Guns n' Roses

March, 1985 - Axl, Tracii and Izzy decides to start playing together.The band calls themselves 
Guns N' Roses (they rejected the names Heads Of Amazon and AIDS). Rob Gardner becomes their
 drummer. Duff joins the band and the line-up looks like this: 
W. Axl Rose (vocals)
Izzy Stradlin (guitar)
Tracii Guns (guitar)
Duff McKagan (bass)
Rob Gardner (drums)


June 6, 1985 - Duff had some connections in Seattle and booked gigs for the band. Tracii and Rob 
wasn't interested so Duff asked Axl if they could play the gigs with Slash and Steven. Axl agreed.

The line-up: 
W. Axl Rose (vocals)
Slash (lead guitars)
Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar)
Duff McKagan (bass)
Steven Adler (drums)

GN'R rehearsed for a couple of days and started The Hell Tour. The trip to Seattle wasn't a success. 
After driving 100 miles their car broke down.They had to hitchhike and when they arrived in Seattle no 
one cared aboutthem. Most of the shows had been cancelled and they only got $50 a show instead of 
the promised $250. Their first gig of the first tour was atthe Omni Room (The Fastbacks opened). 
Only 13 people saw the show.
GN'R went back to Los Angeles and continued to rehearse. Their "home"on Sunset Boulevard was 
called The Hell House. They hadn't money sothey lived on cheap wine and biscuits. Sometimes 
they stole money from the girls that visited the Hell House. 

Fall 1985 - GN'R plays the clubs in L.A. and record demos. The first L.A. gig was at the Troubadour. 

Late 1985 - Early 1986 - Guns N' Roses played LA clubs like the Whiskey A Go-Go, the Roxy,
 the Water Club, the Troubadour and Scream. The sets used to begin with an intro tape of 
"What's That Noise"by the Stormtroopers Of Death. GN'R played early versions of originalsongs 
like "Welcome To The Jungle", "Reckless Life", "It's So Easy" and"Don't Cry". By the end of 1985
 the band had 
already written fourteen original songs. The band had to play covers to keep the club audienceshappy.
 They played songs by Aerosmith ("Mama Kin"), Elvis Presley
("Heartbreak Hotel") and The Rolling Stones ("Jumping Jack Flash"). 

March 25, 1986 - GN'R signs with Geffen Records. Later the bandstarts to record their album at
 Rumbo Studios, but nothing gets done.Slash is having problems with drugs. He has to make a
 decision, drugs or the band. He choses the band, after all they were his only friends. 

August, 1986 - Alan Niven is hired as GN'R's manager. Tim Collins (Aerosmith's manager) was
 interested, but after the boys ordered drinks on his hotel bill, he changed his mind.
GN'R begin recording the songs that became " Appetite For Destruction". 

December, 1986 - The recording of "Appetite For Destruction"was finished and the mixing started.
 Geffen planned to release the recordin July 1987. 

December, 1986 - Geffen releases a four song EP called "Live ?!'@Like A Suicide" on GN'R's own 
Uzi Suicide label. 10,000 copies of the EP is released. It starts of with a roadie screaming "Hey fuckers,
 suck on Guns and f**king Roses!". 

June 15, 1987 - "It's So Easy" and "Mr. Brownstone" released by Geffen. 

June 19, 22 & 29, 1987 - The band makes their European debut at the London Marquee. The first 
show is a disaster. The first show was ona Friday night and the crowd was very drunk. The press
 didn't help GN'R much by printing all kinds of sensational stories about them. A headline in the Star: 
A rock band even nastier than the Beastie Boys is heading for Britain!

GN'R's last show at the Marquee was the best of these three. The audience enjoyed the covers 
(AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" and Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door") and GN'R played
 better than on the two first shows. 

July 31, 1987 - "Appetite For Destruction" is released by Geffen Records. The record was produced 
by Mike Clink who had been working with Ozzy Osbourne and Heart. The cover art featured a painting
 by Robert Williams which got censored.

August 1 & 2, 1987 - GN'R's first video, "Welcome To The Jungle", is shot at Park Plaza & 450 S. 
La Brea, Hollywood.

August - September, 1987 - On tour in the US opening for The Cult.

September, 30 - October 8, 1987 - Shows in Europe plus a five date UK tour with Faster Pussycat. 
This tour was originally going to be headlined by Aerosmith, but they pulled out at the last minute. 

After the European shows the band returns to tour in the US.

End of 1987 - Tour with Motley Crue. During this tour Slash and Steven Adler saved the life of 
Motley Crue's bassist Nikki Sixx who had overdosed on drugs.

