GUNS N'ROSES

INTRODUCTION

Guns n’Roses is an American hard rock band created in the middle of the 80’s in Los Angeles, California. They were on stage a few years, only seven, but they are one of the best-selling bands in the music history, they’ve sold more than 100.000.000 copies worldwide.

MEMBERS OF THE BAND

Slash- Main guitarist

Izzy Stradlin- Second guitarist

Duff McCagan- Bassist

Steven Adler- Drummer

Axl Rose- Voice

HISTORY

In the boom of the hard rock in Los Angeles, called hair metal because the bands wear long hair, there were two bands: the L.A. Guns and the Hollywood Roses. They joined in 1985 and created Guns n’Roses. From the final band there was only Axl and Izzy, but in the third concert of the band the bassist and the drummer couldn’t attend so three guys replaced them, those guys were Duff McCagan, Steven Adler and Slash. They liked the result so Axl and Izzy fired the other bassist and the other drummer and they stayed with Duff, Steven and Slash.

The band was ready but they didn’t realise their first album until two years later, it was Appetite for Destruction, an album with blunt riffs and punk influences.  The album became very popular, and the band too of course, it sold 28.000.000 copies around the world and 18.000.000 only in the USA.

They realised more albums and I have to remark Use your Illusion I. It’s maybe the most mature of all their albums. It has pretty good songs as November Rain, Don’t cry or Live and let die. It was not as hard as appetite for Destruction but it still contains the essence of the hard rock band.

 In their last album, The spaghetti incident?  they’ve done a lot of versions from other musicians, like Knocking on Heaven’s door (Bob Dylan) or Ain’t fun (New York Dolls).

They published more albums until Axl became really egotistical and childish, he wanted to be the main character of the band but he wasn’t. Slash and the rest didn’t want to support the Axl’s tantrums so the band broke up.

Nowadays Axl plays with a try of the original Guns n’Roses but, in my opinion, it’s pathetic to re-awake the original band. They published an album called Chinese Democracy, it hasn’t sold too much and they have spent 14 million dollars to produce it.

FAMOUS ALBUMS

“Appetite for destruction” 1987

“G N R lies” 1988

“Use your illusion I” 1991

“Use your illusion II” 1991

“The spaghetti incident?” 1993

CURIOSITIES

Axl threated with left the band if they didn’t control the drug addiction.

The band entered in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Appetite for destruction is the best-sold debut album in the USA.

Slash plays now alone and he does collaborations with other musicians like Ozzy Osbourne.

Nowadays Axl is very fat and people laughs of him.

(The man below is Axl in 2014).