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This Day in GN'R History: October 19th, 1998 - Geffen Records send out a press release for "Welcome To The Videos" 📼WELC...
10/19/2026

This Day in GN'R History: October 19th, 1998 - Geffen Records send out a press release for "Welcome To The Videos" 📼

WELCOME TO THE VIDEOS
Geffen
October 19, 1998

Guns N' Roses' "Welcome To The Videos" provides one-stop shopping for some of the most popular clips ever broadcast

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19, 1998 - With "Welcome to the Videos," 13 of Guns N' Roses' videos broadcast on MTV are now available in one collection. The 70-minute compilation, releasing Oct. 27, 1998, boasts some of the most popular and acclaimed clips ever aired, from 1987's landmark "Welcome to the Jungle" through 1992's heart-wrenching "November Rain" to 1993's spectacular "Estranged." These videos have helped push Guns N' Roses to worldwide sales figures of more than 67 million albums.

Six of the visual presentations gracing "Welcome to the Videos" (Geffen Home Video) were created to accompany songs that later became Top 10 hits; four are gold-certified singles. Whether composed of performance footage, behind-the-scenes snippets or narratives touching on birth, marriage, survival and death, Guns N' Roses music videos have been among the most emotionally provocative ever made.

One of only a handful of winners of the prestigious MTV Video Vanguard Award, the band enjoys a much-honored video history, beginning with the 1988 MTV Video Music Award (VMA) for Best New Artist for "Welcome to the Jungle" (a #7 Billboard chart hit). The following year, "Sweet Child O' Mine" (a gold single and the group's only #1 chart entry) won for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video. Both clips, as well as the next two, "Paradise City" (1988, a #5 hit) and "Patience" (1989, #4 and gold), were directed by video pioneer Nigel Dick.

In 1991 Guns N' Roses expanded their repertoire with more ambitious videos directed by multiple VMA winner Andy Morahan. For "Don't Cry" ( #10 and gold), the story centered on a rooftop performance (featuring the late Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon). After the band's cover of Paul and Linda McCartney's "Live and Let Die" (1991, a Top 40 hit) was captured live in concert by director Josh Richman, the quintet returned to Morahan for "November Rain" ( #3 and gold). Summer of 1992 saw "November Rain" become the #1-most-requested video on MTV's Top 20 Countdown. At the VMAs that year, the lush, dramatic clip won three awards, for Best Cinematography, Best Special Effects and Best Editing. Most important, though, was the Video Vanguard Award, which recognized Guns' entire body of work in the medium.

Morahan went on to direct 1992's "Yesterdays" and "Garden of Eden" (with its bizarre rolling-lyrics visual effect) and 1993's "Estranged." A massive undertaking, "Estranged" was shot all over the world - at a live performance in Munich, Germany, on a supertanker in the Gulf of Mexico, on the Sunset Strip, and off the coast of the Bahamas among dolphins. Also released in 1993 were "The Garden," directed by longtime Guns N' Roses associate Del James - it's notable for being the only GNR video in which the band is not shown performing - and "Dead Horse," directed by the group with Louis Marciano. The most recent GNR video was 1994's devilishly fun, Sante D'Orazio-helmed clip for "Since I Don't Have You," a cover of the Skyliners' 1958 hit.

The band debuted on home video in 1992 with "Use Your Illusion World Tour - 1992 in Tokyo," packaged in two volumes. "Use Your Illusion World Tour - 1992 in Tokyo I" was subsequently certified gold. Three other successful home video releases followed in 1993: "Makin' F@*!ing Videos Part I: 'Don't Cry,'" "Makin' F@*!ing Videos Part II: 'November Rain,'" and "The Making of 'Estranged': Part IV of the Trilogy!!!" Only "Welcome to the Videos," however, displays the full breadth and depth of Guns N' Roses' compelling video vision.

This Day in GN'R History: October 19th, 1989 - Guns N' Roses play the 2nd of 4 shows with The Rolling Stones and Living ...
10/19/2026

This Day in GN'R History: October 19th, 1989 - Guns N' Roses play the 2nd of 4 shows with The Rolling Stones and Living Colour at the LA Coliseum.

Read a review from the LA Times...

Guns N’ Roses Shows Some Mettle
By RICHARD CROMELIN

Axl made the gig. Clapton joined the Stones. “Angie” entered the repertoire. Living Colour jumped into the Great Guns N’ Roses bigotry debate.

Those were the main twists on Thursday, the second night of the Rolling Stones-Guns N’ Roses-Living Colour four-show stand at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The question on most people’s minds going in wasn’t what color Mick Jagger’s jacket would be, but whether Guns N’ Roses would play at all, after singer Axl Rose’s declaration during the previous night’s show that he was through with the band because of some members’ excessive drug use.

Sure enough, when GNR hit the stage on Thursday, Rose wasn’t up there with the four musicians. What was up? Was the group trying to carry on without its charismatic leader? Before the music even started, lead guitarist Slash asked for the crowd’s attention and launched into an extended discourse on the perils of drugs, admitting the group’s transgressions but concluding, “Guns N’ Roses is not gonna be a band that falls apart because of it.”

With that, Rose strode from the rear of the stage into the spotlight, to be greeted by a welcoming roar from the approximately 72,000 people on hand. After thanking Slash--who was wearing a Betty Ford Clinic T-shirt--for his statement, Rose the singer said, “I’d like to apologize for my actions and comments last night. I just didn’t want to see my friends slip away.”

In the fiery set that followed, Rose and company were on their best behavior. He didn’t fall off the stage, as he did Wednesday; he didn’t dig himself deeper into racial controversy, as he did Wednesday, and he even thanked the Rolling Stones for having them on the show.

