Guns N’ Roses - Welcome To The Jungle (1987) 8K

“If somebody had told me it was gonna be this huge record, I’d have laughed in their face,” said Guns N’ Roses’ guitarist Slash of the band’s 1987 debut Appetite for Destruction. Dripping off the stickiness of the Sunset Strip metal scene of the ’80s, Appetite for Destruction was filled with sex and drugs and all the exhumed excesses of the times and centered around a more motley crew of bandmates. “We never conformed to anybody else’s expectations or standards or commercial demands or whatever,” said Slash. “No fucking gimmicks. This was just rock and roll from the street—boom.” Indiana to Los Angeles Singer Axl Rose steps off a Greyhound bus onto the dark and dirty Strip and is offered drugs by a drug dealer, played by Stradlin, in the opening scene of the video for first Appetite single “Welcome to the Jungle.” Setting the scene around the deeper meaning of the song, the video, directed by Nigel Dick, mirrored the real-life scenario for Rose and Stradlin, both high school friends b