February 6, 1962 - W. Axl Rose (real name William Bailey) is born in Lafayette,
Indiana. His stepfather's surname is Bailey, but when he discovered that his real
father's surname is Rose, William changed his to Rose. The W stands for William and
Axl was a band he used to sing in.
April 8, 1962 - Izzy Stradlin (real name Jeff Isabelle) is born in Lafayette, Indiana.
January 22, 1965 - Steven Adler is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
February 5, 1965 - Duff McKagan (real name Michael) is born in Seattle,
Washington.
July 22, 1965 - Slash (real name Saul Hudson) is born in Stoke-On-Trent, England.
1972 - Steven moves to LA.
1979 - Izzy moves to Los Angeles.
1982 - Axl moves to LA.
1981-1984 - Duff had been in many punkbands and he had been asked to join an
English band called Angelic Upstairs. But by joining Angelic Upstairs he'd have to
move to England so Duff declined the offer. In LA he joined a band called Road
Crew which includes Slash and Steven Adler. Before he moved to LA, he was in a
band called 10 Minute Warning, which included a drummer called Greg Gillmore (he
later played in Mother Love Bone from Seattle, MLB also included Jeff Ament and
Stone Gossard, both are now members of Pearl Jam). Axl and Izzy have a band
called Rose. Later they changed the name to Hollywood Rose. While Axl and Izzy
was in Rose they wrote "Anything Goes" (which later appeared on "Appetite For
Destruction").
1984 - Izzy joins a band called London. Axl is in LA Guns with Tracii Guns. Slash
plays in Road Crew (with Steven and Duff) and London.
March, 1985 - Axl, Tracii and Izzy decide to start playing together. The band calls
themselves Guns N' Roses (they rejected the names Heads Of Amazon and AIDS).
Rob Gardner becomes their drummer. Duff joins the band and the line-up looks like
this:
W. Axl Rose (vocals)
Izzy Stradlin (guitar)
Tracii Guns (guitar)
Duff McKagan (bass)
Rob Gardner (drums)
June 6, 1985 - Duff had some connections in Seattle and booked gigs for the band.
Tracii and Rob wasn't
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Steven. Axl agreed.
The line-up:
W. Axl Rose (vocals)
Slash (lead guitars)
Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar)
Duff McKagan (bass)
Steven Adler (drums)
GN'R rehearsed for a couple of days and started The Hell Tour. The trip to Seattle
wasn't a success. After driving 100 miles their car broke down. They had to
hitch-hike and when they arrived in Seattle no one cared about them. GN'R went
back to Los Angeles and continued to rehearse. Their "home" on Sunset Boulevard
was called The Hell House. They hadn't money so they lived on cheap wine and
biscuits. Sometimes they stole money from the girls that visited the Hell House.
Fall 1985 - GN'R plays the clubs in LA and record demos. The first LA gig was at
the Troubadour.
End of 1985 - Guns N' Roses' sets included original songs like "Welcome To The
Jungle" and "Don't Cry". The band had to play covers to keep the club audiences
happy. GN'R played songs by Aerosmith ("Mama Kin"), Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel")
and The Rolling Stones ("Jumping Jack Flash").
March 25, 1986 - GN'R signs with Geffen Records. Later the band starts to record
their album at Rumbo Studios, but nothing gets done. Slash is having problems with
drugs. He has to make a decision, drugs or the band. He stops taking drugs when he
realizes that the only friends he's got are the band.
August, 1986 - Alan Niven is hired as GN'R's manager. Tim Collins (Aerosmith's
manager) was interested, but after the boys ordered drinks on his hotel bill he
changed his mind.
December, 1986 - The recording of "Appetite For Destruction" was finished and the
mixing started. Geffen planned to release the record in July 1987.
December, 1986 - Geffen releases a four song EP called "Live ?!'@ Like A Suicide"
on GN'R's own Uzi Suicide label. 10,000 copies of the EP is released. It starts of
with a roadie screaming "Hey fuckers, suck on Guns and fucking Roses!".
