00:00 - Intro 00:54 - Start of Axl Rose interview 01:22 - Going back home to Indiana 02:26 - How closed off Indiana is 03:26 - What he draws from conservatism 04:32 - How he left home at age 16 05:27 - Whether he murdered a dog 06:51 - Guns N’ Roses’ early success in England 07:43 - How the crowds are different in the United States 09:07 - Gaining more confidence as a live band 10:16 - Fred Coury, Cinderella, playing for Steven Adler 10:51 - How he stays fit for concerts 11:19 - Whether he’s ready for a long tour 13:10 - People he aspires to be 13:38 - Mötley Crüe 15:06 - The recording process for Appetite for Destruction 16:53 - What would he change on the album 17:53 - Producers who were considered before Mike Clink 18:48 - Paul Stanley of KISS as a potential producer 19:17 - His vision for the record 20:08 - What success means to him 20:59 - Whether it bothers him to be compared with Faster Pussycat and Poison 22:08 - How long it took to get the right lineup for Guns N’ Roses 22:58 - The tepid response so far to Appetite for Destruction 23:23 - The limited radio and video play the band was getting 24:48 - What happens if Appetite for Destruction sells poorly 25:40 - Slash drinking and driving 26:34 - What he will do if he leaves the music biz 27:14 - Working with Izzy Stradlin 28:57 - When is Axl Rose the happiest 29:33 - When is Axl Rose the most frustrated 30:47 - Why he feels Guns N’ Roses is not getting played on the radio 32:08 - What band he thinks is the biggest sellout 34:08 - His hopes that Sweet Child O’ MIne will be a hit 35:24 - Whether he objects to being labeled as heavy metal 36:21 - His love for the band Queen 37:11 - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend 38:24 - His thoughts on fellow Hoosier John Mellencamp 39:32 - How he and Izzy cannot wait to play Japan 40:08 - Some ’80’s racist comments that were not considered racist at the time
This interview was recorded just over a week after they played with Alice Cooper in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I was in high school. I was at the mall two days before the show with a friend and my little brother and of all the crazy things, Axl and Izzy walked right by us. As Axl explains in this interview, at this stage not many people knew who they were, but I sure as hell did. So we turned around and caught up to them and ended up walking around the mall with them, just talking and hanging out. Turns out they had walked to the mall from their hotel, so I offered them a ride back, which they graciously accepted. Izzy had bought a Ramones cassette which he popped into my stereo, and Axl cranked it and I had Axl and Izzy screaming along to Rock and Roll Radio IN MY FUCKING CAR. 😮 We got back to the hotel and Axl invited us up to his room to hang out and he brought in Duff and Steven (Slash was with some girl in the room next door). We hung out for over an hour until I had to leave to pick up my sister. Axl kinda lost it for a while after they became the biggest band in the world, and you hear a lot of negative stories, but THIS is the Axl I remember. The super cool guy in this interview, the one that bumped into a fan in the middle of nowhere, Missouri, and gave that fan a memory to brag about to this day. Thanks, Axl. That was pretty damn awesome of you.
It’s no wonder why he blew up… Extremely high intellect. He’s only 25 here. About to become the greatest Front Man in the world, and he knew it. That’s amazing.
Right! It seems like the first few years of their career he did a ton of interviews but at some point slash became the spokesperson for the band , which is fine too! They're all cool lol
Iron Maiden's Bass Player took the time out of his busy touring schedule to interview Axl Rose . Probably as an effort to promote Iron Maiden's relevance to the pretty boy butt Rock Glam bands like Guns n Roses. Considering all these androgynous men like Axl Rose , and Brett Michaels were the hip new movement, it was nice for a guy from a Real Metal band to Lower his standards and interview a pretty boy teen idol poseur like Axl
@@godetonter4764 sorry but they were anything but. They brought real rock back when it was dead. Usually this is the attitude towards guns n roses from iron maiden fans as is the spat between both the bands. There was nobody more genuine from 1987 on than guns n roses. And thank God they've gotten so big as word of mouth is still bringing more and more youngsters into the rock community as rock is a dying breed. So were thankful for guns n roses and laugh at bands like iron maiden that make songs about swords and knights and things that have nothing to do with living life and that nobody can even relate too while Bruce dickenson wears spandex all through the 80s and guns n roses didnt.
@@fuckyou96 fuck you too pal ??? That was not the Iron Maiden bass player, and GNR were like Def Leppard worn out, and in everyone's face , wherever you go . All the girls had Axl posters. Now people still worship the ground that GNR walk upon on the strength of 2 albums that were recorded 35 years ago. The Double album, EP , and debut all contained maybe 1 albums worth of non filler material. Axl wouldn't show up to half the shows, and when he did show up he would sing off time , off key, forget words, tell the crowd to shut the fuck up , and then act like a spoiled kid and walk out in the middle of a song
Axl Rose is one misunderstood dude. Yes, he's mellowed out a lot in his later years and yes I believe people's accounts that he was often hard to work with. But this is someone who truly cared (and still cares) about his craft and wasn't doing it just for the money but doing it to change the world. And listen to him here... This is an insightful and intelligent guy. In the early 90s, he got incredibly famous, and people treated him like a god. He wouldn't be able to ever just go to the beach, or the shops. He was a prisoner in his own success. Different people handle that situation differently. I sure know I would have struggled with it. I'm glad he came out the other side in one piece. Not all of his new music is my cup of tea. But damn I'm glad he's still here making it!
