Quiet Riot's metal health. I'll bet I have a few years on you though
I was the opposite - I hated 80's pop and pop rock and was into thrash metal like Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus, Testament, etc, but when I heard Appetite For Destruction I thought it was the best hard rock album I heard since Back In Black, and it got me back into raw bluesy hard rock again and after that I began to grow out of thrash metal, which was much more one-dimensional.
This is like the 1st time I heard Metallica's "... And Justice For All".
I was the first among my friends to buy Appetite. I picked up the cassette after reading about them in a short single-column article in Hit Parader soon after the album was released. This was way before Jungle took off. I remember practically begging my buddies at the time to pop it in the car stereo while we were cruising around one night, but the driver, Mike, didn't want to, thinking it was going to suck. As soon as Jungle came on he cranked it and we listened to the whole album twice in a row. Then I got to see GNR open for Motley Crüe. They were literally handing out free copies of Appetite LPs in the venue lobby to anyone who wanted one. It seems nobody knew who they were, but after they came on they absolutely blew everyone away.
I❤'d hit parader!(from the the first kiss half face photos. to those, who rocks harder Priest, maiden or ? Articles we all looked forward to every month a
Never been a huge GnR fanboy, but I still consider Appetite up there as one of, if not THE, best debut albums ever.
There's not one even moderately average song on it.
Every song is an absolute killer, and most of the songs on it would be the best song on many other albums.
A friend of mine dubbed the Appetite tape for me, even though I had never heard of them at the time. Little did I know, it would eventually be HUGE! My dad didn't want me listening to hard rock / heavy metal, but he never forced me to stop. He didn't even like Bon Jovi, because they were too "hard." LOL! I just throw everything together, from disco to pop to Rnb to hard rock to boy bands to girl bands, etc... and I call it "top 40." It's all the same to me. I can go from "Paradise City" by GnR to "My Heart Belongs To Me" by Barbra Streisand without even thinking about it. It's all one genre to me: "TOP 40." 😎
This is totally why our generation has such a diverse appreciation of musical styles. Like you, I love going through a top 40 from a random week and just absorb the variety of massive talent on display. Even music I didn't much care for back then stand out in retrospect, particularly in this era of puerile auto-tuned nonsense.
@@babygerald4645A former neighbor of mine, who is a generation older, one told me she now likes songs that she hated when they were out, because they are from her time. 😅 I now understand!!!
Popular music would be another name for it.
It really helps when all 40 of the songs are good 👍
@@BillGraper Totally! I have to credit Adam here at POR for being so enthusiastic and offering great stories behind bands and songs that I passed over either because my tastes hadn't developed or I had a limited budget to fulfill my musical desires.
I first watched one of his clips about one of my favorite bands back during lockdown and the knowledge he dropped convinced me he'd done plenty of research. After that I was hooked. Now my CD shelf, dormant for so long, has started to expand again in all kinds of directions to the point where I've run out of space. Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Hall & Oates, Herbie Hancock, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, Def Leppard, Howard Jones, Tears For Fears... all of these are post-2019 additions thanks to vids featured here.
Crazy! My story with my Dad is very similar. I came home from school and my AFD cassette wasn't in my boom box. I couldn't find it anywhere. It was a Friday and Dad was working night shifts at the time. When Dad got home from work, I asked him to help me find it. It was in his rack stereo! We rocked out all Saturday morning together. I miss him very much, your story with your Dad sparked a fond memory. Thanks @ProfessorofRock
Great story!🤗
I'm late to joining your channel, so you may ever see this. Your memory of your Dad is wonderful to hear and struck a heartstring power cord for me. My Dad died three years ago, and I miss him every day, but I, too, had the coolest Dad that taught me how to rock and roll. GnR, Led Zep, Foreigner, Styx, and more. I am humbled to say I inherited his vintage vinyl collection, and they are now my family heirloom.
My buddy played Appetite to me before Jungle broke and my taste in music changed instantly. Watching this blow up a few months later was something I never expected. Nevermind was the 2nd moment that changed my music tastes, there likely won't be another.
How about Thriller?
