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After a decade of speculation and fifteen years since the last Guns N’ Roses album, it looks like Chinese Democracy will finally be released next month. One of the tracks, “If The World,” is playing over the end credits of Body of Lies. (Anyone seen/heard it?) Now seems like as good a time as any to rerun Brett Savage’s Guns N’ Roses quiz, which was part ’80s Quiz Week* last spring.
Take the Quiz: Who Was Mr. Brownstone?
*Stay tuned for Quiz Weeks celebrating the 1970s and 1990s later this year. And if you’re already nostalgic for ’80s Quiz Week, you can relive the magic.
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I always heard that the song Mr. Brownstone referred to the Brownstone Apartments on Purdue University’s Campus where Axl and his friends used to buy their drugs. (He’s a native of the Lafayette/West Lafayette, IN area.)
posted by Kolja on 10-13-2008 at 11:58 am
Mr. Brownstone is a slang term for heroin, Slash n’ Izzy sat and complaining about being heroin addicts, when they started improvising lyrics and music… “I just to do a litle but a little get more and more” and “Stuck it in the middel and I shot it in the middle and it drove me out of my mind, I should have known better, said I wish I never met her said I leave it all behind” from these two outtakes you can see that they ment drugs
posted by brushaan on 3-8-2009 at 1:59 pm