My occasional guitar teacher, Alex, is finishing up a tour in support of Sevendust with his band, Crash Midnight. This is their lead single. At the age of forty-two, I find it charming when younger guys kind of reach for that classic Gn’R sound. As some of you know, Appetite For Destruction has been very important to me.
And I also think of what John Mayer said a while ago: when you work at sounding like your heroes and don’t quite get there, that’s when you start to sound like yourself.
Not bad. Reminds me more of the Gone Jackals… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC0Ryc8yIGg
I wanted to comment on the link to the GnR article, but comments are closed. I was in high school, and I walked into my Biology class, first class of the morning, and Theron, who was 2 years ahead of me, had written out the lyrics to “Welcome to the Jungle” on the blackboard. I was very confused. He was an Eagle Scout, very proper kind of kid. Had a perfect 78 Mustang II Cobra, which confused me as well. Reading those lyrics and trying to associate them with him didn’t make sense to me. So I went and bought the CD. Again, at the time, CD players were uncommon, and my parents had gone from 8-track to a 200 watt Montgomery Ward stereo that I blew the woofers out of eventually. Appetite For Destruction was, and still is in my top 5 albums of all time.
My man.