GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction Era Videos Online
July 20, 2007, 17 years ago
GUNS N' ROSES site GNRDaily has issued the following report:
"MetalSucks week long celebration of the 20th anniversary of Appetite For Destruction now continues with each of the music videos the band made to promote the album - including the never officially released video for 'It’s So Easy', which was supposed to be the first ever released by the band before it was decided by everyone that the sight of Axl and future ex-wife Erin Everly engaged in acts of bondage was more than a little much for MTV.But that’s who GN’R were - the band that was, at least for awhile, more than a little much for MTV. These are the dudes who tore down the set during a taping of Headbanger’s Ball; they were not, as the comedian Patton Oswalt has observed of so many 80’s metal bands, the guys that made a video that took place in some anonymous factory that appeared to manufacture fireworks (in fact, Axl Rose revealed to Eddie Trunk last year that he had wanted the video for 'Sweet Child O’ Mine' to follow a woman and her baby as they traveled - until the final moments, when you’d realize the baby was dead as she cracked it open to reveal that she was smuggling drugs inside the corpse). They made videos that were stripped down, often seemingly filmed at a detached distance, just oberrving the band being the band. Consequently, these videos are a perfect time capsule of who the band were when they were made, and, perhaps even more so than the musical differences between "Appetite" and Use Your Illusion, the difference in the style of videos illustrates the evolution of this band from gutter punks to bloated superstars."
Read the full story and check out the videos at GNRDaily.
