G N’ Aaargh!
With the advent of YouTube, there is simply no excuse for the error I made in my pick in this week’s paper of this weekend’s U.S. Air Guitar Championships at the 9:30 Club.
In it, I refer to Slash’s “cliffside heroics in the video for ‘November Rain.’” My valued colleague Aaron Leitko disabused me of this illusion. Slash doesn’t play the solo in “November Rain” on the side of a cliff; he plays it on a wind-swept plain outside the church where Axl gets married! (And it’s a good thing he does it during the service, since the reception gets rained out, some hippie stage-dives on the cake, and then the bride dies.)
My apologies to true heshers everywhere, none of whom would be caught dead making such a boneheaded blunder. I’ll atone by spending the entire weekend listening to Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds.
Incidentally, does anyone have any idea what video I was actually thinking of? Please tell me it’s not Aerosmith.
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May 31st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
he totally threw a guitar off a cliff in one of the Don’t Cry videos
May 31st, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Yeah, the cliff heroics were definitely part of the “Don’t Cry” video. Not only does Slash wail on the cliff but he also drives off of it in a car full of girls. Then– after plummeting to his fiery doom–Slash somehow returns to hurl his guitar over the edge.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Is that the one where Axl wanders the frozen tundra while carrying a gun, slaps Stephanie Seymour around before going with her to a picnic in a cemetery, drowns, confronts two of his doppelgangers in a hospital room, walks through a mirror, freaks out during a therapy session, and visits his own grave?
Would’ve been cool if the guitar exploded just like the car did after Slash heaved it over the cliff.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Motley Crue’s “Without You”?
June 1st, 2007 at 10:39 am
There’s also a Bon Jovi video — maybe “Blaze of Glory” — in which Richie Sambora does a fairly dramatic cliff-side solo, complete with weirdo guitar faces and swishing hair. Could that be it?
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:23 pm
He definitlely throws it off in “Don’t Cry”, trust me im in love with Slash i know most stuff about him!
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I think that Slash is the best guitarist in the world, I LOVE HIM!!!!!!
December 15th, 2007 at 5:46 am
is it Bed of Roses by Bon Jovi?
Ritchie plays the intro standing by a cliff, wearing a coat and a hat. might resemble slash in appearance a bit.
January 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Will people stop talking about Bon Jovi, he was thinking of Slash’s solo in Don’t Cry. It’s in a different league boys and girls so lets stop talking about Richie’s half-hearted attempt at being a rock star in some soft-rock wailing and worship at the alter that is Slash.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Sariam is right Slash kicks ass, but too bad he split up with Axl. I think Axl got a lil over the edge,… lol
April 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
In Don’t Cry, Slash drives off a cliff with ONE chick who was yelling and screaming at him while hitting the dashboard and grabbing him violently. Clearly bad things were going down. THen he drove off the cliff, seeming to kill them both. But because he is Slash and has already died once, he magically survived to finish the cliff side solo and toss the guitar over the edge into the wreckage. I’ll admit, the first time I saw each video, I got them confused as well.
Also, you are correct Mark. Axl somehow does manage to do all of those things during the course of the video. I’m particularly fan of the therapy freak out session.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:02 am
your absolutly right Zarquon slash is without a dout the best guitarest in the world and any one who thinks otherwise is a ignorant fool.
SLASH ROCKS OUT WITH HIS COCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I can’t believe this thread hasn’t even touched on the video for “Estranged,” in which:
*Axl unironically wears a Charlie Manson t-shirt
*A messy divorce causes Axl’s home to be dramatically raided by federal agents
*A canal containing live dolphins appears on the sidewalk in front of the Rainbow Club on L.A.’s Sunset Strip
*Axl finds himself on a battleship in the middle of the ocean, which he proceeds to jump off of, plummeting at least 50 feet into the water at which point he swims with some dolphins who remove one of his high-top Nikes and let it float ethereally to the surface. The end.