Early 1988 - The band entered Rumbo Studios with producer Mike Clink to record a couple of 
acoustic songs ("Patience", "Used To Love Her", "One In A Million", "Cornchucker" and a reworking 
of "You're Crazy").These songs were intended to be used as B-sides or possibly an EP.

January - March, 1988 - First headlining tour of America. Axl walked out of the band, but three days
 later he was back.

April 11, 1988 - The band shoots the video for "Sweet Child O' Mine" at Ballroom, Huntington Park, 
CA.

April 23?, 1988 - "Appetite For Destruction" enters the Billboard Top 10.

May - June, 1988 - On tour with Iron Maiden. The two bands didn'tget along very well. GN'R was the
 most popular band of the two. GN'R
thought that they should headline instead of Iron Maiden. At the end of the tour Axl had problems
 with his throat. GN'R canceled the rest of the tour, but that didn't stop the rest of the guys from 
stepping on-stage and with jamming with LA Guns, who were hired to replace GN'R.

May, 1988 - Duff married his girlfriend Mandy. 

June, 1988 - According to Slash, the band had already written lots of new songs. Two of them were
 "Perfect Crime" and "You Could Be Mine"
The band planned to go into the studio in October, November and have a new album out 
sometime in mid-1989.

July, 1988 - The Japanese tour is cancelled in order to give Axl's voice a proper chance to recuperate.

July 23, 1988 - "Appetite For Destruction" reaches #1 on the Billboard charts.

August, 1988 - GN'R is hired to open for Aerosmith.

August 15 & 16, 1988 - The footage for the "Paradise City" video is shot at Giants Stadium, New
 Jersey. It was directed entirely by phone
and headset by Nigel Dick.

August 20, 1988 - The Monsters Of Rock at Castle Donington, England. The German band Helloween
 started the festival at one o'clock in
the afternoon. An hour later GN'R stepped on-stage. The crowd started to move towards the stage.
 Despite stopping the show three times during their set two fans fell and were crushed to death.

August - September, 1988 - The tour with Aerosmith.

September, 1988 - The band performs "Welcome To The Jungle" at MTV's Video Music Awards.

Slash and Steven join Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Billy Idol and Tommy Lee for the taping of
 Sam Kinison's remake of "Wild Thing". The boys are seen in the video.

November 17, 1988 - GN'R make the cover of Rolling Stone.

December 6, 1988 - Geffen Records releases "GN'R Lies". It was originally going to be called "Lies!
 The Sex, The Drugs, The Violence,
The Shocking Truth", but someone at Geffen noticed that the name wastoo long. So they
 changed it to "GN'R Lies". The album includes the four tracks from "Live ?!'@ Like A Suicide" plus
 four acoustic tracks.
A couple of lines in "One In A Million" draws negative publicity to the band.

When Lies went to number two on the Billboard Chart, the band became the only artist with two 
albums in the top five at the same time in the
1980s.

According to Duff the acoustic tracks were recorded one night in the studio when they were drunk!

During December the band played in Japan and Australia.

February 18 & 19, 1989 - The "Patience" video, which was the only one from "GN'R Lies", is shot 
at The Record Plant and at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.

February, 1989 - Despite the controversy surrounding "One In A Million", "GN'R Lies" hits the Top 5.
 Guns N' Roses becomes the first band in 15 years to have two records in the US Top 5 simultaneously. 

During the same month Duff and Steven joins Steve Lukather of Toto, plus lots of other musicians, 
at the Roxy in Los Angeles to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Beatles' appearance on The Ed 
Sullivan Show.

Slash and Steven performs "Paranoid" with Ozzy Osbourne at his show at Irvine Meadows.

March, 1989 - "Paradise City" becomes GN'R's first UK Top 10 single.

June, 1989 - "Patience" becomes a Top 4 single.

July, 1989 - Axl and West Arkeen performs early versions of "The Garden" and "Yesterdays" at the 
Scrap Bar. MTV is there and they use
some of the footage in the GN'R Rockumentary.

August 21, 1989 - Slash joins Great White at Reebok Riverstage in Manhattan to perform "Jumping 
Jack Flash".

August, 1989 - Izzy is arrested for making a public disturbance (he urinated on the floor, verbally
 abused a stewardess and smoked in the
non-smoking section) on a US Air flight.

Axl visits Michael Monroe's video shoot at a New York studio.

?????, 1989 - Duff, Slash and Steven goes to Chicago for three months. They start to work on the
 next record, but nothing gets done because Axl and Izzy didn't show up in Chicago.

