When Guns and Roses first appeared on the scene, I despised them. I think the way that it actually worked was that I saw them for the first time on the MTV Music Awards first, where they played something close to live. It was the most terrible live performance I'd ever seen on TV, even somehow more horrible than Keith Richards and Bob Dylan "jamming" on the closing stages of Live Aid, a performance which made me wonder who played lead on all those Stones songs after all. I read later that Guns And Roses were mad drunk when they did the MTV gig and I guess that sort of made their crappy musicianship easier to understand. Somehow, in the intervening years, I became a G-N-R fan, and the opening riff on Welcome is almost my favorite rock opening riff, maybe even better than the opening riff on AC/DC's It's a Long Way To The Top. Unbeknown to me, after he was born, when we were bringing Jackie (TJA) home from the hospital, John (14) took his iPod headphones off, turned...