This album is basically the soundtrack of my life in 1987 and on through the next few years. I'm not 100% sure, but I think every song on this album has been played to some degree on the radio, they are all great. It's hard to find a debut album by anybody that is this good beginning to end. Each song reminds me of particular parts of my life from those days, what an amazing album
Umm Boston, Boston.
Same
Van Helen's debut was another. BUT you're right, Van Halen GnR and Boston are definitely exceptions to the rule.
The album changed my life just as I became a teen.
I remember hearing about this band that was banned, couldn’t wait to get my hands on it, when I did, loved every song on it, had both cassettes and over played them for years 🤟
My father made me listen to G'nR back in 1994, around the time my sister was born. I was around 10 back then, extremely angry because everyone wasnt paying me attention, and I would play this album casette on my tape recorder till the tape tore. I would never forget the joy on my father's face when we sang along to Sweet Child o' Mine.
Didn't expect water coming out my right eye listening to the story with your dad. My kids surprises me sometimes by either playing songs from my era, or pointing out new cover or mashup ones. Thanks!
It really surprised me to hear about the struggle to get "Welcome to the Jungle" airplay, especially from MTV. The first time I heard of 2, now American entertainment icons, was at the movies. The scene in "The Dead Pool", where a talking corpse (I don't think he could afford much food) was filming a music video.
Jim Carey was the corpse (he may have been playing a corpse), and when you hear that cringe-worthy howl in WTTJ, Carey was rising to sit up in bed, mouth wide-open.
"Welcome to the Jungle" was so memorable to me, that I can replay that scene in my head, and I haven't seen but once, 35 years ago. GNR got a lot of airplay on the deck speakers aboard a small 135' fishing boat on the Bering Sea that was my second home for the 80s & 90s
One thing that people overlook (and even The Professor) is how essential Mike Clink's production was to that album. His lightweight credentials gave no clue that he could make a gritty hard rock album. But even more than that, he could have so easily made that album sound like a Motley Crue record or one of the other hair metal albums at the time with way too much reverb and NO BOTTOM END. That album is a sonic text book in hard rock album mixing and matched the songwriting and the Guns personalities to perfection. That pounding, gritty, dirty sounding mix could not have been done any better for Appetite. If Clink had recorded it even like he did the Illusions albums it would have lost alot of its aggressive feel and grit that matched those songs so perfectly at the time.
Perfect summarization!👍
Nailed it 👍
Yep. Nailed it
I remember going to our 7th grade history class and our Grateful Dead loving hippie teacher going on and on about this new band GNR. He couldn’t contain his excitement for rock to be back and said this band was gonna be huge.
Wow - lucky you had such a fun teacher!😆
I was in college, and GnR were just coming into their own. It was a nice welcome back to good old Rock & Roll. Professor, I love your Dad stories. That he "confiscated" your album is epic-instant smile on my face! I think Dads (myself included) do things that are filed under "Don't tell your mother." He would have been an amazing collaborator on your channel.
Brings me right back to my USMC days, that album hit just before I deployed aboard the USS New Orleans to the western Pacific. It was playing constantly on just about every boom box on the ship for 6 months. I cant hear anything from that album without thinking about walking through the hangar deck and other spaces on the ship. the only place I could go and NOT hear it, was on the flight deck where boom boxes didn't work, you couldn't plug them in and wouldn't be able to hear them anyway.
I spent some time on the New Orleans also as a Marine. Semper Fi!
Welcome to the jungle, baby--you gonna FLY!!!
I bought Appetite when it first came out. Me and four friends rode around in my car all night listening to it over and over again. We were blown away. Definitely one of the top 25 rock albums ever.
I first heard this record in the fall of 1988. I was on leave from US Navy after returning from a deployment to the Mediterranean. I was already listening to bands like The Scorpions and Berlin. The rawness of it appealing to my rowdy sailor on shore leave side. Sweet Child O Mine was one of the greatest guitar solos I had ever heard.
Kickass recollection of your Dad!
I hope my 2 sons will have that same recollection in their thoughts of my record collection.....that they play LOUD!!
The part of the video where he's strapped to the chair watching the TVs always reminded me of The Clockwork Orange.
