p.s. This has got to be the first time I have ever heard KROQ mention the name Guns N' Roses...
No doubt, GNR never could crack KROQ..
It's good to see VR getting some run on the USA's most influential modern rock station.
Looks as though Weiland's inclusion in the band is paying dividends already. A safe bet would say a guest spot on KROQ would not be happening if a Bach type persona got the gig..
Falcon,
Have you heard (or read) the entire radio spot? Part of it was transcripted on the VR board. Here is a snippet about GNR you might find interesting... (thanks to Alicemudgarden):
DJ: I gotta ask, uh, Slash... Duff... Matt. And maybe Dave. You have some experience in this, too, with the band's that you've been in. It's gotta be funny for you to hear Scott talk about the kind of acrimonious STP final years. Because, you know, from your years in Guns n' Roses... it's just nothin' but flowers, man.
[laughter]
DJ: I mean that was just the smoothest ride a band can have. It's just... nothin' EVER went wrong.
SLASH: I reserve to comment.
MATT: You know, it's great. Scott said there was a guy who caught your fist... and there were those guys with us, too. I went after Axl a couple times.
DJ: Is that right. But somebody was there to stop it.
SLASH: I got stuck in the middle of you two.
MATT: Yeah, but thank God though, you know. You don't wanna hit somebody.
DJ: No, you don't. Slash, what's it like for you to see the Guns n' Roses revival that's going on right now. That "Greatest Hits" album came out, I think it's still in the top five. You sold a million copies or something.
SLASH: It's just one of those thing we were assigned at the time. Five years ago, that wouldn't have happened. So I was really surprised to see it in the charts.
SCOTT: You know, it's really interesting actually. That there is such a switch right now in what's considered 'cool', with like the revival of American rock n' roll. It's really, um, exciting for us to see. And it's really inspiring, because that's what we're about -- we're an American rock n' roll band. And even in the 'ultra-cool' stilver like, you know, and that's like the underground scene. You know, the guys or the kids there, the younger people there, are like dressing the way Guns n' Roses and other sort of 'underground' rock n' roll Sunset Strip bands dressed. I'm not talking about the Poison's... I'm talkin' about the Guns n' Roses.
?: Thank you.
SCOTT: You know, the real bands.
[laughter]
SCOTT: That's like the cool, hip image... you know. And so it's kind of interesting to see. So I think the time is kind of right for us.
DJ: Yep.
SLASH: The fad's come and go, we just stay the same.
?: Slash just waited it out. He's the king again.
DUFF: You know, KROQ was the first station to play "Rodney On the Rock" back in, uh, whatever. KROQ was the first one to play our demo.
SLASH: "Move to the City"?
DJ: It was like '87 or something, right?
DUFF: I think it was '86.
DJ: '86 even.
DUFF: Before we did the record. We were hip there and I guess we got...
DJ: Un-big.
SCOTT: You see, that's the big misconception with Guns n' Roses. Is uh, you know, once they got so big... you know, Guns n' Roses were never a heavy metal band. I think Guns n' Roses, before they got a record deal, you guys played an equal amount of shows on Sunset Strip that actually played equal amount of shows in the underground clubs with punk rock bands.
DUFF: The Chili Peppers...
SCOTT: Jane's Addiction...
DUFF: Texan Horsehead, uh, Johnny Thunders...
MATT: Led Zeppelin.
[laughter]
DJ: There's been so much frustration, though. For rock n' roll fans over the past few years. To see Axl kind of flirt with the new band, which I don't think anybody's ever been excited about without a lot of you guys.
But I mean, uh, we always hoped that Guns n' Roses would come back and be great again. Because we really do feel like they had the potential to be one of the biggest and best bands of all time. And it just seemed like they ended too soon. Do you guys have a lot of regrets about the way it came down?
DUFF: I was just gonna say, I have none. I mean, I look at the glass half full. It was five, basically street urchens, who came and met in Hollywood. And really just stayed to our beliefs, as far as songs, and style. Whatever. And just stayed there -- we got a record deal. We didn't let anybody come into the studio when we did the record.
SLASH: We made absolutely no concessions to this business.
DUFF: None. And you know, we went from there -- pennyless, to at the end, you know, playing multiple nights in some stadiums. Around the world.
DJ: It happened fast. And in '87, is that when "Appetite For Destruction" came out?
DUFF: Yeah, we actually toured, uh, it's another misconception that it happened fast. We did tour for...
SLASH: Two years.
DUFF: Yeah, before anything happened.
MATT: But you know, Slash is so passive of a guy that most of the time I ever saw him upset was when he came to rehersal one day and said, "Someone thought I had changed my hat and now I'm wearin' a bucket on my head..."
[laughter]
DJ: He was most upset about that?
MATT: Someone thought that you were wearing a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on your head.
[much laughter]
You're right about Weiland being the key to opening many doors - especially KROQ. Scott gave a lot of credit to AFD being a landmark album for him.
I never thought I would live to see the day when a kroq dj would say something positive about GN'R.
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