Knew it

Damn that’s a sweet pic. Any Chinese Demo news in that thing?

lol goons

I hope they interview Izzy Stradlin he’s the only one with any credibility left.

So will Axl and the current lineup get a cover when “Chinese Democracy” comes out?

Way to go Rolling Stone! Printing a 20 year old picture on your cover. Way to stay hip!

That is a pic of the most dangerous band in music’s history.

Guns n’ Roses, Guns n’ Roses !

And to all those opposed… Hmm Well, Hmmm…

chinese again…

sick freak!!!

but when cd come out i’ll take it 4 sure…

great cover RS!!! i love guns n f***** roses!!!

Lame, lame, LAME cover! If you’re going to do ANOTHER nostalgia piece, at least get the band back together for an ‘07 photo. People are going to think this is a 1992 issue put back on the news stands. I expect better from this magazine.

awesome cover RS!

The last great America rock band. What the world needs now is Axl.

Ummm, is that Velvet Revolver? I don’t know, I still can’t figure out who’s on the cover of the next issue.

Another Issue I won’t be picking up.

That issue is gonna be great to line the bottom of the my bird cage and see who’s face gets crapped on first.

Is this a joke??

To whoever said that what the world needs now is Axl….why?!?! Yeah, that’s exactly what we need, the original rocker who made throwing temper tantrums, cancelling entire concerts because his friggin’ throat hurt, and assaulting fans and security guards! Axl is a washed-up, pot-bellied joke and he doesn’t deserve another chance at the limelight! Face it, GnR are GONE and, frankly, I could do without ever hearing Welcome to the F–king Jungle again!!!

The most dangerous band in music’s history? Hmm . . . what made them so dangerous? The fact they drank alcohol? Oh wow, that is so crazy! Haha. You’ve gotta be kidding me.

how awful

Rock needs Axl Rose because he is one of the greatest frontmen in music history. Those who focus on the controversy are missing the point. Look at the music and the performances.

kick ass cover

Appetite was a better-than-average album, so it’s “anniversary” may deserve a little mention somewhere in your mag, but the cover? As if Axl’s ego wasn’t unduly inflated enough already…

very cool cover for a great album and band

when r yall gonna get an aerosmith cover out again?

when r yall gonna get an aerosmith cover out again?

izzy looks cool in ever picture i think

Better than average? Are you serious? It was voted by Spin as the best hard rock/metal album of all time. And don’t talk about Axl and his ego like you know him when you’re just regurgitating media-fueled perceptions of him. You don’t know him so don’t talk about him like you do.

appetite for destruction is top to bottom my favorite album of all time

and gnr is my favorite band

guns n roses were the poster children of unadulterated, decadent rock excess and everything wild and dangerous that hard rock is and should be. it a pity nowadays all rock bands do are make headlines for dating pop queens. i wonder if theyll perform together for their rock n roll hall of fame induction (cuz u know thats just around the corner)

A strange tribute, considering new Velvet Revolver and current re-worked G’N'R line up is touring in Europe. At any rate, I can’t deny how much I dug those early G’N'R days and the orignal gunners. They were bad ass back in the day. I wore out my “Appetite for Destruction” TAPE(dating myself) from playing it in my car so much. That album truly rocked!

Or you could have done a cover with the new band. You know, actually be relevant for once?

Great Cover.
This album surely deserves it.

Hope you have information about VR’s “Libertad” and Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy”, also, besides the Appetite story.

Glad to see a cover with a real band in it, even if this real band ain’t together anymore…

look that album is great, but it doesn’t deserve this sort of treatment.

Fact is, axl is a loser who doesn’t have enough talent to release another decent album. He realizes that just by delaying the release of Chinese Democracy, he can stay in the news because enough loser fans can’t get over a band that peaked 20 years ago and is now (for all intensive purposes) DEAD!!

Yet another RS issue coming out that makes me glad I don’t spend money on this garbage…

look that album is great, but it doesn’t deserve this sort of treatment.

Fact is, axl is a loser who doesn’t have enough talent to release another decent album. He realizes that just by delaying the release of Chinese Democracy, he can stay in the news because enough loser fans can’t get over a band that peaked 20 years ago and is now (for all intensive purposes) DEAD!!

Yet another RS issue coming out that makes me glad I don’t spend money on this garbage…

come on guys. your magazine is famous because of your covers and then you put out an old pic that didn’t even require a new pic section? shame on you. you should have put velvet revolver in there.

for 20 years (20 years!) these fans have been GNRs diehards…losers

Axl is loser? Let me ask you, how many times platinum did your band’s debut album go?

Anyone that feels the need to make such broad insulting generalizations is likely what he is accusing others of being.

This is one of the greatest albums in rock history. Period.

Ali

this is just an absolute shame to all of music. Axl Rose does not deserve any recognition, once a loser, 20 years later, always a loser!

axel looks like johny deep as george jung in blow in this pic

I really like the cover. It brings back memories. It is sad, though, to think that all that’s left is a fake GnR trying to pass as the original.

Say what you want, you know you still sing along to the radio when the come on. Shaananananana nee nee.

No fake GN’R. A new GN’R just like with Ronnie James Dio, there was a new Sabbath. New chapters in the stories of those two bands.

Ali

To Ali: You’re right. I don’t know him. I’m just judging from what I’ve ssen during his shows and interviews, and you have to agree with me that he’s never been a poster boy for modesty. So, do you actually know the guy? Is he, like, all humble?

WHO CARES!!?? Guns N Roses suck now, and they sucked then. They ALWAYS SUCKED.

The Greatest Ever, you have got to be kidding. Doesn’t even compare with Led Zeppelin who is THE GREATEST metal band ever. GNR were always over rated. Appetite is good record but comparing with classic Zeppelin, NOT!

Appetites was a decent album, but come on it’s not music from big pink or dark side of the moon. Celebrate a real album. I suspect there is a shortage of things to talk about if you are celebrating hair metal anniversaries.

Guns N’ Roses were great. But Rollingstone has had artists far past their heyday on the cover in too many recent issues.

Next , put Van Halen…..Reunion

http://www.jcgarza.com/blog,

I wasn’t the one speaking of him as if I know him. I was merely defending the fact that you don’t know him either and shouldn’t be making comments on his character. The public only gets to see a fraction of any celebrities actions and interactions with others. To talk about them as if you know them based on that fraction is ludicrous.

luckily barry gold, gnr arent metal there a hard rock band

No, I’m not kidding. And if you think it’s just one person who considers Appetite the best hard rock/metal album ever, wake up. A well known and respected publication called Spin declared it the best hard rock/album ever. I said it is one of the best. I wouldn’t even call Zeppelin a metal band, also.

GNR reunion will happen very soon !

It’s gonna be awesome !!!

Ah yes, 1987…..Two albums ruled the roost that year…Joshua Tree and this one. Both have not only withstood two decades of ever-changing trends, but when played today, sound timeless in their own way. Simply put, this album rocks harder than anything out there today. I’m sure it’s easy to mock any current lineup Velvet Revolver or G N R may boast now, but boy that cover is still awesome.

I think i saw Stevn working at Mc Donalds on Sunset blvd.!

I think i saw Steven working at Mc Donalds on Sunset blvd.!

Joe,

You are dead on. Both albums still hold up and Appetite rocks harder than anything out today.

Ali

so will u2 be on the cover for the 20th anniversary of the joshua tree

so will u2 be on the cover for the 20th anniversary of the joshua tree

I’m from Argentina and I don’t speak english very well so I’ll try….Gun’s & roses…I love them,they were a very good band I wish I borned before so I could meet them..now they are separate but the music they played belongs to the history…I love this magazine

I’m from Argentina and I don’t speak english very well so I’ll try….Gun’s & roses…I love them,they were a very good band I wish I borned before so I could meet them..now they are separate but the music they played belongs to the history…I love this magazine

I’m afraid it’s a little too late for the 20th anniversary special of The Joshua Tree… I think it came out in March or something like that. Maybe the fact that they’re still around with the same line-up, getting Grammys and filling stadiums means they don’t need a nostalgia cover?

Didn’t i see Steven Adler scooping up dog shit on the side of the highway?

*sigh* i was afraid of this…oh well, at least the cover looks kind of cool in a nostalgic sort of way…

Maybe The Joshua Tree isn’t getting a cover because it didn’t put an entire genre on its ass like Appetite did. That record shook up the entire hard rock genre, while The Joshua Tree, as much as it is a classic, did not have the same genre shaking effect.

Ali

I think that if we’re seeing to many “old” artists in the covers of this magazine it is, perhaps, due to the lack of great artists today out there…

Yawn…

How can anybody diss this album? Appetite is one of the greatest albums of all time. You can’t find a single person who hasn’t heard Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O’ Mine, or Paradise City. And to have them all on one album, absolutely amazing. No matter what Axl has done these last 15 years, you can’t take away what he did when these guys were together. Slash wrote music better than anybody else ever, even if it wasn’t extremely technical. This album saved music for a good 5 years. And it beats any individual Zeppelin album, including IV, anyday.

Thanks Ali. You and Garza make interesting points about the lasting effects of both albums. All I know is that I had them both memorized within a month of their respective releases :O) I have to agree that AFD did retool a whole genre, but JT did a lot to retool the way we look at stadium and arena rock as well. JT also had several different styles on one album too, so its appeal was a little more diverse. Both albums occupy a prominent place in my musical pantheon.

Appetite was a good album; about half of the songs were memorable and the rest eventually made me trade the disc back several years later. This year’s release should be called Appetite for Resurrection.

Lame. One of the most OVER RATED bands in music history.
No wonder I do not read Rollin Stone
any longer.

Appetite is the strongest hard rock record I’ve ever heard from top to bottom. What a classic!

What a breath of fresh air they were when they first hit the scene. They looked so tough as compared to all the hairspray and lipstick wearing posuers. And the record was exactly the same. That record just ripped everybody’s heads clean off. Such an ATOMIC start for that band! When I first heard them I thought, “Wow, there’s going to be another Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones for “My Generation.” What happened? Where did it all go wrong? I must have worn out twenty cassettes of that one. I can still listen to it and kicks my ass just as much as the first time I heard it. I guess it can summed like this. Axl replaced a guy with a RAZOR SHARP name like SLASH for a Kentucky Fried Chicken name like Buckethead. By the way, drugs or no drugs, Steven Adler KICKS Matt Sorum’s LAME ASS UP AND DOWN HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD!!! Rockbutterfly

guns is the best!!

Bands that are overrated don’t have records that still sell hundreds of thousands of copies 20 years after its release.

More than dissing the album, I think what most people are saying is that it just doesn’t deserve this homage. And to say that The Joshua Tree didn’t shake foundations… well, let’s just say I don’t remember ever seeing GnR on the cover of Time magazine.

In regards to the comment about RS celebrating a real album, I just have to say:

Appetite For Destruction is the 2nd highest selling debut album in the U.S. They’ve sold over 15 million copies of this record. Boston has sold over 17 million of their self titled debut, which puts them at number 1. Even if you aren’t a fan of GNR, you have to respect that. Plus, they were innovative. They took the fast rythms of punk and mixed it with the heaviness of metal. It was and still is one of the greatest albums of all time.

“crotchfunk | 7/25/2007, 1:43 pm EST

Appetites was a decent album, but come on it’s not music from big pink or dark side of the moon. Celebrate a real album. I suspect there is a shortage of things to talk about if you are celebrating hair metal anniversaries.”

