Guns n 'Roses

G n 'R and GN'R are redirects to this article. For the album see G N 'R Lies , for the Portuguese band see GNR (band) . For other meanings, see the definition of GNR .

Guns n 'Roses
Guns n 'Roses (2017)
General information
Genre (s)	Hard rock , blues rock , sleaze rock , heavy metal
founding	1985
Website	gunsnroses.com
Founding members
Singing , piano	Axl Rose
bass	Duff McKagan (1985)
Rhythm guitar	Izzy Stradlin (until 1991)
Lead guitar	Slash (1985)
Drums	Steven Adler (1985–1990)
Current occupation
Singing, piano	Axl Rose
Lead guitar	Slash (1985–1996, since 2016)
Rhythm guitar	Richard Fortus (since 2002)
bass	Duff McKagan (1985–1997, since 2016)
Keyboard , percussion	Dizzy Reed (since 1990)
Drums	Frank Ferrer (since 2006)
Keyboard	Melissa Reese (since 2016)
former members
Drums	Steven Adler (1985–1990)
Drums	Matt Sorum (1990-1997)
Rhythm guitar	Gilby Clarke (1991-1994)
Drums	Josh Freese (1997-1999)
bass	Tommy Stinson (1998-2016)
Rhythm guitar	Paul Tobias (1999-2001)
Lead guitar	Buckethead (1999-2004)
Lead guitar	Robin Finck (1997-2008)
Drums	Bryan Mantia (2000-2008)
Keyboard	Chris Pitman (2002-2016)
Lead guitar	Ron Thal (2006-2015)
Lead guitar	DJ Ashba (2009-2015)

Guns n 'Roses (official spelling Guns N' Roses , and GUNS N ♦ ♦ ROSES ) is an American hard rock - band , the 1985 Los Angeles was founded. She has sold approximately 100 million albums worldwide, including over 42 million in the United States. In April 2012, the band was honored with the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

Guns n 'Roses was one of the most successful bands in the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her debut album Appetite for Destruction sold 35 million copies worldwide, and Use Your Illusion , which consists of two simultaneously released works, sold over 25 million copies.

In the mid-1990s, most of the original members left the band, making singer Axl Rose the only remaining member of the founding year for the next two decades. After hardly any new material had been released by the band for more than ten years, the album Chinese Democracy was released in 2008 . In April 2016 there was a reunion with the former band members Slash and Duff McKagan .

The Rolling Stone listed the band is ranked 92 of the 100 greatest players of all time .

Band history

The beginnings (1983–1986)

Singer Axl Rose (since 1985)

School friends Axl Rose (vocals) and Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar) from Indiana moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and started writing songs together. After working in various musical groups, they formed the band Hollywood Rose in 1983 . This broke up the following year. Some songs from this period were later used for Guns n 'Roses recordings. Stradlin joined the band London and Rose joined the LA Guns . In 1985 they both played in the same band again: Together with other members of the LA Guns, they founded Guns n 'Roses, whose name was made up of those of the previous groups. Other members were Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Ole Beich (bass) and Rob Gardener (drums).

Beich left the band after a gig. The new bass player was Duff McKagan from Seattle , who had previously worked primarily in punk rock . Among other things, he had played for the group Road Crew , the only two permanent members of which were school friends Slash (civil: Saul Hudson) and Steven Adler . McKagan brought both musicians to Guns n 'Roses to replace Guns and Gardener. Slash took over the lead guitar, Adler the drums. The band had found their first permanent line-up. Following local success, Guns n 'Roses were signed to the Geffen Records label in 1986 . The band released their first EP called Live?! * @ Like a Suicide in a limited edition of 10,000 copies on the Uzi Suicide Records label .

The breakthrough (1987-1989)

Bassist Duff McKagan (1985–1997; from 2016)

Lead guitarist Slash (1985–1996; from 2016)

On July 21, 1987, Appetite for Destruction was the first regular Guns n 'Roses album. The record sold sluggishly in the first few months. In the following year, the band landed a hit with the single Welcome to the Jungle , although this initially only ran on the night program of the influential music channel MTV . After the video clip for Sweet Child o 'Mine was played in the heavy rotation , sales of the album also picked up. In the summer of 1988, the album and single reached number 1 on the American Billboard charts. The single Paradise City was also a hit. The album Appetite for Destruction has sold 35 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful rock albums as well as the most successful debut album of all time.

