Since I went and named my show Appetite for Distraction I seem to have become an-all round apologizer for Guns n Roses. Actually the show is named as much for my love of that record as it is for my inability to focus, but the attachment to the former is more noted.
Thing is, I have long argued that you can love a band at a certain moment in their career or just one recorded offering. And who can explain why a sound gets you and the whole thing works and obsesses you and you are never quite the same again. So Appetite for Destruction got me. Still does.
But it all ended right then and there. Hated Use Your Illusion – 1 and 2. Chinese Democracy? Um, no. And today I would not go to a show.
All that said, the current wave of this band’s bad behaviour certainly does speak to the thing I liked in the first place. So if you like this stuff, prepare for the other side.
Long live RSBB (Rock Star Bad Behaviour). We’ve got enough boring people on the Earth.