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October 9, 1991
FLAGPOLE MAGAZINE
Page 17
Use your
Guns-N-Roses, the world’s most popu
lar rock and roll band, who climbed to the
top by playing 40 minute opening sets for
Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, and Motley Crue,
have finally released a new album. Now
after four years they’re beginning to head
line their shows, sort
of learning. They’ve
been junkies, beat up
Motley Crue, hit neigh
bors with wine bottles,
peed on airplanes,
said "fuck" at award
ceremonies and
caused riots — all the
cool things I used to
dream about doing.
Their record has had
more hype, more
press, and more pres
sure than any record
in history except
Houses of the Holy.
Tape 1, side 1
(My CD player is bro
ken again):
“Right Next Doorto
Hell"—the song about
Axl’s fight with his
neighbor. Next comes
“Dust and Bones",
huh?Oh well. Nowlet’s
let Mike Clink re-produce “Live and Let Die"
— sing Axl, Paul needs the money. Finish
ing offside 1..."Don’t Cry“, “Perfect Crime",
and "You Ain’t the First". This stuff is O.K.
This is what happened: on G-N-R’s first
record, when Mike Clink ran the show, the
band listened to what he said. The arrange
ments came out perfect. Now G-N-R is
running the show and the arrangements are
weak.
Taps I, side 2:
Don’t get me wrong, I love this band...
Side 2 is horrible. If you love them don't
listen to it. It will just piss you off. These are
the songs Axl was working on in the studio
and on the roaa as the band was touring.
“Coma," a ten minute song, ends it. It's
O.K., maybe.
illusion
Tape II, side 1:
The paper portion of the cassette with all
the words falls apart as you open it. Four
pieces, wait 6, now 7 different pieces of
words and paper — thanks Geffen.
“Civil War’ we heard a year ago, great
song. Two more new
songs, pretty cool.
"Knockin' on
Heaven’s Door" with
the U2 tabernacle
choir is beautiful, I
guess, but after 5
minutes, shutup! And
now the G-N-R we all
loved four years ago
— "Get in the Ring"
— Axl tells Creem,
Rolling Stone and
Spin to all kiss his ass
— "Cool Bob Guc-
cione, Jr. get in the
ring‘Mother Fucker.”
— Go Axl. Then he
thanks all the Roses
fans for putting up
with all the shit. What
shit? He's got every
thing! Maybe he’s
saying he’s sorry it
took three years to
make this record.
Tape II, side 2:
“Pretty Tied Up" and "So Fine" — pretty
cool. “You Could Be Mine" — we’ve all
heard that one. "Don’t Cry" again “Boo Hoo"
and it’s over.
Well, we waited a long time. The band
looks cool in their picture. Slash has his
“Marlboro" and “Jack Daniels" in hand. We
all know you drink Jack, Slash. I must admire
any one who can drink the stuff for 10 years
and still have a 27 inch waist, to me that's a
rock star. Maybe if some idiot will insure
their shows, they might actually tour again
except Izzy and his dog are leaving the
band and Dave Navarro from Jane's Addic
tion will take over, so who knows, who
cares. Izzy’s mother must be glad it's all
over for her. Besides, he can retire now.
Buren Fowler
The Video Dope
A Pair of Double Features
Television killed double features in movie houses. Now you can establish a sense of
bittersweet irony in your own home by bringing them back on video.
To that end, a few suggestions...
YoJimbo(Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
and A Fist Full of Dollars
(Sergio Leone, 1964)
A Fist Full of Dollars is often noted as
a plagerized version of Yojimbo, but
in fact they're both based on Dash-
tell Hammett’s novel Red Harvest
which also served as the basis for
Miller's Crossing (which it wouldn't
hurt to pick up either). Anyway,
they're great films, the lot of 'em.
The Basic Frank Sinatra
video Library - Part 4
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
and Dirty Harry (Don Siegel 1971)
Two films in which Frank was the original choice to
play the leads Coppola managed to override the
studio’s wishes and cast the then washed up Mar
lon Brando for the role. According to legend Frank
broke his wr-st trying to fire the big 44 mag, the role
went to Robert Mitchum who wasn't interested,
and finally to Clint East wood.
New This Week
Cyrano de Bergerac (PG)
Those Frenchmen, took their best play and their
best actor and dumped a lot of money on it. Turned
out great.
A Kiss Before Dying (R)
A nutty, modern film Noir kind of
thing Word is its pretty damn good
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