At the end of 1988 a second album was released with G N 'R Lies . Half of it consisted of the songs from the EP Live?! * @ Like a Suicide and four new songs. The album made it into the top five of the album charts, while Appetite for Destruction was still there. Guns n 'Roses were the only band of the 1980s that had two albums in the top 5 at the same time. The single Patience also reached the American Top 10. The success of Guns n 'Roses was no longer limited to their home country at this time. Her albums and singles also reached high positions in the charts in other countries. Guns n 'Roses won the Best Heavy Metal Video award for Sweet Child o' Mine at the MTV Video Music Awards in the fall of 1989 .

The level of awareness of the band was increased by various scandals. At the British festival Monsters of Rock in Donington in 1988, two fans were trampled to death during a performance by the group, but the band only found out about this after their performance and was dismayed by the events. The song One in a Million from the second album was assumed to have racist and sexist intentions. The band members' alcohol abuse and heroin use led to various negative incidents. Parts of the media condemned Guns n 'Roses' behavior, which reinforced their reputation as an aggressive hard rock band.

The climax (1990-1993)

Keyboardist Dizzy Reed (since 1990)

Drummer Matt Sorum (1990-1997)

In the summer of 1990 Guns n 'Roses changed personnel for the first time in five years. Unlike the rest of the band members, Steven Adler was unable to overcome his heroin addiction , whereupon he was replaced by Matt Sorum , the drummer of The Cult . With Dizzy Reed , a keyboard player was permanently recruited as the sixth musician, but he did not become a regular member of the band.

A new album, Use Your Illusion , had long been announced, the release of which has been postponed several times. The band's concerts were extremely successful. On January 21, 1991 Guns n 'Roses played as a headliner of the festival Rock in Rio in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro in front of 140,000 people. In May, the band began their worldwide tour to promote the new album, even before it was released. Axl Rose had to answer in court for causing serious riots after the band prematurely canceled a concert at what was then Riverport Amphitheater on July 2, 1991 in St. Louis . This concert event is also known as the Riverport Riot .

On September 17, 1991, the band's new work was released at the same time: Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II were released as two independent albums and entered the US charts at number 2 and number 1, respectively. A total of 36 million copies of the two albums have been sold worldwide to date. Even before the release, the band lost their most important songwriter, Izzy Stradlin, who left the band a few weeks after the end of the recordings because he had overcome his drug addiction and no longer wanted to support the dissolute lifestyle of the band. He was replaced by Gilby Clarke before the release of the first single You Could be Mine . The singles November Rain and Don't Cry reached the top 10 in the USA. With You Could Be Mine, Live and Let Die, Knockin 'on Heaven's Door and Yesterdays another four singles made their way to the top ten of the British charts. The elaborate video for November Rain was awarded the award for Best Cinematography in a Video by MTV in 1992 . The tour for Use Your Illusion continued until the summer of 1993 and was extremely successful. Guns n 'Roses had given a total of 192 concerts in 28 months.

The upheaval (1994-2005)

Lead guitarist Robin Finck (1997-2008, intermittently)

Lead guitarist Buckethead (2000-2004)

Lead guitarist DJ Ashba (2009-2015)

In November 1993 the next album was released with " The Spaghetti Incident? " This did not consist of new own songs, but exclusively of cover versions, most of which came from punk and glam rock. The reason for this is usually assumed that after the departure of Stradlin, who had been significantly involved in the songwriting of the band, Rose and Slash were unable to bring their own compositions into a suitably tight form, so that they resorted to foreign material instead. The album reached number 4 on the charts in the USA, with sales figures far behind the previous ones; Later singles were partly moderate successes in Europe. Critics mocked the album as The Spaghetti Accident? (accident, English = accident).

Guns n 'Roses didn't release another studio album for 15 years. There was a dispute within the band. Gilby Clarke was fired in 1994 because Rose blamed him for the band's songwriting difficulties, and was replaced by Paul "Tobias" Huge, with whom Axl Rose had already written the song Back Off, Bitch . In addition, the group's musical course was increasingly controversial: Slash wanted to continue to play classic hard rock, while Axl Rose favored a progressive orientation with industrial rock influences. In 1995 Slash formed his own band called Slash's Snakepit , and the following year his departure from Guns n 'Roses was officially announced. In his autobiography, published in 2007, Slash cites the band chemistry that was lost after the departure of Steven Adler and especially Izzy Stradlin as well as human differences with Axl Rose as reasons for his departure. After Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan left the band in 1997, Axl Rose was the last remaining member of the founding year.

