Guns N' Roses Funko Pops! Rocks Vinyl Figures Unboxing & Review: Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan
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In April 1990, the classic lineup of Guns N' Roses played its final show. The occasion was the nationally televised Farm Aid concert, a disastrous set that included, among several bizarre highlights, , and Axl Rose ending the live broadcast with a climactic "." It was the mark of a band breaking apart.
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Amazingly, though, the imploding GN'R were in the midst of an artistic surge. One of the songs played at Farm Aid (in a version hampered by Adler's inability to learn it) was "Civil War," a sweeping epic that would eventually open the second disc of the massive 30-song, two-and-a-half-hour opus they were hard at work on throughout 1990 and '91. Slash would later liken Use Your Illusion I and II to the Beatles' White Album (though "maybe not as good"), a titanic mix of gritty ragers, passionate rock-opera ballads and decadent screeds - from the failed-relationship triptych of "Don't Cry," "November Rain" and "Estranged" to the rock-critic indictment "Get in the Ring" to the misogynistic double-header of "Bad Obsession" and "Thirty-five of the most self-indulgent Guns N' Roses songs," Slash said. "For most bands, it would take four to six years to come up with this much stuff." Like the White Album, it was brilliance created amid collapse.
The band began seriously considering a follow-up to Appetite for Destruction in the summer of 1989, during a fruitful writing session that took place in Chicago. Izzy Stradlin, who had recently sobered up and often traveled separately from his bandmates, was especially productive. "Izzy has brought in eight songs - at least," Rose said in 1990. "Slash has brought in a whole album. I've brought in an album. Duff [McKagan] knows everybody's material backwards. So we've got, like, 35 songs we like, and we want to put them all out, and we're determined to do that." Discussing his newfound sobriety, Stradlin reflected, "I just reached a point where I said, 'I'm gonna kill myself. Why die for this shit?' "
The Chicago meeting spawned, among other songs, "Estranged" (about Rose's divorce from Erin Everly, daughter of rock & roller Don Everly), the rocker "Bad Apples" and the bondage jaunt "Pretty Tied Up." While there, they also fleshed out "Get in the Ring," the frustration anthem "Dead Horse," McKagan's tribute to deceased New York Doll Johnny Thunders "So Fine" and the doomy, 10-minute headbanger "Coma," notable for Rose's most dramatic and literal lyric in the GN'R catalogue: "Pleeease understaaand me."
GN'R began recording in earnest in January 1990, a little over a year after the release of Lies, with an attempt at capturing "Civil War," a tune they'd sketched out in 1988 and later donated to a compilation
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Axl Rose and Slash in Rio De Janeiro, 1991. Kevin Mazur/WireImage/Getty
Nevertheless, the band pushed forward. It solved the drummer problem by recruiting Matt Sorum, of hard rockers the Cult - a band whose affinity for Stones-y riffing and trippy lyrics put them in the same league as GN'R at the time. "He was fucking amazing," Slash wrote in his autobiography, recalling a Cult show he attended in April 1990.
Around the same time, Rose brought in keyboardist Dizzy Reed. Reed had known the group since its earliest days, when a band he was in practiced in a space next to GN'R's studio. In early 1990, he called Rose in a panic. Reed, who'd previously auditioned for GN'R, told the singer he'd soon be homeless; Rose offered him a job. "They fucking saved my life," Reed said. Reed would become the only musician other than Rose to stay in the band in the years leading up to its current reunion. - เพลง
They're so cool! I have Axl funko pop, I think he's the cutest :) I totally agree about Duff's glasses and the lack of jewelry on Slash's figure, and yeah it would be nice to have a Izzy and Steven figure as well.
Ahh Axl's one is soo cute!!!
100% agree on Duff sunglasses.
Great review. Now im getting them!!
3:54 tone knobs not tuning knobs
Sweet! Preordered mine on Amazon and just waiting. The Slash and Axl ones are awesome, they're unmistakably them. The Duff one seems kinda generic to me, I wouldn't know it's him if he didn't have his box ☹️. But I got all 3 anyway, and they're staying in their box! Lol. Maybe I'll get another set to open them
i just have them out at work now, proud GNR fan!
Good review! Im planning on buying the Axl one very shortly =)
thanks!
Duff kinda reminds me of bonjovi weird.
yup his figure looks kind of generic.
