I never liked Guns ‘N Roses, and this might surprise you, but my reasons are weird. On the surface, I found Axl Rose grating and embarrassingly trashy, although the other band members were really good, and their album Appetite For Destruction was my earliest exposure to the art of Rob’t Williams. But I never could abide a poseur, and in my opinion, Axl Rose has built a career impersonating the lead singer of Scottish hard-rock band Nazareth.
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Axl of Nazareth
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Filed under Bad Influences, Eatable Things, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Nostalgic Obsessions
Tagged as #fbf, 1970s, 1980s, 9/11/01, Andrew Dice Clay, Axl Rose, Guns 'N Roses, Heavy Metal, Jr., metal, Metallica, Morton Downey, music, Nazareth, Robert Williams, Sam Kinison, Scotland, The Spaghetti Incident, whores
Rush
What better proof of the niceness of Canadians could you ask for, than three dudes getting along well enough to perform together for forty years?
This song in particular got me through some lonely teenage nights:
As did this one:
And for crying out loud, to any red-blooded man, this song is utterly indisputable:
That’s why guys like me and Bubbles look beyond the songs about trees talkin to each other and the wordy 90s stuff. You’re lucky I outgrew my “Show of Hands” phase, however.
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Tagged as #tbt, 1990s, Alex Lifeson, Bands I Useta Like, Canada, classic rock, Geddy Lee, metal, Moving Pictures, music, Neil Peart, R40, Rush, strips
Rammstein
I’ll most likely throw up an old (give or take) strip every Thursday for your #tbt or what have you. Enjoy.
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