June 15, 1987 - "It's So Easy" and "Mr. Brownstone" released by Geffen.
June 19, 22 & 29, 1987 - The band makes their European debut at the London
Marquee. The first show is a disaster. The first show was on a Friday night and the
crowd was very drunk. The press didn't help GN'R much by printing all kinds of
sensational stories about them. GN'R's last show at the Marquee was the best of
these three. The audience enjoyed the covers (AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" and
Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door") and GN'R played better than on the
two first shows.
July 31, 1987 - "Appetite For Destruction" is released by Geffen Records. The
record was produced by Mike Clink who had been working with Ozzy Osbourne
and Heart. The cover art featured a painting by Robert Williams which got censored.
August - September, 1987 - On tour in the US opening for The Cult.
October, 1987 - A five day UK tour with Faster Pussycat. This tour was originally
going to be headlined by Aerosmith, but they canceled it.
End of 1987 - Tour with Motley Crue. During this tour Slash and Steven Adler
saved the life of Motley Crue's bassist Nikki Sixx who had overdosed on drugs.
March - April, 1988 - First headlining tour of America. Axl walked out of the band,
but three days later he was back.
May - June, 1988 - On tour with Iron Maiden. The two bands didn't get along very
well. GN'R was the most popular band of the two. GN'R thought that they should
headline instead of Iron Maiden. At the end Axl had problems with his throat. GN'R
canceled the tour, but that didn't stop the rest of the guys from stepping on-stage and
with jamming with LA Guns, who were hired to replace GN'R.
May, 1988 - Duff married his girlfriend Mandy.
July 23, 1988 - "Appetite For Destruction" reaches #1 on the Billboard charts.
August, 1988 - GN'R is hired to open for Aerosmith.
August 20, 1988 - The Monsters Of Rock at Castle Donington, England. The
German band Helloween started the festival at one o'clock in the afternoon. An hour
later GN'R stepped on-stage. The crowd started to move towards the stage. Despite
stopping the show three times during their set two fans fell and were crushed to
death.
August - September, 1988 - The tour with Aerosmith.
September, 1988 - The band performs at MTV's Video Music Awards.
December 6, 1988 - Geffen Records releases "GN'R Lies". It was originally going to
be called "Lies! The Sex, The Drugs, The Violence, The Shocking Truth", but
someone at Geffen noticed that the name was too long. So they changed it to "GN'R
Lies". The album includes the four tracks from "Live ?!'@ Like A Suicide" plus four
acoustic tracks. A couple of lines in "One in a million" draws negative publicity to the
band. When Lies went to number two on the Billboard Chart, the band became the
only artist with two albums in the top five at the same time in the 1980s. According to
Duff the acoustic tracks were recorded one night in the studio when they were
drunk! During December the band played in Japan and Australia.
February, 1989 - Despite the controversy surrounding "One in a million", "GN'R
Lies" hits the Top 5. Guns N' Roses becomes the first band in 15 years to have two
records in the US Top 5 simultaneously.
March, 1989 - "Paradise City" became GN'R's first UK Top 10 single.
June, 1989 - "Patience" becomes a Top 4 single.
August, 1989 - Izzy is arrested for making a public disturbance (he urinated on the
floor, verbally abused a stewardess and smoke in the non-smoking section) on a US
Air flight.
?????, 1989 - Duff, Slash and Steven goes to Chicago for three months. They start
to work on the next record, but nothing gets done because Axl and Izzy didn't show
up in Chicago.
September, 1989 - GN'R wins "Best Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Video" for "Sweet
Child O' Mine" at the MTV VMA's. Vince Neil (Motley Crue) punched Izzy. Axl
and Izzy joins Tom Petty for the singer's hit "Free Fallin'".