This is an Army record for me. One of those huge records that came out during my enlistment that guys in the barracks were blasting from speakers into the common area.
I saw Guns at the Ritz in NYC on Friday and Saturday when MTV broadcast the show live in 88, I recorded both shows on VCR and went to both shows, with the band I was in at the time, Crown of Thorns, place was packed, Great show from them, high energy.
Great video, Adam.
I might not always agree but you lay out a very compelling story on bands and musicians.
Thank you.
Apetite was one of those albums that could have so easily got me in a lot of trouble. Whenever I had it playing (very loud) in my car, I always developed a heavy right foot, and frequently went way too fast. Thank God I was never caught.
Your parents had an appetite for confiscation.
So you could have got a speeding ticket but you never did, that’s rock n roll!
Same 😂
I have had 3 dogs since this album came out. First one was a Rottweiler named Brownstone second a mutt named Duff and my current German Shepherd named Axle. I guess the album and the band had a little effect on me.
Did you not want to name a dog Slash? 🤨
My best friend's brother was in the military, he heard of them early. When the cd came out I went to the music store with her to get it. I was 15 & into pop & glam metal. Appetite changed that forever. I went rock from then on. To this day I'm a metal head, with a little gangster rap sprinkled in.
Love the video. I’m from the neighborhood (Washington Heights)in nyc where they ran into the homeless guy . We are very proud of our contribution 😅 to rock music.
I adore "Welcome to the Jungle", whenever I listen to it, you'd best believe that all my neighbours do as well! 🎸🎶😎
its my neighbors favorite band. Doesnt impress you until you learn she's 85
Me and my neighbors were listening too it one night and they turned the volume down so I called the cops.
Turn it up to 11!
This is the only album I heard before a band broke big. First year in college in a radio production course and the others were talking about the L.A. music scene and played Welcome to the Jungle in our studio. I was hooked and got the album. A few weeks later, GnR was everywhere.
Reminds me of my older brother driving in his little sports car that summer...paradise city on repeat and us yelling the lyrics! That's an eternal bond we share.
Will Never forget. Heard Appetite while cruising for the first time the summer it was released. I was 16. We played it loud from the back of a friends pick up truck and everyone kept asking my friends and I who that band was. It was clear it was going to be huge before the music video came out later. And we loved it.
"Welcome To The Jungle" is undoubtedly one of the best songs G&R ever recorded.
I bought this album on vinyl when it was released. I was a regular at the local record shop. None of my friends had heard of them and half thought it was crap when I played it for them. I thought it was the best new album I'd heard in years. Proud to say I was an early fan.
Edit, my parents didn't listen to music, but my uncle did. He actually loved Alabama (I like them now as it brings back great memories of him). Anyway, I worked with him as a carpet installer and he would let me play my hard rock every now and then on his boombox at the job sites. But we mostly listened to sixties/seventies country, 50s rock and of course Alabama.
I was lucky enough to have gotten to see them in 2017 on the not in this lifetime tour with Axle, Slash and Duff together again, at the Gorge Amp. Theater in the desert 2 hours east of Seattle, WA. There was a raging wild fire behind the Gorge that night and GNR was almost the last band to play that venue. The smoke filled air added to GNR's incendiary 3 1/2 hour long performance. Axle had to run back stage between songs for water and to ice his throat, but the band kept playing, even paying respects to Chris Cornell who had just recently passed away. It was by far the best concert I have ever been to.
Thanks brother for your story. You're exactly right my friend about gen x and the unique experiences discovering this album. We each have our own Appetite for destruction story. I was 17 in 1987 and happened to visit a childhood friend I hadn't seen for a while. He had just got his first car and had a great stereo for the time as his parents had money. He said man there is this new band and hit play on the Alpine and Mr. Brownstone just happened to be the first song I heard. Man Axle's deep voice along with those guitars then his voice changing into that scream was like ear candy this music lover had never heard before. I had already discovered my main bands about a year before this with Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth so this GNR stuff was totally different. Needless to say a few months later they had blown. So that's my story and was pretty cool to have gotten into GNR before most people had. Keep up the great work and Gen X is the best.