September 11, 1989 - GN'R wins "Best Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Video" for "Sweet Child O' Mine" 
at the MTV VMA's. Axl and Izzy joins
Tom Petty for the singer's hit "Free Fallin'".

Backstage Vince Neil (Motley Crue) punched Izzy in the face. As Izzy andAlan Niven walked off 
the lit stage into the darkness of the backstage area,Neil jumped out of the crowd and sucker-punched
 Izzy. Izzy's lip was cutby Neil's ring, but he was otherwise unhurt.

October 10 & 11, 1989 - The video for "It's So Easy" is shot at The Cathouse in LA. It was directed 
by Nigel Dick. Unfortenately, GN'R
never released it.

October 18, 19, 21 & 22, 1989 - GN'R opens for the Rolling Stones at the LA Coliseum. Axl
 threatened to quit if certain members of
the band didn't stop "dancing with Mr. Brownstone". Slash, Izzy and Steven promised
 to clean up.

December 19, 1989 - Axl and Izzy joins the Rolling Stones for a version of "Salt Of The Earth"

January 22, 1990 - Slash and Duff appears at the American Music Awards. Slash livens things up by 
uttering four-letter words during his
acceptance speech.

April 7, 1990 - Guns N' Roses appears at the fourth Farm Aid in Indianapolis. The set includes a first 
performance of "Civil War" and a
cover of the UK Subs' "Down On The Farm".

April, 1990 - Slash and Duff records with Iggy Pop. The album is called "Brick By Brick". They can
 also be seen in the video for the track
"Home".

A keyboardist called Dizzy Reed (realname Darren, born June 18, 1963)joins the band.

Duff got divorced from Mandy.

April 28, 1990 - Axl marries Erin Everly in Las Vegas. They divorce later that year.

June 26, 1990 - The band's version of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" is released on 
the "Days Of Thunder" soundtrack.

July 24, 1990 - The first original GN'R track since "GN'R Lies", "Civil War", appears on a benefit
 album called "Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal".

July?, 1990 - Steven Adler is fired. The band made an agreement with Steven which said that if he
 didn't stop taking drugs he was out. When
this didn't help, he was fired.

His replacement is Matt Sorum (born November 19, 1960). Matt's band before GN'R was The Cult.

September, 1990 - 36 songs recorded and GN'R started to think about the album title. GN'R Sucks
 and BUY Product were two of the
titles, but finally they decided to call the album Use Your Illusion. Axl took the name from a painting
 by Mark Kostabi.

The next problem was the format of the next GN'R release. The 36 songs wouldn't fit on one CD. 
GN'R wanted to release a box with four CDs. Geffen said no, it would be too expensive for the fans.
 Finally they agreed to release two CDs on the same day, plus a CD later.

October, 1990 - Black Crowes play at the Marquee in New York City. They are joined onstage by
 Slash for the first of three encores, "It's A
Sin".

October 30, 1990 - Axl is arrested in West Hollywood for allegedly assaulting his neighbor with a 
wine bottle. 

January 20 & 23, 1991 - Matt Sorum and Dizzy Reed made their concert debuts for GN'R at the Rock
 In Rio II festival in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Three minutes before Matt goes onstage in front of 140.000 people, they tell him that he's
 gotta do a drum solo. And he pulled it off!

The band played on two nights to a total of 260.000 people. 

1991 - Alan Niven was fired. Doug Goldstein became GN'R's new manager.

May, 1991 - Three warm-up shows were played in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

May 24, 1991 - GN'R kicked off their first ever world tour as headliners in East Troy, Wisconsin. 
Skid Row opened the shows.

July 2, 1991 - While the band played Riverport Performance Arts Centre, St. Louis, Axl spotted 
someone in the crowd taking pictures.
Security didn't respond to Axl's request to remove the person so he jumped into the crowd. When
 he returned to the stage he complained
about the security and left the stage. The rest of the band followed.

After this a riot broke out. GN'R wanted to continue the show, but they were adviced not to. The 
band lost their equipment and Axl was charged for inciting a riot.

July, 1991 - "You Could Be Mine" was the first single from the forthcoming " Use Your Illusion" 
albums. It also appeared in the movie Terminator 2 and Arnold Schwarzeneger appeared in the video. 

August 12, 1991 - GN'R and Skid Row arrives in Helsinki, Finland. Duff, Slash, Matt, Dizzy and Skid
 Row spends the night at the Tavastia
club where the Black Crowes were performing. 

August 13 & 14, 1991 - The "Get In The Ring Motherfucker"tour comes to Europe. The first two 
shows are been held at the Ice
Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. Again Skid Row opens for GN'R. Setlists forthe show on the 13th and 
14th. 

