Guns N' Roses released their first EP in , which led to a contract with Geffen; the following year, the band released its debut album, Appetite for Destruction. They started to build a following with their numerous live shows, but the album didn't start selling until almost a year later, when MTV started playing "Sweet Child O' Mine. Their debut single, "Welcome to the Jungle," was re-released and shot into the Top Ten, and "Paradise City" followed in its footsteps.
G N' R Lies ' inflammatory closer, "One in a Million," sparked intense controversy, as Rose slipped into misogyny, bigotry, and pure violence; essentially, he somehow managed to distill every form of prejudice and hatred into one five-minute tune. Guns N' Roses began work on the long-awaited follow-up to Appetite for Destruction at the end of In October of that year, the band fired Adler , claiming that his drug dependency caused him to play poorly; he was replaced by Matt Sorum from the Cult.
During recording, the band added Dizzy Reed on keyboards. By the time the sessions were finished, the new album had become two new albums. Messy but fascinating, the albums showcased a more ambitious band; while there were still a fair number of full-throttle guitar rockers, there were stabs at Elton John -style balladry, acoustic blues, horn sections, female backup singers, ten-minute art rock epics with several different sections, and a good number of introspective, soul-searching lyrics.
In short, they were now making art; amazingly, they were successful at it. The albums sold very well initially, but while they had seemed destined to set the pace for the decade to come, that turned out not to be the case at all. Nirvana 's Nevermind hit number one in early , suddenly making Guns N' Roses -- with all of their pretensions, impressionistic videos, models, and rock star excesses -- seem very uncool. Rose handled the change by becoming a dictator, or at least a petty tyrant; his in-concert temper tantrums became legendary, even going so far as to incite a riot in Montreal.
Stradlin left by the end of , and with his departure the band lost its best songwriter; he was replaced by ex- Kills for Thrills guitarist Gilby Clarke. GNR didn't fully grasp the shift in hard rock until , when they released an album of punk covers, The Spaghetti Incident?
By the middle of , there were rumors flying that GNR were about to break up, since Rose wanted to pursue a new, more industrial direction and Slash wanted to stick with their blues-inflected hard rock. Hollywood Rose. It was Axl and Izzy. He was his friend from Bancroft Middle School.
They lost touch for a few years after that but then Steven eventually wound up playing drums in Road Crew. And then Duff was in Road Crew for, like, a week, when he first got into town from Seattle. As a punk kid from Seattle, it was total culture shock. Of course I knew about, like, Eddie Van Halen and that kind of guitar playing. So I thought he was a punk rock guy like me. I called him up, we talked on the phone, totally cool guy. Even if they had a fucking guitar player like Slash.
Marc Canter: Slash could never find a singer that was good enough to start playing real gigs at the Troubadour and stuff like that. So he realized he was going to have to pluck one out of a band that was already established. And Rose was already playing gigs, or Hollywood Rose — I guess it kind of went back and forth between the names. I think it was a battle of the bands, it was like a dollar to get in and Rose only played three songs.
All I remember is Axl was good and Izzy was good. Tracii Guns: My manager, this guy Raz, fired our singer Mike Jagosz because he was being a dummy or something. And then I just hit up Axl. Guns for a while? Marc Canter: I went to see L. Guns when they were opening up for London at the Troubadour. Duff McKagan: I saw that show at the Troubadour. Slash took me. I saw him before the show, like, stretching out in his little short dolphin shorts, not talking to anybody, super intense.
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