Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses (sometimes abbreviated as GN'R or GNR) is an American hard rock ^{Rock music} band. The band formed in Hollywood ^{Hollywood, Los Angeles, California} , Los Angeles, California in 1985. Led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.), the band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album while going through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation.

The band has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide,

In March 2009, the band's website announced that DJ Ashba would substitute for Robin Finck on an "upcoming tour", though the statement was later removed. This led to a lot of rumors about a tour, which eventually would become the Chinese Democracy World Tour 2009/2010 ^{Chinese Democracy Tour Series} .

On January 16, 2010, at Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Mike Smith ^{Mike Smith (actor)} , also known as Bubbles ^{Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys character)} , joined the band to perform "Liquor & Whores" for 9,000 fans.

On January 19, 2010, the band played at Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon. This show marked the first time since 2007 that the song "Paradise City" was not played in the encore, instead being played right before.

On February 4, 2010, at Halifax Metro Centre, Mike Smith again with other Trailer Park Boys cast members, including John Dunsworth, J.P. Tremblay, Robb Wells and Jonathon Torrens, performed "Liquor & Whores" with the band for the encore.
Music video director Dale Resteghini announced that he had been hired by Rose to document and shoot stills for the band's current South American tour. According to a press release from Adrenaline PR (Rage's publicists), Axl wanted to make some videos later in the year in support of Chinese Democracy, on the same grand scope and style of classics such as "November Rain".

On March 13, 2010, the band played at Palestra Itália Stadium for 40,000 fans in São Paulo. Axl Rose was hit by a bottle of water during "Chinese Democracy ^{Chinese Democracy (song)} ". He stopped the show for a minute and screamed:



On March 14, 2010, a concert booked in Rio de Janeiro was canceled due to a tornado that broke both laterals of the stage. This concert was almost rescheduled for the next day, but the engineers could not build another stage in such short time. Later the concert was confirmed and rescheduled to April 4, 2010, and took place in the same venue, Apoteose Stadium, for over 30,000 fans. Unfortunately, some fans who came from other cities and had to leave due to the stage collapse on March 14 and could not attend the rescheduled concert and were therefore compensated.

In Lima, March 25, 2010, Axl Rose was hit by a bottle again in the very beginning, after being late for almost 2 hours. He stopped the show just like in São Paulo, but used an interpreter to threaten the crowd. Axl said:



After the incident, they kept playing for the 30,000 fans at Explanada Sur del Estadio Monumental ^{Estadio Monumental "U"} .

In San Jose, Costa Rica, on April 9, 2010, the day of the concert, the show was canceled due to safety issues with the stage. Hailed in the media as a "stage collapse," and with only a short time to rebuild the stage, the show was canceled. An attempt to reschedule the gig was made after the cancellation of a concert in Guatemala, but that fell through as well. At the time the makeup date was canceled, construction of a stage was already underway at a venue in La Guacima. In the end, both Costa Rica's and Guatemala's shows were canceled, and the band moved on to the final show of the Central American tour leg in Puerto Rico.

On April 16, 2010, Live Nation Norway announced that the European leg of Guns N' Roses 2010 Chinese Democracy tour would start in Bergen, Norway, with a second show in Oslo. Several days later, on April 19, an announcement from Russian promoter SAV Entertainment heralded the first ever Guns N' Roses show in Russia, with a date in Moscow. In addition, the promoter released a promotional poster which also listed the June dates of Guns N' Roses upcoming European tour, featuring an ever first Russian show in St. Petersburg, which took place on June, 6.
In May 2010, Axl Rose filed a $5 million lawsuit against former manager Irving Azoff, saying that Azoff sabotaged sales of Guns N’ Roses’ comeback album and lied about a potential “super tour” with Van Halen (which Azoff manages) as part of a plan to force Rose to reunite with his estranged former band members. Rose said in his suit that Azoff failed to promote his 2008 album, “Chinese Democracy,” and deliberately mishandled concert dates, “forcing Rose into a position where he would have no choice but to reunite with the original members of Guns N’ Roses for a reunion tour.”