August 16 & 17, 1991 - GN'R performs at the Globe in Stockholm, Sweden. And yes, Guns N' Roses
 was front-page news. A
photographer from the Swedish newspaper, Expressen, took photographs(without permission) of the 
band while they were in the Daily News club.GN'R's bodyguards tried to stop the photographer, but 
they failed. The "prohibited" photo made it onto Expressen's first page! Expressen gave the shows five
 out of five. August 16th setlist.

August 19, 1991 - Show in Copenhagen, Denmark. The show went fine until somebody threw a 
firecracker onstage. Axl told the audience that they wouldn't continue the show until the idiot who
 did it turned himself in. After a 15-minute break the show continued.

August 24, 1991 - GN'R plays in Mannheim, Germany. This show included Nine Inch Nails and Skid
 Row as openers.

August 31, 1991 - After shows in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany (the show in Oslo, Norway 
was canceled) GN'R plays a show at
Wembley Stadium in London, England. Here's the setlist

September 16 & 17, 1991 - Use Your Illusion I and II are released. The albums debuted at number one 
and number two on the Billboard charts. They marked the first time a major contemporary rock artist
 had released two separate albums on the same day.

September,1991 - GN'R performs "Live And Let Die" at the MTV Video Music Awards. The 
performance was taken from the show in London.

October, 1991 - Steven Adler launched a lawsuit against the band. He claimed that GN'R were
 responsible for his drug addiction.

November 7, 1991 - Izzy Stradlin leaves GN'R. His replacement is Gilby Clarke (born August 17, 1962).
 Gilby, formerly of the band Kill For
Thrills, had been playing the same clubs as GN'R.

December 5, 1991 - February 1, 1992 - The second US leg of the tour. GN'R begins to use
 background vocals and horns. The expanded 12-piece line-up looks like this:

W. Axl Rose (lead vocals, piano)
Slash (lead guitar, backing vocals)
Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals)
Gilby Clarke (rhythm guitar, backing vocals)
Dizzy Reed (keyboards, percussion)
Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals)

Ted Andreadis (keyboards, harmonica, background vocals)
Diane Jones (background vocals)
Roberta Freeman (background vocals)
Tracy Amos (background vocals)

976-Horns: 

Lisa Maxwell (horns)
Cece Worrall (horns)
Anne King (horns)

February 19, 20 & 22 - GN'R plays shows in Japan. 

April 20, 1992 - GN'R performs at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness. They
 were originally going to play three
songs, but due to technical problems earlier in the show they only played two ("Paradise City" and 
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door"). Axl joined his hero, Elton John, for the duet of the night, 
"Bohemian Rhapsody". He also performed "We Will Rock You" with Queen.

May 12, 1992 - Slash and Metallica's Lars Ulrich announced that GN'R and Metallica would tour
 together in the summer.

May 14, 1992 - The band arrives in Dublin, Ireland on their private jet.

May 15, 1992 - Axl's smiling stubbled face makes the front page of the Irish Independent.

The rest of the band does a soundcheck at Slane Castle. It lasts for two hours.

May 16, 1992 - The show in Dublin. 800 police patrol the Slane Castle site. U2 sends a crate of 
40-year-old Irish whiskey and a barrel of
Guinness for the band. My Little Funhouse opens the show followed by Faith No More.

May 19, 1992 - GN'R flies to Prague, Czechoslovakia.

May 20, 1992 - Show at the Strahov Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia and first show in Europe with
 Soundgarden opening. An
MTV Europe crew interviews the band in the afternoon. The show starts with "Okay, you ex-Commie 
bastards, get ready to rock!".

May 22, 1992 - Show in Budapest, Hungary at the Nep Stadium. The bands plane arrives in Budapest
 just 20 minutes before the scheduled
showtime. The band is rushed to the stadium with a police escort.

Midway through the set Axl and Slash performs the Hungarian folk song "Tavasziszel". After two
 verses Axl lets the crowd take over for the third. It's the same song that Queen performed there in 1985.

May 23, 1992 - Show at the Donau Insel stadium in Vienna, Austria. U2 who are due to play there 
the next night are in attendance.

Axl and Bono join U2's accountant Osmond Kilkenny for his birthday party at a restaurant.

May 24, 1992 - The band goes to see the U2 show. Axl joins Bono onstage to perform an acoustic 
version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door".

May 25, 1992 - GN'R flies to Berlin.

May 26, 1992 - Show at the Berlin Olympic Stadium in front of 40,000 fans.

