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=** The Hist ory of Guns N´ Roses **=

Before the beginning of the band guns n roses (beginning of the 80´s) the members were spread throughout the world. Saul Hudson, better known as Slash, was playing with Steven Alder; Izzy Strandlin was playing with a band called London, meanwhile, Axl Rose and Tracii Guns formed L.A Guns, and Slash started playing with Izzy´s band London.January 1985, Duff and Greg Gilmore were in L.A attending auditions, and answering an add, they came to meet Slash and Alder, and together they formed the band Road Crew. Meanwhile, Slash was playing with a christian rock band, he met Axl and became great friends. Tracii Guns and Axl Rose combined their last names and formed the band Guns n Roses, Izzy became the second guitarist to Tracii, Rob Gardner was the drummer and Duff the bassist. The new band, Guns n roses rehearsed for the Hell Tour, but the trip was a complete mess, on their way to Seattle their car broke down and they had to hitchhike; when they finally got to Seattle nobody payed attention to them, most of their shows had been canceled, on their first show, only 13 people attended. Later, they signed a contract with Geffen Records and they started to record their first album, but they didn't get anything done, mainly because slash had drug problems, but he chose to quit the drugs and stick with the band. On June 15, 1987 "**It's So Easy**" and "**Mr. Brownstone**" where released by Geffen, and on august hey released their first video, "**Welcome To The Jungle."** A year later, they Guns N Roses shot the video for "**Sweet Child O' Mine**" It wasn't long after "Appetite For Destruction" (their first album) entered the Billboard Top 10. "Appetite for Destruction" is considered one of the greatest and most important rock album of all time. On their next tour, Guns N Roses didn't have a good reputation because there were always all kinds of riots in their concerts, and in 1989, Izzy was arrested for making a public disturbance (he urinated on the floor, verbally abused a stewardess and smoked in the non-smoking section) on a US Air flight. after that, the Rolling Stones offered them a chance to open in their concerts, and they agreed, but the band was having personal problems, Slash and Axl weren't getting along to well, actually, Axl threatened to end the band "if somebody (Slash) didn't stop dancing stupidly with Mr Brownstone." The problems didn't stop there, Axl wanted the full rights of the band, and as Dizzy Reed entered the band playing the keyboards, Alder was having extreme drug issues, he was lying to the band and he couldn't even play, so in 1990, he was fired and replaced by Matt Sorum from The Cult. Later, Adler launched a lawsuit against the band. He claimed that Guns n Roses was responsible for his drug addiction. their next album, "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" was released that same year and it went platinum quickly, it was another huge success. But it wasn't enough for Axl, his ambitions were destroying the band. In November 7, Izzy decided to quit, to replace him the band called the guitarist Gilby Clark. Axl ego was only becoming worse and worse, he didn't show up to the concerts, the band was falling apart. This left Axl and Slash talking over the phone trying to put together "The Spaghetti Incident" this was the last album Guns n Roses ever made.The last time the original band was in a studio together they recorded a soundtrack cover of **Sympathy For The Devil** (this was when they were opening concerts of The Rolling Stones). Finally on October 30, 1996, "Slash resigned due to his inability to cope with Axl's on-stage tantrums and the fact that Axl wanted to take the band in a new direction; making different styles of music. All Slash wanted was another rock album" (http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/the_history_of/guns_n_roses_the_real_story.html) slash said in a press conference"When Axl is ready to make a rock n’ roll album I’ll come back" and "I’ll never walk onto a stage with a band pretending to be the original G’N’R"

In an attempt to recreate the band, Axl released the album Chinese Democracy in November 2008