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No one in their right mind would ever try to tell Axl Rose<\/a> what to do whenever he started performing. <\/p>\n From the minute that Guns N\u2019 Roses began gaining traction, he seemed like a maniac being let loose for a couple hours, and every single time he played tunes like \u2018Welcome to the Jungle\u2019, there was no question of whether he was going to fly off the handle or not. It was simply a matter of when the bomb was going to go off, but there was a lot more to Rose than simple rock and roll moves.<\/p>\n A lot of his best moments tended to be about more musical ventures than following in the footsteps of Robert Plant or Jim Morrison. He wanted to be a serious songwriter, and that came from studying what the greatest albums in his record collection were like long before he and Slash started to make music together. And if you listen to Appetite for Destruction, you can really hear that on full display.<\/p>\n As much as people talk about the street-level nastiness of the record, there was a lot more going on underneath the surface. All of the songs were carved out to be parts of a greater whole, and even when working on a more tender song like \u2018Sweet Child O\u2019 Mine\u2019, hearing them stumble upon the \u2018where do we go now\u2019 section purely by accident is one of the greatest cases of unintentional genius in rock and roll history.<\/p>\n But if people didn\u2019t get to see Rose\u2019s musical genius on full display, Use Your Illusion was definitely going to correct that. He wanted to pull out at the stops and leave Appetite in the dust, but most people probably weren\u2019t looking for him to break out the pianos and become a full-on Elton John-style singer on \u2018November Rain\u2019<\/a>. Then again, Rose wasn\u2019t looking to emulate John every single time he played.<\/p>\n He gladly ushered the piano star into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and played with him on occasion, but Freddie Mercury was the true star he was aiming for. The Queen frontman was the embodiment of what a rock and roll star should look like, and as far as the frontman\u2019s moves were concerned, Rose felt that no one could have possibly shown him more about what rock and roll could ever be.\u00a0<\/p>\n