You’re missing my point. The Joshua Tree did not reshape an entire genre of music like

This cover is badass, just like the original Guns N’Roses. I can’t even give VR or the new GNR a chance, they will never touch Appetite For Destruction. I like a lot of modern music, but Rock has been neutered over the past 20 years, When Appetite came out it just unzipped it’s fly and threw it’s nuts on the table in a way that hadn’t been done before, and has yet to be done since.

the joshua tree should be on the cover. it was very earth-shattering and life changing-for me at least- we should start a petiion to get cheap shit like Gn’R off the cover and U2 on

I’m not saying U2 didn’t have a global effect to warrant being on Time. Appetite showed people what real hard rock was and more importantly, what it wasn’t, like Poison, The Bulletboys, Ratt, etc.

If it didn’t deserve this homage, it wouldn’t have been given it. Do you think the people at RS take who they put on their cover lightly?

Time magazine sucks. Unlike U2, GNR was a raw rock’n'roll band that’s why GNR never did the Time cover.

A GNR REUNION WOULD BE FUCKIN’ AMAZING !!!!!!!!

Yeah, such great memories of getting stoned and wasted man. Those were the days!

Take me down to the paradise city where the weed is green and the girls have big titties, yeah take me down!

20 year anniversary of “Appetite”?
Great album, but,…a cover about it 20 years later? This only fuels the arguments for humdreds of other worthy CD’s that could be honored on their anniversaries. It doesn’t seem like any new ground was broken.

Why did RS make such a big deal about GNR on the cover? Why not put some good (i.e. NOT Fall Out Boy or Panic at the Disco) bands that are touring and making albums now. Maybe the Arcade Fire. How about the White Stripes? Why not the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Wilco? NIN? Linkin Park?

Someone on here said “Izzy is the only one with any credibility left”.

…Izzy regularly plays with Axl’s new band and refused to join/play with Velvet Revolver. What does that tell you?

Great choice, RS!

Too bad Axl probably won’t give an interview and there won’t be any Chinese Democracy news.

P.S. I can’t wait for the “20 Year Anniversary of Use Your Illusion” cover.

Anyone who claims “GN’R only made one good album” is certifiably insane.

fantastic album fantastic band

I agree…….Joshua Tree is great, but no Appetite as far as impact. And while we’re at it, what about Prince……..Sign O’ the Times?

ROCK N MOTHERF*CKING ROLL
I still listen to appetite almost every day and it never ever gets close to feeling 20 years old
its still relevant!!!

Jeff,

Right on. Izzy and Axl are more than cool now. They did an amazin rendition of “Think About You” last year in NYC. Wow!

U2 = Europe
Guns n Roses : American Rock Band

G’n'R – appetitte , Van Halen – 1 , Metallica – black , AC/DC – back in black

Damn. That cover makes me almost wanna buy a R.S again! The baddest band in the world..reunited again…on the cover at least.

Record sales say absolutely nothing about a band or artists talent.

Should you doubt this, explain “American Idol” fans.
Horrible maufactured junk music for the masses, and yet people purchase
albums and even pay to see these dolts in concert.

As in most cases in society, peope buy what they are told to buy.

I you somehow think Guns N’ Roses are an “original” band, perhaps you should check out their influences.
Guns N’ Roses ripped off The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Hanoi Rocks,
The Clash, and others.

“AFD” is not the worst album in rock history, however, it hardly deserves a 20 year tribute.

Ok, I was 17 in 1987 and Appetite was the best Hard Rock album I had ever heard. It was huge and was every bit as influential (or more so) as Nevermind and Joshua Tree. This was a LA Punk album as well as a hard rock record. Look at what was big then, Synth rock, bullshit like Winger, Madonna and Collage Rock (no such thing as Alternative then folks) that nobody listened to unless you were in collage…oh, and John Melencamp was big too.

I remember getting AFD on cassette and playing it non-stop for weeks. It kicked Van Hagar’s ass. It was more Janes Addiction than Metallica and more Rolling Stones than, well, the Rolling Stones. It was more Sex Pistols than anything really. It stands up very well today, better than Grunge does.

I can’t understand some people, Appetite was one of the greatest Rock albums . Those who disslike AFD mybe you should go to the doctor to chek out your ears, cause your deaf!
Guns N’ Roses made a change in rock music.

GNR was great, when they were together. can this magazine cover anything that’s actually happening now?

Per Wikipedia:
The band has sold an estimated 90 million albums worldwide,[3] including 39 million in the US.[4] Their 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, sold over 26 million copies worldwide and reached #1 in the U.S.

90 Million albums sold!!!!! Overrated??? Anyone who says so is an idot and a hater.

I think I meant College Rock – sorry!

I think I meant College Rock – sorry!

I could have sworn i saw Steven Adler peddling his ass on Sunset blvd.!

anyone who disses this album or Guns N Roses were not around 20 years ago to enjoy this record’s breath of fresh air from all the crap being plastered all over MTV, the radio, etc…THis album has withstood the sand of time sort of speak for the last 20 years, i think i read that it sometimes sneaks up into the Billboard Top 200, and sells thousands of copies each year to this day. This album should be honored by RS…just like Nirvana will be when Smells Like Teen Spirit hits 20th anniversary…these albums changed the rock scene…Anyone who disses Axl should consider that he had one messed up childhood, from sexual abuse to physical abuse…Axl also is a whipping boy for the media, they love to hate on him because even to this day, with 15 years of silence with no album when Axl Rose speaks people listen…not to many frontmen have that type of power, especially ones who have been out of the spot light for 15 some years.

Ahhhhh GNR! The last great rock band out of the Led Zepplin/Rolling Stones/Aerosmith mold. AFD was a miracle. Its such a shame GNR split up in the mid 90s. BTW, I’ve heard 7 new GNR demos from the mythical Chinese Democracy and they are legit. More “GNR” than Velvet Revolver. I would compare the music to the Use Your Illusion records with a slight Nine Inch Nails/industrial tint.

this album was good . . . in 1987. Just like Nirvana, this type of music is dated. Next year In the Aeroplane Over the Sea turns 10- that’s an album worth celebrating.

To add to my previous comment- The below figures are really remarkable when you think that they only had 3 original studio albums: Appetite and both Illusions. That is how much they are loved.

Per Wikipedia:
The band has sold an estimated 90 million albums worldwide,[3] including 39 million in the US.[4] Their 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, sold over 26 million copies worldwide and reached #1 in the U.S.

90 Million albums sold!!!!! Overrated??? Anyone who says so is an idot and a hater.

AFD has some good tunes on it, and it may have been a breath of fresh air at the time, it certainly doesn’t warrant a 20 year revisit. GnR didn’t change music, they found a niche among all the crappy hair metal and exploited it. But like every other metal band from the eighties they were obsolete by 1993. It is time people look at what GnR really were, a good rock band with a prick for a lead singer who would walk offstage if he didn’t like the mix in the monitors, not saviors or innovators of rock n roll.

To those who wonder why RS puts older bands on their covers…….well, what going on nowadays deserves a cover? And don’t say AFI, Fallout Boys, Nickle Dick, etc. I know music isn’t all about sales but the origial GNR sold over 90 million records! And they only had 4 original albmums!!!!!!!!

at least this is better than the police cover

Michael Jackson has sold MORE than 90 Million records, didn’t he have a record in 1987? Maybe we should revisit it.

…and according to an interview I read, apparently Axl’s piano keys got spit on backstage by no other than…
…oh, nevermind.

When will this publication ever recognize John Mellencamp’s outstanding career by putting him on the cover again? Mellencamp is long overdue for another RS Cover. How about honoring the 20th anniversary of Mellencamp’s The Lonesome Jubilee. One of the best albums ever made — period.

when is the arcade fire going to be on the cover of rolling stone. i know they had a write up a couple months back but lets get on that cover

What was the greatest debut album by a band Guns and Roses Appetite or Pearl Jam’s Ten?

I vote Ten.

What kind of knob complains about the Arcade Fire not getting a RS cover?

GNR were so kick ass and out of control and AFD encapsulates that perfectly. I can only imagine what a cocaine fueled GNR set on the sunset strip was like in ‘87. What is there around today that can compete with that raw and unstable band?

Jack White’s too busy masturbating to himself in a mirror and attempting to make high-art that hipster snobs eat up, but ride Jimmy Page for “ripping off every blues player ever” when Jack White is doing the same thing, but only blatantly and 35 years later.

The Arcade Fire? There’s a lot of instuments…that’s about all I can say about them.

Snow Patrol or The Shins? This stuff puts me to sleep faster than the stuff they give you at the dentist before they pull your wisdom teeth.

And the criticism that Axl is a dick needs to be put into context. His asshole ways made the band as volatile and unpredictable. They were what they were because they were all fucked up, drunk, womenizing, drugged out psychos. People like Chris Martin who act like they’re the second coming of Jesus just piss me right off because your soft piano ballads are bland as white bread and you preaching about how great they are doesn’t make it so.

Bring the rock and forget boring music.

I vote Ten as well. The song Deep is pretty mean sounding, and Eddie tears it up when they play it live.

On-Topic
No question.
10 over AFD, by far.
Pearl Jam never went into hiatus, and are still going strong to this day.
Pearl Jam is everything that GNR is not.

I think it’s also the 10th anniversary of the original release date of Chinese Democracy.

Ten and Appetite are both great, but the better overall band award easily goes to Pearl Jam.

On-Topic: So your reason for 10 being better that Appetite is because Pearl Jam never went into hiatus and are still going strong today? What about the actual albums and the songs on them? PJ never going into hiatus has nothing to do with comparing the albums.

What about putting Poison on the cover? 20 years of Poison kick ass rock n roll – the best band ever. Who cares about GNR. I want to see Poison on there with all their lipstick and clothes. It is Poison that is the most influential band of all time!

pearl jam is great but i love guns n roses more. Just my opinion

Guns N’ Roses are not “original” or “innovative” by any means.
They looked pretty much like every other “hair metal band” of the 80’s.
They did not sound all that original either.

As far as being an “idiot”, a “hater” or “deaf” concerning GNR’s
music, perhaps you should listen to
the real musicians whom “paved the way” for GNR.

GNR’s first EP, “Live Like a Sucicide” was their best work.
Although, much of it are covers of
songs, such as “Mama Kin”.
I had this EP before most people
even knew who the hell GNR were.
A year and a half later, everyone was buzzing about “that “new” band Guns N’ Roses”.

They basicly became an MTV band (brand), along with Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, and Poison.

In fact, without the MTV video
generation of the 80’s, GNR most likely would have not become such a huge name.

Those Who find a woman beating, ego-maniac, drug fiend, whom has no vocal talent such as Axl Rose to be a hero is just plain pathetic.

Classic (Early) Aerosmith, Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The clash,
and Classic (Early) Van Halen, are
all a better choice than GNR.

i like the old rehash covers (pink floyd and guns n roses covers)

Dear bodi,
It has everything to do with the music itself and the difference in attitude. Ever pay attention to the lyrics on 10? Compare it yourself to a song like welcome to the jungle. You be your own judge.
Pearl Jam was always more than just partying it up.

What a completely deplete rock scene now. Rolling Stone will sell more magazines with a 20yr old band on it’s cover, than with any new band. Sad commentary. Shouldn’t this album/band get more recognition for stamping out the tired Hair Metal scene & fashions of the late 80’s, as opposed to Nirvana getting all that credit….Like them or not, probably the last big C Rock band to really capture the imaginations of the rock fans.

