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.
Are you sure that’s not Roseanne Barr???
FU, Axel.
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LOL!
On a similar vein, the ultimate song of redemption to the tune of the ultimate song of damnation.
Normal people just noodle.
"Real" guitarists, bassists, and drummers play Unchained, Tempus Fugit, and Tom Sawyer, respectively.
Only the cool kids play Aqualung, though anything by the Dead Kennedys or Cheech and Chong is acceptable.
I actually have “Alice Bowie” in my iPod playlist.
:D
🎵⭕
CC
Lester Bowie was a great trumpeter. And he was married to Fontella Bass.
The guitar rave up at the end really cements this as a great song.
If you separate yourself from your own issues and put this through a set of headphones and critically listen, you’ll see the art.
It takes you on a musical journey. It’s original.
Took a exceptional amount of musical talent to realize this track.
That’s a real beauty. /Trump
When Princess Diana had her first baby, someone proposesd the name Upton, so their nicknames would be Up, Chuck and and Di.
When I was in my college band, I played bass and sang...
Momma talka to me try to tell me how to live.
[Da na nant. Da na nant. Dant da da.]
I don’t listen to her cause my head is like a sieve.
Does playing Star Ship Trooper at 17 count?
Musta been a little guy because Rose is a shrimp. Course he had lots of practice beating on those smaller than him after bouncing Erin Everly off the walls.
Man, that’s crawling in to the way-back machine. The last time I listened to that album was around ‘91. Lost the tape while in deployment to the gulf, IIRC.
Of course, FRiend...but only if you do the vamp on Würm for 39 minutes.
frissons
Thanks, Salamander. I had to look that one up. Life-long-learning at FR. Gotta love that about this place.
OK...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWIDXZ9ZVpQ
C’mon man : )
I play bass.
Chris Squire was a hero of mine. Geddy Lee and Stanley Clark too.
The Yes Album was the first album I ever bought. I was 11.
Lucky’s Music on Midland St. in Bay City, Mi.
Wurm is one my favorite pieces of music ever!
Interesting.
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