“One Evening, Walking Out With My Belly Filled With Its Meal Of The Day, I Saw A Guy Doing Business

“Just as the record label frenzy around us was heating up, some fallout from our Gardner space partying hit us. The cops busted down our door one night looking for Axl. They wanted him to answer what turned out to be a bogus rape charge. Our days became numbered there at Gardner. Axl didn’t do the crime, but the incident inspired a great song, “Out to Get Me,’ which we quickly added to our sets in early 1986. You can hear the depth of our collective anguish in that song, shitting ourselves that the record labels might get wind of the situation and break off their courtship: “You can't catch me, I’m fuckin’ innocent!”

Duff Mckagan, “It’s so easy and other lies”, 2011

“Steven Adler was really nice, and expressed himself with an infectious, almost childlike enthusiasm.

He said, "Listen, we're going to be great — going to get the feet stompin' and the hands clappin."

He still says that to this day when he climbs behind a drum kit and gets excited: going to get the feet stomping and the hands clapping.”

-𝘿𝙪𝙛𝙛 𝙈𝙘𝙠𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙣,

“𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨”, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟏

KELLY NICKELS OF L.A. GUNS ABOUT HIS FAV BANDS

WHAT IF YOU COULD TURN SOME FANS ONTO A FEW GROUPS THEY PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD?

Kelly: My favorite band is Dogs D'Amour! I love them because they are mostly acoustic now. I love their songs and attitude.

Their singer, Tyla, is a great lyricist. I'd definitely recommend them. I also listen to a lot of Elvis. Of course, the Sex Pistols, Jerry Lee Lewis, And some Pato Banton, he's a reggae guy. I love reggae! And I listen to a lot of really early rock songs on K-EARTH (a classic rock station in L.A.). Those songs were killer, man. They didn't even have distortion and they still rock!

You uncovered this outlaw soul

You should've gone, baby, long ago

But you shined a light where it was dark

On this wasted heart

«His howl was pure, unadulterated rage and anguish, not a vocal exercise; clearly, the first time that sound came out of him, it had come from the pit of his stomach»

-𝘿𝙪𝙛𝙛 𝙈𝙘𝙠𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙣,

“𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨”, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟏

LED ZEPPELIN AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, JULY 27, 1973

“Led Zeppelin remains unchanged. The group may perform different pieces, but the effect is the same. Jimmy Page’s lead guitar still dominates and mixes and merges with Robert Plant’s agile voice to provide the basic essence of Zeppelin. And Page is still into musical freakiness; dramatically dragging a violin bow across his guitar, he did his familiar squealing impersonation before boogieing off. Page’s guitar more often than not sounds like thunder, but for all the power and fury at their disposal, the stage had much scaffolding on either side to hold the equipment, Zeppelin manages to provide some separation of instruments in the blare”

review from the eyewitness

“Oh, and also we didn't write songs about elves and demons and shit—unless, of course, you considered Mr. Brownstone a demon”

Duff Mckagan, “It’s so easy and other lies”, 2011

☆˙∘ Izzy Stradlin and Tracii Guns, 1988 ☆˙∘

Are you open to write smutty gnr fanfics for usssss?🤤🤤 if i requested something? 🥹

Uhmmmm also how far do you go? speaking of kinks including in the fics?

to be honest, i don’t think i’m a good writer… i’ve never written my own fanfic, only as a co-author with some of my friends. you can find a lot of good writers in my subscriptions, i really enjoy their works) but i’ll think about it…

“The day of the rescheduled show arrived. It rained and rained. It continued to rain during the show. Then, as Axl played the opening chords of “November Rain,’ the sun broke through the clouds. Everyone in the audience crossed themselves. After the song, the rain began again.”

Duff Mckagan, “It’s so easy and other lies”, One of the performances from Use Your Illusion tour