May 27, 1992 - Biggest show of the tour so far, 75.000 people at the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart,
 Germany.

The band is introduced with the phrase: "OK you beer swilling, Merc driving mugs....".

May 29, 1992 - Sell-out show at the Mungerdorferstadion in Cologne, Germany. GN'R performs 
"Perfect Crime" and "Rocket Queen" for the first time on this European tour. "So Fine" is performed 
for the second time ever.

GN'R play for 2 hours and 42 minutes, which makes this the longest show yet on this leg.

June 3, 1992 - After three days off, the band fly to Hannover to play at the Niedersachsen Stadium in 
front of a crowd of 60,000.

June 4, 1992 - GN'R arrives in Axl's favorite city, Paris. They check in at the luxurious Hotel De Crillon, 
overlooking the Place de la Concorde.

Later they meet up with Jeff Beck, Lenny Kravitz, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry who have flown in for the
 televised Paris show.

June 5, 1992 - Soundcheck and reheasal during the afternoon at the Hippodrome in the Bois de 
Vincennes.

In the evening the band's backline is transported to the Elysee Montmartre club where they 
continue to rehearse.

June 6, 1992 - PPV show in Paris, France in front of 58,000 people. The band is joined onstage by 
Lenny Kravitz for a version of "Always On
The Run". "Double Talkin' Jive" is dedicated to movie actor Warren Beatty. Steven Tyler and Joe 
Perry from Aerosmith joins the band to
perform the Yardbirds "Train Kept A-Rollin'" and Aerosmith's classic "Mama Kin".

June 7, 1992 - The band and entourage celebrate band manager Doug Goldstein and Jenny's second 
wedding anniversary at the River Cafe.

June 8, 1992 - Shopping and sightseeing in Paris. Axl goes to the Louvre to see his favorite statue, The
 Winged Victory, after which he takes
a boat trip on the Seine. Axl hasn't been sleeping and by late night he is in a state of complete physical
 exhaustion.

Doctors recommend that Axl takes 36 hours rest, the Manchester is postponed.

June 9, 1992 - The Manchester Maine Road show was postponed until June 14th. The band request 
that the production crew catering, as it's
not needed for the show be given to a local hospice.

Axl remains in Paris, the rest of the band fly to London.

June 10 - 12, 1992 - Three days off, the band and crew shop, dine out and meet old friends.

Axl flies in from Paris on the 11th. That same day the band (minus Axl) and crew take part in a softball
 game at the Bank Of England sports
ground.

On the 12th the band's UK booking agent John Jackson organises a fivehour go-karting championship
 in West London for the band and entourage.

June 13, 1992 - Brian May joins GN'R at Wembley Stadium in front of 72,000 people to perform 
"Tie Your Mother Down" and "We Will Rock You".

This show is regarded as the hottest show on the tour so far. During the show Axl has one 
trouble-making drunken fan removed from the crowd. Later he stops the show so that security can
 help a young girl, who hespots in distress at the front of the crowd.

June 14, 1992 - GN'R fly to Manchester for the rescheduled show. After the show the band fly back 
to London.

June 15, 1992 - Duff and Gilby go to the Townhouse recording studio in Shepherd's Bush to work 
on a track for Duff's solo album. Later Axl and Dizzy work on another song at a different studio.

June 16, 1992 - 25,000 people see GN'R at the Gateshead International Stadium in Newcastle. Duff
 had a verbal altercation with one
fan. After Axl's words of warning - "I wouldn't mess with him, he's not had a drink in two weeks!" -
 the fan piped down. After the show the band fly back to London to continue their stay at the exclusive 
Conrad Hotel, where fellow guests included Prince and INXS.

June 17, 1992 - Duff and his girlfriend Linda fly to St. Tropez in the south of France for a few days.

Slash stocks up on Dr. Marten boots and visits London Zoo.

Matt and Gilby go to Kensington Market.

June 18, 1992 - Dizzy's birthday. He celebrates in the evening by having his first ever taste of Indian 
food at the Bombay Brasserie with Matt.
Later he joins pop band Dee-Lite at their party in the Zatopke club in south London.

June 19, 1992 - Ted Andreadis' birthday. Late afternoon, the band fly to Frankfurt, Germany. Axl is 
pulled over by a security guard at Heathrow Airport, the second time staff there had singled him out 
for harassment,following GN'R's visit to London for the Freddie Mercury Tribute.

Following this latest incident, Axl issued a press statement in which he said: "Having just given what
 I consider to be the best performance I am capable of at this point in my career, I totally understand 
why someone in the UK would want to needlessly harass me in this way.