October 18, 19, 21 & 22, 1989 - GN'R opens for the Rolling Stones at the LA
Coliseum. Axl threatened to quit if certain members of the band didn't stop "dancing
with Mr. Brownstone". Slash, Izzy and Steven promised
to clean up.
December 19, 1989 - Axl and Izzy joins the Rolling Stones for a version of "Salt Of
The Earth"
January 22, 1990 - Slash and Duff appears at the American Music Awards. Slash
livens things up by uttering four-letter words during his acceptance speech.
April 7, 1990 - Guns N' Roses appears at the fourth Farm Aid in Indianapolis. The
set includes a first performance of "Civil War" and a cover of the UK Subs' "Down
On The Farm".
April, 1990 - Slash and Duff records with Iggy Pop. The album is called "Brick By
Brick". They can also be seen in the video for the track "Home".
A keyboardist called Dizzy Reed (realname Darren, born June 18, 1963) joins the
band.
April 28, 1990 - Axl marries Erin Everly in Las Vegas. They divorce later that year.
June 26, 1990 - The band's version of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" is
released on the "Days Of Thunder" soundtrack.
July 24, 1990 - The first original GN'R track since "GN'R Lies", "Civil War",
appears on a benefit album called "Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal".
July?, 1990 - Steven Adler is fired. The band made an agreement with Steven which
said that if he didn't stop taking drugs he was out. When this didn't help, he was fired.
His replacement is Matt Sorum (born November 19, 1960). Matt's band before
GN'R was The Cult.
September, 1990 - 36 songs recorded and GN'R started to think about the album
title. GN'R Sucks and BUY Product were two of the titles, but finally they decided
to call the album Use Your Illusion. Axl took the name from a painting by Mark
Kostabi. The next problem was the format of the next GN'R release. The 36 songs
wouldn't fit on one CD. GN'R wanted to release a box with four CDs. Geffen said
no, it would be too expensive for the fans. Finally they agreed to release two CDs on
the same day, plus a CD later.
October 30, 1990 - Axl is arrested in West Hollywood for allegedly assaulting his
neighbor with a wine bottle.
January, 1991 - Matt Sorum and Dizzy Reed made their concert debuts for GN'R at
the Rock In Rio II festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Three minutes before Matt goes
onstage in front of 140.000 people, they tell him that he's gotta do a drum solo. And
he pulled it off! The band played on two nights to a total of 260.000 people.
1991 - Alan Niven was fired. Doug Goldstein became GN'R's new manager.
May, 1991 - Three warm-up shows were played in San Francisco, Los Angeles and
New York.
May 24, 1991 - GN'R kicked off their first ever world tour as headliners in East
Troy, Wisconsin. Skid Row opened the shows.
July 2, 1991 - While the band played Riverport Performance Arts Centre, St. Louis,
Axl spotted someone in the crowd taking pictures. Security didn't respond to Axl's
request to remove the person so he jumped into the crowd. When he returned to the
stage he complained about the security and left the stage. The rest of the band
followed. After this a riot broke out. GN'R wanted to continue the show, but they
were adviced not to. The band lost their equipment and Axl was charged for inciting
a riot.
July, 1991 - "You Could Be Mine" was the first single that was released from the
forthcoming "Use Your Illusion" albums. It also appeared in the movie Terminator 2
and Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared in the video.
August 12, 1991 - GN'R and Skid Row arrives in Helsinki, Finland. Duff, Slash,
Matt, Dizzy and Skid Row spend the night at the Tavastia club where the Black
Crows were performing.
August 13, 1991 - The "Get In The Ring Motherfucker" tour comes to Europe. The
first two shows are been held at the Ice Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. Again Skid
Row opens for GN'R. Setlists for the show on the <13th and 14th.
August 16 & 17 1991 - GN'R performs at the Globe in Stockholm, Sweden. And
yes, Guns N' Roses was front-page news. A photographer from Sweden's biggest
newspaper, Expressen, took photographs (without permission) of the band while
they were in the Daily News club. GN'R's bodyguards tried to stop the
photographer, but they failed. The "prohibited" photo made it onto Expressen's first
page! Expressen gave the shows five out of five.