AFD changed a genre and defined a whole generation some of you say?
Gun’s ‘N Roses fans would probably get themselves killed in a mosh pit, or worse yet, kill eachother.
There’s an “ART” to moshing.

GNR rules!!!! I still listen to this album everyday. As far as 10 goes..its was ok but not any where near as inspiring as Appetite for Destruction.

Your a moron, let people mosh how they want

GnR will kick your lame ass

Sam Adams is one dumb soam bitch.

Jeremy’s Spoken: Damn right its all about the music. Its the lyrics, AND the guitar solos, AND the vocal range of the singer, AND the quality of music throughout the entire record. Yea 10 is a great record and the lyrics are legit and deep. Appetite was a different record than 10 obviously. It was raw rock and roll with killer vocals and killer guitar riffs and solos, all while remaing honest and real. Appetite was a bigger and more successful record than 10. It had a bigger impact than 10. The truth is that Appetite For Destruction deserves a 20 year cover on RS more than 10 will.

GN’R vs. Pearl Jam?

Uh, to quote a song off Appetite…You’re fucking CRAZY!

C’mon now – “Paradise City” vs. “Even Flow”

“Welcome To The Jungle” vs. “Jeremy”

“Sweet Child” vs. “Alive”

and I love Ten, great record. But give me a break!

How many guitar players picked one up because they wanted to be like Slash? Can you name one person on earth who said “I saw Stone Gossard up on that stage and knew what I was gonna do with my life from that point on?”

Some of you people crack me up.

Axl was/is a rock star with insane vocal range and one of the best performers rock music has ever seen.

Eddie is an anti-rock star, more of the Michael Stipe type.

There is no contest here, and I like both bands.

guns n roses kick ass

Sam Adams,

You are so way off base in so many of your comments. GN’R looked nothing like any hair metal band. Wake up! Look at the cover photo, do you see any lipstick or eyeliner?

Every has their influences, that does not make them ripoffs!!! Even your precious Sex Pistols, Aerosmith and Van Halen did! What GN’R did that was unique, was not the invention of a sound, but a combination of influences such as punk, metal and bluesy rock.

As far as your comments on Axl, I’ll say what I said to the other guy and add to it. When was Axl Rose ever accused of a crime regarding any kind of physical abuse towards women? Never. When was he ever admitted to rehab? Never.

If Axl Rose really had no vocal talent, he wouldn’t be consistently regarded, and yes consistently, by magazines such as Hit Parader, Spin, Classic Rock, etc. as one of the best frontmen ever.

Those views you have expressed are in the great minority.

Ali

I love this cover and I dont need to argue about it – jungle land – you said it best, nice work.

Young GNR was a Powder Keg, ready to blow. Raw Energy. Sure they borrowed from some, but they were original. Axl lost sight of what made them such a draw, but for a while, they ruled the world.

Young GNR was a Powder Keg, ready to blow. Raw Energy. Sure they borrowed from some, but they were original. Axl lost sight of what made them such a draw, but for a while, they ruled the world.

Rudy Pilfer said: “Sam Adams is one dumb soam bitch.”

I am intelligent enough to realize that “soam” is not a word.
Thus, also proving the mentality of most GNR fans.

Sam Adams, you’re a tool and I’ll tell you why.

“I knew the band before they were popular, and I was over them by the time they became popular. I’m so ahead of the curve all of you MTV watching and radio listening sheep are ruining independent music.”

No one cares if you liked them first and can name obscure songs from their early days except for the rest of your contrary hipster jerk friends. And who the hell are you to say you don’t like bands comprised of junkie womanizers when you cite Aerosmith and the Sex Pistols? What the hell drug are you on?

I like music that sounds good to me, not to be some contrary prick because I have nothing interesting to say, so I do endless research into useless matter so I can disagree with everyone else down the road. Then I’ll meet some miserable twat like me and finally make a friend.

Stop being a tool and bragging about how ahead of the times you are and say you don’t like G’n'R, or any other band for that matter, for a real reason. What a dick.

GNR already got their butts kicked ages ago. And yes, they were an 80’s hairband, albeit the most successful one of them all. If GNR were really responsible for wiping out hairbands, then they succeeded in wiping themselves out also.

Sam Adams is the minority

Live: GNR wasn’t a hair band and they had more to do with wiping out hair bands than Nirvana. By the way, GNR weren’t wiped out by anybody, they broke up. They outsold Nirvan from 1991 to 1994 when Cobain killed himself and GNR broke up.

And Sam Adams uses the word “thus”. You’d probably have a smug, self-satisfied look on your face after using the word “irregardless” thinking that you’re so intellectually superior to everyone, not even realizing you’re a moron who’s making up nonsense, double-negative words just so sound smart. People like you prevent the advancement of mankind. Go listen to Morrisey and cry your lonely self to sleep.

My favorite band ever on the cover

nice

The only band I like these days is Kings Of Leon. They have the same raw, original sound and some controlled volatility that GN’R created. The rest of them make me want to start listening to rap– MCR,Arcade, Shins, Raconteurs, Strokes and the most hilarious of ‘em all….FOB. I pray for rock n’ roll’s soul.

It’s a matter of individual taste and preference.
I’ll take Eddie Vedder’s voice over Axl’s any day. Axl’s singing is very irritating, whiny and annoying to me, but that’s just me.
I respect Slash – no question, he is a very talented musician. But so is Mike McCready. It shouldn’t be a contest.

being a good frontman and being a good vocalist are two totally different things.

david lee roth is a good frontman
chris cornell is a good vocalist
axl rose is a good frontman
jon anderson (i bet none of you even know who that is) is a good vocalist

a frontman has to be the face of the band; the leader of the band, the person whose stage presence makes them such a live act; they don’t have to be an amazing singer

Maynard would eat them alive and Danny would use their bones for drum sticks while Adam and Justin would circle jerk off into slashes silly hat. These wannabe models would get slaughtered against true rockers.

izzy looks awesome in that picture

Sam Adams, you are a stupid mofo who is trying to sound educated. Also, if you were such the music buff as you are implying than you would know that ALL musicians generally rip off other musicians. It’s called “Influence”.
THE GREAT BOB DYLAN got started from nowhere by lying and singing mostly Woody Guthrie songs.
That would also be called a rip-off by your stupid ass terms.
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are an original American rock band but they also ripped off other rockers before them… The Byrds, Elvis, The Beatles, etc… Again, this is called “influence”.
Not ALL GNR fans are ignorant trailer trash rednecks as you are assuming.
And for all you people who leave comments like “no wonder I don’t read Rolling Stone”… Why the hell are you on the website?

GNR “was” a hairband, as far as some of us are concerned. But you are entitled to your own opinion also. I was around in the 80’s during that whole hairband era. GNR just happened to become the most commercially successful of them all.

“*VV* | 7/25/2007, 2:01 pm EST

I think that if we’re seeing to many “old” artists in the covers of this magazine it is, perhaps, due to the lack of great artists today out there… ”

Radiohead? White Stripes? Kings Of Leon? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Arcade Fire? Strokes? Hives? Raconteurs?
My Morning Jacket? Wolfmother?
Mars Volta? Ryan Adams? Spoon? Muse? I could go on…

Look, there are bunches of great bands out there who haven’t been on the cover (or haven’t in a while).

Point is, maybe having all these old bands proves rather that there are no new good bands, but rather that Rolling Stone has lost touch with the scene.

Look, anybody who has been paying attention for a while knows the publication has seriously dropped off. They write stories about old topics because they lack the creativity/ taste to write about decent new topics.

Ali,

Thank you for the debate.

First and foremost, I am simply indicating the influences of GNR.

They found a following among all the other “hair metal bands” during the 80’s, and they became a “Dial-MTV” band.(where you voted for the top 10 videos of the day).

GNR started of on the L.A. strip as
a raw “glam band”.
In fact, early photos of Axl pre-AFD show him wearing eyeliner and lipstick.
The “Welcome To the Jungle” video
shows Axl with “teased, big hair”
and a more toned down glam look.

However, make-up, no make-up,
GNR became a name along with the company of Bon Jovi, Poison, Cinderella, and Motley Crue.
The above mentioned bands appeared
daily on Dial-MTV.

Axl Rose was dating a “supermodel”
in the early 90’s, and she had left him due to continued violence in the relationship.

Ali, I can’t believe you’re on this page playing Axl apologist here, too. This is a not a GNR site so I’d be interested in how many people disagree with you about the new line-up. I say not GNR. Ali says it’s a new chapter for GNR. Who agrees with me and who agrees with him?

This is great news. Appetite for Destruction is, along Zeppelin’s untitled, the most perfectly realized hard rock album of all time. It’s wild, vicious and mean, but also emotional and heart-felt (the second section of Rocket Queen).I will get a dozen copies of this issue and give them away to my friends. RS has regained my respect with this hugely deserved tribute.

Hey Sam Adams, if you had the first Guns record before people knew who they where, that puts you at like 45 years, Go listen to coldplay or whatever else they play on Easy rock and get a life

mark,
a good vocalist is preferable over a good frontman, wouldn’t you say?
how about the bands which have “both”? i can think of at least a few. pj is one of them.

almost none of the bands you named are actually popular enough to be on the cover of a magazine with 1.5 million circulation

Radiohead? no new album
White Stripes? only decent suggestion
Kings Of Leon? don’t sell records
Yeah Yeah Yeahs? don’t sell records
Arcade Fire? don’t sell records
Strokes? don’t sell records, no new album
Hives? no new album
Raconteurs? don’t sell records
My Morning Jacket? don’t sell records, no new album
Wolfmother? no new album, don’t sell records
Mars Volta? don’t sell records
Ryan Adams? don’t sell records
Spoon? don’t sell records
Muse? suck

I could go on…

Maynard would like to offer sandwiches to all the angry, hostile GNR fanatics.

What a great band and what a great album! Guns N’ Roses 20 years ago was classic, but I think today’s Guns N’ Roses with Axl’s new line-up is even better.

Axl Rose – an ignorant hick from the middle of nowhere who once had talent and got lucky and is now a joke of a musician, a sham of a showman, and the laughingstock of everybody from fans, to his industry, to his musician peers.

Thanks Maynard.

Good food, excellent band.

WHY!?

THIS IS THE YEAR

you’re welcome sam…chew and digest it very very slowly.

No! dont eat those sandwiches. They are ham and everyone knows that ham sandwiches are easy to choke on!

Interpol should have made the cover!!! WTF, why the reissues?! Rollingstone running out of ideas?

Interpol should have made the cover!!! WTF, why the reissues?! Rollingstone running out of ideas?

great guitarists
great vocalist
great band

suck

Yeah!!!!!!!!:)

awesome album and it should be remembered forever

90 million albums sold. Period. Argument over. Appetite, I’ve read from 16 million to 30 million, and some above. Motley Crue sold 35 million albums total. The Illusions beat that. Appetite sold more than DSOTM and all Zeppelin albums. Why does Appetite have an average rating of 5 on iTunes with over 200 ratings when almost no other album does? Explain that. Jungle, Sweet Child, Paradise City vs. any other 3 songs kick the shit out of them. Only contender is Black Dog, Rock and Roll, and Stairway. Idiotic people who think Pearl Jam can touch GN’Rs success…

How can anyone compare bands such as
Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Aerosmith or Tom Petty to Guns & Roses.