Axl really spoke well and sounded educated. Missunderstood man. Happy things are going well for G n R. Seen them twice for there not in this life time tour.
Yeah I agree, and also damn was that 40 minutes? Felt like 5. Axl is a well-spoken and true to his own nature kind of a guy and I was glad to hear that
The interviewer sounds so nervous at first, but he directs this whole interview masterfully. Especially when you consider how difficult Axl was reputed to be back in the 80s. Great, informative interview.
That was a great interview! I was expecting an vacuous, arrogant egotistical asshole. Instead Axl sounded like a very chill, introspective and reasonable guy.
ho ho ho perhaps a pompous, belligerent, perfidious capsule of a man, which only for the most backward of individiuals would regard him as virtuous, utilizing a criteria of utmost turpitude to possibly define him as "virtuous", yes? ho ho ho How about you stop trying to be an intellectual.
@@outis439-A Not only did I NOT use the description "virtuous" which you misquoted TWICE, but your response is better described as a Sesquipedalian rebuttal to an argument I never made. Go back to your computer chair throne in your mental fantasies. The grown up are talking out here.
That's how all the people think is axl, and they can't be more wrong. Axl is a very smart person besides his mental disorders, he's very misunderstood.
back in 1987 I was listening to Diamond Rexx, in sep after i bought GNR I was well heres another Band i will like & people won't get to know or get into. once 1988 hit we all know what happen.
I love this because back then Appetite wasn't super famous , even Axl said it was between 50 and 60 on the charts , little did he know MTV would pass it, everybody would go crazy and eventually it would become the best selling debut album of all time, which still is to date. It was simply a masterpiece and even though Adler and Izzy are no longer in the picture , I'm grateful they're still touring and hopefully I'll see them this year🙏
This is incredible! Thank you for posting, I never heard it before. Axl has done so few Interviews in his career, this is raw and genuine just before they got big. Such a talented, well spoken and intelligent person Axl.
Yes! I was 7 years old, he was 25, and that's what I wanted to grow up to be. I didn't, but he's a big part of me. His influence on me can't be overstated. I'll always be thankful. I was in elementary school and I had no idea they were one of the biggest bands in the world. I was isolated. They were just mine. I'll always cherish that because I'll never have that again!
And the kids nowadays have no idea what it was like. Waiting for the music store to open to get the new album. What these guys really meant to young people. Music just sucks anymore.
@@JohnRidersoldoutforjesus we have too many distractions. When we were starved for entertainment, some of us just did our art and became masters. That's how great bands were created in the 70s and 80s. That's why there's no musicians like Slash or Axl anymore. Today, record companies just pick good-looking people and autotune the shit out of them.
@@sevgiycl_ it's interesting to think about the concept of looking up to GnR. People certainly do today. But when I was a kid, most of the news about them was extremely critical. Axl was a magnet for controversy and there were so many complaints at the time for how bad of a role model he was. If Mom and Dad America were mad at anyone in the late 80s/early 90s, it was Axl Rose! Perhaps the Death knell of their heyday was the public feud they had with Nirvana. I'm glad they're a band you can get into. I often wonder if these older bands are at all appealing to teens today.
@@RSBurgener yeah there are still so many teenagers that love old bands and listen to them and by looking up to gnr i mean the music and success etc. They were amazing, they were iconic
Thanks man, that was a great interview. I was surprised at how well spoken and informed Axl was at such a young age. It's no accident he became so successful.
25 years old in this interview! Axl has always been a super smart intelligent dude. I met him backstage in 2008 after a concert and he was truly a really cool guy. He is in a class of his own with insane skills! Great interview! 👊🤙
Its amazing how focused he was (is). Listening 30+ years later, you can feel like if he somehow premeditated everything (until 1993 at least). He knew he was gonna make it no matter what.
I believe he premeditated all the way to 93 the day week after izzy left and then all the way to 2016 by the six month mark of izzys departure. Maybe he didn't expect the gap to last quite that long, but I could believe that axl saw the response of the rolling stones comeback tour. The money involved with something like that Accompanied by the fact that without izzy nothing worth a fuck was getting writ the band would have dried up. all of them would be has been slash would likely be deceased. Axl called all the shots at the right time.
Appetite was such an awesome album! I was about 11/12 when it came out an I thought I was the coolest thing because I got it before my older brother did! 😂 I’ll never forget the first time I heard Welcome To The Jungle which was also the first time I saw the video. I remember just sitting there staring at the television and realizing this was something different! I think Guns N’ Roses for me was similar to what Nirvana was for so many others. Axl has been misunderstood for decades. He’s so much more intelligent than people have ever given him credit for. Obviously his temper has gotten the best of him at times, but hey people are complicated.
This is a great interview. Axl is way more chilled than I expected, and he knows his stuff. I just wish he talked like this more often. Appetite was 1 different album, for the time, when rock and metal were slowly falling out of favour, they lit a rocket.
what? falling? NO not sure if you were around in 1987, I was & Rock / Metal were at an all time HIGH. it wasn't until 1991 when things started to change.