Axl Rose did not dissolve Guns n 'Roses, but instead replaced his long-term companions with new musicians: Paul Tobias (rhythm guitar), who had already played on the single Sympathy for the Devil , Robin Finck (lead guitar), Josh Freese (drums), Tommy Stinson (bass) and Chris Pitman as the second keyboard player alongside Dizzy Reed. A new album with the working title 2000 Intensions , soon changed to Chinese Democracy , was announced, but Guns n 'Roses released only the live compilation Live Era: '87 -'93 in 1999 . The single Oh My God was released as part of the soundtrack for the film End of Days starring Arnold Schwarzenegger . Neither the live album nor the new single were particularly successful.

In 2000 the next personnel changes within the band were due: Josh Freese was replaced by Bryan Mantia , Robin Finck by the avant-garde guitarist Buckethead and two years later Paul Tobias by Richard Fortus. Finck quickly found his way back to the band, which from then on had a total of three guitars in the line-up. The band's appearances were rather sporadic compared to the early 1990s. On New Year's Eve 2001, the new line-up played its first concert in the House of Blues and received positive reviews. In January 2001, the band headlined the Rock In Rio Festival in Brazil in front of almost 300,000 spectators. In the fall of 2002 Guns n 'Roses held a small tour of North America and Great Britain. There was uproar when the band canceled their concert in Vancouver at short notice and fans rioted.

Since there was still no new studio album in sight, Geffen released the Greatest Hits in March 2004 . Even if Axl Rose and the former band members Slash and Duff McKagan had resisted this compilation, it became the biggest sales success since Use Your Illusion. In the same year Buckethead left the band.

The new beginning (2006-2015)

Lead guitarist Bumblefoot (2006-2015)

On May 12, 2006, the band gave their comeback concert in New York, where the new lead guitarist Bumblefoot (real name: Ronald Blumenthal) was introduced. They performed at Rock am Ring in 2006 . Robin Finck was the third guitarist until 2008, but then returned to his old band Nine Inch Nails . During some appearances on Guns n 'Roses' European tour, Izzy Stradlin played briefly with the band again towards the end of the respective concerts. During the tour, Frank Ferrer took over drums from Bryan Mantia on a permanent basis. The band had found a permanent line-up again, at least for the next few years.

A new album titled Chinese Democracy had been announced since the 1990s . Its appearance was postponed several times, making it a running gag in the music business . In October 2006 the official US tour began to promote the album, but it was still not released. However, isolated new material from Guns n 'Roses appeared illegally on the Internet.

In March 2008, the American fizzy drink maker Dr Pepper announced that it would give every resident of the United States a can of the drink if Chinese Democracy was published that year. In the fall, this promise actually had to be kept, at least Americans could register for a free drink. The new album Chinese Democracy was released on November 22, 2008.

After next to no PR had been done for the album , Guns n 'Roses went on tour with new guitarist DJ Ashba in December 2009. First they played a few concerts in Asia, where they returned to Japan, among other places, in the Tokyo Dome . The tour then took her to Canada and two surprise concerts in the USA and South America. Guns n 'Roses played in Europe from July to October; most recently they were in Australia.

At a concert in London's O ₂ arena on October 14, 2010, long-time bassist Duff McKagan played the band again for the first time since 1993. He played bass on You Could Be Mine, Nice Boys and Knockin 'on Heaven's Door and tambourine on Patience.

On October 2nd, 2011, they headlined the 10-year Rock-in-Rio Festival in Rio de Janeiro for the third time in a row . This was followed by a tour of America. On June 8th, 2012 they gave their only German concert in Mönchengladbach since 2006. In 2014 Duff McKagan helped out in the band, as Tommy Stinson couldn't play some concerts.

In 2011 Guns n 'Roses came into international media coverage. Russian board member Andrey Rappoport of the Russian group FGC UES paid one million US dollars for a private concert in Moscow. He gave it to the deputy head of the company, Alexander Chistyakov .

In July 2015, DJ Ashba announced that he was leaving Guns n 'Roses. He wants to concentrate more on his band Sixx: AM and take care of his family. Other band members such as Bumblefoot, who in the past was confronted more and more often with scheduling overlaps between the band and his solo activities, were only cautious about future plans. In late August, Richard Fortus announced that 2016 would be a big year for the band's fans.

