Daily Dose Gun’s N Roses – Estranged

Guns N Roses Estranged is probably one of the most under-rated songs on Use Your Illusion 2. Of all the great songs on Use Your Illusion 2 this is probably my favorite and it’s really hard to choose because of the number of amazing songs on this album. It’s a shame that this was their last great release before disbanding. The Spaghetti Incident while pretty cool in it’s own right, was nothing more than a bunch of studio cover songs and did not ever meat the expectations of G N’ R fans.

Now let me bore you with a story about Use Your Illusion 2 and me. I had a neighbor and a friend who was much younger than I was and I wasn’t the best influence on any of the younger kids in my neighborhood to include my cousins that would come up every now and then. I was probably 15 when this came out and the younger friend I speak of was maybe 9, I think. His parents are friends of the family and we kind of grew up together even though there was a 6-year age difference. Anyway, Guns N Roses was the big thing and I had Use Your Illusion 2 and he wanted a copy. Not thinking about it, I made him a copy on a blank tape and gave it to him not thinking about the “explicit lyrics”, and knowing that he had heard worse from his parents and from movies etc. So a few days later his mother comes to my house and speaks to my mom and I have to hear about how his father went to his room and overheard him singing along to Get In The Ring. Needless to say, I was in trouble. It wasn’t the first time I had been in trouble for providing this kid with either information that I shouldn’t have, like where babies come from, or with music that he should not have been listening to. I was a bad influence on a couple of kids around the neighborhood. To this day there are things I feel guilty about and things I regret, but who doesn’t have guilt and regrets. Oh well. Life goes on, live and learn and try to teach your children not to be like you, I guess. Enjoy the video.