"I don't expect to be treated any differently from anyone else travelling in and out of Britain and I 
understand these people have a job to do.
However, to be singled out by someone who just wants to score a few points and have a story to
 tell his friends over a beer is really out of order."

June 20, 1992 - Show in Wurzburg, Germany. As GN'R approach the venue, the weather breaks and 
one of the worst storms in recent years
hits the site. 45,000 fans witness an astonishing show during which the lightning cannot be distinguished
 from the onstage pyrotechnincs. Within minutes both the crowd and the band are soaked to the skin.
 For a while, the steam rising from those packed at the front prevents those further back from even
 seeing the stage. No one can believe that GN'R will complete a full set, but theu do!

June 21, 1992 - Another sold-out show at the 50,000 capacity St Jakob Stadium in Basel, Switzerland.

Duff - starting to feel the effects of playing in the torrential downpour in Wurzburg - retires early to bed,
 with a temperature and signs of flu. Some band members venture out and sample the local bars.

June 22, 1992 - Being in Switzerland, Axl goes out and buys watches as surprise gifts for many of the
 entourage and management -who in the meantime have also stocked up on Swiss watches!

Duff's condition worsens and so he spends most of the day in bed hoping to recover for the next day's
 gig in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

As the evening draws in, Axl's also found to be suffering from a sore throat.

June 23, 1992 - The journey to Rotterdam is delayed whilst Axl and Duff receive medical treatment to 
ensure that they get through the show.
Axl is given further medication by a doctor who's waiting for him at the Rotterdam airport. The band
 finally go onstage at 10pm, two hours after Faith No More have completed their set. There is an 11pm 
curfew at the Feyenoord Stadium and as that time approaches, the local authorities tell the GN'R
 management that power will be cut at 11:30pm. Axl is made aware of this and concerned that the fans 
will be deprived of a full set, announces to the 48,00 crowd: "You have a right to a complete show. 
You paid for it.... If they cut the power, be my guests, do what you want." After much discussion 
backstage, the police decide to let the band play on until well after midnight.

However, Duff arrives at the night's hotel feeling considerably worse and on medical advice is forced
 to spend two days resting. The following night's show in Belgium has to be cancelled.

June 24, 1992 - Show canceled due to Duff's illness.

The band fly to Milan. Duff stays in his room. The Italian promoter takes everyone else out to one of 
the city's finest pasta restaurants.

June 25, 1992 - Slash, Gilby and Ted Andreadis films the video for Michael Jackson's 
"Give In To Me" with Jackson in Munich, Germany.

June 26, 1992 - Axl visits the showrooms of top Italian designers, Gianni Versace and Armani.

In the evening he dines with Versace's sister, Donatella, and her top model husband Paul Becak. 
Also at the table are supermodel Naomi Campbell and Axl's girlfriend Stephanie Seymour.

June 27, 1992 - Show in Turin at the Della Alpi Stadium in front of 65,000 fans.

After the show, GN'R and entourage travel to San Remo, their base for the next couple of days.

June 28, 1992 - The band rent a 180-foot luxury motor cruiser to celebrate Duff and Linda's engagement.
 The day is spent swiming,
snorkeling, water-skiing, fishing and attempting to master the jet skis.

June 29, 1992 - Still on the cruiser. Members of the band wake themselves up by high-diving 60 feet 
off the top deck into the Mediterranean. The cruiser returns to San Remo in the late afternoon.

June 30, 1992 - GN'R drive to hours to Genova. From Genova they fly to Sevilla, Spain. The gig has 
no curfew to obey so the band delay their
start until darkness so that the lightshow can be seen in full. The gig ends in the early hours of the 
morning.

July 1, 1992 - Some members of the band take a special private guided tour of the World Exposition 
site, others go shopping.

In the evening news reaches the management that the authorities have closed the Vicente Caldaron
 stadium in Madrid. The concrete fabric of the building has been badly effected by aluminosis. A
 search for an alternative venue begins.

July 2 - 3, 1992 - On such a short notice an alternative venue is impossible to be found. The last date 
in Europe has to be cancelled.

July 4, 1992 - The show at the Vicente Caldaron stadium in Madrid, Spain is canceled.

July 12, 1992 - Axl is arrested at the JFK airport in New York, NY. The reason for the arrest is the 
riot in St. Louis,MI in 1991.

July 17, 1992 - The co-headline tour with Metallica starts at the RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. 

July 29, 1992 - Midway through the show at Giant Stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey Axl encounters 
severe pain in his throat but continues to (almost) fininsh the show.