You’ve got to hand it to a band that not only throws its tantrums in front of the multitudes, but turns them into high psychodrama and squeezes every possible drop of ink from them. (A source close to the band strenuously denied that the “breakup” was a publicity ploy. “There has been real tension in the band,” the source said Friday. “The only thing that surprised me was that Axl went public with it. It might have been the pressure of the big engagement.”)

The Stones wrote the book on that kind of thing in their early days, but now that they’re an entertainment institution, no such scenarios are likely to be played out in their well-oiled “Steel Wheels” show. If you wanted spontaneity Thursday, you had to be thankful for small favors, like a brief microphone failure at the start of “Mixed Emotions” that proved that all the players up there were awake.

Things were a millimeter looser Thursday, as Jagger did more bouncing off the other musicians, at one point wrapping the stoic bassist Bill Wyman in a makeshift wrestling hold. Set-list archivists note: “Angie” replaced “Play With Fire” in the show’s slow-song segment, and Keith Richards inserted “Before They Make Me Run” before “Happy” in his spotlight turn.

The clear highlight for the audience came during the opening bars of Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster,” the slide-guitar slow blues they recorded in 1964. The video screens above the stage suddenly showed a close-up of un-introduced guest guitarist and fellow graybeard Eric Clapton, eliciting a mighty roar of recognition from the crowd.

The Thursday concert began with another installment in the Issue That Won’t Go Away: Guns N’ Roses alleged bigotry. The band has been under serious fire for the racial and sexual epithets in the song “One in a Million,” which they haven’t been performing at the Coliseum. At the start of Wednesday’s show, Rose tried to justify their use as social realism and deny that he is a racist, but once again revealed a profound obliviousness to the inflammatory nature of the language. Rose’s Thursday apology didn’t appear to cover those comments.

Living Colour, the black, New York-based hard-rock band that has been at the forefront of attacking racism in rock, didn’t have anything to say on the matter Wednesday, but on Thursday guitarist Vernon Reid stepped to his microphone and said, “It’s been cool on this tour opening for the Stones, but some things were said on this stage last night that I have a problem with.

“If you don’t have a problem with gay people, don’t call them (epithet). If you don’t have a problem with black people, don’t call them (epithet). I haven’t met a (epithet) in my life.”

The Stones and their supporting sideshow play the Coliseum today and Sunday at 5 p.m. The headliners sing “It’s only rock ‘n’ roll,” but it’s obviously more than that.

10/18/2026

In our new episode, Nigel Dick, the famed director whose resume include Guns N' Roses first 5 videos, spoke about the controversial "It's So Easy" that was shelved for years.

This Day in GN'R History: October 18th, 1989 - Guns N' Roses open up for The Rolling Stones at the LA Memorial Coliseum,...
10/18/2026

This Day in GN'R History: October 18th, 1989 - Guns N' Roses open up for The Rolling Stones at the LA Memorial Coliseum, with Axl infamously threatening to break up the band right there...

"I hate to do this on stage. But I tried every other fu***ng way. And unless certain people in this band get their s**t together, these will be the last Guns N' Roses shows you'll fu***ng ever see. Cause I'm tired of too many people in this organization dancing with Mr. Goddamn Brownstone."

POV: You're at Graceland and recognize Elvis' piano that Axl played at Lisa Marie’s funeral. 🎹 💔(Piano pics via Ben Apat...
10/18/2026

POV: You're at Graceland and recognize Elvis' piano that Axl played at Lisa Marie’s funeral. 🎹 💔

(Piano pics via Ben Apatoff)
(Axl pics via Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

A belated congratulations to Slash for being the recipient of the 2026 Les Paul Spirit Award. "The award recognizes arti...
10/17/2026

A belated congratulations to Slash for being the recipient of the 2026 Les Paul Spirit Award. "The award recognizes artists whose innovation, creativity, and impact on music reflect the pioneering spirit of Les Paul." (via Gibson)

For Slash's speech, zoom in on the shirt. 🔍🎩😆

📸 Julia Lofstrand Photography

10/17/2026

Vanishing Point (1971). When you first heard Axl sing the final verse in "Breakdown" (1991), did you recognize this Cleavon Little scene used as Guns N' Roses lyrics?

Guns N' Roses have submitted their song "Nothin'" to the Grammy Nominations:Best Rock Song: “Nothin’”Best Rock Performan...
10/17/2026

Guns N' Roses have submitted their song "Nothin'" to the Grammy Nominations:

Best Rock Song: “Nothin’”
Best Rock Performance: “Nothin’”

"First-round voting for the upcoming 2027 Grammy Awards opened Monday, October 12, and Recording Academy members have until the 22nd to narrow the field for nominations at music’s biggest night.

With eligible releases spanning from August 31, 2025 through August 28, 2026 on the ballot, nearly every major music star — as well as the massive songwriters, producers, comedians and voice actors — is contending for recognition at the next year’s Grammys." (via Forbes)

"Nothin'" was released December 4th, 2025.

This Day in VR History: October 17, 2004 - Velvet Revolver performs the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans, Louisian...
10/17/2026

This Day in VR History: October 17, 2004 - Velvet Revolver performs the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Setlist:
Sucker Train Blues
Do It for the Kids
Headspace
Big Machine
Spectacle
Fall to Pieces
Superhuman
Set Me Free
It's So Easy
S*x Type Thing
Slither
No More No More (Aerosmith cover)

(Photos by Ned Dishman/Getty Images)

Happy 49th Birthday to John Mayer!📸 Mayer and Slash at the FIREAID Benefit Concert for California Fire Relief at The Kia...
10/17/2026

Happy 49th Birthday to John Mayer!

📸 Mayer and Slash at the FIREAID Benefit Concert for California Fire Relief at The Kia Forum on January 30, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

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