John Atkin reflects on Sunday @ Download as Guns n’ Roses headlined the festival with their appetite for self-destruction turning into a masterclass.
There’s a moment when it all hangs in the balance.
For 30 minutes, Guns ‘n Roses have singed the eyebrows and eardrums of the Download crowd. After being over an hour late on stage […]

Guns N’ Roses Live Era ‘87-’93 Review
How great were Guns N’ Roses? Great enough to write a line like “She’s got eyes of the bluest skies / As if they thought of rain.” Great enough to make those wusses Poison wear cowboy hats. Great enough to kill off the opposition. When Axl Rose retired his […]

Guitar - September 1998
by Katherine Turman
Paradise City?
In the decade since the phenomenal Appetite For Destruction, life after Guns ain’t been Rose-y. But band alums Duff, Izzy, Slash, and Gilby know the show must go on.
It’s been a dozen years since Guns N’ Roses’ incendiary brand of raucous, street-level rock and commensurate behavior first infiltrated the […]

Icon Magazine - October 1997
by Nick Kent
Who’s Afraid of Axl Rose?
“Yesterday’s got nothing for me,” sang Axl Rose on 1991’s Use Your Illusion II. Six years later, Slash is out, Rose owns the Guns N’ Roses name, and there’s no smoking allowed in the Los Angeles studio where Rose is […]

Guitar - March, 1996
by HP Newquist
Lawyers, Guns And… Roses?
Guitarist Gilby Clarke is suing his former bandmates in Guns N’ Roses for commercial misappropriation of his name, likeness, photograph, voice, and performance. Clarke replaced Izzy Stradlin’ (remember him?) in 1991 to tour behind the Use Your Illusions albums, and played on The Spaghetti Incident? He is […]