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DISGRACELAND

Guns N’ Roses Pt. 2: Real life Rocket Queen, Raging Press, Recovered Memories, and the Riverport Riot

DISGRACELAND

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Music, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Post Appetite For Destruction, Guns N’ Roses embodied the word “dysfunction." As the band prepared for their follow up release, singer Axl Rose was losing a very public battle with the press while heroin and alcohol threatened to completely derail the band. Axl’s “recovered memories” continued to fuel his erratic behavior and thus he continued to drive his band closer and closer to the edge. It all came to a head in St. Louis at the infamous Riverport Riot. This episode was originally published on March 17, 2020. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at ⁠www.disgracelandpod.com⁠. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership⁠. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠ ⁠X⁠ (formerly Twitter)  ⁠Facebook Fan Group⁠ ⁠TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this goes Jake Brennan here. Listen to new episodes of Discrets Land from season

0:10.8

11 every Tuesday and catch the after party episodes every Thursday. This is where we go

0:16.1

deeper into the artist's stories. I'll share what I'm reading, listening to, and what

0:19.7

I'm watching, and I'll respond to your messages and questions, and of course, I'll be reading

0:23.2

the phone book.

0:24.2

You've probably realized that we're releasing a lot of previously exclusive episodes this

0:28.2

month. We've got episodes on Studio 54, Prince, the Missfits, Selena, way more that you've

0:32.9

probably never heard before. You can listen to all those episodes in a bunch more Discrets

0:36.4

Land right now wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Spotify

0:41.3

Stitcher, Cast Box, Amazon Music, you get the picture where everywhere thank you for

0:45.0

listening. Let's get into it.

0:47.5

Discrets Land is a production of Double Elvis.

0:58.2

The story of Axel Rose in his band Guns and Roses, their immense success and destructiveness

1:10.5

is so wild and intense that two episodes were needed to properly tell this story. If you're

1:16.4

just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hip-haz and go back to Discrets Land episode

1:21.5

49 part one of the Guns and Roses story, where we discuss Axel Rose's upbringing, the origins

1:27.9

of the band and the influence the city of Los Angeles had on their music, as well as

1:32.5

the tragic events that the Donington Monsters of Rock Festival in 1988.

1:38.1

In this episode, we dive deeper into the band's inner dynamics, Axel's state of mind and

1:43.2

highly antagonistic relationship with the press, and of course, more of the band's great

1:48.7

music. That music I played you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That

1:54.6

was a preset loop from my Melochon, called Melo Stuffed Shirts MK1.

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