Within the glory days of music tv, when budgets had been limitless and audiences captive, MTV ran a contest during which one fortunate viewer would win a prize that appears scarcely plausible at the moment: Axl Rose’s condo in Los Angeles.
The apartment, a part of a growth on Curson Ave, was handily located for all of the Sunset Strip motion. This was, in spite of everything, the place the place the Guns N’ Roses man was arrested in 1990 and charged with assault with a lethal weapon after allegedly hitting his next-door neighbour on the pinnacle with an empty wine bottle.
“I dwell subsequent door to a psycho”, Rose informed MTV Information, by the use of rationalization. He’d go on to pen Proper Subsequent Foor To Hell, the opening observe on Use Your Phantasm I, in tribute to his alleged sufferer.
MTV drummed up curiosity within the Evict Axl competitors by producing a brief promotional video during which he acted out his finest realtor impression, casually taking the viewer by way of the property’s numerous highlights.
“This lovely Sundown Strip property has all the things a rock and curler may ever need,” explains Axl. “A bar. A barbecue. And a pool inside throwing distance.”
“The mattress’s by no means been slept in,” he provides, ever the rascal. “I am not saying it hasn’t been used – it simply hasn’t been slept in!”
In the meantime, a voiceover explains Axl’s willingness to half with such a fascinating residence. It seems he needs to maneuver someplace quiet, to gather his ideas away from that noisy neighbour and safely broaden his assortment of porcelain cats. Disclaimer: We made up that final half.
Such is Rose’s haste to depart for quieter pastures that the potential competitors winner also can lay declare to his furnishings and stereo system. And, with such bounty on provide, it is little surprise that MTV receives greater than 400,000 entries.
The winner of Axl’s condo was proclaimed to be Erika Alden, a 21-year-old scholar on the College of Akron in Ohio, who was slated to fly to Los Angeles in September 1991 to select up the keys from Axl himself throughout an official eviction get together.
Did this ever occur? Proof of such a handover is scant, and also you’d assume that MTV could be eager to make as a lot noise as doable. However maybe there’s a proof. Possibly Ms Alden merely most well-liked to maintain issues quiet. You realize, for the sake of the neighbourhood.