Guns N' Roses are an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985.
Having sold an estimated 90 million albums worldwide, they are one of the USA's most successful hard rock bands. Their 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, produced by Mike Clink, went on to sell 25 million copies worldwide and reached #1 in the USA a year after its release date. The song "Welcome to the Jungle", the second track released from the album (after "It's So Easy"), gained notoriety after it was used on the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's 1988 film The Dead Pool.
The band's musical style, onstage presence and bad boy rock image helped usher in a new era in the dominant hard rock scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. While glam metal was the leading genre in record sales, video charts and radio airplay, Guns N' Roses offered a grittier, more traditional take on rock music, which helped to popularize the sub-genre known as sleaze rock and won many fans who admired their apparent authenticity. The band enjoyed worldwide success from 1987 to 1993, but clashing personalities of different band members brought about the end of the original line-up. Today, frontman Axl Rose is the only original member in the band's current line-up. He has now served as lead singer for 22 years.
Guns N' Roses were founded in Los Angeles in March 1985 by Axl Rose and guitarist Tracii Guns, as an informal merger of Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns, both of which Axl Rose had been a member, and the second of which Tracii Guns had been a member.[1] The original Guns N' Roses lineup included other members from both bands: from Hollywood Rose, Rose's longtime friend rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, and from L.A. Guns, Guns's former bandmates bassist Ole Beich and drummer Rob Gardner. The band's unique style integrated rock, hard rock, blues, punk and other genres of music into the popular heavy metal music of the time.
When Tracii Guns and Rob Gardner could not appear at one of the band's first shows in Seattle, Stradlin and Rose recruited guitarist Slash and drummer Steven Adler for the performance. In early 1986 the pair joined full-time, fixing the lineup as follows: Axl Rose (lead vocals), Slash (lead guitar), Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar), Duff McKagan (bass guitar) and Steven Adler (drums). On the way back to Los Angeles, they wrote the lyrics for "Welcome to the Jungle", which became one of their signature songs..
*Current Members..
Axl Rose - lead vocals, piano (1985 – present) Dizzy Reed - keyboards (1990 – present) Robin Finck - lead guitar (1997 – 1999, 2000 – present) Tommy Stinson - bass guitar (1998 – present) Chris Pitman - keyboards, programming (1998 – present) Richard Fortus - rhythm guitar (2002 – present) Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal - lead guitar (2006 – present) Frank Ferrer - drums (2006 – present)
August 21, 1987------------Appetite for Destruction November 29, 1988----------G N' R Lies September 16, 1991---------Use Your Illusion I September 16 and 17, 1991--Use Your Illusion II November 23, 1993----------The Spaghetti Incident? November 23, 1999----------Live Era '87-'93 March 23, 2004-------------Greatest Hits
*Awards..
1988 - Best New Artist - MTV Video Music Awards ("Welcome to the Jungle") 1989 - Favorite Pop/Rock Single - American Music Awards ("Sweet Child O' Mine") 1989 - Best Heavy Metal Video - MTV Video Music Awards ("Sweet Child O' Mine") 1990 - Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist - American Music Awards 1990 - Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Album - American Music Awards (Appetite for Destruction) 1992 - Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist - American Music Awards 1992 - Video Vanguard - MTV Video Music Awards 1992 - Best Cinematography - MTV Video Music Awards ("November Rain") 1993 - Best Selling Hard Rock Artist - World Music Awards
*Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (Live 2006)*
*Guns N' Roses - Rock Am Ring 2006 - Live And Let Die*
