The Guns n Roses Worker - Traveller
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491_9781849913980
DescriptionIn 1987, a few months before I left home to hobo around Europe, Guns N Roses released Appetite for Destruction. The band and album seemed a complete fit with my mind, beliefs, personality, life and ambitions: the songs told a tale of travelling to a new life; nostalgia for better times and the search for more; partying excess; alienation from society; getting into trouble and paranoia. The band seemed like the 1980s version of Jack Kerouacs beats, who had inspired my travel ambitions with stories about their frenetic trips across the states to California in the 1950s. Theyd also been running from what they saw as humdrum existences they could not fit into, but what most people see as normality. My mind had also failed to settle, and just dreamt of escape while working at the mill where most other school drop-outs ended up. As with Kerouac and Axl Rose of Guns N Roses, boredom and booze in a small town had brought trouble, and my ambitions to travel the world became as much about mental escape as seeing the sights.Experiencing the freedom of the road through hitching and sleeping rough brought amazing peaks and troughs, and this is described as lucidly as possible in the book. There were also exotic and beautiful locations, and both local and international people that provided an introduction to the myriad personalities and behaviour that the human mind manages to create. As well as being the memoir of a rock fan whod been inspired to travel by Kerouac and found recent confirmation through the songs of Guns N Roses, this book is also the first account as far as the author knows of the 1980s worker-traveller communities in Europe and the Middle-East.Thatchers Britain was dystopian for those seeking freedom and fairness, and especially people hit by record unemployment. The unions had been crippled by the government planned miners strike and those who dropped out of society into the Peace Convoy had been attacked at Stonehenge and basical
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