This is a masterpiece. Thanks so much for sharing. It's awesome to listen to this interview before GNR became so big. Funny Axl's comments about Sweet Child. Thirty years later, most people say this is GNR's most famous song. I am righting from Mexico City. Greetings !
Interesting time to get Axles thoughts...right before they blew up! Appetite took awhile to catch on then sells like few albums ever have that's just crazy.
I know Axl has a rep for being super high maintenance that is pretty well deserved but he comes off really down to earth here. Very confident but is humble enough to know that he's still learning and is just taking it all in.
Great interview!! Love it so much... Axl always been so nice when talking its senseful and I really love his speaking voice..Thank you so much for sharing this video😍💖💖💖
Wow I love this interview, he's so smart and you can tell this is well thought out. I loved hearing all he had to say. Maybe Sweet Child will make it lol, crazy. Best band and frontman ever.
That was friggin great. Thanks sooo much for putting these up. After listening to the whole interview it was cool to hear Axl talking about art and how it is for him. Makes me think he and i would connect easily. Now its onto DIME! THANKS!!!
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I seen GnR open for Alice Cooper at the Gardens in Louisville KY. I had no idea who GnR was at the time. I'M a big Alice Cooper fan.... So when I seen GnR, I was Fu#k n amazed they KICKED ASS!
this is amazing he is only 25 here still a kid but was wise beyond his years and was not lacking in self confidence .he wasnt like i hope to be a rock star he was like im going to be a rock star and is rightfully miffed as to why appetite hadnt exploded yet
Such a shame they couldn't stay together back then and came out with a few more albums imagine if we had a 96 release and then maybe a '98/ '99 release, basically slash's snake pit and Chinese democracy together with a little juju hounds and you got the next gnr album that never was.
I saw GnR open for Iron Maiden on the seventh son tour, Rough rider stadum, Ottawa Canada, back in 1988. GnR were supporting their first album Appetite for Destruction. They weren't even known that well at that time. I knew them. I had already bought their album, but you could tell that Maiden fans werent appreciating them at all. GnR were getting pretty pissed because people werent reacting
It was early in the process of GnR becoming the biggest band in the world between late 1988 up to 1993 - Axl , eventually, would be misquoted a lot in interviews, which is why he most likely was a lot less accessible after this interview.
Thanks for the video. helped give me a better idea of who Axl is. I was thinking that he was the large part of the problems with the band. Now I kinda see where he is coming from.
As a die die hard singer(muscician/fan -historian) of Axl since I was 14 in 1991 until now I can’t believe I finally found this monumental great EARLY interview by accident. I just subscribed. You rock dude. I wish I had you’re job. Im in film school yeah at this age but everyone says I look about 28 anyway so lol I plan to make a film about Guns N’ Roses and this is a very one of many very reliable sources because there is so much funny books out there I literally have a bookshelf full of hardcover mostly signed Autobio rock biographies including/, DUFF, and Steve and now there’s book there’s never been a well documented fuck about axle I took from the reliable sources such as Rolling Stone which I still have in plastic and make addition the one axle was on a 1992 having this tape would well is so awesome I’m glad you have it and you had that job at the time I’m sure you could die happy man I know I would the dirt movie about Mötley Crüe I was like Courtney loves said I’m not a big fan of was silly just too silly and humor was stupid and I thought it didn’t capture that time unlike that time unlike what Tommy Lee and Nikki said and as much as I respect them they are two bozos compared to the intelligence of W Ask For rachel she was so ahead of his time discovering bands like Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, faith no more or at least bringing them to the main stream and Making people that were into guns say all right I guess Skid Row is cool lol. You know what I mean. Thanks for posting this tape it made my fucking day. I must add their story makes for just as much or even a more interesting one then Mötley Crüe I mean all these guys came from different places as we both know and ever changing lineups and all that acts will be in the most mysterious one even though he is a singer I have enough info to know like useless facts how his mom had him when he was 16 and he didn’t grow up well he did grow up Bill Bailey but was born W asked Rose by finding his birth certificate when he was 17 changing his name to William Rose and then finally W Axl Rose etc. stuff like that. Shit I could go on and on. I could die happy man just singing songs from 16 to 35 and cover bands like it’s so easy which is always are opening song almost all the time and Mr. brownstone and so fine and patience and they train me being a baritone was much easier for me to sing it wasn’t till the robber came out that my not so educated not singing bandmates realized oh that’s why you picked brownstone and it’s so easy you’re a baritone. I see so much of myself and this guy I grew up with dudes who picked up instruments guitars drums bases etc. because I was a singer and so motivated not a bad at such a early age I have the cheapest guy new invest in a pearl drum set that sound driven I was too bad drugs hit me early but it’s never too late all right I said enough by myself who gives a shit.I’m just so amped about this interview I’m not even done with it yet. Ralph Roulette
Thanks Ralph! "I wish I had you’re job. " lol..The pay is $0. BTW you can of course start your own channel too. Get crackin on the GNR movie. Save your money and quit film school.
