Artist: IZZY STRADLIN

Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction was released in late summer of 1987, months before I started my sophomore year of college and a year before Sweet Child O' Mine became a smash. I started working in a record store that autumn and, not surprisingly, most of the music to which I was listening was more likely to be seen in video form on MTV's 120 Minutes , not Headbangers Ball . My introduction to Guns N' Roses came from our manager who would blare Appetite as soon [...]

Please allow me to gloat for a moment: not only did I predict that there was no way in hell Axl Rose would reunite with the original Guns N' Roses despite being inducted into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, but I said both before and after the induction was announced that it would [...]

Not getting tickets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction this weekend in Cleveland doesn't bother me as much now (the thing sold out in like 2 minutes). Not only will there not be a Guns N' Roses reunion but Axl Rose isn't even going to show up. "I won't be attending The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction 2012 Ceremony and I respectfully decline my induction as a member of Guns N' Roses to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame." - Axl Rose [...]

Filed under: News , Rock Hall Geffen Records The original lineup of Guns N' Roses -- Axl Rose , Slash , Izzy Stradlin , Duff McKagan and Steven Adler -- will be on site at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony which will be held on April 14 in Cleveland. Keyboardist Dizzy Reed, who is the longest-tenured member of the current [...]

No, this is not the original line-up of GN'R. But I wanted a photo with Dizzy in it. So, this is the best I could do. Suck it up. Some people have been really excited about the news that Guns N' Roses are being inducted into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, 'cause they [...]

I woke up this morning to a seemingly endless number of headlines announcing that Guns N' Roses have, indeed, been voted into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, and I'm as baffled by all the excitement now as I was when the band first became eligible for induction. What is everyone so worked up [...]

I have honestly never seen That Metal Show, but you're goddamn right I set my DVR to record it tonight. 'Cause tonight they're gonna air the interview they conducted with Axl Rose a couple of weeks ago, and if I'm not mistaken, this is Rose's first on-camera interview since 2002, and his first in-depth non-email interview [...]

Here's a fun quote from a recent Sammy Hagar interview with Attention Deficit Delirium. Discussing the possibility of a reunion of the original Guns N' Roses, Hagar says: "They've proved it again and again and again that it ain't [about] the money. They just don't get along because Axl goes out for a lot less money [...]

So long as Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Duff McKagan are all involved, no one would be more excited about a reunion of the original Guns N' Roses than me. Yeah, I'd prefer if Steven Adler were the drummer instead of Matt Sorum, but that seems unlikely, and I'd be willing to settle. I'd [...]

Tomorrow marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of Guns N' Roses' double-disc opus, Use Your Illuision. It seems like public perception has soured on these albums over the years - even Axl Rose and Slash have accused them of being bloated and over-produced - but I still love 'em to death. For one thing, [...]

Even if I haven't exactly been thrilled with Slash's post-Guns N' Roses output, I never thought his guitar playing got bad; listening to No More Tears over the weekend, I was struck (again) by the fact that Zakk Wylde's playing has become a parody of itself, but Slash still seems to have an endless arsenal [...]

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It's barely been more than a month since DevilDriver released their fifth studio album, Beast, but bassist Jon Miller has now announced his departure from the band. His statement doesn't really tell us anything and makes the split sound perfectly amiable (it's so vanilla I'm not even gonna print it here, but you can read [...]

Here's the latest round of idiotic news revolving around the band you can pretty much blame for this website's existence. First of all, Corey Taylor has been heavily rumored to be the new vocalist for Velvet Revolver, and then a couple of weeks ago, he refused to contradict that rumor, thereby pretty much confirming it. [...]

video courtesy MissPinksMusic So Duff McKagan joined Axl Rose and his new Guns N' Roses on-stage at the 02 Arena in London last night, playing bass for "You Could Be Mine" (video above) and rhythm guitars for "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Nice Boys." (You can also see photos here.) Inevitably, this is going to make [...]

First off, Album of the Week #25 issssssss (drum roll PLEASE) ... Vincent Gallo's "Honey Bunny" 7-inch on Warp Records! And that's not all ... I also have, wrapped up especially for Yu, my new Top-10 list, straight from the office in Snowville, Utah (yes, Dead Raven Choir was a predictable pick, but I'm obsessed [...]

We now rejoin Allyson B. Crawford (Bring Back Glam!) and Anso DF (MetalSucks) and their riveting analysis of Glam Metal's Ten Best Must-Have Records. Get caught up on yesterday's action here. *** 7. TRASH - Alice Cooper July 25, 1989 // Epic Records // p: Desmond Child The hits: "Poison" "Bed of Nails" "House of Fire" "Only My [...]

By Ben Apatoff "Legend" is one of the most overused terms in music writing, but SLASH unquestionably deserves it. Don't kid yourself into thinking that you could live without Appetite for Destruction, no matter how many times you've heard it. Don't pretend that the "November Rain" solo doesn't make you want to howl at the moon, ...

Ever seen Woody Allen's Zelig? It's a pseudo-documentary about a guy who immediately assumes the traits of whomever he's with at the moment; put him in a room full of Chinese people and he'll turn into a Chinese man, move him to a room full of Hasidim and he'll suddenly appear to be Hasidic, and [...]

There are now six songs* available online from Slash's Slash, his forthcoming sort-of-but-not-really solo debut (as though Slash's Snakepit wasn't a solo band) that I care far too much about. If you include bonus tracks, that's actually more than a full third of the album; if you don't include bonus track, it's (obviously) even more. So [...]