August 19, 1991 - Show in Copenhagen, Denmark. The show went fine until
somebody threw a firecracker onstage. Axl told the audience that they wouldn't
continue the show until the idiot who did it turned himself in. After a 15-minute break
the show continued.
August 24, 1991 - GN'R plays in Mannheim, Germany. This show included Nine
Inch Nails and Skid Row as openers.
August 31, 1991 - After shows in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany (the
show in Oslo, Norway was canceled) GN'R plays a show at Wembley Stadium in
London, England.
September 16/17, 1991 - Use Your Illusion I and II are released. The albums
debuted at number one and number two on the Billboard charts. They marked the
first time a major contemporary rock artist had released two separate albums on the
same day.
September,1991 - GN'R performs "Live And Let Die" at the MTV Video Music
Awards. The performance was taken from the show in London.
October, 1991 - Steven Adler launched a lawsuit against the band. He claimed that
GN'R were responsible for his drug addiction.
November 7, 1991 - Izzy Stradlin leaves GN'R. His replacement is Gilby Clarke
(born August 17, 1962). Gilby, formerly of the band Kill For Thrills, had been
playing the same clubs as GN'R.
December 5, 1991 - February 1, 1992 - The second US leg of the tour. GN'R
begins to use background vocals and horns. The expanded 12-piece line-up looks
like this:
W. Axl Rose (lead vocals, piano)
Slash (lead guitar, backing vocals)
Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals)
Gilby Clarke (rhythm guitar, backing vocals)
Dizzy Reed (keyboards, percussion)
Ted Andreadis (keyboards, harmonica, background vocals)
Diane Jones (background vocals)
Roberta Freeman (background vocals)
Tracy Amos (background vocals)
976-Horns:
Lisa Maxwell (horns)
Cece Worrall (horns)
Anne King (horns)
February 19, 20 & 22 - GN'R in Japan.
April 20, 1992 - GN'R performs at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS
Awareness. They were originally going to play three songs, but due to technical
problems earlier in the show they only played two (Paradise City and Knockin' On
Heaven's Door). Axl joined his hero, Elton John, for the duet of the night, "Bohemian
Rhapsody". He also performed "We Will Rock You".
May 12, 1992 - Slash and Metallica's Lars Ulrich announced that GN'R and
Metallica would tour together in the summer.
May 16, 1992 - GN'R returns to Europe. The first show was in Dublin. My Little
Funhouse opens the show followed by Faith No More.
May 20, 1992 - Show at the Strahov Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia and first
show with Soundgarden opening. An MTV Europe crew interviews the band in the
afternoon. The show starts with "Okay, you ex-Commie bastards, get ready to
rock!".
May 22, 1992 - Show in Budapest, Hungary at the Nep Stadium. Axl and Slash
performs the Hungarian folk song "Tavasziszel". It's the same song that Queen
performed there in 1985.
June 6, 1992 - PPV show in Paris, France. The band is joined onstage by Lenny
Kravitz for a version of "Always On The Run". Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from
Aerosmith joins the band to perform the Yardbirds "Train Kept A-Rollin'" and
Aerosmith's classic "Mama Kin".
June 9, 1992 - The Manchester Maine Road show was postponed until June 14th.
June 13, 1992 - Brian May joins GN'R at Wembley Stadium to perform "Tie Your
Mother Down" and "We Will Rock You".
June 14, 1992 - The rescheduled Manchester show.
June 24, 1992 - Show canceled due to Duff's illness.
June 25, 1992 - Slash, Gilby and Ted Andreadis films the video for Michael
Jackson's "Give In To Me" with Jackson in Munich, Germany.
July 4, 1992 - The show at the Vicente Caldaron stadium in Madrid, Spain is
canceled because the concrete fabric of the building has been badly effected by
aluminosis.
