GUNS N' ROSES STORIES

'It could happen, and it did: look around and you could even see the people

that it had happened to – David Lee Roth, singer with LA’s biggest home-grown

band, Van Halen, ligging with his manager, Pete Angelus, in the Rainbow;

Vince Neil, a Mexican kid from the wrong side of town now somehow singing

his way to platinum heaven with Mötley Crüe, dragging the mud-wrestling girls

from the Tropicana back to his house to party;'

'For Izzy Stradlin, things would get worse before they finally got better. On 27

August he was on a flight from Indianapolis, drunk and tired and obnoxious. He

‘must have’ told a stewardess to ‘fuck herself,’ he later recalled blurrily, before

jumping the queue for the toilet by relieving himself in a bin in the kitchen

galley. The pilot put the plane down at the nearest airport, which was Phoenix,

and Izzy was arrested for public indecency, a problem because he had a prior for

drug possession and could have been jailed for six months. Instead he got

another six months’ probation and had to keep peeing in cups for urine tests to

prove he was clean.'

'‘Welcome to the Jungle’, with the furious intensity of its knife-slashing

opening riff (itself almost cathartic after the tease of Slash’s guitar intro) and its

story of a wide-eyed country boy stepping off the bus and into the alien city, was

an obvious opener. ‘Paradise City’, the upside of the dream, was its perfect

counterpoint to close side one. Then ‘My Michelle’ to open side two, its story

about Michelle Young blisteringly frank and unblinking, was bookended by the

record’s final track, ‘Rocket Queen’, inspired by another of the band’s noir-ish

Hollywood circle, Barbi Von Greif (‘I wrote this song for a girl who was gonna

have a band and she was gonna call it Rocket Queen. She kinda kept me alive

for a while’, as Axl told'

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