Posted on 09/14/2020 3:23:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Axl Rose may be a frequent critic of Donald Trump, but that hasn't stopped the president from being a huge fan of Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" video. He reportedly even made staffers watch it in the Oval Office.
This nugget of information was discovered by White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs, who found it in former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' recently published book, Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House.
After parts of the band's 1991 epic were heard at Trump's Michigan rally last week, Jacobs tweeted a photo of the appropriate page.
In her book, Sanders writes that, in early 2018, she and former White House communications director Hope Hicks had met with Trump: "The president told Hope and me in the Oval he wanted the classic Guns N' Roses song 'November Rain' added to his rally playlist. He told us it was the 'greatest music video of all time,' and made us watch it to prove his point, even though neither of us had disagreed."
As protests took place across the country after the killing of George Floyd in June, Rose accused Trump of trying to "foment hatred [and] anarchy," and called him a "truly bad, repulsive excuse [for] a person [with] a sick agenda."
It was one of the most visceral attacks by Rose, who has also criticized Trump's response to the 2018 California wildfires and said that the White House was "the current U.S. gold standard of what can be considered disgraceful."
The singer has also expressed his displeasure with Vice President Mike Pence, First Lady Melania Trump, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions III over the past few years.
David Bowie’s Thin White Duke look.
Have to agree, great team effort
Enter Sandman is a song that crosses all boundaries.
I was on the Harley one evening and sitting at a stoplight with my stereo thumping.
Across from me, waiting to turn left, was a pickup truck with several black guys riding in the back.
The intro came on and they stood up, grinning and head banged.
*That* is the mark of a great song.
:)
Extra points for a midieval dwarf.
Whenever I found a functioning keyboard or piano in a store, I would slither up to it and bang out the intro to Aqualung.
Just because.
James Hetfield’s voice matured well.
It started like most early garage metal bands, a bit mono-tone screaming, but now its as much an instrument as his guitar.
I’m glad he stopped partying. They will definitely stand the test of time.
Bowie was a bit too fey for my taste but he definitely mastered his looks.
Annie Lennox and the Wilson sisters get a mention, as well.
When did Axel Rose become a Japanese woman?
1991-Axel Rose
2020-Tokyo Rose
Oddly enough, my second favorite Metallica album was Garage, Inc because they covered BOC’s “Astronomy”.
/carefully not mentioning Tull getting that Grammy
:D
Erkle would kick Axl’s ass...
Yep!
I thought Ivan Doroschuk was hot, in a wild eyed lunatic way.
LOL
I think they are the ones who got the Grammys to finally recognize metal because of the Tull insult to us metal heads.
Them’s fattin’ wurds, boah!
/Tull junkie
:D
Just because.Per global protocol.
As everyone should. Well-done.
I had no idea it was A Thing.
:D
Dont be embarrassed, too much red beer makes my butt sound like that too.
Guns N’ Roses - November Rain, not exactly my cup o’ tea.
This is much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwIYSofgpY0
Sorry Boss but I ain’t seeing it.
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