From what I remember from that time was that UYI wasn't as popular as AFD and they did change their image and sound --- Damn it, this was a HUGE fight bewteen GNR fans! Don't you remember they were being called sell outs? Their tours got a lot of flack. Articles gave them a lot of flack. Again, I remember distinctly the whole rock scene changed. And it was alt rock against the classic rock fans...... That still goes on.

I don't consider them to have ever had a bad album, so I agree with you there. But their name did/does not carry the weight that some of you think it does.  And again, I didn't get back interested in GNR until the late 90's when Axl's new band and this new album started to be talked about.

Bono, I'm not saying this to prove a point, or be an ass. It is fact. There was a time in the 90's people considered GNR uncool.  And the fans got made fun of, too. It's the way times changed. Even the band are doing their best to distance themselves away from the UYI era and albums. I'm sorry. Go look up the biography's. They were seen as a bloated cliche'. They did not get the respect that they do now.

I was there, too. People made fun of them. And it wasn't grunge or Kurt Cobain's fault. Their music/image did get tired. And the alt rock scene exploded around them. Yes, they were still popular in 1992, but that was  eroding. Whether it is fair or not, they were losing cred big time.

With all due respect to you, your friends, your highschool, the dances you djayed, but I was there. Even I lost interest in them at that point. And it had nothing to do with Kurt Cobain. And there was some really lame shit going on with them at that time.

Just calm down, take a breath. If you don't think they ever stopped being cool, then fine. No one's telling you how to think. I'm telling you what I remember. GNR has never gotten a fair shake for how great they were. But you said yourself that there is/was some kind of media, Kurt Coabin-loving, anti GNR conspiracy that people are/were trying to paint GNR as uncool, so you must have seen these things that said that, despite you saying you've never actually read or saw anything to that point. So, which is it?

I know how you use "your friends" to base all your statistics to prove your points and "facts" but I remember people laughing when you brought up GNR. That's what I remember. I also remember almost every biography or TV spot about them saying that they stopped being cool, their populairty faltering, being called a joke and were.... UNCOOL starting around 92-93.

The 90's were not kind to GNR.

You guys are the ones living in the fanatsy world revolving around the old line up. EVERYONE called them a joke after 93. They were not considered cool. Sorry. Why don't you venture out of your bubble and read about that time.