All the songs on "Appetite" are great but ...

Troublezone wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

jstate wrote:

I ended up getting Appetite initially due to the trailer for the Clint Eastwood movie The Dead Pool. They used Welcome To The Jungle (without Axl's vocals, it was somebody elses?) and I thought it sounded like such a killer song with that riff.

My cd copy of Appetite still has the little sticker on the jewel case "Featuring the song 'Welcome to the Jungle' from Clint Eastwood's The Dead Pool".

I know I saw the movie years ago, but I didn't know it wasn't Axl's vocals used. Are you sure of that? I know Jim Carey played the roll of the rock star that was murdered. They didn't let him supply the vocals, did they?

I saw the movie in the theater before i even knew who they were. I remember seeing Slash and the Jim Carey scenes...

If I recall, the entire band had a cameo appearance in that movie. They were in the background, no speaking parts or anything.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Hey, that's a good B-movie!

Oh yeah, it's a good movie, but it's one of the least subtle ripoffs I've ever seen. Richard Harris' character was running around a halfway house for the mentally ill (same as "Nightmare 3: Dream Warriors") killing off people in their sleep and he even had burn scars on his face for cryin' out loud. Wes Craven shoulda sued their hindquarters off.

It's actually a guy named Clayton Harris... the same guy that was the terrorist in Chuck Norris's Invasion USA.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

If I recall, the entire band had a cameo appearance in that movie. They were in the background, no speaking parts or anything.

Yea, the GNR guys are in the movie for about two seconds, paying respects at the funeral for the murdered rock star guy.

Troublezone wrote:

It's actually a guy named Clayton Harris... the same guy that was the terrorist in Chuck Norris's Invasion USA.

A quick IMDb scan tells me that you are correct. "Harris" was the name of the character, and he was played by Richard Lynch. I got the actor/character names messed up. Color me embarrassed.

Fat Freddy wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

If I recall, the entire band had a cameo appearance in that movie. They were in the background, no speaking parts or anything.

Yea, the GNR guys are in the movie for about two seconds, paying respects at the funeral for the murdered rock star guy.

Troublezone wrote:

It's actually a guy named Clayton Harris... the same guy that was the terrorist in Chuck Norris's Invasion USA.

A quick IMDb scan tells me that you are correct. "Harris" was the name of the character, and he was played by Richard Lynch. I got the actor/character names messed up. Color me embarrassed.

He does look a little like the actor Dick Harris.

Here's a clip of various metal/rock stars in movie cameos. It's a little long (almost 10 minutes), but GnR is in the first minute or 2. Worth watching till the end to see Steve Vai tearing it up against the Karate Kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2NoXkaLdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feHmiwsv86k&feature=related

PS the term "cameo" is pretty loosely defined here. Dee Snider's role in Strangeland was hardly a cameo, but you get the idea.