Best selling debut album in the history of music.. and what a name.. 'Appetite For Destruction' 🔥
It really lived up to it's name don't you think?
@@ProfessorofRock absolutely!
True, Hootie and the Blowfish claim otherwise but their sales figures are bogus.
It’s a name that slaps.
@petercena9497 😳OK, you can go stand in the corner. You're put on Rock God's time out list. You didn't just put Hootie in the same vicinity as Guns N fucking Roses? I can only think of ONE Rock band that's better than GNR. That's Led Zeppelin. Other than that Metallica is 3rd. You can argue over who make its in top 5 after that. Never disrespect GNR man. You'll only anger the Rock God's.
I forged a bond with my Dad with music. My Dad woke me up early every day by blasting Flying High Again by Ozzy. I used to start talking about all the awesome concerts that I had been to and then he would talk about seeing Hendrix and Sabbath,Zeppelin,The Doors and on and on. He had me on the concert thing big time.
Man, you never fail to entertain. Great video!! Keep em coming
The first time I heard Welcome to the Jungle on MTV, it blew me away. I can remember thinking, "Now this is f*cking rock'n'roll!" There is only one other band in my life that blew my mind and solidified me as fan from the very first listen, Metallica. GnR is the epitome of rock. Dirty, grungy, nasty, and yet soulful. It was a moment in time that I will never forget.
This is the only band that I still remember hearing for the first time.
I was 13 and my friends older brother was playing this insane music in his room. That's all it took for me to love it. 🔫 & 🥀
so cool!
What year was it?
I remember people in H.S. talking about G'nR because two members had been graduates from our school a few years prior. I saw Welcome to the Jungle on Headbanger's Ball and was blown away. What a great time. The YT video interviews with Tom Zutaut are awesome.
I was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Station in North Chicago, Illinois on Nov 18, 1987. Welcome to the Jungle was playing over the speakers in a rec building. The song blew me away.
I had the cassette with the original artwork. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen on an album cover. There was not a bad song on the entire album. They were all great tracks with no filler.
Absolutely!👍
The crazy Robert Williams banned artwork ? What'd that look like shrunk to cassette size?( I was like 19 then we all collected cassettes,lol)where are those billions of nearly useless cassettes now?
First heard them in Eastwood's (Dirty Harry) movie Dead Pool, before midwest radio stations started playing them. It was a pain trying to hunt down the album in a time without the internet.
They not only used some music the guys got appearances in the movie . I have all the Dirty Harry movies on VHS . The band was actually in the movie . They were musicians at Johnny Squares funeral . Cool stuff.
I can imagine it wasn’t always easy.
Dude, I’m sold! Your channel is awesome! Music has been such a huge part of my life! I’d love to hang out and just talk music with you sometime! Keep on keepin’ on, my friend! You’re great at what you do!
I love this channel. I can completely skip the first 80% of the video and get everything I need for the last 20%. Awesome. Keep up the good work
A decade after the album released, I first heard Paradise City in my freshman football locker room and was immediately addicted, fast forward 30 years later, I still hear the song leaving work every so often on one radio station while all the main stations in my city have morning talk shows. Nothing beats dropping the windows and cranking the volume up at 7am in rush hour traffic. Also, I'm extremely jealous of your hover board in the background.
Living the dream aintcha tiger
The first song from this album I heard was Paradise City... Fell in love with the sound of the band... In my opinion, Sweet Child of Mine is a ballad... A different type of ballad, but a ballad none the less... Welcome to the jungle always riles me up... The entire album is full of hits, weather they were released or not
Welcome the Jungle is one of those song will never forget. As a young Marine in 1989 I've heard that song a bunch of times and I rocked out to it . But 1989 me and my fellow Marines flew in to our first mission off the coast of Liberia, Africa. Our mission, was to secure the US Embassy while the country was in a brutal civil war. The door gunner on helicopter had a boom box (remember those) and was playing that song as we flew in from the ship onto the American Embassy. What a moment. The uncertainty ,the raw emotions, the head games in my brain. That song got me so pumped. I will never forget it! Music and the place we are in our life is essential to ones being.
