Included with every album listed in this 21 page spread is an obscure fast fact about the band/artist, such as Jimi Hendrix's US tour with the Monkees and after Chuck Berry did time for armed robbery, he became a hairdresser! Guitar One also has artists from each genre give their Top 10 picks. Slash from Guns N' Roses picked Aerosmith's Live Bootleg as his number one record of all time.
List toppers include:
Classic Rock #1 - Appetite for Destruction (1987, Geffen) - Guns N' Roses FAST FACT - Saul Hudson, aka Slash, & Co. nearly named their bands Heads of Amazon. When they were notified that they were signed, they were on their backs stoned and without any material for a radio single.
Modern Rock #1 - Rage Against the Machine (1992, Sony) - Rage Against the Machine FAST FACT - The burning monk on the album cover is Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk who set himself on fire in Saigon in the '60s to protest the rule of the leader of Vietnam.
Metal #1 - Paranoid (1970, Warner Bros) - Black Sabbath FAST FACT - In the 70s the band added a keyboard player, Gerald Woodruffe, who had to perform behind a curtain so that no one noticed his instrument...
Shred #1 - Rising Force (1984, Polygram) - Yngwie J. Malmsteen FAST FACT - This album gave birth to the neoclassical "Bach & Roll" craze in the '80s.
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