Green Day inducts Guns N’ Roses into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame“Appetite for Destruction is the greatest debut album in the history of rock and roll,” Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong asserted at this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. When they’re not too busy keeping the punk flame burning with American Idiot The Musical (“gorgeously wrought”—New York Times), Green Day like to show their hearts are still in the right place with a rebellious gesture, such as flying to Cleveland to toss three original members of Guns N’ Roses’ salad at a $25,000-a-table dinner for industry executives. Just because they’re punk doesn’t mean they can’t be good team players.
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Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle” live“This ride was not about parties, glamour, or power ballads,” Billie Joe said at the ceremony, describing the first time he heard “Welcome to the Jungle” on MTV. “It was about the seedy underworld of misfits, drug addicts, paranoia, sex, violence, love, and anger in the cracks of Hollywood. It was a breath of fresh air!” As it turned out, the ride was precisely about parties, glamour, and power ballads, and Axl soon identified the “niggers,” “immigrants,” and “faggots” who peopled Hollywood’s cracks as the villains who would bring you to your sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-knees. But Green Day is much too polite to mention these things while appearing before their bosses to burnish the Gn’R myth, which goes like this: once, the Sunset Strip was full of candyass hair metal bands, who were a bunch of gay posers, but then Guns N’ Fuckin’ Roses emerged to blow them all away with dirty-ass rock and roll.
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Axl “gets in the ring” at Hellfest 2012But seriously, no shit, I cried the day they broke up. I was expecting great things after “The Spaghetti Incident?"Previously - Balancing the Books