Some songs are so good they just keep winning.

And apparently, Guns N’ Roses had one of those songs.

The guys remember when “Sweet Child O’ Mine” was so popular that it kept winning a radio countdown or competition week after week.

Eventually, someone decided it had won enough times and needed to be retired.

But not everybody was happy about that.

Who retires a song like “Sweet Child O’ Mine”?

The memory goes all the way back to hearing Appetite for Destruction for the first time.

When “Sweet Child O’ Mine” started playing, the reaction was immediate.

The headphones came off.

And the words were simple.

“This is the best song ever, ever, ever.”

So when the song got retired from the competition, it felt completely wrong.

But looking back, having your song retired because it won too many times is actually a pretty incredible honor.

Guns N’ Roses.

Appetite for Destruction.

“Sweet Child O’ Mine.”

Some songs are just too good to compete with.

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Some concert lineups look completely different when you look back years later.

The guys revisit a bill featuring Trapt, Shinedown, Halestorm, and MercyFall.

Back then, Shinedown and Halestorm were still working their way up.

Now Shinedown is playing arenas, and Halestorm has become a major name in rock.

Things have definitely changed.

Then the conversation jumps to May 10, 2006.

Ministry, Revolting Cocks, and Spiderbaby at Cain’s Ballroom.

And according to Jay, it may have been the loudest concert he ever attended.

Ministry was so loud that he ended up standing outside on the sidewalk at Cain’s.

That is some serious volume.

From watching future arena bands work their way up to Ministry practically shaking the walls at Cain’s, these are the shows that made Oklahoma's rock scene unforgettable.

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August 3, 2003.

Trainwreck played VZD’s.

And for anyone who does not know, Trainwreck was basically Kyle Gass’ project outside of Tenacious D.

That alone makes this one a cool little Oklahoma concert story.

The guys talk about how Kyle probably would not have known where VZD’s even was if he had not already been connected through the Tenacious D world.

Max was the promoter rep for the show and went with him.

He says he refreshed Kyle’s memory about the place, and that connection is part of why the show happened there.

VZD’s was not some massive arena.

It was one of those rooms with character.

The kind of room where a show like Trainwreck made sense.

Kyle Gass came through.

Trainwreck played.

And apparently, he liked it enough to come back more than once.

Two or three times, according to the story.

That is the kind of small-room concert history people forget about until somebody brings up the flyer.

Kyle Gass.

Trainwreck.

VZD’s.

A Tenacious D connection.

And another Oklahoma show with a story behind it.

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