What drove him so crazy? He went off the deep end for years. The Chinese Democracy years were terrible for him. How did he get so crazy? Either way I'm glad he's back to making music with the band now. I wish it was the original GNR though
This is a real time capsule. I never thot Axle would like Mellencamp, or Queen! I mean, I LOVE THEM, but I jus figured he would hate them lol. Fun interview.
Did he say Appetite For Distruction hadn't made it to the top 50 albums yet ??? I may be mistaken but wasn't it ( still is) the biggest selling first album of all time ? It sold out the first day of release ???
Gotta admit my opinion of Axl Rose has been cold to Luke warm.But having heard him speak and be so open and down to earth . I always thought he was a jerk but now I'm pleasantly surprised it ain't so. Coming around!!! Coming around!!
Quintessential. He’s in rare form man. Like Tom Petty said a year later with appetite broke I must mention by the way shit this is a poor sweet child the most viewed video in UA-cam history damn but Tom Petty said Axel was the most driven person he ever met probably circa 2002 I could definitely see that. He didn’t hold anything back how we felt about bands and all that shit he is like laws are at says rock ‘n’ roll personified . I got it Ed 25 years old guy from Indiana talking about sushi I’m 1/4 Japanese and Grew up and still live in New York and everyone thought I was a freak because I bought sushi to lunch sometimes to talk to sushi in my school when I was 14 in 1987 bringing it to lunch when I’m trying to say if this guy was so fucking ahead of his time it’s unreal. Great great questions I always felt well John Cougar is was a guilty pleasure of mine back when I used to hide my guilty pleasures “strictly when it came to music taste ”but then both being from Indiana I mean my first tapes were the illusion tapes and then I went backwards and John cougar American fool. Even at 14 I was so interested in things that people weren’t interested in. Very meticulous like you an interview would be you know like John cougar and ask for both being from Indiana no I thought that was ironic no one cares no one none of my friends like John cougar but I always wonder what Ask For thought of John cougar for many many years that’s how much of a hassle free Guy am. Thanks so much for putting this up I’m gonna say again thank you. For being a lead singer Asa rose with my biggest inspiration since I started a band at 14 in 1992.
I don't know if "advice" is the correct term, but he definitely sounds like a hypocrite railing against pretentiousness in this early interview. The UYI album/tour and how he carried himself in general going forward became the embodiment of pretentiousness.
But he kind of ended up softening the loud guitars for the Illusions. Anyway, this is the lucidest Axl I've ever listened to. Maybe partly because he was still on his way to the top.
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Start of Axl Rose interview
01:22 - Going back home to Indiana
02:26 - How closed off Indiana is
03:26 - What he draws from conservatism
04:32 - How he left home at age 16
05:27 - Whether he murdered a dog
06:51 - Guns N’ Roses’ early success in England
07:43 - How the crowds are different in the United States
09:07 - Gaining more confidence as a live band
10:16 - Fred Coury, Cinderella, playing for Steven Adler
10:51 - How he stays fit for concerts
11:19 - Whether he’s ready for a long tour
13:10 - People he aspires to be
13:38 - Mötley Crüe
15:06 - The recording process for Appetite for Destruction
16:53 - What would he change on the album
17:53 - Producers who were considered before Mike Clink
18:48 - Paul Stanley of KISS as a potential producer
19:17 - His vision for the record
20:08 - What success means to him
20:59 - Whether it bothers him to be compared with Faster Pussycat and Poison
22:08 - How long it took to get the right lineup for Guns N’ Roses
22:58 - The tepid response so far to Appetite for Destruction
23:23 - The limited radio and video play the band was getting
24:48 - What happens if Appetite for Destruction sells poorly
25:40 - Slash drinking and driving
26:34 - What he will do if he leaves the music biz
27:14 - Working with Izzy Stradlin
28:57 - When is Axl Rose the happiest
29:33 - When is Axl Rose the most frustrated
30:47 - Why he feels Guns N’ Roses is not getting played on the radio
32:08 - What band he thinks is the biggest sellout
34:08 - His hopes that Sweet Child O’ MIne will be a hit
35:24 - Whether he objects to being labeled as heavy metal
36:21 - His love for the band Queen
37:11 - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend
38:24 - His thoughts on fellow Hoosier John Mellencamp
39:32 - How he and Izzy cannot wait to play Japan
40:08 - Some ’80’s racist comments that were not considered racist at the time
Absolutely 💯❤️🤘
Last comments were not racist lmfao
He was talking about culture, not race
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40:08 is not racist at all
This interview was recorded just over a week after they played with Alice Cooper in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I was in high school. I was at the mall two days before the show with a friend and my little brother and of all the crazy things, Axl and Izzy walked right by us. As Axl explains in this interview, at this stage not many people knew who they were, but I sure as hell did. So we turned around and caught up to them and ended up walking around the mall with them, just talking and hanging out. Turns out they had walked to the mall from their hotel, so I offered them a ride back, which they graciously accepted. Izzy had bought a Ramones cassette which he popped into my stereo, and Axl cranked it and I had Axl and Izzy screaming along to Rock and Roll Radio IN MY FUCKING CAR. 😮 We got back to the hotel and Axl invited us up to his room to hang out and he brought in Duff and Steven (Slash was with some girl in the room next door). We hung out for over an hour until I had to leave to pick up my sister. Axl kinda lost it for a while after they became the biggest band in the world, and you hear a lot of negative stories, but THIS is the Axl I remember. The super cool guy in this interview, the one that bumped into a fan in the middle of nowhere, Missouri, and gave that fan a memory to brag about to this day. Thanks, Axl. That was pretty damn awesome of you.
