Description
Guns N’ Roses is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1985, as the result of a merger between local bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band’s “classic” line-up consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler.
Their debut album Appetite for Destruction (1987), supported by the eponymous tour, failed to gain traction, debuting at number 182 on the Billboard 200, until a year after its release when a grassroots campaign for the “Welcome to the Jungle” music video brought the band mainstream popularity. “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City” both became top 10 singles, with “Sweet Child o’ Mine” becoming the band’s only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album has sold approximately 30 million copies worldwide, including 18 million units in the United States, making it the country’s best-selling debut album and eleventh-best-selling album. With their stylistic mix of punk rock, blues rock and heavy metal, the band helped move mainstream rock away from the glam metal era of the mid-late 1980s. In addition, they are credited with revitalizing power ballads in rock. Their next studio album, G N’ R Lies (1988) combined an early EP, Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide (1986), with new acoustic songs and reached number two on the Billboard 200, sold ten million copies worldwide (including five million in the U.S.), and included the top 5 hit “Patience” and the controversial “One in a Million”. Adler was fired due to his drug addiction in 1990 and was replaced by Matt Sorum.
The band’s third and fourth albums, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, recorded and released simultaneously in 1991, debuted at number two and number one on the Billboard 200 respectively and have sold a combined 35 million copies worldwide (including 14 million units in the U.S.). The Illusion albums included the lead single “You Could Be Mine”, covers of “Live and Let Die” and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, and a trilogy of ballads (“Don’t Cry”, “November Rain”, and “Estranged”), which featured notably high-budget music videos. The records were supported by the Use Your Illusion Tour, a world tour that lasted from 1991 to 1993 and was amongst the most-attended concert tours of all time.
my collection of Guns N Roses tones for this wonderful Quad Cortex
my tones for
Paradise City (clean and drive)
Sweet Child Of Mine
Welcome To The Jungle
November Rain
Knockin On Heavens Door
You Could Be Mine
demos from Youtube below, recorded totally direct!
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The music of Guns N Roses is available to buy and stream from all the best retailers and music services. The track and album names and images are the property of the band, these are just my tones made to play along.
