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"Bigus Dickus" <> wrote in message
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>> >> And Gun N Roses Appetite for Destrucrion is a great album.
>> >>
>> >
>> > They got lucky! Their first 2 were albums were total flops and where
>> > did
>> > they
>> > go after that? By 1989 they disappeared.
>>
>> Sorry but you're wrong. Debut album with the "good" roster was
>> "Appetite"
>> then "Lies" followed by the two "Illusion" albums. All of which did
>> extemely well. It did not fall apart until then (with the exception of
>> adding Matt Sorum on drums in '91). 20 million record sales for
>> "Appetite"
>> is definately my kind of lucky.
>>
>
> Maybe it was just one album, I was thinking two for some reason.
> regardless, I
> may have been a little off on the date, but you are wrong about Appetite
> being
> GnRs first Release.. I was working in a Music Store (Music+Plus) in the
> late
> 80's when their previous album was pulled from the shelves, it was just
> after
> "Appetite" hit it big. I remember this because I played the "Appetite"
> album on
> the store's system and thought...."Eh, not bad"...then about two weeks
> later I
> had to pull all the other GnR stuff off the shelves. They wouldn't even
> let the
> employee's buy them, they all had to go back.
My point was it was the first with Slash, Axel, Duff, Izzy, and Adler (who
was replaced by Sorum). That's what I consider the birth of the "real" GNR.
Just my $.02. And agreed, Metallica changed metal with "Whiplash" and is
still pretty durn good IMNSHO. Lars is a god, period.