August 6, 1988, APPTITITE FOR DESTRUCTIONfirst album by Guns N’Roses, is n ° 1 in the United States. Back on a music monument.
July 21, 1987. Guns n 'roses make a shattering entry on the American music scene with APPTITITE FOR DESTRUCTION. Concentrated Eighties, it suggests the stratospheric heights that hard rock will reach the future. Real emblem of a glam immortal punk, Appetite is one of the last records to have been designed for a vinyl outing and to have been mixed manually.
“” Axl, Slash and I knew what we wanted to do since our eleven years”Said Steven Adler has WECB one year after the release ofAppetite. “” We smashed for that and no one could put ourselves on our way. I wanted to be Roger Taylor de Queen. We wanted to be aerosmith, Kiss, Zeppelin – this kind of group. »»
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1986. Guns n 'roses have not yet pierced. Vivoting Hotels in shabby squats, they nevertheless have the look and the attitude of real rock stars, destroying everything in their path and neglecting the advice of renowned musicians such as the guitarist of Kiss Paul Stanley. A time considered to be the producer of the group, he was thank himself after criticizing one of the demos of what will become “Nightbish”.
Orbitant around two pairs of childhood friends – Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin having grown up together in Indiana, while Slash And Steven Adler made the wall at the – The Guns n 'Roses cuvée eighties quickly sleep on paper several pieces that will make their renown, including “Anything Goes”, “Think About You” and the legendary “Welcome to the Jungle”, the whole first artistic collaboration of the group.
Shortly after having signed Geffen Records at Geffen Records, the Guns finally add to the services of a manager and a producer. After weeks of rehearsals, they enter the studio and record at a frantic pace for two weeks. A month of post-production later, APPTITITE FOR DESTRUCTION was born.
Five months after its release, nearly 200,000 copies ofAPPTITITE FOR DESTRUCTION have passed. Determined to make its investment profitable, the group's label puts pressure on MTV so that they broadcast the clip of “Welcome to the Jungle”. The music channel gives in and the program at four in the morning on a Sunday, without suspecting that thousands of unhappy spectators were about to claim more. Never mind, they will pass their frustration on vinyl. Sales explode, ensuring Guns n 'roses A place in the sun. When the clip for “Sweet Child O 'Mine” released a few six months later, a cohort of female fans increases the ranks of the Gun admirers. The Rest is History…
Jessica Saval
