we all played in bands before guns n roses.unk—rock tours and living from hand to mouth, it was not that abysmal to us. we were just living. we had our band and we believed in our band. we were excited, we were 20 years old. barely men. not even men. we believed in the group. we finally got a record deal and we made the record that we wanted to make. we toured and toured, one year later the record took off. and the change was quite amazing. let's have a reminder of one of those songs from that first album. 0k. # brave all the thunder and the rain. # to quietly pass me by. # whoa, sweet child of mine. that was sweet child of mine, that was at a time you were hiring private planes for your tours. in 1988 when that single came out, that is finally when the record took off. that went to number one in america. we were making $100 a week and then the records started selling. we came off that tour and i remember the first big cheque i got was for $80,000. it might as well have been $1 billion. i did not know anything about money. but

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a guns n' roses tattoo. ha! can you believe that [ bleep ]? i still do love guns n' roses.denying that. there's a lot of roles in prison. you can be whoever you want to be. >> serving a 20-year sentence for armed robbery hasn't stopped tavares lee from being a future entrepreneur at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida. >> what's in your hand there? let me see. come on. >> ain't going to lose it. this is going to be on the streets when i get out of prison. okay, i'm going to have them in black, brown, green, red, all tropical colors. you know they're real because of this. you can't get the fake ones. this is a sneak preview. that's enough right there. that was a sneak preview. being a gangster nerds, they will be in a store near you. i will be rocking these on the streets. >> let's go, entrepreneur. >> lee even has a name for his cell mate's glasses. >> they called pretty boy swagger. say hi, chris. say hi to the camera. look, he blushing. he blushing. >> what do you want to call those glasses? >> pretty boy swaggers. they're pretty boy swaggers there. >> that

guns n' roses covered block hole sun over the week.ly nora jones. i'll leave you with one cool piece of information. >> what's that. >> how much do you think the snack budget was on the pirates of the caribbean. >> a million bucks. >> 2 million. >> okay. >> that's a lot of money. >> for snacks. >> for snacks. >> that's why jack spa are row was all right, thank you kevin. >> tell him no stop. it's too early. >> all right. listen, good to see you this early, kev. thanks for coming in. 5:54 is our time. time to say hello to our facebook fan of the day. this morning we say hello to ebony sellman. ebony lovers the entire fox5 crew. >> he had visits us every year at one of our zip trips and ebony says unfortunately this year she'll be in a wheelchair but she adds if the good lord is willing she's going to be with us at one of our zip trips this summer and we hope to see you ebony and happy memorial day. >> ebony wisdom and i will be at bowie this friday if you want to join us come out and see us. >> come out and say hi. >> five minutes befor

music: (piano cover of guns n' roses "sweet child o' mine) ♪ >> joe: next sunday on fox, the monsterp series. the coca-cola 600. 5:30 eastern on fox. three run eighth-inning makes it a five run game. 7-2. first up is pennington. 1 for 3. first pitch with a new right-hander is a strike. strike two. juan lagares takes over in center after pinch running and scoring a run. wilmer florez with a big head. he is at first and ramirez on the mound. 0-2 pitch. ball one. >> alex: good strike out numbers for ramirez. 18 strikeouts and 10 1/3 inning innings. >> joe: he's got the leadoff man setting up at 1-2. 94 again. 22 the angels don't rally, they will fall under the .500 mark. the mets, if they win, they will be five games under the .500 mark, six and a half out behind washington in the east. full count. >> alex: if you're ramirez, you're telling pennington, here it is, let's see how far he can hit it. >> joe: now it's 3-2. terry collins is saying is anything going to be easy? the answer is will have to wait. still a full count. the big injury in the bullpen is to the closer. 3-2 pitch. a wal

music: (piano cover of guns n' roses "sweet child o' mine) ♪♪ >> joe: next sunday on fox, the monsterthe coca-cola 600. 5:30 eastern on fox. three run eighth-inning makes it a five run game. 7-2. first up is pennington. 1 for 3. first pitch with a new right-hander is a strike. strike two. juan lagares takes over in center after pinch running and scoring a run. wilmer florez with a big head. he is at first and ramirez on the mound. 0-2 pitch. ball one. >> alex: good strike out numbers for ramirez. 18 strikeouts and 10 1/3 inning innings. >> joe: he's got the leadoff man setting up at 1-2. 94 again. 22 the angels don't rally, they will fall under the .500 mark. the mets, if they win, they will mark, six and a half out behind washington in the east. full count. >> alex: if you're ramirez, you're telling pennington, here it is, let's see how far he can hit it. >> joe: now it's 3-2. terry collins is saying is anything going to be easy? the answer is will have to wait. still a full count. the big injury in the bullpen is to the closer. 3-2 pitch. a walk. the answer to that earlier question

all of guns n' roses -- no problem. >> eric: that is true. >> anthony: music and singing are a huge partcceed, you better be able to pick up new material, fast. >> eric: whitney houston, celine dion, tony braxton, beatles and elvis presley. >> anthony: how many songs in your repertoire? around how many? >> eric: thousands already. >> anthony: and if you don't know it you pretty much can fake it real quick. >> woman: yeah. >> anthony: five years from now, where would you like to be? where would you like to be playing? >> eric: that's a good question. like my biggest dream is to play in las vegas in the u.s. this is my dream. >> man: when we get to the dream, you know, playing in las vegas, we want to play first when we get there -- "we are the champions," if we get there. i noticed it as soon as we moved into the new house. ♪ a lot of people have vertical blinds. well, if a lot of people jumped off a bridge, would you? you hungry? i'm okay right -- i'm... i'm becoming my, uh, mother. it's been hard, but some of the stuff he says is actually pretty helpful. pumpkin, bundling our home and a

music: (piano cover of guns n' roses "sweet child o' mine) ♪ the explosion and fire killed eight peopleng five violations of the u.s. pipeline safety act and obstructing an ntsb investigation. pg&e was fined, placed under an outside monitor, given five years of probation, and required to perform 10,000 hours of community service. we are deeply sorry. we failed our customers in san bruno. while an apology alone will never be enough, actions can make pg&e safer. and that's why we've replaced hundreds of miles of gas pipeline, adopted new leak detection technology that is one-thousand times more sensitive, and built a state-of-the-art gas operations center. we can never forget what happened in san bruno. that's why we're working every day to make pg&e the safest energy company in the nation. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) we're back with rachel maddow. talking about the news of the world. now, okay, one of the things that the president is saying right now is that this whole russia thing, total witch hunt, okay? ( laughter ) do you think

music: (piano cover of guns n' roses "sweet child o' mine) ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcomeback with rachel maddow. talking about the news of the world. now, okay, one of the things that the president is saying right now is that this whole russia thing, total witch hunt, okay? ( laughter ) do you think there is a chance this will turn out to be a witch hunt? because while there is a whole lot of smoke, we haven't actually seen the spark of the fire. >> we won't know till we know. everybody is entitled to the presumption of innocence. it's possible this is a bizarre series of coincidences, but we now owe it to ourselves as a country to figure out because there are too many things that happen -- that with respect explained ahead of time that were exposed and only belatedly admitted to. last week, reuters reported on 18 new previously undisclosed contacts between the trump campaign and russian government officials. >> stephen: ones they hadn't talked about before. >> 18 new ones now? you know there is interest in this topic. if you haven't done anything wrong, you still have to

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