During the last song, "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", he is hit in the genitals by a cigarette lighter thrown
 from the crowd with considerable force. Axl retires backstage to regain his breath, so Duff has to take
 over on vocals.

July 30, 1992 - Axl is diagnosed as having sustained severe damage to his vocal chords, three shows -
 in Boston, MA, Columbia, SC and
Minneapolis, MN are rescheduled.

August 8, 1992 - Tour resumes at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada. During Metallica's set 
James Hetfield is injured by a onstage
pyrotechnic. His left arm is badly burnt and Metallica has to stop their show. During GN'R's set Axl 
stops the show and leaves the stage. Before he and the band return, a riot breaks out.

August 25, 1992 - With Hetfield recovered the tour resumes at the International Raceway in Phoenix, 
Arizona. Seven shows had to be
rescheduled as a result of Hetfield's injuries.

Axl has overcome his vocal chord and arytenoid inflammation problems. GN'R spent much of the 
downtime in L.A. shooting a couple of music
videos.

September 7, 1992 - Rescheduled show in Columbia, South Carolina at the Willimas Brice
 Stadium.

September 11, 1992 - Rescheduled show in Boston, MA at the Foxboro Stadium.

September 15, 1992 - Rescheduled show in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Metrodome.

September 21, 1992 - Faith No More leaves the tour to fulfil prior headline touring commitments.

Following their tour-debut at shows in Kansas City and Denver last week, Body Count are announced 
to be taking over the slot for two of the
remaining five shows. Motorhead are also added to the bill for three gigs.

September, 1992 - GN'R performs at MTV's Video Music Awards. Elton John joins the band to 
perform "November Rain".

Backstage Axl exchanged some words with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. According to Michael 
Azerrad's book "Come As You Are The Story Of Nirvana" Courtney asked Axl if he wanted to be the
 godfather of their child. Axl said " You shut your bitch up or I'm taking you down to the pavement!"
 to Kurt. Kurt glared at Courtney and said "Shut up, bitch!". The Nirvana entourage exploded in 
laughter.

September 24, 1992 - Show in Oakland, California at the Oakland Stadium with Bodycount.

September 27, 1992 - Show at The Coliseum in Los Angeles with Motorhead.

September 30, 1992 - Show at the Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, CA with Body Count opening..

October 3, 1992 - Show Pasadena, California at the Rose Bowl - with Motorhead.

October 6, 1992 - Last show on the GN'R/Metallica tour in Seattle, WA at the Kingdome.

October, 1992 - Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds releases their debut album on Geffen Records. 

November 25, 1992 - Caracas, Venezuela. In the absence of a suitable venue, the show is palyed
 outside one (!) in a parking lot in front of
45,000. The biggest show ever staged in Venezuela.

November 26, 1992 - The entourage leave Venezuela in the evening, just hours before the country was
 thrown into turmoil by an
air-based military coup. In the ensuing chaos, only one of the band's cargo planes is able to take off. 
Over half of their equipment and several crew members are left stranded.

November 27, 1992 - GN'R arrive in Colombia for two scheduled shows at El Campin Stadium in 
Bogota. But with much of the equipment
still in Venezuela these shows are in jeopardy. Tickets for Saturday's show are made valid for Sunday. 
The two gigs are rolled into one.

GN'R origianlly offered to play a second show on Monday, but the promoters believed that those who 
had travelled long distances would not
be able to stay an extra two days.

November 28, 1992 - At around 7pm the first shipment of cargo was delivered from Venezuela. As 
the crew battled to complete the load-in
time for the following night's show, a torrential downpour slowed their progress. At 10:15pm, the six
 tonne stage roof, complete with lightning rig, crashed to the ground. Hearing the steel buckle, the 
stagehands had fled and none was injured. An inspection revealed that the locally supplied structure 
had been unable to support the additional weight of the rainwater gathered on the stage roof.

With no time to build a new roof, the set was redesigned. The lights that survived the crash were 
repositioned to the stage's side walls.

November 29, 1992 - At lunchtime a cloudburst damaged equipment despite the crew's efforts to 
protect it.

By 10pm the stadium was full - with hundreds of ticket holders outside. Scuffles broke out, a few
 people were injured, and some nearby cars and property were damaged before the police could
 restore the order by the use of tear-gas.

GN'R took the stage at 10:30pm. The show started with "Welcome To The Jungle". During
 "November Rain" there was another cloudburst. Within minutes, the equipment was beneath
 half-an-inch of water. The band had to take a break to dry and make safe all the lectrical equipment.
 They returned after 15 minutes to finish the set.

