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.
Not just the solo - IIRC, “November Rain” holds the record for the longest song to hit the Billboard Top 10.
Fixed it for you.
It is very good.
I know many people felt Yes “sold out” during the Trevor Rabin years, but I think he helped save the band. There are some quality tunes on those albums (Changes was my fav) and a whole new generation of new wave kids saw the magnificence of the band. They thought they were getting Owner of a Lonely Heart (which they did) but they got And You and I (another magnificent live tune) etc. RIP Mr Squire.
Drama was a good album, some of Steve Howe’s best guitar work.
It’s easy to piss on a band that releases an album late in their career that outsells their prior catalog. It was in part thanks to 90125 (which I still don’t own, btw) that I became interested in Yes, although by the time it came out I had heard a few of their earlier tracks.
My current Yes collection consists of everything they put out from The Yes Album to Relayer.
It makes me think of Chicago, all of those great albums in the 70s, and their biggest selling album was that schlock-fest Chicago 17.
"....and I can still hear her complain!"
Yup. I listen to early Chicago albums and wonder why Terry Kath doesn’t come up more often when the conversation is about great guitarists of the 1970’s. And along with that, the band was TIGHT!!
Ok
Let it rain then
Tina Turner
“I can’t stand the rain”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_VKMWa6YE
Saw her once. Great show
The Lime Spiders totally rocked!
You missed Jaco Pastorious, Burke Shelly and a million more.. :)
Oh man gator, that is some serious Peter Cetera please put a gun to my head music there. It was good for getting laid though....
Shame is, Cetera is a heckuva bass player.
Lol
The twisted sister thing is sad because Dee Snider actually came down on our side a lot through the years. I don’t know what happens
and guns and roses was my favorite band for many years but I’m 52 for God’s sake. I’m running out of hate and angst
As soon as I heard it I was ready to mock you to pieces :)
but it’s actually quite nice. The original will be my favorite but thanks for adding something different to the board
And this is true. I like this video better. I don’t need dramatics
That’s my song! I had to take the lyrics out of my tagline! And I used the last verse the most innocuous!!
Someone here complained
LOVR GNR. Night train Paradise City one in a million Sweet child of mine civil war don’t cry back off b**** and a million others
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