Guns n' Roses | The Dead Pool (1988) #1

Guns n' Roses | The Dead Pool (1988) #1

Author: Jay R Smith May 2, 2023 Duration: 2:23:19

Guns n' Roses tour with Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, The Rolling Stones and more! Then Clint Eastwood's kiddo gets his favorite-est band in the whole wide world to be in his dad's new movie featuring Jim Carrey and Liam Neeson. Also lots of booze and drugs and bikers and strippers! Axl Rose warms up his vocals backstage with a Queensryche song that passive-aggressively lets his band know he's sick of their heroin dependency. The "Hell House" era featuring West Arkeen and Del James is discussed. LAPD and UK journalists all show up at the biker crash pad for an epic hang. The boys from Tesla strongly imply that "Patience" was a ripoff of one of their tunes. 

Many times during this era, Axl showed up to play gigs as scheduled and on time, but not always. Sly Stone shows up to use the bathroom! Many many times! Steven Adler gets in a "huge barroom brawl." Then it turns out he "punched out a street light". And then it turns out he actually just put his fist through a porch lamp outside a bar, and in doing so provided an opportunity for somebody else's drummer to take his place for a few shows while his finger healed. Living Colour's Vernon Reid has some choice words to say onstage about "One in a Million" while Axl is being forcibly pulled out of hiding and driven to the stadium with police escorts to get him onstage in time to open for the Stones that night. 

Oh, and Vince Neil bravely defend's his wife's honor after Izzy Stradlin beat her up with a flurry of karate kicks and punches. OR MAYBE Vince Neil sucker punched Izzy in the dark while he was coming offstage because the lady in question told Vince a story no one else seems to be able to corroborate. Because other folks said she was blatantly putting the moves on Iz and he pushed her off him and insulted her. Could all of this simultaneously be true somehow? I would not put it past the Rock n' Roll gods to have made it so, just to fuck with us, and all the parties involved. 

 

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Hosted by Jay R Smith, A History of Rock n' Roll in Film and Rock n' Roll explores the deep and often surprising connections between the silver screen and the amplifier. This isn't just a series of movie reviews; it's a cultural excavation. Each episode uses films-from major biopics and concert documentaries to obscure B-movies and tangential appearances-as a starting point to unpack a much larger story. You'll hear about the artists whose lives were dramatized, the business deals negotiated in studio lots, and the technological innovations, like new sound recording methods, that were pioneered for these projects and went on to shape music itself. The podcast argues that rock's history isn't just in the grooves of a record, but also in the flickering light of a projector, examining how cinematic portrayals have influenced our perception of the genre's legends and myths. By looking at these cinematographic products, Jay traces the evolution of what he calls that "glorious cultural mutant," revealing how film hasn't just documented rock n' roll, but has actively participated in its creation and legacy. The conversation is as much about the music as it is about the movies that tried to capture its chaotic, revolutionary spirit.
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