I'd put The Black Crowes & Jane's Addiction in before any of those bands besides Heart & The Cure(who should already be in!, but aren't better than TBC or JA). I'd also add Blind Melon and The Ghetto Boyz as future inductees. They all rocked hard and left a lasting impression.

I'm definitely not a guitar collector or anything...but wouldn't Mike Clink have some idea as to what guitars passed thru the studio for the recording AFD? I mean, they have pics of Axl in the studio & Reckless Road pretty much documented the entire AFD period. It's a cool read, but I can't believe it's that big of a mystery.

So is Bobby Schneck going to be on the album? The guy plays a mean scratch rhythm, but I have no idea if he can write? In the interview I read from wherever...Slash only mentioned Myles, Kerns, and Fitz as collaborators on his 2nd solo album. But, I recently saw a pic with Schneck included in a studio shot. So does Slash handle all the studio guitar work?

Always interesting to hear peoples musical experiences from around the world. It's why I love this site. But it kills me to see people ripping on Nirvana. Nevermind is an alltime great album with a slew of classics. In Bloom is still one of my favorite songs. And when Nirvana caught on, the cultural change seemed to happen in a day, less than a day even! The Warrants of the world immediately became a joke, and people started dressing different, wearing their hair different, everything became different where I lived.

But the difference between Nevermind's blowup & AFD blowup is that Nevermind was more just for young people(teen angst), were as AFD literally had my mom blasting SCOM. To me, Nevermind is the most culturally significant album since I started listening to music, as it changed the world I knew more than any other piece of music I've have ever heard. I'll never downplay Nirvana's importance or slag on thier music, both were epic. IMO, Nirvana definitely deserves their praise.

Been a fan since the first time I heard them as a 5th or 6th grader back in '87. I don't know if they were bigger in the midwest United States or what, but where I lived, it didn't take an early morning video to break them big. I'm from Galena, IL...so there was already older metalheads in my hometown that had seen them open for Alice Cooper in Madison, WI. They were no secret from the second AFD dropped, but it makes for a romantic story to sound like they almost didn't catch on after AFD was released. AFD was the first record I ever bought and I'll never forget discovering songs like Nightrain and Rocket Queen. I made my mom drive me to the the Musicland in Dubuque, IA to buy it one night after school...I had to have that record, it was the first time I ever felt that.