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| January, 1988 - The band entered Rumbo Studios with
producer Mike Clink to record a couple of acoustic songs ("Patience", "Used To Love Her", "One In A Million", "Cornchucker"
and a reworking of "You're Crazy"). These songs were intended to be used as B-sides or possibly an EP. |
| January 31st, 1988 - First headlining tour of America
starts. Axl walked out of the band, but three days later he was back. The tour ends in February. |
| April 11th, 1988 - The band shoots the video for "Sweet
Child O' Mine" at Ballroom, Huntington Park, CA. |
| April 23rd, 1988 - "Appetite For Destruction" enters
the Billboard Top 10 (date uncertain). |
| May, 1988 - On tour with Iron Maiden. The two bands
didn't get along very well. GN'R was the most popular band of the two. GN'R thought that they should headline instead of Iron
Maiden. At the end of the tour Axl had problems with his throat. GN'R cancelled the rest of the tour, but that didn't stop
the rest of the guys from stepping on-stage and with jamming with LA Guns, who were hired to replace GN'R.
The tour ended in June. |
| May, 1988 - Duff married his girlfriend Mandy. |
| June, 1988 - According to Slash, the band had already
written lots of new songs. Two of them were "Perfect Crime" and "You Could Be Mine" The band planned to go into the studio
in October, November and have a new album out sometime in mid-1989. |
| June 3rd, 1988 - US release of the Sweet Child O' Mine
single. This became the band's first #1 single. |
| July, 1988 - GN'R opens most of the shows on Aerosmith's
Permanent Vacation tour in the USA from July to September.
Tim Collins (Aerosmith's manager at the time): "By the end of the
tour, Guns N' Roses were huge.They basically just exploded. We were all pissed that Rolling Stone showed up to do a story
on Aerosmith, but Guns N' Roses ended up on the cover of the magazine. Suddenly, the opening act was bigger than we were.
But we felt sorry for them. One, they were so fucked up it was ridiculous.
Two, their stupid manager had negotiated a bad deal for them and never bothered to renegotiate it or even complain. Three,
they were traveling like Gypsies, their old suitcases held together by twine and gaffers tape. At the end of the tour, we
bought them all new Halliburton cases, which their manager took as an insult." |
| July 23rd, 1988 - "Appetite For Destruction" reaches
#1 on the Billboard charts. |
| August 15th, 1988 - Part of the footage for the "Paradise
City" video is shot on this day. |
| August 16th, 1988 - Footage for the "Paradise City"
video is shot at Giants Stadium, New Jersey. It was directed entirely by phone and headset by Nigel Dick. |
| August 20th, 1988 - The Monsters Of Rock at Castle Donington,
England. The German band Helloween started the festival at one o'clock in the afternoon. An hour later GN'R stepped on-stage.
The crowd started to move towards the stage. Despite stopping the show three times during their set two fans fell and were
crushed to death. |
| September 7th, 1988 - The band performs "Welcome To
The Jungle" at MTV's Video Music Awards.
"Welcome To The Jungle" wins in the Best New Artist category.
Slash and Steven join Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Billy Idol and
Tommy Lee for the taping of Sam Kinison's remake of "Wild Thing". The boys are seen in the video.
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| September 17th, 1988 - GN'R plays at the Texas Jam in
Irving, TX. The headliner on the bill was INXS.
Before "Welcome To The Jungle" Axl says "Apologize if, I sound
like shit but too many planes and too much cocaine, but you know where the fuck you are?....".
After the song, Slash plays a guitar solo which is followed by a blues
jam. Axl sings "Bad Time" as an intro to "Sweet Child O' Mine". |
| November 17th, 1988 - GN'R make the cover of Rolling
Stone. |
| November 30th, 1988 - Geffen Records releases "GN'R
Lies". It was originally going to be called "Lies! The Sex, The Drugs, The Violence, The Shocking Truth", but someone at Geffen
noticed that the name was too long. So they changed it to "GN'R Lies". The album includes the four tracks from "Live ?!'@
Like A Suicide" plus four acoustic tracks.
A couple of lines in "One In A Million" draws negative publicity to
the band.
When Lies went to number two on the Billboard Chart, the band became
the only artist with two albums in the top five at the same time in the 1980s.
According to Duff the acoustic tracks were recorded one night in the
studio when they were drunk!
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| December, 1988 - During December the band played in
Japan, New Zealand and Australia. |
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