The reunification (since 2016)

In January 2016 Guns n 'Roses announced that the band would perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California on April 16 and 23, 2016 . For the first time in around 23 years, Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan would be on stage together again. At first nothing was known about the rest of the line-up, especially who should take over the rhythm guitar and drums. The 180,000 tickets for the Coachella Festival were sold out after an hour.

On April 1st, 2016, the reunited Guns n 'Roses gave their first concert at Troubadour , a club in Los Angeles , with the cast Axl Rose (vocals), Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass guitar), Dizzy Reed (keyboard), Richard Fortus (rhythm guitar), Frank Ferrer (drums) and Melissa Reese as the new keyboard player. The surprise concert was only announced on the morning of April 1st.

Since this concert, the partly reunited line-up has been running the Not In This Lifetime World Tour . The name is an allusion to an interview with Axl Rose from 2012, in which, when asked whether there was a chance of a future reunion (especially with Slash), he said “Not In This Lifetime” (in English ) not in this life ” ) had answered.

The tour also went to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On June 7, 2017 the band played their only concert for Switzerland in Zurich. They gave their first German concert on June 13, 2017 in the Munich Olympic Stadium , their first concert since 1993 in the Bavarian capital. The concert in Hanover on June 22, 2017 had to be interrupted due to storms. The 75,000 visitors were asked to go to the nearby exhibition halls. The show resumed after a 90 minute break. As a guest musician, Angus Young appeared for two pieces. Due to the special circumstances, the Lord Mayor of Hanover gave special permission to continue the concert after midnight. It lasted until 1:15 a.m. In July 2017, a concert followed in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna. After concerts in North and South America, the band returned to Europe in summer 2018, starting on June 3, 2018 in the Olympiastadion Berlin . In 2020 the band will return to Germany for two shows as part of the Leg 13 (Europe) of the Not in This Lifetime ... Tour and will play on May 26, 2020 in the Olympiastadion in Munich and on June 2, 2020 in the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg .

The Not In This Lifetime tour is considered very successful financially. At the end of 2017, sales were $ 475 million (around € 404 million). In summer 2018 the album "Appetite for Destruction" was also released as a remastered album. After 29 years, the album returned to the US Billboard 200 charts at number 10, while it returned to the German album charts at number 2 in July 2018.

timeline

style

The band's style evolved over the years, uniting different genres. The debut album Appetite for Destruction was clearly dominated by sleaze rock , a subspecies of hard rock , which emphasizes a dirty and unpolished variety (the image and appearance of the band, which as rebellious underdogs with excessive, self-destructive behavior and pessimistic lyrics in stark contrast to the cleanly styled and rather "pop" oriented bands of Glam Metal such as Bon Jovi or Van Halen ). Songs like Welcome To The Jungle or Nightrain are very riff-heavy , the guitars are often not played perfectly clean and the cheap production conditions resulted in a raw, unpolished sound that shaped this album. There is no ballad on this album yet. G N 'R Lies , half an Unplugged album , band next to the acoustic rock and some elements of the blues and blues-rock with a. The songs on the Use Your Illusion albums were very diverse : Here, too, there are songs that, thanks to their brute force, can most likely be assigned to sleaze rock (e.g. Right Next Door To Hell , Garden Of Eden or Shotgun Blues ), while there are also clearly blues rock (Bad Obsession) , blues (You Ain't The First) and country borrowings (intro to Breakdown ). The number of rock ballads ( November Rain , Estranged , Don't Cry , which is featured in different versions on both albums ) is quite high overall. With “The Spaghetti Incident?” The result was a pure cover album, the originals of which come mainly from the hard rock and punk areas . Most of the songs were played in a straightforward hard rock version. The Chinese Democracy , received very ambivalently by critics , contains synth sounds, loops and drum computers , which in places are reminiscent of works of Nu Metal . Otherwise, this album is more of a conventional hard rock style.

Music videos

Guns n 'Roses produced elaborate music videos for some of their songs . November Rain is one of the top twenty most expensive videos of all time at $ 1.5 million. The band won MTV's Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for clips from the Use Your Illusion albums. Guns n 'Roses set a record with the video for Sweet Child o' Mine : It is the first music video of the eighties with over a billion views.