Yes, musicians have their influnces.
Guns & Roses are a glam band from
the 1980’s era “butt-metal” days.
They hardly can be compared to classic rock bands.
In other words, they are nt as good as the bands who inspired them.

Comparing Axl Rose to someone like Sid Vicious is a joke.
Axl is a poser. This is not an album that should be celebrated on a cover of any magazine.

How can anyone compare bands such as
Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Aerosmith or Tom Petty to Guns & Roses.

Yes, musicians have their influnces.
Guns & Roses are a glam band from
the 1980’s era “butt-metal” days.
They hardly can be compared to classic rock bands.
In other words, they are nt as good as the bands who inspired them.

Comparing Axl Rose to someone like Sid Vicious is a joke.
Axl is a poser. This is not an album that should be celebrated on a cover of any magazine.

Sorry to break the news to you, but…

“At the height of her solo career in 1974, Elliot performed two sold-out concerts at the London Palladium. She telephoned Michelle Phillips after the final concert, utterly elated that she had received standing ovations each night. She then retired for the evening, and died in her sleep of a heart attack. The New York Times reported, “Dr. Keith Simpson, a British pathologist, and Gavin Thurston, a London coroner, issued a report yesterday that ruled out the theory that “Mama” Cass Elliot choked to death on a ham sandwich.”

In Maynard we trust.

Chinese Democracy will make this album look like Shit. AFD was a great traditional rock album, but its reign will fall when Axl returns. Trust me i’ve heard the whole fuckin’ thing and it kicks ass. Sorry, Chinese Democracy, Better, and Madagasscar all will be better.

P.S. For those of you who think GN’R was metal {your retarded}, they were raw rock n’ roll. Oh and fuck Slash Bumblefoot kicks his ass with a guitar and Scott Weiland is a crybaby who needs to shoot himself like Mr. Cobain did. Then the rock world would be perfect again.

GnR deserve an RS cover…in 1987.

To Justyn… Get a clue bro..you heard the leaked tracks. You did not hear “Chinese Democracy”. Who knows if it will ever be released… Axl is touring to make money off the past and your probably one of the suckers who pays his house payment.

It’s too bad that the cover wasn’t VR, who have released 2 new cd’s during the last few years.
At least they “doing something” and making a greater effort to produce new music with a frontman whose vocals are much easier on the ears.
GNR fans have been waiting at least a decade for this so-called Chinese Democracy album. How much longer are they willing to wait?

To all those bad mouthing Kurt Cobain should know that your “god” Axl Rose even thought that Nirvana was tremendous and Cobain was a really talented songwriter. Axl bad mouths Kurt now because he was spurned in his many attempts at friendship (in addition to asking Nirvana to open for GNR and be rebuffed). Cobain wanted nothing to do with Axl & GNR because he thought they were racist & homophobic (justified or not).

I am a fan of both bands, eventhough what each band stands for is contradictory. GNR fan or not, Appetite is one of the best rock albums ever made. Hopefully Chinese Democracy will be out soon and will be somewhat good (some of the leaks sound great-some sound horrible). I’d be more interested in a Rolling Stone cover for the nu-GNR when/if Chinese Democracy is released.

great rock band

How many bands can you think of that have hundreds of sell-out shows without an album for 10 years? There’s only one – Guns ‘n’f'n’ Roses.

I love the G ‘n R haters. they are so clueless. Just keep you mouths shut about one of the greatest rock bands ever and stick your linkin park cd back into your stereo and pretend it rocks.

God damn it’s cool to see GNR on the cover of Rolling Stone! Chinese Democracy is going to kick serious ass. The best things in life come to those who wait. Axl is an artist and like any true artist doesn’t make art for money. He could have cranked out mediocre album after mediocre album year after year, but no…He’s Axl Rose and he’s the greatest rock front man alive today! CD in ‘07 YESSS!

Say whatever you want about GN’R.. I just don’t fuckin’ care! Guns N’ Roses forever!

Sweet.

What makes you think that somebody who isn’t a big GNR fan is some kind of “clueless” idiot who listens to Lincoln Park? Do you know anybody at these comment BLOGS personally to be able to make that bold assumption and judgement call?

so, wait all of you who are saying, ‘they deserve the cover because of how many CDs they have sold, and other bands that have sold less shouldnt deserve it.’ so, the more popular bands, panic at the disco, fall out boy, and all that other crap that has sold a ton more than any other band today, really, deserve the cover more than the raconteurs, the white stripes, ryan adams, etc. etc. etc.

so if thats the reason why they deserve the cover more then dont go bitching about how panic at the disco got on the cover, rolling stone is just using your judgement.

Drop D,

Come off it with the Axl apologist crap. I’m telling the people here the same things I tell you. Yours and anyone else’s acceptance of the new band will not change the fact that they are Guns N’ Roses.

If you really paid attention to my posts here, you would recognize that I’m defending Appetite and it’s relevance with the exception of one post related to the new GN’R.

Sam Adams,

Axl was never accused of any crime. No charges were ever filed. So, all you’re doing is just regurgitating hearsay.

Ali

I saw Guns n Roses in concert in 2006 they are great the wait for Chinese Democracy will be worth it cause it will bring back rock. HAPPY ANIV AFD my favorite album of all time slash, duff, steven, izzy, Axl congradulations on making it on the cover. now in about 4 months we will have the chinese democracy edition cover.

If G’n'R get a Rolling Stone cover for “Appetite”’s 20th anniversary, then so should The Clash get one for the 30th anniversary of their debut album, and so should Radiohead’s “OK Computer” for it’s 10th anniversary. Sure “AFD” is great album, but it’s not as relevant to the other two records I have mentioned.

Ali,

Axl Rose married Erin Everly in 1990. They separated a month later.
The marriage was annulled in January 1991.

In 1994, Everly filed a civil lawsuit against Rose, alleging various incidents of physical abuse and domestic violence.
The suit was settled out of court.
– SPIN Magazine 1999

G’N'R give me a fucking break. I
thought we were trying to forget
the 80’s. G’n'R were for little kids then and they’re for little kids now, no true music lover could
ever confuse these assholes for
classic rock.

smoke and beers,

A civil lawsuit does not translate to criminal charges being filed. No charges were ever filed, period.

Ali

GNR? How laughable! They barely separated themselves from the pretentious hair bands of the time. It was bands like Nirvana/Pixies and other styles that pushed rock to different and far more interesting levels. Appetite should have been merely mentioned as a footnote (period).

GNR laughable? lol yeah right. Nirvana/Pixies took rock to a new level? By new level you mean how they used the same chord over and over in their songs. hahaha. I could train a monkey to play a Nirvana song. lol I would love to have seen Nirvana try to play Estranged or November Rain.

Ali,

Stephanie Seymour also left him due to similar incidents.

Hey Jim, where did mention “new level” in my post? I hope your knowledge of rock history is better than your ability to read.

These guys aren’t GNR. GNR is Axl, Tommy, Finck, Dizzy, Pitman, Bumblefoot, Fortus, Frank, Brain, Buckethead, Freese, Navaro, Paul Huge/Tobias, Del James, Beta, and Yoda.

Maybe these new “rock bands” will take a lesson from a real rock band like GnR. Maybe they will put more than one good song on a cd. 80% of AFD is still being played on the radio.

Jesus, Ali. How long have you spent on your computer defending G’n'R? I give you props for that but come on….

Yo Rich “rock to different and far more interesting levels” Different level, hmm if it wasn’t done before doesn’t it fit the definition of NEW? But that is kind of a contradiction since they went BACK to simple chords.

guns n roses suck & so does rolling stone magazine.

Come on guys, I’m the biggest Nirvana and LP fan but I have to give credit where credit is due. Appetite has to be in the top 3 rock albums of all time. Back in Black, Appetite, Darkside of the Moon.

This cover is an absolute insult to Guns N Roses and its fans. I don’t even like Velvet Revolver but you could have at least put them on the front cover and had a small cross section in reference to the aniversary of this landmark album. The fact is, Guns N Roses still exists with Axl, Fink, Fortus, Mantia/Ferrer, Bumblefoot, Reid, and Stinson and a huge fanbase that understands and likes the change in bandmembers because it was and is for “better”. For Guns N Roses to exist and then for RS to put the first incarnation of GnR on the front cover is an insult. When Chinese Democracy arrives, fans can only hope the current GnR lineup gets recognition where recognition is due. Chinese Democracy starts now!

Jim,
It’s all about the different “attitude” and message.
And besides, Nirvana was heavily influenced by punk rock, which was all about a certain “attitude”.
GNR couldn’t be any further from punk. We’re talking about 2 different bands which were light years apart from eachother, in terms of style and message. Nirvana represented the very opposite of what GNR was.

jea the real guns n roses

IZZY STRADLIN IS THE BADDEST MOTHERFUCKER ALIVE!!!!

No disrespect, but I think 99% of GnR’s loyal following think of the new version of the band as the “Axl Rose Project”. It should be that. Even if the music is great…GnR ‘88 created a stir that very few bands in history have. They were Monsters, people could not get enough. It was more than the music, it was the volitile chemistry, the personalities, as a whole it turned the music biz on its ass. I’d like to see a rock band today save rock, cuz I’m a rock fan. There are some solid bands here & there, but no one that is collectively originals, the real deal, knocking everyone over. Its a weak rock scene today. I think concert sales is evidence enough.

jajaja
LIVING MEMORIES………
their last album is…., 15 years ago!!
20 Year Anniversary of doing nothing.
Other bands that sell albums, sold out stadiums and they are alive for many years without stopping, Other bands deserve the cover.

“I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”
~ Kurt Cobain

Hey Mr. Brownstone,
Axl Rose is older than me.
Coldplay?…

Hey Ass Kickers,
Never “bragged about being ahead of the times”. Simply did not care for
AFD.
“I prevent the advancement of mankind”? You sure give me a lot of credit. I imagine an individual using the name “Ass Kickers” is an improvement to our society.

other bands should be on the cover. GnR’s day is gone, agreed. But putting say Coldplay as you said, or Whitestripes on the cover, Wolfmother, its not going to sell magazines. I’m not behind RS at all. Just commentary on a sad music scene. The band to take over the world is probably out there, but the Clive Davis’ of the world want the next Nickleback. 3 Doors down. ZZZ.

All you need to know about Guns N Roses is the number of responses to this thread. The fact that so many people take the time to come to a message board to post their disdain for a band that hasn’t released an album in 16 years is all you need to know about how imortant & how big they were.

Despite what anyone says or thinks about GNR today, & most of the negatives are opinions formed based on GNR post 1990, in 1988 Guns N Roses were the biggest band in the world. A band that turned rock on it’s ass. I was 23 & remember very well how big & different they were. They were a real rock band in an era of pop & gloss.

For the Kurt Cobain lovers here. Cobain was a very talented artist, but he was a pop star. Cobain used a formula that would make Bon Jovi envious. Hard, soft , hard , soft, repeat. The big difference between GNR & Nirvana was that Cobain embraced the culture of political correctness, while Axl was an offender of all things PC. Cobain was the sensitive poet to Axl’s angry burnout. Both were on the outside looking in & reacted to the in crowd with there own venom.

Bottom line, GNR is in reality a bigger band than Nirvana. The only ones who did not get the message are the politicaly correct media.

Guns N’ Roses forever!!!