It’s no wonder why he blew up… Extremely high intellect. He’s only 25 here. About to become the greatest Front Man in the world, and he knew it. That’s amazing.
What intellect? Lol. Im pretty sure it was his singing talent that made him successful.
@@Gcssdvnkloiutesc it's his experience or whatever he do he just deserve to be acknowledged hehe
Axl has been always good speaking his mind in interviews. It's a pity he doesn't do it very often.
Right! It seems like the first few years of their career he did a ton of interviews but at some point slash became the spokesperson for the band , which is fine too! They're all cool lol
Agree. He's so well spoken, intelligent & has the sexiest, most unique & most soothing voice EVER.
Iron Maiden's Bass Player took the time out of his busy touring schedule to interview Axl Rose . Probably as an effort to promote Iron Maiden's relevance to the pretty boy butt Rock Glam bands like Guns n Roses. Considering all these androgynous men like Axl Rose , and Brett Michaels were the hip new movement, it was nice for a guy from a Real Metal band to Lower his standards and interview a pretty boy teen idol poseur like Axl
@@godetonter4764 sorry but they were anything but. They brought real rock back when it was dead. Usually this is the attitude towards guns n roses from iron maiden fans as is the spat between both the bands.
There was nobody more genuine from 1987 on than guns n roses. And thank God they've gotten so big as word of mouth is still bringing more and more youngsters into the rock community as rock is a dying breed. So were thankful for guns n roses and laugh at bands like iron maiden that make songs about swords and knights and things that have nothing to do with living life and that nobody can even relate too while Bruce dickenson wears spandex all through the 80s and guns n roses didnt.
@@fuckyou96 fuck you too pal ??? That was not the Iron Maiden bass player, and GNR were like Def Leppard worn out, and in everyone's face , wherever you go . All the girls had Axl posters. Now people still worship the ground that GNR walk upon on the strength of 2 albums that were recorded 35 years ago. The Double album, EP , and debut all contained maybe 1 albums worth of non filler material. Axl wouldn't show up to half the shows, and when he did show up he would sing off time , off key, forget words, tell the crowd to shut the fuck up , and then act like a spoiled kid and walk out in the middle of a song
Axl Rose is one misunderstood dude. Yes, he's mellowed out a lot in his later years and yes I believe people's accounts that he was often hard to work with. But this is someone who truly cared (and still cares) about his craft and wasn't doing it just for the money but doing it to change the world. And listen to him here... This is an insightful and intelligent guy. In the early 90s, he got incredibly famous, and people treated him like a god. He wouldn't be able to ever just go to the beach, or the shops. He was a prisoner in his own success. Different people handle that situation differently. I sure know I would have struggled with it. I'm glad he came out the other side in one piece. Not all of his new music is my cup of tea. But damn I'm glad he's still here making it!
Axl really spoke well and sounded educated. Missunderstood man. Happy things are going well for G n R. Seen them twice for there not in this life time tour.
How were the shows? I saw them back in 91 and 87. Crazy good then.
Listening to it in 2023. Love his attitude. 👏🏽🇧🇷🏴♥️
AXL is STILL the best. He has NEVER toned it down or said what he didn’t feel. And just for the record…. Chinese Democracy is a MASTERPIECE.
Most amazing interview with Axl I've ever heard. What an amazing moment caught on tape.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Best 40 minutes that I've ever spent. Atleast for awhile
Nice! Glad you liked it.
Yeah I agree, and also damn was that 40 minutes? Felt like 5.
Axl is a well-spoken and true to his own nature kind of a guy and I was glad to hear that
The interviewer sounds so nervous at first, but he directs this whole interview masterfully. Especially when you consider how difficult Axl was reputed to be back in the 80s. Great, informative interview.
That was a great interview! I was expecting an vacuous, arrogant egotistical asshole. Instead Axl sounded like a very chill, introspective and reasonable guy.
ho ho ho perhaps a pompous, belligerent, perfidious capsule of a man, which only for the most backward of individiuals would regard him as virtuous, utilizing a criteria of utmost turpitude to possibly define him as "virtuous", yes? ho ho ho
How about you stop trying to be an intellectual.
@@outis439-A
Not only did I NOT use the description "virtuous" which you misquoted TWICE, but your response is better described as a Sesquipedalian rebuttal to an argument I never made. Go back to your computer chair throne in your mental fantasies. The grown up are talking out here.
That's how all the people think is axl, and they can't be more wrong. Axl is a very smart person besides his mental disorders, he's very misunderstood.
I wonder if this nice young man's band ever made it... Fantastic interview! Kudos!
too funny
back in 1987 I was listening to Diamond Rexx, in sep after i bought GNR I was well heres another Band i will like & people won't
get to know or get into. once 1988 hit we all know what happen.
