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in 1988 i was 10 years old and i asked my parents to tape the m tv video music because Guns and Roses would be performing.

It was past my bedtime. Arsenio Hall was the host. In excess won five awards. Michael Jackson

won the Video Vanguard Award. Guns and Roses performed a song called Welcome to the Jungle.

I was attending the Catholic School's Sacred Heart Elementary in Eureka, Missouri at the time,

if that's relevant, which I think it might have been,

because after they watched Guns and Roses perform Welcome to the Jungle,

my parents were unhappy.

The next day they sat me down. Now, Robbie, they said, Robbie with

the Y, we're just concerned that you might get the idea that drugs might be something you want to try.

I had not gotten that idea. I had no idea. I was too naive to even be impressionable.

I want you to imagine that you are a fourth grader at Sacred Heart Elementary, attempting to process the exact nature of this threat.

You know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby. You're gonna die. I didn't think it was drugs. I didn't think it was drugs. I'll tell you that much. My parents let me watch the VMAs, but they would not permit me to buy on cassette, Appetite for Destruction, the 1987 debut album from Guns and Roses that opens with,

Welcome to the Jungle. Instead, I bought Bon Jovi's New Jersey. I do not regret this. Fantastic

album. Track 2 is called Bad Medicine, but it's not about drugs, it's about sex. It's fine.

Appetite for Destruction is sold 30 million copies worldwide,

one of the biggest and ugliest hard rock albums ever born. I basically owned it in the sense

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