Every time I hear Welcome to the Jungle it takes me back to that young 20 year old kid's adventure. Keep rocking. Thanks GNR!!!!!
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Brilliant retelling of an untold story I wouldn't have believed.A resonating tale when fact is stranger than fiction and revealing an enormous sliding door moment .
The first time I heard this song was when I saw the video for it on MTV for the first time. I was immediately addicted. I literally went out right after and bought the album. One of the best decisions I ever made.
It’s a sledgehammer!
I remember seeing the video when it first aired on Headbanger's Ball. Went to Sam Goody to get the cassette the next day. Employees at Goody's never heard of the band. I think I was the first to buy the cassette ever at the store.
A friend of mine had an extra ticket and took me to see them last night ❤😊 OMG they killed it for 3 hours straight. Slash did a handstand at the end! Go see them!!!
Great song and a GREAT video! Thank you!
I saw them when they played in New Zealand in '89. My ears are still ringing.
I remember when this was released as a single. I played it as a Make It or Break It feature for a week on my show. People hated it! I’d play it for students at NAU. They hated it.
It wasn’t until, Sweet Child of Mine (which people loved) was released as a single that listeners revisited Welcome to the Jungle. A couple years later, 100.3 Pirate Radio (KQLZ) in Los Angeles with its Rock 40 format, went on the air, blasting Welcome to the Jungle. Suddenly, every top 40 station in the country played it.
BTW: Pirate Radio would use Welcome to the Jungle as part of their on air imaging, as well as bumper stickers and T.shirts.
I still remember the first time I heard “Welcome to the Jungle.” I was fourteen and all of a sudden it was number one on Mtvs dial up MTV. This from that point I was hooked and GnR has had a profound impact on my like. And yes my dad liked them too. The only other band to have this effect on me was when I saw Metallica opening up for Ozzy in 86. When I heard Cliff’s bass solo I knew what I wanted to do. Unfortunately I was too chicken shit to chase my dreams.
I Absolutly love hearing your commentary and stories about some of these song I grew up with. Keep it up.
Iconic and still one of the best rock songs out there!
For those that grew up in the 90’s, Appetite changed music much the same way as Nirvana Nevermind. I was fortunate to be part of both
Appetite was released in 87
This album did very little to influence music at the time, the way Nirvana did. It took a quite a long time before bands started trying to do what GnR did.
Nirvana killed the entire GNR was part of.
Musically speaking, Motley Crue had been around since 1981. The only thing AFD did was give hair metal hair and clothing style to mediocre hard rock bands and convince gullible teenage boys that it was something new.
@@Bob_Smith19 Nirvana didn’t affect GnR, KC died before GnR even finished the use your illusion tour
GNR & Metallica were the first groups I chose to listen as an early teen back in the 80s, I had asked my aunt's boyfriend for some cool music, he gave me a copy of appetite for destruction and a mix tape of Metallica, those two cassettes got a lot of playtime.
You had the coolest dad. Never stop sharing those memories with us. I love those stories!
In the late 90’s I had a friend who ran a trivia show at a local bar outside of Atlanta. He loved GnR and the song Night Train. He located a source and ordered a case and shared with the entire bar! It was great and awful and great at the same time! He died in a car crash but what a great memory! Miss you Chad! Thanks Professor!
Of course MTV was vital for getting your music out to the masses. Hearing a song on the radio, you may never learn who sings it or how to find the album, but the videos printed the name of the band and the album title as well as the song title, making it much easier to find. There's songs I've been looking for for years, decades even, and still don't know who performed them.
Love your stories about your dad. My dad couldn't stand this kind of music. My mom on the other hand enjoyed it so much she actually took me to the Guns 'n' Roses / Metallica concert.
Another huge album in year of huge albums big at the time such as Faith, Kick, Hysteria, Permanent Vacation, Tango in the Night, and Rattle and Hum to name a few. Appetite hit the radio and MTV/Much Music hard even with all these greats happening. One of the best debuts of all time.
what an amazing year!
Best year in music ever? I think it's 1984... What do you think?
