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Aerosmith Loses Rolling Stone Cover To Their Opening Act, Guns N' Roses
1988
Guns N' Roses get the cover of Rolling Stone with the headline, "Hard-Rock Heroes." The magazine compiled the story that summer when the band was on tour as the opening act for Aerosmith. Aerosmith assumed they were getting the cover, but by the end of the tour, their opening act had become much more popular.
In July, when GN'R began their gig opening for Aerosmith on the Permanent Vacation tour, their debut album Appetite for Destruction had been out a year, gradually building momentum. Their first two singles, "It's So Easy" and "Welcome To The Jungle," went nowhere, but when "Sweet Child O' Mine" was released in June, it caught on in a big way. In August, the album hit #1 in America; "Sweet Child O' Mine" reached the top spot in September. Guns N' Roses was the biggest band on the planet, but they were also an opening act.
Aerosmith has quite a story, emerging from fractious drug abuse that buried the band in the mid-'80s with a hit album and some solid singles to go with it, including "Rag Doll" and "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)." Clean and sober, they've found a new generation of fans and are MTV fixtures despite their advanced age. Rolling Stone had plans to put them on the cover when they dispatched a team to cover the tour, but their support act proved far more compelling. To Aerosmith's dismay, it's GN'R they're after, and they get the cover with a story declaring, Finally, some bad boys who are good.
Aerosmith's days of drunken debauchery are over, but Guns N' Roses' are just getting started. The article opens with Axl Rose kicking a hole in a wall and Izzy Stradlin hurling Duff McKagan's bottle of vodka across the room, immediately showing remorse because it's a shame to waste alcohol. It's a look at the combustible nature of the band, which will play out over and over again until their mid-'90s breakup.
Despite the snub, Aerosmith take a shine to the Gunners, who act like they did in their 20s. GN'R isn't allowed to use drugs in their presence, and in return, Aerosmith doesn't preach sobriety, although they do drop a hint of what's to come by giving them tour T-shirts with rehab centers they've attended listed in place of concert venues.
Guns N' Roses get even bigger, reaching new levels of decadence with their 1991 Use Your Illusion albums and the vainglorious video for "November Rain." Aerosmith stays clean and continue their comeback, charting their first #1 single in 1998 with "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing."
Aerosmith has quite a story, emerging from fractious drug abuse that buried the band in the mid-'80s with a hit album and some solid singles to go with it, including "Rag Doll" and "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)." Clean and sober, they've found a new generation of fans and are MTV fixtures despite their advanced age. Rolling Stone had plans to put them on the cover when they dispatched a team to cover the tour, but their support act proved far more compelling. To Aerosmith's dismay, it's GN'R they're after, and they get the cover with a story declaring, Finally, some bad boys who are good.
Aerosmith's days of drunken debauchery are over, but Guns N' Roses' are just getting started. The article opens with Axl Rose kicking a hole in a wall and Izzy Stradlin hurling Duff McKagan's bottle of vodka across the room, immediately showing remorse because it's a shame to waste alcohol. It's a look at the combustible nature of the band, which will play out over and over again until their mid-'90s breakup.
Despite the snub, Aerosmith take a shine to the Gunners, who act like they did in their 20s. GN'R isn't allowed to use drugs in their presence, and in return, Aerosmith doesn't preach sobriety, although they do drop a hint of what's to come by giving them tour T-shirts with rehab centers they've attended listed in place of concert venues.
Guns N' Roses get even bigger, reaching new levels of decadence with their 1991 Use Your Illusion albums and the vainglorious video for "November Rain." Aerosmith stays clean and continue their comeback, charting their first #1 single in 1998 with "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing."
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