#owob

Music is forever and so is our passion for it. I certainly hope it’s never going to be obsolete!

The archive is here for everyone to read up on hundreds of takes on our collective musical passions and stories of fandom.

But it's been (oh god) five years since the last regular entries, so it is difficult to argue against this blog being inactive. Sorry! I wish it were "2012 on Tumblr" forever, but (music) blogging is almost entirely not a thing anymore, (music) writing is on life support, and social media's never been less social. But at least the Dow hit 50,000 points for the first time ever!

Inosuke: Why? Zenitsu ALWAYS cries!

Zenitsu:

Ki master Hong Meiling would really appreciate if you would stop breaking in.

y-you guys... words cannot express how grateful I am that @owob is shinjiham trash like I am bc.... I was like: “I literally don’t care just give me anything cute to satisfy my trash compactor heart” and they’re like.... “I got u fam”.

anyway have this amazing commission by the lovely @owob of my children play wrestling [which kills the man, i.e. me]

minako: “HAHAHAHAHA I WIN!!!!! BOW TO ME, MORTAL!!!!!”

shinji: “oh h no..... wh at do I d o???? you’re...... s o .....s t rong, minako....”

~ ModGruntcle

I can’t believe we’re already 40% done GNR week here at One Week One Band. How time flies when you’re having fun.

This, time I’ll actually let the music speak for itself. Please enjoy Coma, which is the final track off their second album: Use Your Illusion I. One of GNR’s strengths in their early period was their brevity, their debut Appetite is all hits, no filler- almost over as soon as Jungle’s iconic opening echoes out. Clocking in at over ten minutes, Coda isn’t exactly succinct, but it shows the band GNR was about to become if it all hadn’t come crashing down......getting ahead of myself again

Of historical import: When the chords change behind the guitar solo at 6:35, you can hear Slash assume his (brief) but undisputed role as Guitar King of the Universe.

Today I’m signing off One Week One Band. Its been an absolute blast sharing my love of Guns N Roses with everyone. Thanks for following along, thanks everyone who’s written to me with feedback and suggestions (my email, my instagram), and thanks most of all to our fearless leader, Hendrik!

In the 21st century, GNR adopted the Beyoncé tactic: earning half a billion dollars without granting a single interview (as far as I can tell). To me, that indicates that they still hate each other’s guts, which saddens me.

As a fan, I sincerely hope that one day Axl and Slash can look past their differences. I think a good place to start might be to revisit the glory days: the recording of their first and greatest album, Appetite for Destruction. The intense burst of creativity the five displayed during the writing and recording of this album is mind-bending.