Discography

→ Main article : Guns n 'Roses / Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1987	Appetite for Destruction	DE2 platinum (73 weeks)DE	AT3 platinum (55 weeks)AT	CH5 platinum (47 weeks)CH	UK5 × 3 Triple platinum (284 weeks)UK	US1 × 8 Diamond + eight-fold platinum (… Where.)US	First published: July 21, 1987 Sales: 30,800,000
1988	G N 'R Read	DE37 gold (14 weeks)DE	AT10 gold (13 weeks)AT	CH15 (10 weeks) CH	UK22nd gold (41 weeks)UK	US2 × 5 Quintuple platinum (53 weeks)US	First published: Nov 28, 1988 Sales: 10,000,000
1991	Use Your Illusion I.	DE4th × 2 Double platinum (100 weeks)DE	AT2 × 2 Double platinum (39 weeks)AT	CH3 × 2 Double platinum (34 weeks)CH	UK2 platinum (85 weeks)UK	US2 × 7 Seven times platinum (108 weeks)US	First published: September 17, 1991 Sales: 17,000,000
	Use Your Illusion II	DE2 × 5 Quintuple gold (101 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (72 weeks)AT	CH2 × 3 Triple platinum (60 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (86 weeks)UK	US1 × 7 Seven times platinum (106 weeks)US	First published : Sep 17, 1991 Sales: 18,000,000
1993	" The Spaghetti Incident? "	DE5 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT4th gold (16 weeks)AT	CH3 gold (19 weeks)CH	UK2 gold (13 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (22 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 1993 Sales: 5,500,000
2008	Chinese Democracy	DE2 gold (14 weeks)DE	AT3 (14 weeks) AT	CH1 (13 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (12 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (16 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 2008 Sales: 2,600,000

Unpublished songs

Over the years in which the group was on tour, it happened again and again that the band also played songs that are not on any of the regularly available albums . Most of these songs are recorded on a bootleg . Some of the songs were an integral part of the setlist , for example Sail Away Sweet Sister was practically always played as an intro to Sweet Child o 'Mine . Unpublished songs (some cover versions ) are:

Ain't Going Down, Anxious Disease, Bad Time, Blues Jam, Bohemian Rhapsody, Born to Be Wild , Bring It Back Home, Come Together, Cornshucker, Crash Diet, Dead, Jail or Rock n 'Roll, Drift Away, Dust in the Wind, Everything, Fallen Angel, Free Fallin ', Godfather Theme, Good Night Tonight, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Heartbreak Hotel, Honky Tonk Women, I Did You No Wrong, Imagine, Indiana Ain't My Kinda Town, I Keep Smiling, I Was Only Joking, It's All Right, It Tastes Good, Don't It ?, Jumping Jack Flash, Just Another Sunday, Let It Be, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Marseilles, Mongoloid, Mother, One, Only Women Bleed, Piece of Me, Roadhouse Blues, Rock n 'Roll, Sail Away Sweet Sister, Sailing, Salt of the Earth, Sentimental Movie, Tie Your Mother Down, Train Kept a Rollin', Too Fast to Live, Too Much, Too Soon , Under My Wheels, Voodoo Child, We Will Rock You, You Shook Me All Night Long

Since the above songs were still played with the old line-up, it is not likely that they will ever be released on a regular basis.

See also

Commons : Guns N 'Roses  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Velvet Revolver - New band consisting of ex-members Slash, McKagan and Sorum

literature

• Mick Wall : Guns N 'Roses, Shotgun Blues. Lies, facts and the uncensored rest. Hannibal, St.Ändrä-Wierter 1992, ISBN 3-85445-071-0 (report on the early days of the band until the great successes took off, based to a large extent on interviews with band members. Wall , from Kerrang magazine , is portrayed as a liar next to Andy Secher from Hit Parader and Bob Guccione Jr. from Spin in the song Get in the ring, which appeared before the above book release ).
• Marc Canter: Reckless Road: Guns N 'Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction. 2007.
• Slash , Anthony Bozza: Slash. Rockbuch-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-927638-45-7 .
• Mick Wall: W. Axl Rose: The Unauthorized Biography. Sidgwick & Jackson, 2007.
• Mick Wall: Guns N 'Roses: The Most Dangerous Band In The World. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991.
• Danny Sugerman: Appetite for Destruction: the days of Guns N 'Roses. 1991.
• Robert John: Guns N 'Roses: the photographic history. 1993.
• Nick Kent : L'Envers you rock. éditions Austral, 1996.
• Steven Adler : My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N 'Roses. It Books, 2010.
• Duff McKagan : It's so easy and other lies: a memoir. Schuster & Schuster, New York 2011.

Web links

• Official website
• German-language Guns N 'Roses website of the record company
• Guns N 'Roses: inducted in 2012 . Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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