Very early "Guns N' Roses" in 1986... Axl Rose...
Item # 727977
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Sunday CALENDAR SECTION only of the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 26, 1986
* Very early "Guns' N' Roses" & "Red Hot Chili Peppers"
* Hard "Sleaze-Rock & Alternative funk-punk music
* Axl Rose - Slash - Izzy Stradlin - Duff McKagan - Steven Adler
* Pre "Appetite for Destruction" album release (about 8 months prior)
* UCLA - "University of California, Los Angeles" campus
Often revered as the undisputed "bible" of Hollywood, the Sunday Calendar section occupied a rare space in journalism where a single publication could simultaneously dictate global entertainment trends and govern the inner workings of show business. Today, physical copies are an absolute rarity, largely because they were printed on standard, ephemeral newsprint designed to be devoured and promptly discarded at the end of the week.
Page 64 has a advertisement for a upcoming Halloween night concert at the UCLA campus. Acts included: "Red Hot Chili Peppers" and "Guns N' Roses" at the beginning of their music careers.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete Calendar section only with all 100 pages, tabloid size, very nice condition.
Background: The October 31, 1986 concert at UCLA's Ackerman Ballroom stands as a monumental cultural time capsule, capturing a rare moment of convergence where the raw, underground energies of 1980s alternative funk-punk and gritty Hollywood sleaze-rock collided before exploding into global mainstream dominance. Having the original, definitive lineup of the Red Hot Chili Peppers—with Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons—headline over an unsigned, pre-Appetite for Destruction Guns N’ Roses represents a passing of the torch within the Los Angeles music scene, bridging the gap between Fairfax High schoolyard friendships and future Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legacies. For the college students in attendance, the gig was a masterclass in localized rock history: it featured the live debut of GNR's "Perfect Crime" and showcased two fiercely distinct subcultures—the chaotic, near-naked funk-fusion of the Chili Peppers and the dangerous, blues-infused hard rock of Axl Rose and Slash—proving that the mid-80s L.A. music scene was a fertile, volatile breeding ground capable of producing the decade's most influential sonic icons on a single university stage.
* Very early "Guns' N' Roses" & "Red Hot Chili Peppers"
* Hard "Sleaze-Rock & Alternative funk-punk music
* Axl Rose - Slash - Izzy Stradlin - Duff McKagan - Steven Adler
* Pre "Appetite for Destruction" album release (about 8 months prior)
* UCLA - "University of California, Los Angeles" campus
Often revered as the undisputed "bible" of Hollywood, the Sunday Calendar section occupied a rare space in journalism where a single publication could simultaneously dictate global entertainment trends and govern the inner workings of show business. Today, physical copies are an absolute rarity, largely because they were printed on standard, ephemeral newsprint designed to be devoured and promptly discarded at the end of the week.
Page 64 has a advertisement for a upcoming Halloween night concert at the UCLA campus. Acts included: "Red Hot Chili Peppers" and "Guns N' Roses" at the beginning of their music careers.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete Calendar section only with all 100 pages, tabloid size, very nice condition.
Background: The October 31, 1986 concert at UCLA's Ackerman Ballroom stands as a monumental cultural time capsule, capturing a rare moment of convergence where the raw, underground energies of 1980s alternative funk-punk and gritty Hollywood sleaze-rock collided before exploding into global mainstream dominance. Having the original, definitive lineup of the Red Hot Chili Peppers—with Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons—headline over an unsigned, pre-Appetite for Destruction Guns N’ Roses represents a passing of the torch within the Los Angeles music scene, bridging the gap between Fairfax High schoolyard friendships and future Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legacies. For the college students in attendance, the gig was a masterclass in localized rock history: it featured the live debut of GNR's "Perfect Crime" and showcased two fiercely distinct subcultures—the chaotic, near-naked funk-fusion of the Chili Peppers and the dangerous, blues-infused hard rock of Axl Rose and Slash—proving that the mid-80s L.A. music scene was a fertile, volatile breeding ground capable of producing the decade's most influential sonic icons on a single university stage.
Category: The 20th Century
Price
$82
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.