Guns N' Roses headlined the Friday night at Reading Festival 2010 and closed Leeds Festival two days later. Guns N' Roses were 58 minutes late coming on to the stage and because of a curfew issued by Reading Council their set had to end at midnight. This meant that they could not complete their set engaging in attempting to play Paradise City without amplification with the audience singing along. Axl Rose orchestrated fan frustration toward the organizers, telling fans that they would not play at the Leeds Festival.
On 1 September 2010 in Dublin, the band was 90 minutes late arriving on stage. Axl suddenly stopped the band in the middle of the second song, Welcome to the Jungle, and warned the crowd that if any more water bottles were thrown on stage, the band would leave. After the fourth song, a bottle was thrown on stage. The band departed the stage. A PA announced that 'technical difficulties' were being experienced which caused more booing. After 15 minutes the lights went up as thousands milled around, with many leaving. Unexpectedly, after 40 minutes the band re-appeared and Axl completed the set either standing or sitting, but refused to engage with the crowd other than to introduce the band members.
On 14 September 2010 in Paris, Guns N' Roses played a "surprise" acoustic gig at the L'Arc restaurant and bar, similar to gigs stateside earlier in the year, a day after their Paris concert. The show featured both classic Guns tunes and several cuts from Chinese Democracy, including the seldom-played Catcher in the Rye.

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In an MTV phone interview with Kurt Loder in 1999, Rose said he and the then-new band had recorded enough material for a double album. In an informal chat with Rolling Stone magazine in February 2006, Rose stated the band had 32 songs in the works. While appearing on various fan message boards in December 2008 (after the release of Chinese Democracy, which was released in November of that year), he stated several working titles for a possible future album. Amongst the working titles confirmed: "Elvis Presley and the Monster of Soul" ("Soul Monster", formerly known as "Leave Me Alone"), "Atlas Shrugged", "Seven", "The General", "Thyme", "Ides of March", "Berlin" (formerly "Oklahoma"), "Zodiac", "Quick Song", and "Down by the Ocean"(co-written by original member Izzy Stradlin). During the chat, he mentioned the bridge of "Soul Monster" as the band's "most Black Sabbath" moment, and referred to it as "the meanest section of anything I've sung to date."

  The music of Guns N' Roses is a fusion of punk rock, blues-rock, heavy metal ^{traditional heavy metal} and hard rock. AC/DC, The Rolling Stones,

Also, Guns N 'Roses has influenced many bands such as Marilyn Manson, Bullet for My Valentine, Limp Bizkit, X-Japan, Kid Rock, Buckcherry, Avenged Sevenfold, Tool ^{Tool (band)} , Crashdiet among many others.Guns N' Roses signed with a major label within eight months of their inception and topped national sales charts weeks after garnering late hours airplay on MTV. Appetite for Destruction is the highest-selling debut album of all time.

The band has not been free of criticism. The flagrant alcohol and drug abuse by some members of the group, and Axl's fondness for Charles Manson T-shirts, were used by the media to portray Guns N' Roses as a poor example and negative influence on their young fans. The long periods of time that the band took to release albums were also a source of heavy criticism (the band's second album, G N' R Lies, was actually an EP packaged with another older EP, and one of the songs was an acoustic version of a song from their debut album.) It took from 1987 to 1991 to come up with a proper follow up to Appetite for Destruction, and it took over 15 years to release Chinese Democracy. Their late appearances and "war" with Reading and Leeds festival (2010) was criticized by other artists.;Current members
*Axl Rose – lead vocals ^{Lead vocalist} , piano (1985–present)
*Dizzy Reed – keyboards ^{Keyboard instrument} , piano, synthesizer, backing vocals ^{Backing vocalist} (1990–present)
*Tommy Stinson – bass guitar, backing vocals ^{Backing vocalist} (1998–present)
*Chris Pitman – keyboards ^{Keyboard instrument} , programming ^{Programming (music)} , backing vocals ^{Backing vocalist} (1998–present)
*Richard Fortus – rhythm & lead guitars (2002–present)
*Frank Ferrer – drums ^{Drum kit} , percussion ^{Percussion instrument} (2006–present)
*Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal – lead & rhythm guitars (2006–present)
*DJ Ashba – lead & rhythm guitars (2009–present)*Appetite for Destruction (1987)
*G N' R Lies (1988)
*Use Your Illusion I (1991)
*Use Your Illusion II (1991)
*"The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993)
*Chinese Democracy (2008)