@ProfessorofRock 1987 was the brass ring year according to Rolling Stone Magazine and I agree. U2'S Magnum Opus, The Joshua Tree, Music for the Masses, Nothing Like the Sun, Faith, Tango in the Night, Document, Hysteria, Strangeways, Permanent Vacation, Kick, and of course Appetite for Destruction were all released in 1987. Oh and Micheal Jackson's Bad as well. 1988 was really a carry over year from this onslaught of talent.
@@ProfessorofRock oh and also add Sign of the Times 😊
Joshua Tree, not R&H.
Absolutely love your content!!! Not as in to music as I was in my youth but you bring back many memories from all genres.
I first heard it on a coach trip home from a Sunday School trip! One of my friends persuaded the church leader to play the cassette over the coach audio system. Suffice to say, it was quickly switched off. But I found my way back to it. A monumental record.
The more I listened to that album the more I liked it. The lyrics are so interesting in every song and that phrase Welcome to the Jungle is still being quoted today to describe scenes of chaos and danger. GNR seemed to be a group of really good musicians who truly had an Appetite for Destruction.
"Welcome to the jungle" was a phrase well before gnr. They just used it.
@@Blueberry-sk7kgthank you. So much lost to time. And ignorance.
Guns n Roses MESMERIZED me the first time I heard them. Welcome to the Jungle felt like the perfect hard song. But, as much as I liked them, I was sure the band would never be accepted by the masses nor their music played on the radio. When MTV aired their show at the Ritz one weekend at midnight, I watched and recorded it. I wore that VHS tape out! As controversial as they were then, today you can't attend any major event (sports, etc.) without hearing them. Thank goodness!
So true. One in a million shot and they came through!
@@ProfessorofRockOne in a Million...I see what you did there 😂
They made it through.
Christmas 1988, I was 12 and got my own cassettes for the first time. Appetite of course, plus Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl and Robert Palmer Heavy Nova. Quite a diverse mix that I remember fondly.
To this day I clearly remember the first time I heard GnR. It was on a hard rock and metal show out of Chicago, late on a Friday night, just after Appetite was released. It scared the hell out of me. I went out and bought the album, and it was the better part of a year before mainstream radio and the other kids in my school caught up. I felt pretty cool.
GnR WAS rock n roll, and Appetite was virtually perfect. It was all downhill from there. But for a couple of shining, glorious years, Axl and the boys were unstoppable.
Greatest debut album ever and still in my playlist. The memories associated with this album and it's time period are priceless.
Boston.
Certainly ONE of the greatest debut albums. Personally, I really like Music From Big Pink (The Band), The Slim Shady LP, My Generation (The Who), Licence To Ill (Beastie Boys) Are You Experienced (Hendrix), The Clash, The Ramones, Nevermind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, Is This It (The Strokes) and Straight Outta Compton (NWA).
Also, no greatest album list is complete without the Beatles so Please Please Me needs a mention.
I still rock Appetite to this very day. I absolutely love the album in its entirety.
How can you not!
I can't get enough of 'It's so Easy' lately. I absolutely love Axel's voice on the bridge-- (so commme with me, don't ask me where cuz i don't know... ) Sounds so good loud.
Me too.
By far their best album in my opinion.
I never wrote band names on my trapper keppers but I did have a pair of JNCOs in high-school that I wrote a bunch of bands names I liked on them. There were names like Ozzy, Cash, GnR, Slioknot and Creedence just to name a few. That ended up being my favorite pair of JNCOs. They stayed in rotation as I wore them one day a week to school even though I had a bunch of jncos. The "music" pair got the most wear. Love your channel man and what you're doing. Keep up the good work.🤘
You ROCK!! Love your show. Thanks ❤❤❤
The first time I heard G n' f'n R I was instantly blown away. Appetite for Destruction was everything rock n' roll should be. Raw, loud, explosive, piss your parents and your pastor off unbridled mayhem. It's what cigarettes and tattoos would sound like.
And you can't forget the surreal image of the rock star played by Jim Carrey of all people lip synching to Welcome to the Jungle in the Dirty Harry movie The Dead Pool.
They put the might and the passion into all of it!