July 12, 1992 - Axl is arrested at the JFK airport in New York, NY. The reason for
the arrest is the riot in St. Louis, MI in 1991.
July 17, 1992 - The co-headline tour with Metallica starts at the RFK Stadium in
Washington, DC.
July 30, 1992 - Axl is diagnosed as having sustained severe damage to his vocal
chords, three shows - in Boston, MA, Columbia, SC and Minneapolis, MN are
rescheduled.
August 8, 1992 - Tour resumes at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada. During
Metallica's set James Hetfield is injured by a onstage pyrotechnic. His left arm is
badly burnt and Metallica has to stop their show. During GN'R's set Axl stops the
show and leaves the stage. Before he and the band return, a riot breaks out.
August 25, 1992 - With Hetfield recovered the tour resumes at the International
Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. Seven shows had to be rescheduled as a result of
Hetfield's injuries.
September, 1992 - GN'R performs at MTV's Video Music Awards. Elton John
joins the band to perform "November Rain". Backstage Axl exchanged some words
with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. According to Michael Azerrad's book "Come
As You Are The Story Of Nirvana" Courtney asked Axl if he wanted to be the
godfather of their child. Axl said "You shut your bitch up or I'm taking you down to
the pavement!" to Kurt. Kurt glared at Courtney and said "Shut up, bitch!". The
Nirvana entourage exploded in laughter.
September 24 & 30, 1992 - Shows in Oakland, California and San Diego,
California with Bodycount.
September 27, October 3 & October 6, 1992 - Shows in Los Angeles, California,
Pasadena, California and Seattle, Washington with Motorhead. This is the end of the
GN'R/Metallica co-headline tour.
October, 1992 - Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds releases their debut album on
Geffen Records.
November 25 - December 13, 1992 - A nine date South American tour.
December, 1992 - GN'R releases their first home videos. It's a full length concert
from Tokyo, Japan.
January 12, 14 & 15, 1993 - Three shows at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. During the
show on the 15th Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones joins the band onstage.
January 30 & February 1, 1993 - Two shows in Australia.
February 6, 1993 - Axl's birthday and a show in New Zealand.
February 23, 1993 - The "Skin And Bones" leg of the "Use Your Illusion" world tour
kicks off in Austin, Texas. This leg sees the band back down to their core of six
members and it features a acoustic section in the middle of the set.
February 26 - March 4, 1993 - Four shows canceled.
April 15, 1993 - GN'R are forced to cancel the show at the Omni in Atlanta,
Georgia. During the band's performance here in 1987 Axl had been arrested for a
scuffle with a security guy. The security guy had been beating up the band's friends in
the audience. With Axl on parole for previous offences the show is pulled by
manager Doug Goldstein.
April 29, 1993 - Gilby breaks his left wrist in a motorcycling accident, while
practicing for a celebrity race in honour of the TJ Martell Foundation for leukemia,
cancer and AIDS research. The next four shows has to be canceled. The
forthcoming European shows are in jeopardy, but Axl calls Izzy who steps in for the
first five shows.
May 14, 1993 - The Drunk Fux plays at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles,
California to raise money for a promoter who got injured in a motorcycle accident.
The event raises $40,000. Slash, Duff, Matt, Dizzy and Gilby all play at the concert.
One of the guests is Lemmy from Motorhead. The band plays covers such as
"Communication Breakdown" and "Dead Flowers".
May 22, 1993 - The first show of the European leg of the "Get In The Ring
Motherfucker - Round II" tour in Tel Aviv, Israel.
May 24, 1993 - The second anniversary of the "Use Your Illusion" world tour and a
show at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
May 30, 1993 - Second show at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England.
Ronnie Wood (the Rolling Stones) and Mike Monroe (ex Hanoi Rocks) join the
band onstage.
June, 1993 - GN'R releases the videos "Don't Cry - Makin' Fucking Videos Part I"
and "November Rain - Makin' Fucking Videos Part II".
