1988 Was A Badass Year For Music

The Facebook post below just showed up in my suggested follows account last night. I couldn't help but notice all the amazing songs from 1988. So many great number 1 hits! There's so many George Michael songs here (Faith was a huge album folks!), plus Guns n' Roses, Def Leppard and INXS. Cheap Trick hit paydirt with "The Flame" and so did Poison with "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."

Bon Jovi reached the top of the charts with "Bad Medicine" and The Beach Boys made a comeback with "Kokomo." Such a great list of songs. Perhaps the best year for popular music, ever. Thoughts?

Guns n' Roses Announce World Tour

Guns n' Roses will hit the Middle East, Europe and North America. The band announced their World Tour trek this morning and dates and cities are on the graphic below. So far, no info on tickets but rest assured, they won't be cheap!

Football, Snow, Ear Infections and RokIsland Fest Videos

Much like episodes of Seinfeld, some posts are really about a lot of stuff that equals nothing much.

Another week has come and gone and here we are on another Sunday. It's a big day for my Cincinnati Bengals as they head to Buffalo for the AFC divisional round. It's going to be tough, but I know Burrow and Co. can get it done.

Then there's this: apparently every forecaster in southern Ohio missed the fact that we were going to get a significant winter storm today and it's been snowing hard for hours here. Like, six inches hard or something and there's a snow warning for basically the entire day now. I'm on my final day of antibiotics for yet *another* double ear infection and it isn't clearing. So that, mixed with the snow equals a very crabby glam mistress.

Meanwhile, down in the Florida Keys it is warm and there is no snow. The Rok Island Fest just wrapped up and videos of the performances are appearing online.

Here's Lynch Mob doing "Wicked Sensation"

Here's Jetboy doing "Trouble Comes"

Here's Steven Adler's solo group doing "Night Train" and holy crap, singer Ari Kamin sounds like Axl Rose! I mean, he fronted a Guns n' Roses tribute band in the past, but still. Crazy!

Here's the band doing "Civil War"

I Always Feared This

Ok so maybe it is stupid, but I always worried about being smacked in the head by a microphone from Sebastian Bach or Axl Rose. They are both known to wildly whip around their mics and it always made me nervous to be too close to them while they perform.

Case in point: an Australian woman alleges that Rose smacked her upside the head with his mic after performing "Paradise City." Guns n' Roses are in Australia and they played Adelaide Tuesday when the alleged incident happened.

Apparently the woman got hit in the nose and was bloodied. The photos look bad!

'November Rain' Gets Orchestral Makeover

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Use Your Illusion albums, Guns n' Roses re-recorded "November Rain" with a 50-piece orchestra. I always love when bands do this, so it's right up my alley. Personally, I don't think the 2022 version (below) sounds all that different from the original. I think the orchestral parts could be more overt, but that's just me. What do you think?

November Rain (2022 Version) is here! Recorded with a first-ever real 50-piece orchestra conducted & arranged by Grammy® Award winner Christopher Lennertz. Listen now & get as part of the Box Set on November 11. https://t.co/6J7V8YPbhQ pic.twitter.com/QvcmGuY9Kb

— Guns N' Roses (@gunsnroses) November 4, 2022

The Best Videos Of 1989 - 'Patience'

One of my favorite Guns n' Roses songs is "Patience." It was released as a single in 1989 and the promotional video just immediately grabbed me. The first time I saw it, I knew I would have a life-long love for Guns n' Roses. "Patience" is on the G N'R Lies EP. I think the clip for "Patience" is when I noticed Axl Rose's signature hip swing for the first time. Iconic.

There's A New 'You Could Be Mine' Video

You read that title right - Guns n' Roses has released a new video for their song "You Could Be Mine." The song is on Use Your Illusion II (and it is also on the Terminator 2 soundtrack).

Both Use Your Illusion I and II are being re-released as a box set next month, along with 63 previously unreleased tracks -- and everything is completely remastered. To celebrate the remaster, Gn'R just released a new video for "You Could Be Mine" and the clip is below. It's a live video of the band performing the song at New York's Ritz Theatre back in 1991.