It’s 1993 and Guns N’ Roses are the world’s biggest rock band—except their singer Axl Rose is just starting to see that when you’re sitting on top of the world, it’s a very long way down. Life as a supersized rock star is beginning to unravel fast—so, armed with an outsized ego, an abundance of music talent, and a mammoth $4M budget, Axl spearheads one of the most grandiose, self-indulgent, and occasionally batshit Wagnerian music videos of all time, for a nine-minute single called Estranged.
For pod #3, and in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the GNR albums Use Your Illusion I and II, I decided to dissect Estranged once and for all—but I knew I couldn’t handle the sheer epicness alone, so I enlisted the expertise of three fellow music fiends and freelance GNR scholars: Ben Radding, Alan Hicks, and Jonathan Forgang.
Tune in for good times, bro yakking, lots of GNR wisdom from four sexy cis white men, and a few groundbreaking new theories on the whole dolphin thing.
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Guns N' Roses N' Dolphins