Periander, King of Corinth, bade his bard to stay. Yet I also fear that this competition may come at a great price to you, Arion.
Arion clothed himself in a jeweled red bandana, a Charles Manson T-shirt, and a kilt that fell around his thighs in graceful folds. Then he looked down into the deep blue sea and sang:. Then while Arion floundered in the waves, one of those dolphins swam to him, offered its back to the poet, and carried him safely to shore. As the dolphin returned to sea, Arion thanked the creature profusely and promised to donate his prize monies from any future song contests to various dolphin-related charities.
After Stephanie dies, Axl becomes estranged to the world. He hides out and mopes in his dark, empty mansion, and for some reason a SWAT team is hunting him. Somehow Axl ends up on the deck of an oil tanker in the middle of the ocean. He climbs atop the railing and leaps into the water. His rhythm guitarist throws him a life saver, and Axl throws it away. Another dude rows toward Axl in a lifeboat, but his efforts are also in vain.
Then the dolphins come. The majestic creatures frolic around him, fancy-free, unconcerned by trifles like heartache and rock stardom. Slash rises through the surface of the ocean and unleashes a triumphant guitar solo. A Coast Guard helicopter swoops in. No doubt he has dozens more of those back home. After the final piano chords fade into Heaven, Axl sits in a bandana and bathrobe, smiling at us through the fourth wall.
A dolphin friend stands beside him, clicking happily. As this epic journey concludes, Axl leaves us with a handwritten note:. But Kurt despised the crown and all its attendant consequences, and eventually he shot his head off in April Of course, it was impossible for Kurt Cobain to make Axl Rose obsolete. Axl died four years before Kurt did, and Axl survives all these years later.
But Eddie wanted none of that monarchy business either, and he dumped the crown on the ground without even trying it on for size. Bandleader Billie Joe Armstrong gleefully seized the crown that Eddie had tossed aside, and he stuck it up his butt and pranced around MTV for a year or so.
Billie Joe flirted with the crown again in , when he became a pep-rally ringmaster for kids who hated George W. Most rock fans would rather have a few beers with Dave and listen to him talk about Nirvana than crank his latest record.
Brownstone" -- by then, already hard-rock classics -- from Appetite for Destruction , an album currently celebrating its 30th anniversary. But the real appeal of the show was a handful of soon-to-be classics from the then-forthcoming Use Your Illusion albums, which wouldn't be released until that September: "You Could Be Mine"; "November Rain"; and the band's epic cover of Paul McCartney 's "Live and Let Die" were all performed that night.
It was nearly 90 minutes and 15 songs into the show, during the performance of "Rocket Queen," when things went sideways. Rose became furious with a fan in the first several rows, yelling, "Take that! Take that! Get that guy and take that! His objective was later revealed to be a camera being used by an audience member. This was during the pre-smart phone era, recall; not everyone in attendance at a concert had ready access to a camera like they do now, and there actually was a reasonably-lucrative trade in grainy, poorly-lit concert photos shot surreptitiously with less-than-adequate equipment.
It took a while for Axl to get fished out of the group of people he'd leapt into, which -- Oops! Their leader, Bill "Stump" Stephenson , was the one with the camera. Back onstage, Rose said, "Thanks to the lame-ass security, I'm going home! No one was quite sure what had just happened or what might happen next. Time froze. Eventually, the lights came up and egress music began playing, but by then the audience's blood pressure was up. Debris rained down on the stage and GNR roadies only exacerbated the situation.
One of them -- a man dressed in multicolored tights, wearing metal bracelets and holding a walking cane -- taunted the crowd, grabbing his crotch and making jerking-off motions. Meanwhile, violence had broken out everywhere. Rapt by the cinematic unreality unfolding all around us, Crone and I watched from our seats in the eighth row. Here are a few mental snapshots:.
A man, naked to the waist , with a gash on his shoulder and blood running down his face, broke free from the donnybrook down front and ran up the aisle. Another man, his head taped to a stretcher, was carried out. Police, summoned to the venue by a disaster-level "Code ," ringed the stage, and some from the crowd unwisely chose to challenge them. One was tackled and beaten on the knees, further enraging the audience, which chanted, "F--k you, pigs.
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Still, check those bangs!
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