The Lost Articles

Ah, I see we already have Blast! April 1989 (it's the one that has only pictures), so I edited the post above.

Where did you find these? Are they on eBay? I looked but couldn't find all of them (and some of those I found were too expensive to buy).

I will be going to San Francisco later this month. I will see if I can find a store that sells old magazines. Maybe I can find some treasures.

@Soulmonster wrote:Where did you find these? Are they on eBay? I looked but couldn't find all of them (and some of those I found were too expensive to buy).

I will be going to San Francisco later this month. I will see if I can find a store that sells old magazines. Maybe I can find some treasures.

I found most on ebay, except Alternative Press that I found on abebooks. But, like you said, they're mostly expensive or the shipping is too much.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SCREAMER-MAGAZINE-METALLICA-GUNS-N-ROSES-KIX-LA-GUNS-KID-COMET-Sep-1988-11/153480775574?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

https://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-16-1988-BAM-vintage-over-sized-music-magazine-SLASH-GUNS-N-ROSES/401152420599?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CONCERT-SHOTS-1-89-Guns-n-Roses-WHITE-LION-Metallica-VINNIE-VINCENT-Ratt-LA-GUNS/401986244476?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Blast-Magazine-Dec-1988-Guns-N-Roses-Motley-Crue-Bon-Jovi-Cinderella-Poison/223584999609?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Teen-Throbs-Presents-RAGE-Premiere-Issue-1987-Janes-Addiction-Guns-N-Roses/392395310716?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rock-Power-No-4-1991-Guns-N-Roses-Paul-Elliott-Book/113741280375?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Blast! August 1989 I just found the image of the cover; I haven't seen it sold anywhere.

I have received/bought a few different magazines, listing them here so you don't buy them too:

Concert Shots, January 1988
Blast, July 1989
Kerrang, September 14, 1996
Guitar Player, October 2014
Guitar World, May 2010
Guitar Player, June 2004
Hit Parader, April 1994
Rhythm, November 2007

Some of these are newer and might be in our database already. I found them cheap in a store in San Francisco so I just picked them up regardless.

In this online chat from December 1996 (https://www.a-4-d.com/t627-1996-12-17-online-chat-with-duff-mostly-about-the-neurotic-outsiders) Duff mentions being pissed off by something written in Rolling Stone that would imply he had to follow Axl's order. That sounds intriguing. It doesn't seem like we have this article, which likely was published in late 1996.

In this article: https://www.a-4-d.com/t2934-1998-09-dd-guitar-paradise-city it is mentioned that Izzy did two interview in connection with the release of 117 degrees. We need them. The article does contain quotes from Izzy that I suppose were taken from these two interviews.

@Soulmonster wrote:In this article: https://www.a-4-d.com/t2934-1998-09-dd-guitar-paradise-city it is mentioned that Izzy did two interview in connection with the release of 117 degrees. We need them. The article does contain quotes from Izzy that I suppose were taken from these two interviews.

I'm going to add some Izzy interviews from 1998. Possibly the quotes are from them.

@Blackstar wrote:

@Soulmonster wrote:In this article: https://www.a-4-d.com/t2934-1998-09-dd-guitar-paradise-city it is mentioned that Izzy did two interview in connection with the release of 117 degrees. We need them. The article does contain quotes from Izzy that I suppose were taken from these two interviews.

I'm going to add some Izzy interviews from 1998. Possibly the quotes are from them.

Super.

@Blackstar wrote:I spotted some more articles that we're missing:

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Rage, May 1990:



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I found this from another source and bought it. As far as I can tell, the interview with Axl is a compilation of quotes from older interviews by Beth Nussbaum in other magazines (Rock Scene, mainly), which we already have.
There is also an interview with Robert Williams talking about the cover art of Appetite For Destruction.

This blog entry sheds some light on interviews the band did while in Tokyo in December 1988. Gives us an idea of some missing interviews.

https://garyrocks.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/guns-n-roses-hit-tokyo-japan-december-1988-and-yeah-they-still-hate-poison/

This Izzy quote about him playing at the Hard Rock Hotel on March 10, 1995 is not from one of the interviews that we have in the database:

"I returned to Los Angeles after Duff's phone call: "Hey man, you come back, we'll play for the opening of a new casino in Las Vegas. It's me who's handling the roster. There'll be Iggy Pop, Bo Diddley, B.B. King, etc." I answered him "Whoaa! When do you want me to find you over there? If I can play with Bo or B.B., I'll come." He called me back the next day: "Izzy, you're going to accompany Bo and B.B. at the same time." How could I have refused that offer? I so went there and I took my place".

I remember when we were discussing it in relation to this history chapter, @Soulmonster, and you said that the information about Izzy at the Hard Rock Hotel was in a later source.

The quote can be found here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120423220227/http://www.izzyontour.com/1995.htm
I couldn't find anything about the interview it is from.

I've also realized that we don't have the interview this Izzy quote is from (it's from an interview with an unidentified French magazine in 2001):

"In April, 1995, Duff calls me again: 'I'm trying to compose new songs for the guys in GN'R. Come and give me a hand.' It made five [years] that I'd left Guns but I said myself: 'Well shit, after all, why not?' Duff and I wrote ten songs in the space of week. We even recorded them as demos."

The two quotes seem to be from the same interview. I think it is likely an interview with Rock Hard magazine (French edition), summer 2001 issue. It is listed in the articles section of this old Izzy fan site ("Methanol"), but unfortunately this particular article is not accessible:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030819183436/http://personal.inet.fi/koti/markus.strand/articles.htm

And it can't be found at chopaway.com or other Izzy sites that I've dug into. I also looked for the magazine on ebay and I couldn't find it there either.