YOUR VERY FIRST MOMENTS WITH GNR

[addline]

 here we talk about our very first moments discovering guns n roses.

 for me here in australia it was sweet child o mine on video hits on saturday mornings.

 My sister was into metal and death metal and she had appitite on tape, i asked if i could borrow it.

 I took it to my room and kicked back on me bed.

  Listened to it once over and still remember being totally taken back in aww.

 Then i repeated it like 3 times over it was just so good.

 and yeah ever since ive been just so into gunners on everything 

[Bane]

when I was about 11 I took my mothers copy of UYI1 and played it

The opening bassline of 'Right next door to Hell' had me hooked

[Axlman17]

I was like three, and I had the november rain single cassette tape. Then at the age of five or six, my friend gave me appetite, I was hooked ever since. I also got my buddy rehooked on guns.

[88]

i bought greatest hits a few years ago, and loved it instantly. i thought the band had finished in the 80s, but i was curious and googled guns n roses, and found a small forum where people were talking about axl and guns making music now  i instantly grabbed every leak i could find, so you could say i was into newGNR before i heard the majority of old guns stuff. i soon fell in love with the entire back catalogue, and today i'm still discovering new loves for songs i didn't really appreciate before, breakdown for example. 

[horsey]

friends turned me on at first.then i was at the philly spectrum show with aerosmith and axl ran past me.of coarse late for the show.they didn't even know he was in the band at that point.and i think he was in the parking lot partying too if i remember.i met izzy at the bus they were on and he wasn't too nice.he was like what the fuck is all this about.was his very words coming off the bus.i only seen axl run past for a second if i knew it was him.i don't know now maybe would have tripped him lol.and jumped on him just kidden '

[alix-rose]

well my mom was always listening to Don't Cry & Since I Don't have you when i was about 5 or 6, and my older brother was listening to appetite from 6:30 AM to 2:30 AM, and i always liked them, but it wasn't untill i heard Axl introduce Used To Love Her on the live ERA album, that i really got into them (in 99.)


( "This is something of, GNR lies. Now if you know anything about us, we write most about songs with based of an element of truth. This is like the only song we've written out of kinda like a fantasy and a joke you know cuz, it's kind of a sick subject but, you know sometimes you think about it when your girlfriend or your boyfriend is just a pain in the fucking ass and you just wish you could cut their fucking head off and stuff it in a bag stick it in the backyard. this is something called "I Used To Love Her But I Had To Kill Her" " )


after hearing this ^^ i literally anal-raped the live era CDs  and when i got bored at them i stole my brother's albums
 (he still thinks that he just forgot them at our grand-parent's house (which live on the other side of the country) because i was able to put it in the closet there before he checked, next time we went there) and overplayed them all, which i regret. i wasn't able to listen to GNR through 2001-2003 because i had overplayed it all.


and when i was about 3-4 years old, i used to sing "take me down to the paradise city where the girls are green and the grass is pretty" i didn't understand a word in english and everybody found it so funny that they didn't bother to correct me.

[ktallett]

i recieved the tape from my uncle when i was little and all i had heard from my family was they were really loud and stuff so listened and didnt really pay attention. then I bought the appetite cd here in the uk along with duran durans greatest hits from woolworths infact. No longer there obviously. That was in about 2002 and i had the cd for a while before i really listened and i just got more and more hooked on their music and soon had to get another cd of their's UYI 1. Which i really liked too and then  just kept getting more cds and videos and i found they rocked. More recently have really found i overplayed them thouigh so havent been able to listen as much.

[FallenRoses]

Christmas '04 my parents bought me Greatest Hits and I listened to it but I had already heard the stuff just never really understood the magnitude. Then in '07 when i was truly able to understand i started buying all the Guns stuff I could find. Theres just so much stuff its hard to truly comprehend. I love it all. But my favorite song by far is Its So Easy, followed by Locomotive, Estranged, Aint It Fun, Dont Cry, and Coma.

