The Music Of Guns N ' Roses '

This book brings you on the journey of each member’s journey. Bassist Nikki Sixx lived a life revolving around girls, drugs, alcohol, and rock and roll. With having his mom arrested at age 14 and attempting to stealing his first bass guitar only to realize it was a regular electric guitar Nikki Sixx grew up challenging the laws. Guitarist Mick Mars was into music from a young age where as time progressed he started writing down all his ideas in a notebook such as there band name Mötley Crüe just in a different form. Drummer Tommy Lee grew up a more comforted childhood receiving a snare drum for Christmas buying the rest on his own later. Tommy joined the school drum line where he learned tricks and stuff to do with drumsticks and drums. After skipping school and misbehaving his parents moved and he met Vince at his new school. Vocalist Vince Neil lived the rock star life even in high school where he was a legend and already in a band. Not only does this book take you on a journey of the members but also it takes you on a journey of their struggles. Mötley Crüe struggled to become famous due to the New Wave music, which they later helped kill off at the US Festival. The band struggled even more with getting a record deal then with becoming famous. No record company wanted to sign this band of degenerates who are playing rock and metal music when what was in was New Wave. Mötley Crüe very often struggled with fights and criticism for what they look like and how they sing. Their other major fight that they constantly battled was girls, with abusive girlfriends like Honey and Bullwinkle. The band in there early days usually used women for four purposes Food, Alcohol, Drugs, and

This would end up in the band receiving FM radio play in which they would show up for interviews. The band’s popularity would spread by local underground press and word of mouth. This same formula was key in building the Jeff Beck Group, Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker, and Led Zeppelin. Music was beginning to take a step in a different direction.

My interest in rock music began when a friend of mine first introduced me to a song by rock band Muse. At first I thought that it was just like any other songs as it was comprised of the same riff extended to about 4 minutes with a 2 minute guitar solo/bridge. However, as I continued to listen to the song over and over again, I grew to appreciate the heavy drumming, the distorted guitar riff and when I watched a few of their live performances of the song, I was astonished by the band synergy that they had. There’s just so much energy and passion put into every song they performed. Watching their performances inspired me to the point where I felt like

“You’ve got to listen to the heavens, you got to try to understand. The greatness of their movement is just as small as it is grand.” Most young adults of my generation do not know who The Grateful Dead are, but they unknowingly dawn the apparels and slang created in the counterculture of the bands following the Deadheads. The band, The Grateful Dead, became popular in the 60s and carried out wide spread recognition and fame into the 80s. Their calming, peace-promoting music became popular because it ‘transported’ people, it took them away from whatever they were going through in their life and set them on a new path. Fans of the band

John Sullivan and Chuck Klosterman are both very skilled and talented journalists, as I have already observed by the few essays that I have read by them. In Sullivan’s “The Final Comeback of Axl Rose,” he is describing his experience at one of Rose's comeback performances in New York with different band members mocking the originals, as well as digging up Axl’s past in Lafayette, Indiana. Klosterman’s piece, “The Pretenders,” isn’t so much about Axl Rose himself, but is focusing on the motivation behind tribute bands, specifically Paradise City, a Guns N’ Roses tribute. Throughout both of these essays, the authors have drastic tone shifts that greatly add to the messages within the pieces.

Axl Rose was a poor boy from Lafayette, Indiana. Most people had no clue where Guns N' Roses had come from. They thought the most dangerous band in the world sprung up out of no where, that it just happened. It took Guns a long time to get a label representative or anyone to look their way. They went through, as a band, everything that goes along with being successful in the late 80s. The band lost the drummer to drugs, making them fall a bit, but it was ultimately Axl's lack of control that made band members split up. Although now, in 2016, the band is back together and even more successful than

Guns N’ Roses, a one of the most popular rock and roll bands ever, produced some of the best rock and roll the world has seen. Back in 1985, two local bands from Los Angeles, California, combined to make Guns N’ Roses. Axl Rose manned one of the bands, Hollywood Rose, and Tracii Guns manned the other band, L.A. Guns.

Stone Temple Pilots were able to turn alternative rock into stadium rock; naturally, they became the most critically despised band of their era. Accused by many critics of being nothing more than ripoff artists who pilfered from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, the bandmates nevertheless became major stars in 1993. And the influence of those bands was apparent in their music, although Stone Temple Pilots did manage to change things around a bit. STP were more concerned with tight song structure and riffs than punk rage. Their closest antecedents were not the Sex Pistols or Hüsker Dü; instead the band resembled arena rock acts from the '70s -- they made popular hard rock that sounded good on the radio and in concert. No matter what

The Grateful Dead debuted in 1965 in Palo Alto, CA. It was known for its eclectic, psychedelic rock style, which was sculpted amid the San Franciscan countercultural movement of the 1960s. The movement gained speed alongside the civil rights movement and hippie culture. The Grateful Dead embraced these new beliefs in their songwriting, rejecting common structure by adopting the “jam” genre, which is based off of live improvisation.

Guns N’ Roses made the breakthrough on July 23, 1988 with the song “Sweet Child O’ Mine” which rose up to the number one spot on the Billboard Top 40. At first they appeared to be a band like all the others who played hard

The group came together in the Mid Eighties in Los Angeles. William “Axl” Rose grew up in Indiana with the name Bill Bailey. He adopted the name Rose after he found out his birth fathers name. One of his best friends Jeff Isbell aka Izzy Stradlin headed to Los Angeles after graduating high school. Rose then hitchhiked to meet up with him. There band name Guns n ‘ Roses came when Tracii Guns joined the band. After Guns left the band they were joined by Slash, Adler, and finally McKagan.

However, grunge music was not appreciated by everyone. Most adults or elders at that time thought it was too loud, or that it was devilish music. Even metal and rock bands disapproved of grunge, including some bands that helped build the genre’s popularity. Grunge bands fought for popularity, which made matters worse. Nirvana’s late frontman, Kurt Cobain, made a cruel statement about Pearl Jam in an interview. He hated the band with a passion. Not because of their popularity, but the style of their

Throughout their years at the top they were shrouded in mystery and intrigue, and seemed to leave behind a trail of question marks wherever they went. They were not a “public” band (they didn’t hire a

Many psychedelic bands came from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. The Grateful Dead was one of the most popular psychedelic rock bands ever. Although they did not sell many records, they were very well known for their live performances, and their music was often used as a soundtrack for LSD parties. While the Bay area, and especially the Haight-Ashbury, was good for producing great bands, there was a downside as well. Other than the many people dying LSD related deaths, many of the early bands were exploited by the record companies. The record companies wanted to profit from the hippy movement, but they did not like their music. Some producers were paid specifically to change a band’s original sound into a more popular sound, such as

The first hard rock and heavy metal music was produced by the rock group called Blue Cheer somewhere around 1967. Their music was angry and had a noticeably heavy beat.. At this time, the music of the Rolling Stones, too, became harder and angry, with a negative accent. Many other groups sprang up during this period. In truth, hard drugs, mixed with psychedelics were having an effect. The world was witnessing a new phenomenon: musical groups of young men - opening doors to the psychic world through the use of drugs - were using electrified instruments to bring in a new music that was harmful to the human psyche, destructive, and angry (2).