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Diamond Rexx > GnR
I love this because back then Appetite wasn't super famous , even Axl said it was between 50 and 60 on the charts , little did he know MTV would pass it, everybody would go crazy and eventually it would become the best selling debut album of all time, which still is to date. It was simply a masterpiece and even though Adler and Izzy are no longer in the picture , I'm grateful they're still touring and hopefully I'll see them this year🙏
This was such an amazing interview. Axl is just a really passionate, cool driven kind of guy.
Great interview. Axl is a smart and interesting person. One of the best rockers of our time.
This is incredible! Thank you for posting, I never heard it before. Axl has done so few
Interviews in his career, this is raw and genuine just before they got big. Such a talented, well spoken and intelligent person Axl.
Axl's the man. I love that man.
This is great that you're making the historical record available to the public in this way. And this was a really, really good interview.
Yes! I was 7 years old, he was 25, and that's what I wanted to grow up to be. I didn't, but he's a big part of me. His influence on me can't be overstated. I'll always be thankful. I was in elementary school and I had no idea they were one of the biggest bands in the world. I was isolated. They were just mine. I'll always cherish that because I'll never have that again!
And the kids nowadays have no idea what it was like. Waiting for the music store to open to get the new album. What these guys really meant to young people. Music just sucks anymore.
@@JohnRidersoldoutforjesus we have too many distractions. When we were starved for entertainment, some of us just did our art and became masters. That's how great bands were created in the 70s and 80s. That's why there's no musicians like Slash or Axl anymore. Today, record companies just pick good-looking people and autotune the shit out of them.
@@sevgiycl_ it's interesting to think about the concept of looking up to GnR. People certainly do today. But when I was a kid, most of the news about them was extremely critical. Axl was a magnet for controversy and there were so many complaints at the time for how bad of a role model he was. If Mom and Dad America were mad at anyone in the late 80s/early 90s, it was Axl Rose! Perhaps the Death knell of their heyday was the public feud they had with Nirvana. I'm glad they're a band you can get into. I often wonder if these older bands are at all appealing to teens today.
@@RSBurgener yeah there are still so many teenagers that love old bands and listen to them and by looking up to gnr i mean the music and success etc. They were amazing, they were iconic
Thanks man, that was a great interview. I was surprised at how well spoken and informed Axl was at such a young age. It's no accident he became so successful.
25 years old in this interview! Axl has always been a super smart intelligent dude. I met him backstage in 2008 after a concert and he was truly a really cool guy. He is in a class of his own with insane skills! Great interview! 👊🤙
It's Axl un plugged. This whole channel is a treasure
Its amazing how focused he was (is).
Listening 30+ years later, you can feel like if he somehow premeditated everything (until 1993 at least).
He knew he was gonna make it no matter what.
I believe he premeditated all the way to 93 the day week after izzy left and then all the way to 2016 by the six month mark of izzys departure. Maybe he didn't expect the gap to last quite that long, but I could believe that axl saw the response of the rolling stones comeback tour. The money involved with something like that Accompanied by the fact that without izzy nothing worth a fuck was getting writ the band would have dried up. all of them would be has been slash would likely be deceased. Axl called all the shots at the right time.
"What do they know about being a ninja? Nothing." Axl Rose on the band Europe
Appetite was such an awesome album! I was about 11/12 when it came out an I thought I was the coolest thing because I got it before my older brother did! 😂
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Welcome To The Jungle which was also the first time I saw the video. I remember just sitting there staring at the television and realizing this was something different!
I think Guns N’ Roses for me was similar to what Nirvana was for so many others.
Axl has been misunderstood for decades. He’s so much more intelligent than people have ever given him credit for. Obviously his temper has gotten the best of him at times, but hey people are complicated.
Wow.he never did change.hes always been extremely smart n believes what he believes in. Gotta love uncle axl
I wish Axl listens to this in 2021. Miss the young Axl with fire in him.
1000%
This is a great interview. Axl is way more chilled than I expected, and he knows his stuff. I just wish he talked like this more often. Appetite was 1 different album, for the time, when rock and metal were slowly falling out of favour, they lit a rocket.
what? falling? NO not sure if you were around in 1987, I was & Rock / Metal were at an all time HIGH.
it wasn't until 1991 when things started to change.
Finding this interview just made my day, month or even year...great interview and Axl talks great stuff.
Omgggg i’m gonna enjoy it so much
Did you like it? :)
This is a masterpiece. Thanks so much for sharing. It's awesome to listen to this interview before GNR became so big. Funny Axl's comments about Sweet Child. Thirty years later, most people say this is GNR's most famous song. I am righting from Mexico City. Greetings !
WHAT a GEM of a video! My favorite human being and singer EVER!
I could have listened to this for hours and hours, amazing upload, thank you 🤘
Glad you enjoyed it!
Axl is the most honest person I’ve ever heard when he wants to open himself up.Great stuff and thanks for sharing this with us fans.
best interview with Axl, actually
Interesting time to get Axles thoughts...right before they blew up! Appetite took awhile to catch on then sells like few albums ever have that's just crazy.
I hope Axl will do a live video, so us fans can ask him questions. 🥰❤✌
this is really amazing. Thank you!!
Agreed
I know Axl has a rep for being super high maintenance that is pretty well deserved but he comes off really down to earth here. Very confident but is humble enough to know that he's still learning and is just taking it all in.