Capt Kirk states it perfectly…and the PC point is very true. I’m not bashing Nirvana either, good stuff. Pull up GnR at the Ritz, ‘88, on Youtube. Sloppy, rough, but killer. Out of control. Stomping Hairmetal dead. Axl was still hungry, not bloated. Like the music or not, they were giants, very exciting. The thread example, poignant!

Kirk,
I was also in my early 20’s when GNR were huge. But it didn’t mean that everybody liked them. Number of albums sold does not equate being a bigger or a better band. Perhaps only in the eyes and ears of mainstream listeners. I was listening to college radio at the time, and my preferences during the 80’s were bands like REM and U2, as well as punk rock. Nirvana came from the underground. They were the ones who turned mainstream rock on its head because they introduced punk rock influences and a different attitude to the mainstream music scene. A different band with a different purpose altogether.

Another over rated “Pop Culture” throwback cover due to the stagnant
and dying music scene.

this album deserves the cover more than any album period

I cant help but laugh when i read some of the posts on this board….calling gnr “overated” and their music “dated”…are you kidding me…they are the last GREAT american rock band…nevermind american rock band they are the last great rock band period…there has not been 1 band to come out since GNR that has been as big as they were….and not to mention they still sell a ton of records and tshirts 16 years since their last record came out….LEGENDARY band…..

There’s a lot of great, legendary bands out there. What GNR did was phenomenal, and they have their spot in rock history. They are probably not the greatest ever, but who is? Give credit where it’s due – Appetite is a classic, and it deserves the cover… so do others.

the reason that Guns N Roses are legends is the simple fact that 10 years from not Rolling Stone will run a 30 year anniversay issue for Appetite and there still will not have been a record to have come out by any artist that can equal it…just like today…..Appetite is the last great hard rock record besides Use Your Illusion

“No other band since GNR has been as big?”

How about the band TOOL.
They sell-out every venue they play.

Spock, absolutely they weren’t for everyone, they were what was wrong with music in the eyes of the Alt Rockers. But with all due respect, that’s not the point. The point is they are on the Cover of RStone 20 years later, a band that is defunct. (spare me the Chinese Democracy argument). I can respect 80’s U2, some other Alt rock, but the point is this band took over the world…and the void is still not filled, as far as Rock/Hard Rock is concerned. Nirvana did make it despite not getting label backing. No one expected GnR to explode like that either. After they did, everyone had to have their look…NO ONE played Les Pauls in the Hard Rock world in the 80’s til Slash. Then everyone did. he stopped the EVH tapping trend. He slowed it down, & everyone followed, made it bluesy again. I think if you do your homework, the fashion trends were started by GnR, the rougher edge & the Nirvana’s took it further. Alice in Chains had the whole hair metal look but didn’t make it til it was dead…I’m losing the point…I loved GnR, but Juice Fruit is right, RStone & rock are gasping for air.

Spock-

Nirvana from the underground? That is hysterical!! I worked at a college radio station & the bands you named were mainstreme by 88. We did not play U2, nor should we have. The violent Femmes were college radio, The Butthole surfers, Patti Smith,ect.

Nirvana broke because of MTV period. It was the video for “Teen Spirit” that broke Nirvana, end of story. Not college radio. In fact the truth is that Cobain while he played the role of tortured rock star in public, behind the scenes he as demanding that MTV play his videos more. According to multiple MTV sources Cobain would call MTV execs at all hours pleading for more air time. Nirvana also never missed an chance to be on MTV: interviews, awards shows, unplugged, ect. Nirvana was in fact the most contrived band of the last 20 years. Bitch & moan about fame while ensuring you do everything to achieve it.

Axl Rose on the other hand could write a book on how to fuck up a great career. How to do everything that will guarentee no one wants you to succeed. Piss on everyone that can help you & than dissapear for 10 years. Axl was truly mental & therefore the least contrived musician in years. He might be an world class asshole, but it was all real.

Also, no band in for everyone, but it does not change how big GNR was. Anything else is revionist history written by people who are offended by GNRs lack of tact.

There ya go Dr. Cox! Right on. Damn there are a lot of posts about this cover. Axl lives……..

I hope they show a pic of Axl in those sweet white lycra cycling shorts he used wear.

GNR? Should have been Ryan Adams. That guy has more talent than all of GNR combined!

selling out a tour does not make a band a phenomenom. Tool is good, an example of a band trying to do it right. They may sell out their concerts, to their large & loyal following, like Radiohead, but its not a tidal wave that GnR was. It was like KiSS in the 70’s, or VH in late 70’s. And I’m not a KiSS fan, but acknowledge its hugeness. (though more juvenile).

Whats your thoughts on Velvet Revolvers: Libertad? To me the music is great but Scott Weiland just does not fit with rest of the band. As I was listening to Mary Mary all I kept thinking was “How bad ass a tune would this be if Axl were singing it?”, it sounds like it couldve been on Appetite but instead it get pussied down be Weilands’ weak vocals. Spay reminds me of a Nirvana: Bleach era song, weird…

Appetite is deserving of the cover yes. “Out ta get me” is in my opinion, the best song on the Album and it wasnt even one of the songs that made this album definitive…UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE!!!

Bob, we all have our passions and one of mine is GN’R. I get pissed when people make ignorant statements about GN’R and their members and when people talk about celebrities as if they know them.

smoke and beers, again, Axl Rose was never even charged with a crime for the things you are referring to. Stop trying to pass off hearsay and unsubstantiated claims as fact.

If you can’t hear the punk influences in “It’s So Easy” then you need to listen again more closely.

Yes. TOOL is a good example.
The TOOL album “Undertow” is a much
better rock album than AFD.
It is just that not many people are aware of early TOOL.

Shoot the moon sre u kidding me? There is no fukin way that tool are as big as gnr were back in their day. The only two bands that are comparable in size are the stones and u2. Gnr were massive, everyone had an opinion on them, they were like the size of led zeppelin. And i dont think theres been a rock band since gnr thats been as big. Its just sad what happened to them, uv got shitty VR and Axls shitty newgnr, its sad, because gnr were once so great.

yeah Tool is a good example….of showing me how right I am….Tool?? that is the best you can up with? Tool might sell out their shows but the next time they DOMINATE PLANET EARTH the way GNR did let me know…..

Tool is a good band but won’t be on any covers in 20 years. When GNR ruled from 1988 to 1994, they were to music all around the world what the Backstreet Boys were to boy bands. Back then hip hop hadn’t taken over yet and GNR were everywhere. They became ridiculously mainstream and huge despite their “sleasy” image. They were a miracle.

Bones,
Respectively, Nirvana also didn’t expect the success they achieved and so quickly. And it was probably never alternative rock’s intention to go corporate mainstream anyway. For that reason alone, “alternative” has lost its original meaning entirely. Nirvana was an alternative rock band. They got their first breaks with the Sub Pop label on a limited budget, from what I have read. But they also helped to open the doors for other alt-rock bands. The big corporate labels all suddenly wanted a big piece of the alt-rock pie, which eventually became exploited.

Are we discussing music, or a bands media hype. Bon Jovi was nearly as big back in the MTV days, but that does not make me a Bon Jovi fan.

Just by virtue of the fact that there are sooo many posts here, GNR have left an indelible mark on rock history. Period. Not only were they huge, they were massively influential. Even their peers (Faster Pussycat, LA Guns) cover their songs and make tributes.

Every so often an album comes out that changes and impacts music and our youth: Sex Pistols, Appetite, Nevermind – i’m not talking about “big” albums, I am talking about albums that shifted the whole scene. It doesn’t matter that Gn’R circa ‘88 is not around anymore, I could easily envision a 30 year anniversary of the Sex Pistols, or Nevermind.

The thing about Gn’R is that either you love ‘em, or hate ‘em. That was their whole thing that made Appetite great. I, personally, love ‘em. There was, and is nothing like that album – there’s different / awesome stuff out there, but nothing like that.

By the way holy shit! Look at all the comments. After all these years GNR still generates so much emotion………positive and negative (mostly positive). Oh yeah, I party all the time and bars still go nuts when the DJ mixes in Sweet Child and Paradise City. Oh yeah, I also hear Welcome To The Jungle all the time at crucial moments during sporting events.

Metallica.

They were as popular, if not more so than GNR.

I keep seeing The Sex Pistols metioned up here, Can someone tell me WTF Sid Vicious ever did, except be a junkie that committed a murder suicide because the guy couldn’t even hold DUFF’S bass, The other so called punks in the band have said many times that he was a coat hanger they gave a bass

Yes, Metallica is another great, influential band. The difference, in my opinion is, that Metallica’s influence came over a period of time – the presented almost a whole new way to hard rock / metal.

I don’t think Metallica had “that one album” – maybe the Black Album, but probably not. I don’t envision a 20 year anniversary of the Black Album.

What’s for Rolling Stone to uncover about early GNR and Appetite that hasn’t already been repeated ad infinitum in other magazines and rock circles for years? Slash drank a lot of Jack, 3 of the guys did smack, Nightrain is about a cheap brand of wine, and Axl had sex with someone and recorded it for Rocket Queen. This isn’t “news.” It isn’t the “uncensored, behind the scenes” look they’re advertising it to be, because anyone who has bothered to dig already knows all this shit.

The Sex Pistols turned the world onto punk, you ass. There would be no Gn’R if there were no Sex Pistols, b/c there would be no Duff – at the very least.

Paul has a good point… What could this issue really say that hasn’t already been said?

Maybe some new info from the band members, I dunno… we’ll see.

The Clash was a punk band the sex pistols was a boy band thrown together by a suit

pajman,

Right on. You speak the truth.

Most people do not know their rock n roll history these days thanks to
ipods and mp3s.

Your right it won’t be new info, but who gives a shit, it’s celebrating a great record by a great band… if it doesn’t interest you go but a nirvana record on and blow your f@#king brains out

Sex Pistols a “boy band”?

Mr. Brownstone, in some circles you would be moshed to death for that statement.
I believe you need to brush up on your rock n roll knowledge.

Thanks, Juicy Fruit.

I’m happy to see GN’R on a cover again and all, but seriously RS, when Chinese D comes out, the new band or just Axl now, better get a fucking cover.

All I’m saying.

I agree with FinckFan… if nothing else, there’ been so much hype about Chinese Democracy that its gotta get a cover.

LOL @ someone saying Tool was ever a bigger band than GN’R. Just, LOL.

And… The demos on Chinese Democracy blow away anything in the current rock scene, imo. Rock needs Axl Rose back, and it’s fucking coming, people.

So what do you GNR fans say in response to Axl’s many character flaws? Namely that he is misogynstic, homophobic, racist, egomaniac asshole (albeit a very talented one)? What is your reponse to these allegations? Doesn’t Axl’s insistence of the inclusion of “One in a Million” to GNR Lies prove this theory? Please don’t spout the “he had a rough childhood” line. Alot of people have had harder time as children but that doesnt always make them hate mongers.

Also, to the people who have posted that the cover makes the members of GNR “look so cool” and “so badass”, don’t spout these homo erotic lines amongst your other GNR friends or your likely to get an ass kicking or possibly your 1st experience in “male bonding”

“boy band” in fact that their manager found four guys that looked the part an threw them together to sell a record (i would say records but they only had one) and i feel pretty comfortable in my circle the one that enjoys music not retards trying to play guitars

I guess all RS does nowadays is self-promotion and celebrations of “important” anniversaries in music. I just can’t wait until the issue on the twentieth anniversary of one of Fall Out Boys’albums. You know, the one that shook the foundations of music itself. Wait a minute…

While I don’t agree with the characterization that the Pistols were a boy band, whether they were thrown together as a “boy band” or not, they were an enormous influence… perhaps even the first “boy band”! Well, maybe not, I guess that would be the Monkees!