June 2, 1993 - Gilby's first show since he broke his wrist.
June 6, 1993 - Second show in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Matt joins The Cult
onstage for their last number.
June 11, 1993 - While on tour in Norway Matt visits his ancestral home town of
Sorum.
June 16, 1993 - During the show in Basel, Switzerland a naked Shannon Hoon
(Blind Melon) walks onstage to deliver a pizza.
July 13, 1993 - Last European show in Paris, France.
July 16 & 17, 1993 - The last two shows of the "Use Your Illusion" world tour in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's been the longest tour in rock history. The band had
played a total of 192 dates in 27 countries. Over seven million people had seen the
band perform. Here's a couple of facts about the tour.
September, 1993 - GN'R made a $2.5 million dollar out-of-court settlement
payment to Steven Adler in respect of his October 1991 lawsuit.
October, 1993 - Duff releases his solo album "Believe In Me" which featured
appearances by Slash, Gilby, Matt, Dizzy and Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) amongst
others. Duff begins his solo tour in the US.
November, 1993 - "The Spaghetti Incident?" is released. One of the songs is "Look
At Your Game Girl" which was written by Charles Manson. This causes some
controversy.
April, 1994 - "The Making Of Estranged: Part IV Of The Trilogy" is released.
June 26, 1994 - Slash plays at the Night Of 100 Guitars in London, England.
Summer, 1994 - Gilby Clarke's "Pawnshop Guitars" is released on Virgin Records.
Featured on the album is amongst others Slash, Axl and Duff.
August, 1994 - Slash joins Paul Rodgers onstage at the Woodstock 94 festival. They
perform "I Don't Live Today" (which they actually recorded in 1993 for the "Stone
Free" Jimi Hendrix tribute album), "Bad Company", "The Hunter" and "Alright Now".
December, 1994 - The Rolling Stones classic "Sympathy For The Devil" is released.
It's featured in the "Interview With A Vampire" movie.
February, 1995 - Slash's Snakepit releases "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere". Slash's
Snakepit is a band that was put together by Slash and it features Slash, Gilby, Matt,
Eric Dover (formerly of Jellyfish) and Mike Inez (Alice In Chains).
March 10, 1995 - Duff and Matt joins Steve Jones at the opening of the Hard Rock
Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. They are the houseband and they're known as Wayne
Neutron. Other artists who performed with the band included Billy Idol, Iggy Pop,
Bo Diddley, Izzy Stradlin and Seal. This was the show where Neurotic Boy
Outsiders were born (John Taylor played at the same show with Duran Duran).
August, 1995 - Slash's Snakepit plays at the Monsters Of Rock at Castle Donington,
England.
September, 1995 - Slash joins Michael Jackson onstage at the MTV Video Music
Awards.
November, 1995 - Gilby is fired from GN'R.
August 14, 1996 - Slash played in Budapest, Hungary at the Pepsi Island festival.
Teddy Andreadis played keyboards and sang.
August & September, 1996 - Neurotic Outsiders releases their debut album on
Maverick Records. Neurotic Outsiders is a band that features Duff, Matt, John
Taylor (Duran Duran) and Steve Jones (Sex Pistols). The band tours in North
America and Europe.
October 3?, 1996 - Hard Copy (a TV-show) did a story on Steven Adler.
Apparently Steven have had a stroke in the past because of his drug abuse but he's
sober now.
October 16, 1996 - Slash did an online chat. Here's what he said!
October 30, 1996 - Slash leaves GN'R. Axl sent a fax to MTV which said that Slash
hadn't been a part of GN'R since 1995. Despite this there will be a new record in
1997.
November, 1996 - Slash's Blues Ball plays at The House Of Blues in Hollywood.
It's a band put together by Slash. They play covers like "Heartbreak Hotel" and
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door".
January, 1997 - Axl buys the rights to the name Guns N' Roses.
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