Great interview!! Love it so much... Axl always been so nice when talking its senseful and I really love his speaking voice..Thank you so much for sharing this video😍💖💖💖
good interview, still listening to gnr to this day....
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Hard to believe there was a time when radio stations wouldn't play Sweet Child! Many thanks for the upload.
This is a fascinating interview given the time it was made; in between releasing one of the best selling records of all time and when it all blew up.
I got to speak to Axl after show in Knox Tn & he was just like this just cool as hell
Wow I love this interview, he's so smart and you can tell this is well thought out. I loved hearing all he had to say. Maybe Sweet Child will make it lol, crazy. Best band and frontman ever.
We agree!
Yes!!!
A few months before they were the biggest band in the world
Crazy how fast they blew up.
Excellent interview. Great questions & answers (of course ;) )
Great interview, really enjoyed this!
That was friggin great. Thanks sooo much for putting these up. After listening to the whole interview it was cool to hear Axl talking about art and how it is for him. Makes me think he and i would connect easily. Now its onto DIME! THANKS!!!
Thank you so much for being a subscriber. Most people on here are not. It really helps grow the channel, leading to more videos like this one. Your sub is appreciated. 🍻
I seen GnR open for Alice Cooper at the Gardens in Louisville KY. I had no idea who GnR was at the time. I'M a big Alice Cooper fan.... So when I seen GnR, I was Fu#k n amazed they KICKED ASS!
this is amazing he is only 25 here still a kid but was wise beyond his years and was not lacking in self confidence .he wasnt like i hope to be a rock star he was like im going to be a rock star and is rightfully miffed as to why appetite hadnt exploded yet
Wow. Never heard this one before! Axl was very consistant in his views and actions all thru out.
Such a shame they couldn't stay together back then and came out with a few more albums imagine if we had a 96 release and then maybe a '98/ '99 release, basically slash's snake pit and Chinese democracy together with a little juju hounds and you got the next gnr album that never was.
Look at GNR now! 34 years later and better than ever🤘❤🌹🔥💋
Are they? Are they really better than in say 1988?
@@TheTapesArchive absolutely
Jesus no so full of crap
@@jamesball5743 you're crazy
Thank you!
WOW!..GREAT Interview with unique NOT
runofthemill ?'s.
Never heard this. Thank you for sharing. 👍
Hey Bad Jesus! Glad you liked it! ...We appreciate you laying traps for John Denver and being cool to dogs.
I saw GnR open for Iron Maiden on the seventh son tour, Rough rider stadum, Ottawa Canada, back in 1988. GnR were supporting their first album Appetite for Destruction. They weren't even known that well at that time. I knew them. I had already bought their album, but you could tell that Maiden fans werent appreciating them at all. GnR were getting pretty pissed because people werent reacting
thank you for this🙏🏻✨❤️
Great interview of a young Axl Rose.
Awesome interview
It was early in the process of GnR becoming the biggest band in the world between late 1988 up to 1993 - Axl , eventually, would be misquoted a lot in interviews, which is why he most likely was a lot less accessible after this interview.
Thanks for the video. helped give me a better idea of who Axl is. I was thinking that he was the large part of the problems with the band. Now I kinda see where he is coming from.
As a die die hard singer(muscician/fan -historian) of Axl since I was 14 in 1991 until now I can’t believe I finally found this monumental great EARLY interview by accident. I just subscribed. You rock dude. I wish I had you’re job. Im in film school yeah at this age but everyone says I look about 28 anyway so lol I plan to make a film about Guns N’ Roses and this is a very one of many very reliable sources because there is so much funny books out there I literally have a bookshelf full of hardcover mostly signed Autobio rock biographies including/, DUFF, and Steve and now there’s book there’s never been a well documented fuck about axle I took from the reliable sources such as Rolling Stone which I still have in plastic and make addition the one axle was on a 1992 having this tape would well is so awesome I’m glad you have it and you had that job at the time I’m sure you could die happy man I know I would the dirt movie about Mötley Crüe I was like Courtney loves said I’m not a big fan of was silly just too silly and humor was stupid and I thought it didn’t capture that time unlike that time unlike what Tommy Lee and Nikki said and as much as I respect them they are two bozos compared to the intelligence of W Ask For rachel she was so ahead of his time discovering bands like Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, faith no more or at least bringing them to the main stream and Making people that were into guns say all right I guess Skid Row is cool lol. You know what I mean. Thanks for posting this tape it made my fucking day. I must add their story makes for just as much or even a more interesting one then Mötley Crüe I mean all these guys came from different places as we both know and ever changing lineups and all that acts will be in the most mysterious one even though he is a singer I have enough info to know like useless facts how his mom had him when he was 16 and he didn’t grow up well he did grow up Bill Bailey but was born W asked Rose by finding his birth certificate when he was 17 changing his name to William Rose and then finally W Axl Rose etc. stuff like that. Shit I could go on and on. I could die happy man just singing songs from 16 to 35 and cover bands like it’s so easy which is always are opening song almost all the time and Mr. brownstone and so fine and patience and they train me being a baritone was much easier for me to sing it wasn’t till the robber came out that my not so educated not singing bandmates realized oh that’s why you picked brownstone and it’s so easy you’re a baritone. I see so much of myself and this guy I grew up with dudes who picked up instruments guitars drums bases etc. because I was a singer and so motivated not a bad at such a early age I have the cheapest guy new invest in a pearl drum set that sound driven I was too bad drugs hit me early but it’s never too late all right I said enough by myself who gives a shit.I’m just so amped about this interview I’m not even done with it yet. Ralph Roulette
Thanks Ralph! "I wish I had you’re job. " lol..The pay is $0. BTW you can of course start your own channel too. Get crackin on the GNR movie. Save your money and quit film school.
