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Counterpoint song of the fallen6/29/2023 ![]() Listen to Rapidfire's 'Ready to Rumble' EP With Axl Rose Just because you came doesn’t mean you can’t do it again.” A flier from that night notes that Rapidfire played three sets. ![]() The performance took place at Gazzarri’s, a Sunset Strip haunt that hosted many of the era’s upstart acts. The band recorded a five-song demo on May 25, 1983, and Rose played his final show with Rapidfire just days later. W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose described Rapidfire’s songs as “sub- Judas Priest fare.” Their material fit the era, a metal-ish sound that aligned with what was permeating the Sunset Strip. He was nervous to go onstage, and he was a little stiff in the beginning but he loosened up eventually.” “He wasn’t what he is now, now that he’s got bodyguards and confidence. “I was with his first time onstage,” Lawrence later told Maxim. ![]() Rose and Lawrence joined forces in the group Rapidfire in March 1983 and soon began playing gigs. ![]() ![]() “Bill,” of course, was Axl Rose – who at the time went by his birth name, William. Kevin recalls thinking that the kid in white leather came off as sort of ‘cool’ and ‘coy.’ But they had never spoken, nor even acknowledged one another. “Innately drawn to symmetry and balance, perhaps it was this contrast which inspired Kevin to strike up a conversation. “He stood out in marked contrast to Kevin’s dark mop and black leather,” Solomon added. ![]()
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