[©GnrPersia]

to be honest at the time I fall in love with GNR you couldn't find any GN'R cassettes and stuff here in Iran. I was about 12 years old and I was watching Foreign Tv Channels using a Dish Satellite. It was a boring day and I was just checking Tv channels to pass the time;

all of a sudden I changed the channel to MTV and I saw a scene where this blond man with a nice facial hair and a bandanna on his head sitting in his Limo looking outside the car's window (Estranged) and everything started since then...

and until now I'm writing this I can't stop listening and watching Estranged video everyday! I mean it!

[Charlie still dont surf]

Been a fan since appetite,heard paradise city and i was hooked,started buying everything i could of them,mags,tshirts,singles,concerts,started playing guitar a few years later after seeing slash's solos at the tokyo and paris gigs,quickly bought a les paul copy n havnt looked back since!

[eddierose0608]

My mum was a rocker and always played sweet child o mine to me. When I turned 4 she gave me the AFD album for christmas been in love with them ever since. Was bought up on them.

[Insomnia]

Saw Don't  Cry video on a music channel in about 1991 when I was about 12 and immediately fell in love. Later on I learned the name of the band and the other songs and I still love them!

[clinteaztwood]

Man I'll be honest, when I first heard GNR it was WTTJ and I didn't like em at all.  It was 1987, I was 17 and my playlist consisted of huge doses of Dio, lots of Metallica, King Diamond, and any other dark music I could find to listen to.  A few months later I found Appetite in my friends tape deck, I pressed play and proceeded to wear out 4 copies of that casette over the next 3 years. I never looked back.  I credit Guns N' Roses for pulling me out of the dark place I was in and maybe even saving my life, idk.  But the ride has been special even if it has been turbulent and they have made me wait and disappointed me, but I wouldnt give back the music they have given me for anything, it means that much.

[Obscured]

I had heard the boys of my class singing WTTJ when I was like 8 years old and I didn't understand it very well, but my very first time of really listening was on 2006. My friend (he wasn't yet my friend those days) wrote the lyrics of Paradise City in his journal and I read it from there. So, I surfed to YouTube and listened Paradise City. I was like "AMAZING"! GN'R had existed for me since 2002 but I truly fell in love four years later. I kept on listening PC for some weeks and then I started to listen the other songs. So.. I have loved GN'R almost from the beginning. 8))

[Sweersa]

For me when I was very little I say a tape cassette that said Guns N' Roses on it.  On of the first rock band names I leaned about.

I never really got into it until I heard about Chinese Democracy, I torrented the 2006 era leaks a few years ago and fell in love with Better, I was amazed that such great material was unreleased, that was the gateway for me into GN'R. 

[©GnrPersia]

I never really got into it until I heard about Chinese Democracy, I torrented the 2006 era leaks a few years ago and fell in love with Better, I was amazed that such great material was unreleased, that was the gateway for me into GN'R. 

It's good to see the new tracks from CD makes people get into GN'R, even those who haven't heard anything from the old band. this makes them try the previous works and get deeper into Guns N' Roses.

[BF4]

I was on a bus headin to LA back in 87 and I was sittin there and this red headed guy in front of me turns around and says: Do u know where u are? And I said come again and he said again Do u know where u are? And I was like I believe im headin to LA and he said wrong answer: Your in the jungle baby, your gonna die 

[alix-rose]

yeeeeah suuuure whatever you say

[axlrose4eva]

My first moments with GNR are.. well life changing.. I was 4 or 5 and my sister told me to come sit down and watch this new video. It was the vid for November Rain. I sat threw all of it and was blown away. I have been hooked ever since.

[alix-rose]

My first moments with GNR are.. well life changing.. I was 4 or 5 and my sister told me to come sit down and watch this new video. It was the vid for November Rain. I sat threw all of it and was blown away. I have been hooked ever since.

hey you've got your stars back.

[axlrose4eva]

hey you've got your stars back.

dude i know! im freaking happy! haha

[alix-rose]

[johndoe]

Well my mom played GNR even when she was pregnant, then after she left it was hearing Welcome To the Jungle in Dirty Harry that got me into them when I was 7 or 8, and then it was November Rain on the radio that told me I had to be a part of it 

[Axl is my idol]

I honestly don't remember.  I remember stealing my Dad's copy of Appetite for Destruction after already hearing GNR, but that's about as far as my memory goes.