Introduction to Guns N Roses

An American hard rock group Guns N Roses founded in Los Angeles, California in 1985. They are frequently qualified with reviving the seedy side of rock n roll and called “the world’s most dangerous band” because of their unstable live shows.

The band has launched six studio albums: Appetite For Destruction in 1987, Gn’r Lies in 1988, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in 1991, The Spaghetti Incident? (a covers album) in 1993 and, after 15 years and with only one member of the original lineup remaining, Chinese Democracy in 2008. They also released a live EP titled Live Like A Suicide in 1986. This was a collection of five songs the group had been playing since their first rehearsal, with an audience track added to make the demos sound live.

The group was shaped in early 1985 by Hollywood Rose members Axl Rose (vocals) and Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar) and L.A. Guns members Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Ole Beich (bass) and Rob Gardner (drums). The group made its name by combining two of the members’ names. A short time later, Beich was fired and replaced by Duff McKagan, and Guns was substituted by Slash after not showing up to rehearsal. Slash had played with McKagan in Road Crew and with Stradlin during a short stint in Hollywood Rose. On their first tour (from Sacramento, California to Duff’s home town of Seattle), Gardner quit and was substituted by Slash’s friend, Steven Adler.