That was incredible.
Best interview ever
Its so awesome how awesome he is
@25:18, the album he said is up there with the greats is Physical Graffiti / Led Zeppelin....
Axl was great but the fella interviewing him did just as good!
What drove him so crazy? He went off the deep end for years. The Chinese Democracy years were terrible for him. How did he get so crazy? Either way I'm glad he's back to making music with the band now. I wish it was the original GNR though
Money changes people.
This is a real time capsule.
I never thot Axle would like Mellencamp, or Queen! I mean, I LOVE THEM, but I jus figured he would hate them lol.
Fun interview.
This is excellent cheers for sharing
So intelligent for a 25 year old
Gold thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Did he say Appetite For Distruction hadn't made it to the top 50 albums yet ??? I may be mistaken but wasn't it ( still is) the biggest selling first album of all time ? It sold out the first day of release ???
Nope. Appetite took a long time to catch on. Sweet Child is what put them over the top.
@@TheTapesArchive yes you are rite as I looked it up on Wikipedia but so am I , it is the biggest selling debut album of all time even to this day .
Cool insight Axl
25:16 axl said physical graffiti, if anyone is wondering
Thanks!
Thanks, I was looking through to see if anyone figured it out. I used to listen to those 3 albums a bit.
And now 2021, Axl Rose, the last true rock start.
Well...What about Keith Richards and Mick?
@@TheTapesArchive I suppose for that generation yes. Im.not a fan of theirs at all
@@user-uv1rr5xk8i you can’t have GnR without the Stones.
In truth, that was the era were the crunch guitar was absolute king around the world. Great and happy times :)
do you have the phone interview on Rockline from 91 with Axl ?
The interview is on vimeo I think
How could you be so cool
Great to hear this! At 18:07 change "Bart" to "Mutt"
Good catch! Too late to fix...
Pure gold! 💛🤘😎🎩🎸
I saw them w Motley in 87 in SOFL, No one knew, The sound in the SPORTHOLE was so bad it was hard to hear.
Gotta admit my opinion of Axl Rose has been cold to Luke warm.But having heard him speak and be so open and down to earth . I always thought he was a jerk but now I'm pleasantly surprised it ain't so. Coming around!!! Coming around!!
Thanks 🙏
Good interview.
Quintessential. He’s in rare form man. Like Tom Petty said a year later with appetite broke I must mention by the way shit this is a poor sweet child the most viewed video in UA-cam history damn but Tom Petty said Axel was the most driven person he ever met probably circa 2002 I could definitely see that. He didn’t hold anything back how we felt about bands and all that shit he is like laws are at says rock ‘n’ roll personified . I got it Ed 25 years old guy from Indiana talking about sushi I’m 1/4 Japanese and Grew up and still live in New York and everyone thought I was a freak because I bought sushi to lunch sometimes to talk to sushi in my school when I was 14 in 1987 bringing it to lunch when I’m trying to say if this guy was so fucking ahead of his time it’s unreal. Great great questions I always felt well John Cougar is was a guilty pleasure of mine back when I used to hide my guilty pleasures “strictly when it came to music taste ”but then both being from Indiana I mean my first tapes were the illusion tapes and then I went backwards and John cougar American fool. Even at 14 I was so interested in things that people weren’t interested in. Very meticulous like you an interview would be you know like John cougar and ask for both being from Indiana no I thought that was ironic no one cares no one none of my friends like John cougar but I always wonder what Ask For thought of John cougar for many many years that’s how much of a hassle free Guy am. Thanks so much for putting this up I’m gonna say again thank you. For being a lead singer Asa rose with my biggest inspiration since I started a band at 14 in 1992.
This is cool bud I never heard this
Amazing to see how disciplined he is when most people would think he is just a drunk on stage.
Quite articulate.
The transcription of this interview is HILARIOUS at times. I'm assuming an automated CC software was used?
Axl should listen to this now and take his own advice.
advice on what?
What advice?
lol. go listen to your justin bieber!
I don't know if "advice" is the correct term, but he definitely sounds like a hypocrite railing against pretentiousness in this early interview. The UYI album/tour and how he carried himself in general going forward became the embodiment of pretentiousness.
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Gotta work on the transcribing a little but it's still cool to listen to!
But he kind of ended up softening the loud guitars for the Illusions. Anyway, this is the lucidest Axl I've ever listened to. Maybe partly because he was still on his way to the top.
Strange that Axl considered Whitesnake the biggest sell-out band ever, and then lets John Sykes nearly join the band 20 some-odd years later.
The 3rd albums Axl mentions is Physical Grafitti