LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 25, 2020…THIRTY FOUR YEARS AGO GUNS N’ ROSES SIGNED THEIR 1ST RECORD DEAL WITH GEFFEN RECORDS. HERE ARE SOME QUICK RANDOM NOTES ABOUT GUNS N’ ROSES.
-BEFORE HE JOINED GNR AXL ROSE WAS SO HARD UP FOR CASH HE JOINED A UCLA MEDICAL STUDY WHERE HE WAS PAID $8 AN HOUR TO SMOKE CIGARETTES
-SLASH’S FATHER, ANTHONY HUDSON, IS AN ENGLISH ARTIST WHO CREATED ALBUM COVERS FOR MUSICIANS, INCLUDING SEVERAL FOR JONI MITCHELL.
– ACCORDING TO INFORMATION PUT TOGETHER BY CONCERT HOTELS.COM, AXL ROSE HAS A GREATER VOCAL RANGE THAN ANY OTHER POPULAR MUSIC SINGER. ROSE HAS SUNG NOTES IN MORE THAN 5 OCTAVES, AND JUST A FEW SEMI-TONES UNDER 6 OCTAVES. THEY RANGE FROM THE HIGH OF F1(IN ‘THERE WAS A TIME’) TO A LOW B FLAT 6 (‘AIN’T IT FUN”) THIS IS A GREATER RANGE THAN MARIAH CAREY WHO HAS MANAGED TO SPAN A SLIGHTLY SMALLER GAP BETWEEN F2 AND G7 ON HER RECORDINGS, AND PRINCE, WHOSE SPAN HAS REACHED BOTH A B6 AND AN E2
-SOME BAND MEMBERS OF GUNS N’ ROSES KEEP UP COLLECTIONS IN THEIR SPARE TIME. AXL ROSE COLLECTS ANTIQUE CRUCIFIXES, AND SLASH COLLECTS SNAKES
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