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Guns N’ Roses: A Flash Before The Fall
By Johnny Firecloud
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Guns N’ Roses may be a Frankenstein monster only recognizable by its surgically-enhanced head nowadays, but there was a time when the name was synonymous with pure, unfiltered, Jack Daniels-soaked gut-punch Rock N’ Roll.
Here’s a video reminder of a time when Axl and Slash were poised to take the torch from Mick & Keith / Page & Plant as rock’s most legendary frontman/axeman duo. This performance of You’re Crazy and Used To Love Her is pulled from an episode of the ill-fated Fox Late Show in 1988.
The final seconds were cut (way to go, Mr. VHS), but the video’s worth posting for the simple fact that this kind of serpentine sex-rock just doesn’t exist anymore. The venereal slithery of what was Velvet Revolver couldn’t hold a pair of leather pants to the original GNR lineup, as evidenced here.
rock is dead. I wonder… you think if em pushed the envelope and pursued the melodies of Deja Vu a bit further if we could creatively gravitate toward something new. like the radio head of rap. why don’t these idiots realize the pedestal the have obtained?
Really? We’re going back to “rock is dead” already? Talk about a quitter mentality…
The second song must be an early version of the Common song. Creative evolution never ceases to amaze me = )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12YgEIFcAY
Blatant theft. GNR will be represented in this lawsuit by the law offices of Satriani and Stevens.
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