GARDEN OF EDEN

GUNS N' ROSES TIME TRIP

This great idea was taken from another great Guns n' Roses Site called Unofficial Uzi Suicide Page.

Here you'll find the most important dates for Gn'R FANS

1960:

November 19 - Birth of Matt Sorum.

1962:

February 6 - Birth of Axl Rose (William Bruce Rose).

1963:

April 8 - Birth of Dizzy Reed.

1964:

February 5 - Birth of Duff "Rose" McKagan (Michael McKagan).

1965:

July 23 - Birth of Slash (Saul Hudson).

January 22 - Birth of Steven "Popcorn" Adler.

1984/1985:

Guns n' Roses evolve from two Los Angeles Bands , "Hollywood Rose" and "LA Guns".

1985:

June - Slash & Steve of ROAD CREW join in time for Guns n' Roses brief "Hell Tour"- first gigs by the "classic" line up.

1986:

August - Guns n' Roses sign to Geffen Records.

December - Guns n' Roses release their Live?!#@ Like A Suicide EP, in a limited edition of 10,000 vinyl copies, on Uzi Suicide Records )a pseudo-independent imprint created by Geffen for the band).

1987:

June - The band fly to London for their European debut, three (non-consecutive) nights at the Marquee club.

August - Appetite For Destruction released.

November - Guns N' Roses return to the UK for a five-date headlining tour.

1988:

August - Third European visit, to play Monsters Of Rock At Castle Donington in the UK. Tragically, two fans are killed in the crush in front of the stage.

December  - Guns N' Roses Lies-The Sex, The Drugs, The Violence, The Shocking Truth is released with four new acoustic tracks plus the four tracks from Live?!#@ Like A Suicide.

1989:

October - The band play four packed gigs with the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Colliseum.

1990:

April - The band play the Farm Aid concert and recruit Dizzy Reed, the first 'new' member of Guns N' Roses, to play keyboards.

August - Ex-Cult drummer Matt Sorum is recruited.

1991:

July - Guns N' Roses find themselves in the middle of a riot at the Riverport Arts Centre in St. Louis and a warrant is issued for Axl's arrest for inciting it.

August - The band play European stadium gigs for a month.

September - The band finally release Use Your Illusion I & II. Izzy Stradlin is rumoured to have quit the band only days later.

October - Steven Adler files legal proceedings against Guns N' Roses.

November - Izzy's departure made official.

1992:

April 6 - Guns N' Roses appear at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert For AIDS Awareness.

May - Slash and Metallica's Lars Ulrich announce a joint summer tour of America, before Guns N' Roses play another serious of European dates.

July - Guns N' Roses and Metallica begin their 25-date US tour.

August - A riot follows a disrupted Guns N' Roses set in Montreal, Canada.

October - Izzy releases his first solo album Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds.

November - Guns N' Roses tour South America.

December - Guns N' Roses release two concert videos: Use Your Illusion World Tour and Live In Tokyo Volumes I & II.

1993:

January - Pacific tour covers Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

February - American touring continues, with a slimmed-down line-up and a new title 'Skin And Bones'.

May - Izzy Stradlin briefly rejoins the band for European dates including gigs in the UK, Greece and Israel.

July - The world touring finally ends with a return to Brazil.

September - The band settle their legal differences with Steven Adler, with a $2.5 million out-of-court payment.

October - Duff McKagan releases Believe In Me, a solo album recorded during the band's world tour.

November - The punk EP is finally released as a full-length album of varied cover-versions, called "The Spaghetti Incident?".

1994:

Guns N' Roses release the single to the Rolling Stones cover Sympathy For The Devil, it appeared on the movie Interview With The Vampire.

- Gilby releases his first solo album Pawnshop Guitars.

1995:

- Slash releases his first solo album Slash's Snakepit.

1996:

- Duff and Matt release a self-titled album in the band called Neurotic Outsiders.

1997:

- Gilby releases his second solo album The Hangover.

1998: 

- Izzy releases his second solo album 117?.

February 10 - Axl is arrested in a Pheonix airport for "disorderly conduct".

- Duff releases a self-titled album for the first band he was ever in, 10 Minute Warning.

September - Gilby releases his third solo album, "Rubber".

1999:

- Gilby releases new album called Live '99 

November 30 - Guns n' Roses releases Double Live CD-set called "LIVE ERA '87-'93".

Most of this dates were taken from Guns n' Roses Illustrated Book by Bill Bateman.