By the way, Chinese Democracy is coming out in the fall of 1999. It’s gonna kick ass…

my buddy saw them at rock in rio in about 1990. sloppiest drunk band EVER, period. damn that bass player looks like a chick.

Perhaps Axl had character flaws, but as a Gn’R fan, that’ not the point… I never liked them for their personalities. It’s really the music. The attitude. But I guess some of the personality helped to convey the music.

It’s not like they were infallible, perfect people. Just a kick ass rock band. The fact that they were less than perfect people is part of the mystique and the package.

Kirk,
…I worked for an underground music publication back in the 80’s. I was very much aware of bands like the Violent Femmes, which have now also become exploited commercially. I don’t want to get involved an argument about alt-rock, especially at a GNR BLOG, but at least we can both agree on one thing – that the rock music scene is indeed gasping.

Appetite for Destruction is an excellent album. It just doesn’t deserve a cover and article devoted to its anniversary.

way to stay relevant rs. who cares?

great album and deserves the cover

Liberal America,

Here’s my response: YOU DON’T KNOW THE MAN. So stop judging him and acting like you do. I’m not saying he’s a good man, I’m just saying that none of us know him. Just because you listen to someone’s records and interviews that doesn’t mean you know them. The public only sees a small percentage of any celebrities actions, so to judge them off that small percentage is ludicrous. All of us could have some of our bad actions looked at and if they were all that were looked at we would appear to be unkind people too.

Ali

Liberal america your the biggest cliche. You have no idea what ur talkin about. One of my best friends is gay and hes a huge GNR fan. You should try and know what your talkin about before you open your mouth.

axl is awesome
slash is awesome
izzy is awesome

When does this issue come out anyway? I know we’ll all buy it!

Oh good idea. Put a band on the cover for NOT making a new album!

Please put the White Stripes on instead.

It’s been 20 years already? What’s going on with my life?

Kirk,
Nirvana embraced political correctness? That is absolutely the most absurd comment on this thread. Have you ever read/heard any of their lyrics?

Also, Nirvana was not contrived. Cobain didn’t just “play” a tortured artist. He committed suicide! That’s about as real as it gets.

That said, I do agree that Guns n Roses was a far more popular band than Nirvana. Their music was much more accessible and had a wider appeal to casual male and female fans alike because of their numerous ballads (November Rain, Don’t Cry, Patience). Nirvana didn’t have any ballads to attract a more mainstream audience.

Thanks, sauce. I am in agreement that Nirvana had an integrity of their own. About a Girl was almost as close to a ballad as they became, but that was a Beatlesque influence, rather than a metal influence.
Kurt wasn’t a poser. He certainly was for real, and that was his charm.

AFD was a really wonderful album and deserve all kind of tributes. However, now I focus more in the current lineup of GNR because I think it is wonderful. I hope to see soon a cover with a new photo of Axl. Besides for those who say Axl is a loser I think that he is a winner because he has done things in his way and he is still alive and rocking. He never has sold himself to nobody, neither journalist nor music industry. On the other hand, back in 1992 I love GNR and Nirvana, but I really think that Kurt Kobain is a loser for committing suicide. With the years I began to lose respect for Kurt Kobain. Conversely, I respect Axl more now.

Richard Fortus will be the next Guitar Phenomenon. If you miss Slash, soon you won’t anymore. Fortus is a genius.

Richard Legner | 7/25/2007, 1:30 pm EST

look that album is great, but it doesn’t deserve this sort of treatment.

Fact is, axl is a loser who doesn’t have enough talent to release another decent album. He realizes that just by delaying the release of Chinese Democracy, he can stay in the news because enough loser fans can’t get over a band that peaked 20 years ago and is now (for all intensive purposes)

I would hope that someone as intelligent as you think you are, would realize that you meant intents and purposes instead of “intensive purposes”!!!

In the middle of this admittedly gigantic series of posts, someone(I’m not going back to get the name) compared several Guns tracks w/ Pearl Jam tracks. The comparison made me realize all too well two things:
1. How different they really are from each other as bands(as both are equally different to Nirvana/Metallica/Zep/VH etc.)
2. That if it came down to a track by track discussion, I could not choose a winner here.

My question is: why do I have to choose a winner? All these albums in essence cancel each other out, yet I see numerous posts where everyone’s trying to one up the next fellow(or lady) down the line.

“”People,people, brothers & sisters, who’s fighting and what for? Why are we fighting?”
Mick Jagger, Altamont, 1969

I made a comment because I love GNR and specially Axl. But I think the losers are the people that hate Axl and lost his time making comments about him. When in the cover of RS there are a band that I don’t like I dedicate my time making things more interesting that bashing those artist. Again Axl is the winner for many reasons, for example, for having so many people taking time talking about him.

im seeing alot of things here about afd not being a great enough album to deserve a tribute cover. so i think we should see what albums in the future deserve tributes. here’s my list.

1.nirvana-nevermind
2.public enemy (maybe)-forgot the name of the album, but still, pretty influential album
3.that or nwa-straight outta compton

thats pretty much it. though i want ten or blood sugar sex magik to get tributes, they won’t. say what you want about public enemy and nwa (and i’m not a big fan of rap), but they pretty much led to both alot of rap in the last 10 years and some political rock bands and albums (RATM, anyone?) what other albums since 1987 deserve tributes?

The last issues or RollingStone were Police, (a thirty year old band) a 40 year anniversary special followed by a twenty year lookback on GNR. Nothing agains GNR and the Police, but this getting to be a joke. When will you do something current. Look at Velvet Revolver, Smashing Pumpkins, White Stripes. RS, get with it. This is why rock has become baby boomer. RS chooses not to grow up so the younger generation is stuck with Kayne and Fall Out Boy. We need RS to showcase the younger bands ala Strokes, the Killers and the Arctic Monkeys. This is the reason RS got so popular, showcasing new rock acts not this recycled look back at yesteryear.

this is what i have been waiting for, thank you jesus

I didn’t “get” Guns & Roses until I went to a free Red Hot Chili Peppers show at Vassar College (I was still in high school – we sneaked on to campus) and “Welcome to the Jungle” came roaring out of the speakers prior to the show.

I wouldn’t say I’m a fan, though I give much respect to that album and think it deserves to be celebrated. I only wish they’d split up before recording another note, because it went off the rails pretty quickly.

Ya era hora aver si sacan una edicion deluxe 20 Aniversario Appetite for Destruction

I know the RS must have much hand-wringing about whether to continue doing cover stories on classics bands. I’m sure those issues sell better than issues featuring covers of current bands (I love them, I must admit) but it comes at the expense of developing a new following for the magazine. I’m 31 and I love RS when it caters to its primary audience, Rock n’ Roll lovers, but like me, the mag’s demographics must be getting a bit gray. Oh, well,

As for G n’ R. Come on people. Appetite is a balls to the wall rock album. Probably the best, most enduring hard rock album ever made. I can understand an argument for Zep or Back in Black, but start to finish, Appetite is startling and it sounds as good today as in ‘87. Big bombastic rock isn’t for everybody. Does it have to be? I love Roxy Music, The Smiths and Elvis Costello, but this band was a f*^%ing juggernaut and that album was as revolutionary anything the Sex Pistols or Nirvana were able to conjure. That’s just my opinion, though. It would be nice if everyone would quit assuming their opinion is the only one that matters. By the way, that hot chick sitting next to you isn’t impressed your indie-cred iPod playlist, so go make one that you’ll actually enjoy listening too. I recommend some Pyromania, some R.E.M., a little Dylan and a whole lotta Slash.

This cover is an absolute insult to Guns N Roses and its fans. I don’t even like Velvet Revolver but you could have at least put them on the front cover and had a small cross section in reference to the aniversary of this landmark album. The fact is, Guns N Roses still exists with Axl, Fink, Fortus, Mantia/Ferrer, Bumblefoot, Reid, and Stinson and a huge fanbase that understands and likes the change in bandmembers because it was and is for “better”. For Guns N Roses to exist and then for RS to put the first incarnation of GnR on the front cover is an insult. When Chinese Democracy arrives, fans can only hope the current GnR lineup gets recognition where recognition is due. Chinese Democracy starts now!

I agree, this is an insult. Steve Adler doesnt deserve this appreciation. Neither does Duff McKagan. And Guns N Roses that exists today that has more talent than any other band out there will never be on the cover because the band will never do another interview with Rollingstone ever again. RS trash talks Axl and Chinese Democracy too much for him to be forgiving and he is a very private person, not one to give an interview for RS to change and skew. Yeh, this is a nice cover picture, but the public cares more about Chinese Democracy than this. This is a good way to raise the hype even more I suppose. http://www.gnrdaily.com

to liberal america…..

ever hear of freedom of speech? Axl doesnt have to like anybody and is free to think anything he wants about anyone…

I’m sure there are some KISS fans who really love Songs from the Elders and think it’s an artistically superior album.

So yeah, there are nerdy loser fans of everyband. Chinese Democracy is a joke. Even Axl knows it. Those five guys on the cover — they did more in one week than Axl and Fake GNR have done in fifteen years.

Sorry, but it’s true.

to all of you idiots saying that the new guns n roses should be on the cover……..

did the new “guns n roses” make appetite for destruction? no.

have they done anything important over the last few years besides waste our time with story after story about an album that has taken over ten years to make with promise after promise of its release and done nothing by delay and delay and do nothing but dissapoint….. yes.

To anyone who actually thinks that the “NEW” G’ n’ R’ should be on the cover, you have some serious problems that need to be quickly sorted out. Did the “NEW” G’ n’ R’ release Appetite? Did the “NEW” G’ n’ R’ ever RELEASE an album, awful or not? No. You lose, you cannot prove that the “NEW” band is better than the old one because, have they yet to release an album? What songs are they playing at the shows they play live? Songs from the OLD band, which with most of them Axl did not write. They probably play about 2-3 new songs, so you cannot make any supporting facts to prove that the new band is better than the old one, when in fact they can’t write their own music, and still play songs that the OLD band made. You hear about the new article where a fan stated that he is going on a hunger strike until Chinese Democracy is released? Again, exactly with what happened when he ran of the stage because some guy was recording him on a video camera and the security wouldn’t do anything about it, he kills more people. You know what I have to say? Until Axl releases ANY new album, which there will not be… because he is too incompitent and doesn’t work with members well, there are no facts to base that “NEW” band is better than the OLD one. Point proven, all you “NEW” Rose fans lose. Game over.

Did anyone hear the rumors Axl banged the shit out of Lindsay Lohan? WOW E ZOW E!!!

to seisace:
you are talking outta your ass, we want todays Guns N Roses on the front cover but not with regards to AFD but in general because they are deserving… and you ask what have the new GnR lineup done to prove the they deserve the respect? You are obviously not a true fan, true fans appreciate and accept the new lineup with open arms because we have our band back, and we have our music back, the only band that has a chance is bring rock back in this sad music industry of today.

