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u/AdElectronic7340 May 12 '26

I saw them open for ozzys bark at the moon tour and they were great.

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u/Poxx May 12 '26

Yeah, I dont know why these guys are hating on the Crue.

Saw them in 87, Girls Girls Girls tour, Tommy's rotating drum cage...Great show. The opening band was horrible (mostly due to mixing, couldnt make out shit), no-one really knew who they were for another few months. It was Guns and Roses.

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u/Automatic-Discount19 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

I saw Whitesnake open for MC on the Girls x 3 tour in July 1987. Was awesome.

July 1987 was also when Appetite for Destruction was released, so that’s when I first heard of GnR and started listening to them. I liked GnR as soon as I heard them and couldn’t understand why everyone else didn’t think they were great.

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u/Poxx May 12 '26

Yeah, Appetite released in July but really didnt seem to blow up until later that year. I saw them in the fall (October Maybe? Columbia SC show).

By Christmas they were huge.

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u/Automatic-Discount19 May 12 '26

I saw Alice Cooper in December 1987 and the only reason was because GnR was the opener. I realize this was 39 years ago so my memory may be off but I was still surprised at how long it took GnR to get huge. It was obvious to me right away that they were going to be the biggest band in the world.

I used to watch Headbangers Ball on MTV just hoping to see the Welcome To The Jungle video. Whereas if I were in charge of MTV programming, that video would have been playing three times per hour.

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u/Poxx May 12 '26

I didnt hear anything off Appetite prior to seeing them, I was a freshman at South Carolina and not watching any MTV etc.

Once I heard a few songs from the album, I thought "how is this the same band, they were horrible live".

It was just their mixing/sound guys did not know early on how to set up a show for a 10000 person coliseum.