Tons N’ Roses
No, you are not looking at late pitcher Rod “Shooter” Beck.
That’s Axl Rose, last night in Winnipeg.
Seriously.
We’re just hoping Axl just got middle-aged lazy on us and is not seriously ill and about to keel over like other formerly skinny singers who packed it on after 40.
Shit, even Steven ‘Popcorn’ Adler, original Guns drummer who’s survived a drug-induced stroke and God knows how many ODs, looks better than ol’ Waxl up there.
But while we’re here… why not take a minute to appreciate the absolutely stunning greatness of Appetite For Destruction-era Guns n’ Roses? The whole Gn’R myth has been reduced to tatters – and deservedly so – over the last twenty years but for one record, they were the fiercest, nastiest rock & roll band this country has ever produced. Between Axl’s screeching, venomous paranoia, the unparalleled guitar tag-team of Slash and Izzy Stradlin, and buckets of memorable riffs… hell, they should have broken up in 1989, because there was nowhere to go but down. But they didn’t, Axl remained the last man standing, and we wound up with some dude wearing a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket and Chinese Democracy.
And while they were always pretty cartoonish, here’s Guns N’ Roses in early ’88 before they became caricatures of themselves.
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