Time for Music VHS of the Weekend
I’m short on time this weekend...but I promise a full dissertation of my Makin’ Fuckin’ Videos Boxed set chronicling the Don’t Cry/November Rain/Estranged trilogy will come at a later date. I haven’t seen it in years but I mostly remember it being featuring an extremely gacked out Duff sitting in the back of a limo trying to explain the symbolism of Axl Rose swimming with dolphins...while Axl acts all Howard Hughes-y and refuses to speak to anyone. Anyway...I was kind of wondering why I even bought this particular tape since every Gn’R video played on MTV around the clock from 1988 up until about 1995. And then I remembered the story behind it..which is not a good story at all but I’ll tell it anyway: Back in 2001 I was working at a restaurant called The Good Life. It was a Friday and I had a 4-top of good tippin’ regulars in my section. They told me they had a few more friends coming and asked if they could pull up an extra table. Unfortunately the only other table belonged to a co-worker who we’ll call Lisa because that was her name. This was a strict no pooling...everyone out to knife each other in the back-type place. I really didn’t want to lose the tab though so I asked if she’d give up her table and I’d trade her my next available. She agreed...but the “couple of friends” turned out to be like 25 people. No shit. Like a $600 tab. Totally took over her section and the tables I had were never re-sat. She was PISSSSSED...and rightfully so. Total dick move on my part...but how was I to know that 25 motherfuckers would be showing up?? Anyway...I remembered Lisa was a huge Gn’ R fan...which was sort of an anomaly in 2001. So on my next day off I went to Tower Records and picked up this here tape as a peace offering. VHS tapes were still $30 at the time so I figured this was even steven. The next time we worked together I approached her with the tape. She looked at the tape...looked at me...said “You know...I have never liked you. Go FUCK YOURSELF!”...and then promptly quit. That’s maybe a little dramatic...I think she actually quit the next day or something...but we never spoke another word! So yeah...I got this tape with all of the Gn’R videos....EXCEPT “You Could Be Mine”...which is bull fucking shit cuz that’s one of their best. With all of those Terminator 2 scenes?? Shiiiit. It was cool to see the Dead Horse video again though. That’s an underrated tune. Dead Horse. That will be all.