Album of the Day — February 16
Guns-n-Roses — Appetite for Destruction — 1987
16.February.2021
Guns-n-Roses
Appetite for Destruction
1987
I never liked the hair metal movement of the 80s. When I saw the video for “Welcome to the Jungle,” I lumped Guns-n-Roses into that category.
That was a mistake.
After a series of false starts with producers like KISS’ Paul Stanley, Spencer Proffer (Quiet Riot), Nazareth guitarist Manny Charlton. Even “Mutt” Langes was kicked around, but Geffen Records refused to pay the fee. Released in July of 1987, Appetite for Destruction went largely ignored.
The band eventually grabbed Mike Clink (Triumph) to produce and stepped into Rumbo Recorders Studio (owned by Daryl Dragon — the Captain in The Captain and Tennille) in January of 1987.
Make no mistake; Mike Clink is the mastermind behind Appetite for Destruction.
Hard-rocking twenty-something snotty drug-riddled (and drunk) rockers were not de rigueur in the summer of 1987. If you glammed it up like Mötley Crüe or Ozzy’s hair era, you could get away with some misbehavior.
Guns-n-Roses didn’t glam it up. At all. These guys were jeans, tee-shirt, and leather…