Guns N' Roses News agreed but will still get them if they make the 5 members super cool Imo. Yo check out my vids I have some good songs from the 2016 tour. I must admit I'm a troll but you'd like some of my vids cheers
thanks
the attantion to detail is amazing, but your knowlage of the details is better!
thank you!
"Tuning knobs" -_-
where slash dew rag back pocket always has that
Great video!!!!
thanks Keith
funko pop reminds of that cat dog episode mean bob action figures lol
Have em all ,9.99 , they need steve and izzy. I like the tats and the cig in slashes mouth.
Did your Axl have paint overspray on the hair? One of the bandana's white circle got partially painted on his hair on mine Axl.
no dew rag on slash don't go anywhere without it
is it a proper bobble head? i mean would it bobble while driving in the car? thats all i looking for
Duff is worth the most now
What does the numbers 50, 51,52 stand for?
The numbers on the box indicate what mold they used for that pop, if same figures but different variants have the same number, then that means they used the same mold
the duff one looks nothing like him lol i really dont like that one but the axl one is easily the best!! slash one would be awesome if they added his jewellery as you said :)
yeah axl is definitely the most accurate one minus his glasses since he didn't wear those that much during the UYI era.
slash is so cute, I want one.
I want them sooo badly!! but they sell for $22 here
damn that's expensive (assuming that's per action figure of course)
Guns N' Roses News Yea its the cost per figure :( I want the Axl and Slash ones and I am hoping for an Izzy one in the future :)
hmm weird, when I saw them perform a couple of years ago Duff came out in sun glasses
So cute! Now they just need an Izzy and Steven one.
yup! AND......DJ Ashba jk
Guns N' Roses News Hahaha! I'd honestly prefer a Dizzy Reed or Matt Sorum figure over that one.x
I love the sigarette.
Duff's hair should been longer
agreed
noon dew rag on slash
The Slash one will be super rare now as Gibson prohibited funko the use of their Les Paul guitar
yup got a news post on my blog gnrcentral.com/2017/12/28/gibson-guitar-sues-funko-pops-over-unauthorized-use-of-guitars-get-your-guns-n-roses-funko-pops-before-its-too-late/
I made it just in time to get the last one in the store, there were two guys asking for it too, but I was in line first. Luckily it wasn't on display, and one of the guys in the store said that these were going to become rare and expensive especially for resell, I hope they are right.
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I would buy one if they dance or move with music vibration
that would be cool. only thing i noticed that moved was the heads which can slightly move.
Guns N' Roses News Great review by the way. You should do some GNR merchandise review from time to time
no dew rag on slash
do some research I bet some of the numbers are collector's numbers always mean something?
The numbers on the box indicate what mold they used for that pop, if same figures but different variants have the same number, then that means they used the same mold
no DJ Ashba!!!!!??.......; )
sadly no. It would've been cool if he was wearing Ashba swag.
KING BRANDIS we look about guns n roses no fuking fakes
I like your buy your funko pop plz.
AXL IS THE ONE KNOWN FOR WEARING JEWELRY
talknewz nowadays not so much the case in the old days. Look at 92 and 93 shows gnr did Axl didn't wear a ton of jewelry of any
Axl always wore tons of bracelets on both wrists usually and also some rings, even in the the 90's too, and he usually wears a cross necklace, sometimes more necklaces. Though its true that the early 90's was Axl's least glamorous look esp with the beard and loose shorts, compared to his 80's and the 2000's looks. Axl is known for and typically wears more jewelry than Slash.
Yeah I totally agree... Slash ALWAYS had/has a bunch of bracelets on. I think it's something they shouldn't have overlooked. Axl sometimes wore jewelry and sometimes didn't, but it always changed, so it wasn't something he was "KNOWN FOR".
Axl also wore a red watch often. And a cross necklace
There like a cartoon so too much detail might make it look weird
Very disappointed in these. Axl was good but slash doesn't look very good and duff looks like Jon Bon Jovi and also that isn't duffs bass.. Duff doesn't have a pickguard on his bass. I don't understand why they would do an illusion era Axl but then to a not in this lifetime slash and duff, doesn't make sense to me
yeah the slash and duff model could have definitely been changed.
Was gonna buy them but not now after messing up the slash model, 3 nobs, no jewelry, bad paint job?? pass.
glad the video was informative.
only 6 strings on his guitar. Les Paul guitars normally have 6 strings therefore, 3 tuners per side.
josephsylvester1 thanks for the info!