Great Moments in Axl History: 12 -11

#12. The 2002 MTV VMA'S (AKA: Round One?)

This one's inevitable, so let's just get it out of the way.

I will say that I actually do consider this a great moment. Moment, as in the first moment and the first moment only.

That day back in 2002, rumors were flying around the music sites all day. There had been similar rumors every year, but the "new" Guns N' Roses were really going to perform on the MTV Video Music Awards this time! Everyone I knew and their mother called me (like I hadn't already heard).

So all us nutswingers watched the show with our thumbs on "record" and sat through all the bullshit in anticipation of the big moment when our leader would once again grace us with his presence.

Then finally, at the end of the show, the adorable Jimmy Fallon, awesomely as excited as the rest of us, introduces the band like it was Christmas morning . Then we hear the opening riffs of "Welcome to the Jungle" and then, there's Axl! And he lets out this huge scream. And CUT! End of moment.

Because everything that happened after that was pretty much a tragedy. But we'll always have that one minute of "GN'R!! AWESOME!!!"



Skip to the end to see Axl talking about Chinese Democracy. Hey, see, he said it would take awhile!


#11. The 1988 MTV VMA's


Let's just follow that one up with this:





THIS HAS BEEN GREAT MOMENTS IN AXL HISTORY