I think this was a great landmark rock and roll album and deserves a RS cover. There are not too many bands that come out with an original sound that lasts forever, and the original GNR accomplished that. The original GNR lineup is the only one that counts in my opinion. I never like it when bands change band memebers and still call themselves by the original band name. The obvious exception would be if a band member dies and in a lot of cases if the person who dies is a creative force of the band, the original band disolves (The Who, Zeppelin, The Doors, Nirvana, etc…). How can Axl call his new projct GNR? If Axl was so damn talented how come it’s taking this long to release a new album? How about the original members of GNR swallowing their pride and getting back to gether for a REAL GNR album. If the Police can do it then GNR certainly can. What you see on the cover is GNR – anything else is just a weak substitute.

Axl is Guns N Roses! Period! funny how Axl is talentless, but Axl had to force the rest of the band to play and record most of their classic hits; Sweet Child, Patience, November Rain, etc..the rest of the band wanted nothing to do with these songs…Axl forced them to record these for the albums…Funny how people rip on Axl for doing nothing the last 15 years, but tell me what exactly has the rest of the band members done? Nothing but put out sh!tty music…Slash’s snakepit??? Velvet Revolver??? talk about a rip off…Scott Weiland is the most fake lead singer of all time. who does he sound like? Eddie Vedder! Who does he move like? Iggy Pop…talk about unoriginal wasted junkie…the only reason they sell records is because its 4/5ths of original GNR! Slash went to Axl’s house last year to claim how much of a fraud Weiland was…this is true and Slash admitted this! At least Axl has his integrity and wont sell out to sell some records…when Chinese Democracy is ready it will be released…i would rather wait 15 years for a great record, than get a sh!itty one ever few years!

and on the whole Axl is a homophobe/racist/woman beater…Axl stated in interviews explaining the song One in a Million; he wasnt calling all gay people fa@@ots, jus the ones who spread AIDs…didnt he do tons of benefit concerts for Freddy Mercury!who was gay and died of aids?? didnt he induct his good friend Elton John into the Rock Hall of Fame, hmm isnt elton gay!!! As to him beating women; funny how Erin Everley divorced him in 1991, but never came public about physical abuse until 1994! HMMM interesting that was the height of GNR popularity and success

Axl better get off his ass and put an album out or shut up about the album altogether. Any album that takes ten plus years to make will have enormous expectations that will be impossible to live up to. If Chinese Democracy is anything less than one of the greatest albums of all time, it will be a disappointment to most.

Axl should take a page out of Corgan’s book. Restart your band and put an album out within a couple years. This ten year bullshit is hurting the new band more than anything. By taking this long, lots of fans are starting to think of the new band as incompetent, especially when Axl keeps claiming that the Chinese release is just around the corner. He has been saying that for too long.

By the way, anyone who says that you can’t compare the new Smashing Pumpkins album to new GnR songs is being unrealistic. The Pumpkins released a good album in Zeitgeist (though not as good as their earlier stuff) and GnR, after 10-15 years of buildup, will release just that: a good album but not a great one. I’ve heard some of the leaked tracks off of Chinese and they sound pretty damn good by today’s standards but are nowhere near the band’s earlier stuff.

One more thing: Velvet Revolver has released TWO (2) of the best rock albums from this decade in the last four years. While these albums are not comparable to early GnR, I would be very surprised if Chinese Democracy is much better than Contraband or Libertad.

Pergy23 -

Are you out of your mind? Axl had to force the band t play & record all of their hits? With the exception of SCOM, the other 2 songs you name did not appear on AFD & patience is an Izzy Stradlin song, words & lyrics.

The reality is that Axl wanted to put both “Don’t Cry” & “November Rain” on AFD, but Tom Z talked him out of it which of course turned out to be the right call. While NR might have been a big pop hit it is to this day considered one of the most pretentious over done songs ever. AFD remains one of the greatest rock albums ever because it was a raw down in the gutter rock album. It was everything NR was not. There is a reason that AFD has sold 15 million copies & UYII 5.

As far as Axl being GNR. Notice Rs is celebrating AFD not the albums that the other 2 great hits you mention are on. Izzy wrote or co-wrote half of the songs on AFD with Brownstone being his entirely. Duff was the lead writer for It’s so easy & Paradise City, 2 of the most recognizable songs on the album. Slash wrote almost every lead guitar part of every song including your beloved SCOM. The most recognized intro to any song in rock history is WTTJ, that is Slash.

Axl was a great front man & brilliant lyricist, but the idea that he was GNR is absurd, & the songs you use to defend that notion is laughable.

All the comments on this thread are living proof that the fans take this band seriously. And on that note, seeing on how its the anniversary of AFD, anyone who would like to enjoy this anniversary to its fullest should listen to the outtakes from AFD on youtube.com, there is the orginal acustic November Rain, the original Don’t Cry, the original Sweet Child O’Mine and the original slowed down version of Jungle. These recordings are a delight to hear.

Attention Richard Legner: “For all intensive purposes”?? You are yet another individual striving to sound intelligent while criticizing someone else’s work and talent. With that, I’ll inform you that the phrase is: “for all intents and purposes.”

Snowjob,

“November Rain” is not considered by most as a pretentious over done song unless you consider yourself and/or some people you know as speaking for the general public. It is just a great song, period. A true masterpiece. If it wasn’t, a song that epic wouldn’t have had the effect it did on such a wide spectrum of people.

Duff was not the lead writer on “It’s So Easy” and “Paradise City”. ISE was co-written by Duff and West Arkeen and PC was co-written by Axl, Slash and Duff.

Axl was not GN’R by any means in and of himself, but by a songwriting credit formula for dividing up royalties that Slash came up with, Axl got 41% of the songwriting credit based off categories of lyrics, melodies, music and accompaniment/arrangement. No matter how you slice it 41% for one person out of five is huge.

Ali

AFD is one of the greatest rock albums ever. I don’t care who wrote what, the fact is it takes the entire band to make that album come alive. The original GNR shown on the cover is the only GNR that counts. If Axl is ever going to release another album he should’t call it a GNR album no matter how spectacular it’s going to be. That’s like Plant and Page hiring a bass player and a drummer and calling themselves Led Zeppelin. It just wouldn’t be the same. Thankfully they had the common sense and integrity to not do that. There’s no doubt that GNR were great but that was 20-years ago. GNR does not exist today.

Una foto pasada de recuerdo. Deberian haber juntado a los sobrevivientes, muy mal gusto
para recordarlos.

Eran los llamados LED ZEPPELIN ochenteros

Dyers Eve…”GNR does not exist today” try explaining that to the millions of fans that the new Guns lineup has performed live for since 2001…

AFD sold 15 million
UYI – sold 7 million a piece

But to be honest, I don’t care what they sold. They’re incredible albums.

so Axl was 41% of Guns according to Slash and the rest of the band…the rest of the 4 members equaled 14%…like i said Axl is Guns N Roses!

people are intrigue by what Axl’s up to these days, some younger less passionate fans might not care who’s in the band…and even if Chinese Dom. is great, its “the Axl Rose Project”. He should have respected that as well, made a great album & named it something else. But the GnR brand sells out those concerts. That same band under a different name would not sell out an arena. Do you disagree with that?…this long thread is evidence enough this band was a monster, inciting passion both for & against…VR is good, I’d like to see them on Rolling Stone, but it won’t sell as many magazines. It will take a new band, that is original & hungry, not a copy band, but the real deal. It will probably have to happen by accident, like Nirvana, cuz the record industry just wants more Mall Punk & Nickleback. Faceless bands.

It’s good to remember the old band. I love them! But I also like new gn’r!!!!

I simply find that funny – millions of fans cheering for the new GNR today. Of course until recently that’s like calling Sting as a solo artist with his back-up band The Police. As a solo artist he’ll occasionally play a Police song but that doesn’t mean he’s still with The Police because the ORIGINAL LINEUP ISN’T THERE. I’ve heard Robert Plant sing some Led Zeppelin tunes as a solo artist with Page playing guitar, but they don’t call themselves Led Zeppelin because the ORIGINAL LINEUP ISN’T THERE. He should call his new band the Alx Rose Band not GNR. Let’s get the band back together! Don’t those idiots realize how awesome that would be? Unfortunately huge egos are what destroy great bands.

“Patience” by GNR must have been Axl’s foreshadowing message to his fans. Then again, the higher the expectation, the steeper the drop and the harder the fall.

I would wish the Axl Rose Band luck, & see if he can rely on the strengh of his new album, not with Buckethead playing SCOM. He would also play theaters under that band name, his hard core fans only showing…do you think Buckethead(I know he’s gone) or Stinson were ever GnR fans?! hardly, it was a nice paycheck. Slash’s solo done by these guys is a bummer. Leave SCOM alone, play your new stuff, maybe a couple of deeper cuts. Make it about the new band & album. Its GnR in name only.

Axl is a genius. I love Slash and the other members, but Axl Rose is Guns N’ Roses. Slash, Duff, Izzy and Adler could do a reunion, but they won’t be GNR without Rose. AMEN. Love the NEW GNR and hope they will release Chinese Democracy (but I think Axl won’t do it).

Hey “Ali”! Get a fucking job, man! Do you have a life, bro?! Go do something like build a fucking tree-house! Make the world a better place.

….Girlfriend, perhaps?

….amazing that someone would spend so much time arguing about something so pathetic….

btw, the tour isn’t such a success as indicated. Maine was cancelled, apparently an embarrassing turnout at an arena. There was a partition to make the place smaller to begin, even after that tons of empty seats. The festivals will sell out for sure…again, not an indication that the new album is good or bad, but its really not generating that much of a buzz beyond the hardcore fans.

I just wanted to post once since there are so many damn posts concerning this cover that one more post won’t matter.

Axl Rose is God!

Hey “Lee Majors”. You’re a real class act, man. Insulting someone you don’t even know. People that make such ignorant insulting remarks are usually exactly that which they insult. If this topic is so pathetic, then why are you posting here?

Maybe Ali is retired or on summer vacation. And maybe Lee Majors really does think that GNR is pathetic. Both of them need an Ænima in the lateralus.

Maybe some people just enjoy debating, especially about music and the bands they love? GN’R was what woke me up to rock and roll.

ALI, YOU NEED TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND LEARN TO BOW DOWN!

Mike Patton, loved The Real Thing and Angel Dust. You have one of the great voices in music. The control you have over your voice is amazing.

The number of responses to this is proof enough of GN’R’s impact.

clockworkHolden- whatever. you have to understand that times are changing and with every passing year there is going to be a new trend in music like GNR like FOB. Just because you dont like Fall Out Boy does not mean they make bad music. All their albums have amazing songs on them. You dont have to like them but you dont have to hate something you know nothing about.

PASARON 20 AÑOS DE APPEETITE FOR DESTRCUTON Y MAS DE 14 DE SU SEPARACION, ES INCREIBLE COMO GN’R SIGUE EN EL CORAZON DE LAS PERSNAS, Y EN MIO EN ESPECIAL, GN’R ( AXL, SLASH, IZZY, STEVEN, DUFF ) ARGENTINA TE ESPERA.

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

PASARON 20 AÑOS DE APPEETITE FOR DESTRCUTON Y MAS DE 14 DE SU SEPARACION, ES INCREIBLE COMO GN’R SIGUE EN EL CORAZON DE LAS PERSNAS, Y EN MIO EN ESPECIAL, GN’R ( AXL, SLASH, IZZY, STEVEN, DUFF ) ARGENTINA TE ESPERA.

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Steph’s comment kinda got me thinking: Music aside, Fall Out Boy is one of the dumbest band names I can think of. Guns n’ Roses is one of the all time great band names. Velvet Revolver is actually a pretty good name too.

Ahh, a real rock band on the cover, its been a while

If u dont like sth, dont buy it. Just stop whining. There is no such thing as “The best band/singer ever”. People have diferent tastes mostly based on their experiences. That’s probably why noone here said that The Beatles for example (or Elvis Presley etc)is the best band ever.

Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver are wank names.
Th Libertines – Nirvana – The Clash.

Those are good band names.

GNR still ROCKIN’ The FUCKIN’world. You’ll see!!!They will reunion again!!Only AXL doesn’t want to show himself.He’s not coward.He’s just don’t have FAITH.

It’s been a while since RS had such a good cover…

Like 20 years.

la mejor banda d todas, lejos, uds yankees no saben nada jaja, o si?
no se, argentina es de los guns carajooooooooooooo

Axl eh o melhor!!

it´s so fuckin’ amazing !!
i really love guns n roses

oohh fuck
if you don´t like
guns n roses
just shut up
…

I love AXL ROSE
I love GUNS N ROSES
O BRASIL TE ESPERA ESTE ANO DE 2007

I love AXL ROSE
I love GUNS N ROSES
O BRASIL TE ESPERA ESTE ANO DE 2007

Axl is the best lead singer of the rock n´roll history

Owwwwwwwww.. Axl Ruleezzzzzzzzzzzzz! Chinese democracy tour in BRAZILLLLLLLLLL 2007!! Yeahhhhhhhhh!!

axl is God, you rock..GNR , best band ever, i hope you visit argentina again, !
GUNS AND FUCKING ROSEES!

It’s great to see the love for Axl Rose. So many idiots out there bash him. The reunion talk is so stupid. Axl, Izzy, and Duff are only 60% of the original GNR. I don’t see people pining away for Tracii or Ole. Slash and Steven joined later. Oh yeah, and by the way, FACT: Izzy, Slash, and Duff left GNR, they were not fired or forced out by Axl. They deserted Axl, not the other way around.

Axl the best, we want Chinese Democracy tour in Colombia too. Please come soon.

bien¡¡¡ por la mejor banda de la historia

AXL E O MELHOR CANTOR DE TODOS OS TEMPOS
I STILL LOVE GUNS N ROSES
L HAVE 19 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER LIKE GUNS N ROSES MY FAMILY ALL
THANKS FOR EXIST
AXL FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRR

oh,oh,oh sweet child o’ mine
yeah

I have been a Guns n Roses fan ever since the very first time I saw them perform on MTV…I still play thier music and my 20 year old daughter has thier songs on her ipod…Thank You RS, for recognizing a GREAT band !!

Thank You for bringing Gun n Roses back into my life…you will always be in my heart though thier music !! ” Sweet Child o Mine ” 143

Chinese Democracy will NEVER come out. AND the current Guns N’ Roses lineup is worthless. They will NEVER be able to match the magic that was the original lineup. Oh and you people should stop worshipping Axl Rose, because he is a pompous asshole who doesn’t really give a shit about the fans. Showing up late for concerts because of a basketball game. What a dickhead. Sure he’s a great frontman, (or at least used to be), but he’s not a nice guy.

Too bad, Velvet Revolvers new music sucks too. They had a lot of promise, but there are only like two good songs on the new CD.

That is the REAL Guns.. Screw Axl and his bunch of wannabees.. They need to change the name of that band because it ISN’T Guns N Roses… It is a JOKE.

I disagree Will. I think Libertad is the best rock album in ages. I liek every damn song on there..

NAO SO A MELHOR BANDA DAS DECADAS DE 1980,90, COMO A MELHOR BANDA DE TODOS OS TEMPOS SEM SOMBRA DE DUVIDAS, BASTA OLHARMOS EM VARIOS RANKINGS A BANDA GUNS N ROSES LIDERA A MAIORIA DELES. DEPOIS QUE SURGIU ESTA REVOLUCIONARIA BANDA CHAMADA GUNS N ROSES ,NO MEIO DOS ANOS 80, O MUNDO DO ROCK AND ROLL NUNCA MAIS FOI O MESMO, O ROCK AND ROLL NO COMECO DOS ANOS 80, ANTES DE SURGIR O GÊNIO CHAMADO GUNS N ROSES ESTAVA BASTANTE DECADÊNTE, MESMO FAZENDO MAIS DE 10 ANOS QUE A BANDA ORIGINAL SE SEPAROU, A BANDA CONTINUA COM SEUS SUCESSOS NO AUGE ACIMA DE MILHARES DE BANDAS QUE SURGIRAM APOS DELA. AGRADECO TODOS OS DIAS POR ESTA BANDA CHAMADA GUNS N ROSES TER REVOLUCIONADO O MUNDO DO ROCK AND ROLL. OBRIGADO POR TUDO, AGUARDO A LENDARIA BANDA CHAMADA GUNS N ROSES AQUI NO BRASIL EM NOVEMBRO.

To quote Rodney King, “Why can’t we all just get along?!” Izzy, Duzz, Axl, Steven, Slash, you know what you are capable of. Put all the bull**** aside & start anew. We just wanna see you all play together again; the REAL GNR. If The Police can lay down their swords…Come on now!

To quote Rodney King, “Why can’t we all just get along?!” Izzy, Duff, Axl, Steven, Slash, you know what you are capable of. Put all the bull**** aside & start anew. We just wanna see you all play together again; the REAL GNR. If The Police can lay down their swords…Come on now!

Intensive Purposes? You suck. If Richard Legner is glad he doesn’t buy Rollig Stone anymore, he could make me glad by not posting here. Go away

Can’t we all just get a
BONG?

LA MEJOR BANDA DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS, HAN PASADO 20 AÑOS Y SEGUIMOS AQUI ESPERANDO. NECESITAMOS MAS MUSICA COMO ESA.
AXL ESTAMOS AQUI ESPERANDO.

LA MEJOR BANDA DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS, HAN PASADO 20 AÑOS Y SEGUIMOS AQUI ESPERANDO. NECESITAMOS MAS MUSICA COMO ESA.
AXL ESTAMOS AQUI ESPERANDO.

I never had watched this…lot of commets ’bout Guns n’ Roses…in this situation…
very good.
This is Guns n’ Roses.

This Guns n’ Roses fuckers !!

Everybody wants the old Guns !!!!
Just Axl doesn’t look…

Slash, Duff and Matt…please back to the Guns!!!!!!
Anybody has the Axl’ phone number?
“hello, Axl…You know Where you’re? You ‘re in the jungle baby…you gonna die!!!! if don’t release the Chinese Democracy album…”

O axl tem que ir!!!

O axl tem que ir!!!

OS GUNS SÃO DEMAIS DOU PARABÉMS A ELES PELO VIGÉSIMO ANIVERSÁRIO,E POR VINTE ANOS DE MUSICAS INCRIVEIS,SÃO ESSAS MUSICAS QUE ESTAMOS PRECISANSO QUE VOLTE COM POTENCIA PARA OS ANOS 2000…
AMO ELES P/ KAÇETE,muito muito muito muito mesmo….
AXLAXLAXLAXL
GUNS!GUNS!GUNS !GUNS!GUNS!GUNS!…
BJAUM
xa uuu

el espiritu guns es solo axl.buckethead es mejor que slash.chinese democracy es el futuro.axl no nos defraudara

I miss guns n roses so much, the old ones, damn robin fink and the new guns, they screw it up. Man, where did those rock days go today. They have to come back, guns n roses has to rise again, they have to show this world once again what music is made of. Just once more, god bless saul slash hudson, steven adler, william axl rose, izzy stradlin, and duff mkcagan. They already reached the top of the world, why don’t they do it once more?

queremos o axl!!!!!!!heheheh cade ele????sumiu ……

amo a gnr son la mejor banda del todo mm bueno que chinga le dan le aportan otro sentido a mi vida ^^

http://www.myspace.c om/ws lashrose

yo creo que se deberian juntar

se deberian juntar

se deberian juntar

8TanCW U cool ))

HOLA!!YO NO C QUE PUEDO DECIR XQ A MI ME ENCANTA LOS GUNS N ROSES!!Y ME ENKNTARIA CONOCER PERSONAS Q LE GUSTA LOS GUNS!!MI E-MAIL:karinaaquino_1@hot mail. com
bsss

HOLA!!YO NO C QUE PUEDO DECIR XQ A MI ME ENCANTA LOS GUNS N ROSES!!Y ME ENKNTARIA CONOCER PERSONAS Q LE GUSTA LOS GUNS!!MI E-MAIL:karinaaquino_ 1@hot mail. com
bsss

GuNs N’ Roses!!!

qe puedo decir

para mi es la mejor bandaa de todos los tiemposs

muysica como esaa ya no haii

Chinese democracy sale dando a conocer la verdadera musica

aunqe me gustaria qe fuera toda la banda original

Axl Rose
Slash
Duff
Izyy
Steve n

o siii los mejores

y qe mas guapisizimoss

si qe sii
jeje

los amooo

suerte

qe el amor del rock nunca muera!!

Mientras las pistolas tengan balas

y las rosas espinas
GuNs N’ Roses HASTA EL FINAL.!!!!!

GuNs N’ Roses!!!

qe puedo decir

para mi es la mejor bandaa de todos los tiemposs

muysica como esaa ya no haii

Chinese democracy sale dando a conocer la verdadera musica

aunqe me gustaria qe fuera toda la banda original

Axl Rose
Slash
Duff
Izyy
Steve n

o siii los mejores

y qe mas guapisizimoss

si qe sii
jeje

los amooo

suerte

qe el amor del rock nunca muera!!

Mientras las pistolas tengan balas

y las rosas espinas
GuNs N’ Roses HASTA EL FINAL.!!!!!

GuNs N’ Roses!!!

qe puedo decir

para mi es la mejor bandaa de todos los tiemposs

muysica como esaa ya no haii

Chinese democracy sale dando a conocer la verdadera musica

aunqe me gustaria qe fuera toda la banda original

Axl Rose
Slash
Duff
I zyy
Steve n

o siii los mejores

y qe mas guapisizimoss

si qe sii
jeje

los amooo

suerte

qe el amor del rock nunca muera!!

Mientras las pistolas tengan balas

y las rosas espinas
GuNs N’ Roses HASTA EL FINAL.!!!!!

GuNs N’ Roses!!!

qe puedo decir

para mi es la mejor bandaa de todos los tiemposs

muysica como esaa ya no haii

Chinese democracy sale dando a conocer la verdadera musica

aunqe me gustaria qe fuera toda la banda original

Axl Rose
Slash
Du ff
I zyy
Steve n

o siii los mejores

y qe mas guapisizimoss

si qe sii
jeje

los amooo

suerte

qe el amor del rock nunca muera!!

Mientras las pistolas tengan balas

y las rosas espinas
GuNs N’ Roses HASTA EL FINAL.!!!!!

Just wanna say… GN’R ftw.

well why don`t you join the band together for a picture in the same position as they are in that one of the magazine and then use that picture on the front side of the magazine and the old one on the baack cover so we can compare them.

Guns n roses songs are the best. the voice of axl, the slash and izzy`s riffs the agressive bass notes from duff and the explosive drum kit from steven adler are legendary!!!!!!