December 2, 1992 - Sold-out show in Santiago, Chile at the National Football Stadium.

December 3, 1992 - Chilean media reported that Axl was drunk prior to last night's show and that
 drugs were discovered in the band's hotel
rooms. GN'R's manager Doug Goldstein stressed that Axl never drinks before a show and had spent
 December 2nd doing physical work-out and voice warm-up exercises. The Chilean Department Of 
Investigation had visited the hotel, but they didn't find anything.

December 5 & 6, 1992 - Two shows at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

December 10, 1992 - First show of two at Anhembi in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Played despite torrential 
downpour.

December 11, 1992 - Second show in Sao Paulo was postponed 24 hours. The site and access to the 
venue were flooded. In a press
statement Axl apologized: "We hope that everyone who was planning to come to the show tonight
 can make it tomorrow. As we proved, both here and in Bogota recently... none of us are afraid to get
wet!" In this instance, the promoters and local authorities insisted that the conditions would be too risky
 for the fans.

December 13, 1992 - Show at the Autodromo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After it the band takes's a
 month's break before the next leg of the
tour.

December, 1992 - GN'R releases their first home videos. It's a full length concert from Tokyo, Japan.
 The videos are called Use Your Illusion
World Tour 1992 In Tokyo.

January 9 - 11, 1993 - The band and their 80-person entourage leaves Los Angles at around 10:30pm
 and arrives in Tokyo in the morning
of January 11th.

January 12, 1993 - First show of three at the Tokyo Dome. The band arrives at the venue at around
 2pm for a soundcheck.

At around 6:40pm the band kick off their set with "Welcome To The Jungle". At the close of the 
18-song set, Axl jumps down into the crowd to hand out individually-wrapped red roses.

The band leave at around 10pm, meeting up at the Lexington Queen nightclub.

January 14, 1993 - The second show at the Tokyo Dome starts at around 7:30pm with "Nightrain". 
Axl dedicates "Yesterdays" to his brother. After the show the band join Ronnie Wood at his after-show
 party.

January 15, 1993 - Final show in Tokyo. Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones joins the band 
onstage for an extended version of "Knockin'
On Heaven's Door".

January 30, 1993 - Show at the Eastern Creek Raceway outside Sydney, Australia. A meet n' greet 
has been arranged for 15 handicapped
fans. The show is delayed for 30 minutes by a faulty power generator.

January 31, 1993 - The band fly to Melbourne. Slash, Duff, Dizzy  and Gilby spend the evening
 at a local rock club where Rose Tattoo are
playing.

February 1, 1993 - The whole entourage watch the US Superbowl on TV. The show at the Calder
 Park Raceway stadium goes ahead in
torrential rain. Despite the rain, it breaks national attendance records.

February 2, 1993 - Duff and Dizzy visit a spinal injuries hospital on the outskirts of Melbourne.

February 3, 1993 - The band fly to New Zealand. With the time difference, they arrive at 5am and
 are just in time for last orders at the bar!

February 4, 1993 - Party at in a restaurant overlooking Auckland harbour for Duff, Axl and Del
 James as all their birthdays fall over the next few days.

February 5, 1993 - Duff's birthday. In the afternoon, Slash visits a dinosaur exhibition. In the evening 
he dines at a sushi restaurant called Fukuoka (because he loved the name!) before he and other band 
members go go-karting until 2:30am.

February 6, 1993 - Axl's birthday and the final show of this leg of the tour at the Mount Smart Stadium.
 The crew stop the GN'R show at the
end of "November Rain" to bring a massive birthday cake onstage for Axl. Everybody sings
 "Happy Birthday".

February 7, 1993 - The band leave Auckland for their journey back to Los Angeles.

February 23, 1993 - The "Skin And Bones" leg of the "Use Your Illusion" world tour kicks off at the 
Frank Erwin Centre in Austin, Texas.
This leg sees the band back down to their core of six members and it features a acoustic section in the 
middle of the set. 

February 26 - March 4, 1993 - Four shows cancelled owing to adverse weather conditions.

April 15, 1993 - GN'R are forced to cancel the show at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia.

During the band's performance here in 1987 Axl had been arrested for a scuffle with a security guy.
 The security guy had been beating up the band's friends in the audience. With Axl on parole for
 previous offences the show is pulled by manager Doug Goldstein. "I'm not willing to be a sittingduck
 for the police," claims Axl, "I'm familiar with that experience." 

April 29, 1993 - Gilby breaks his left wrist in a motorcycling accident, while practicing for a celebrity
 race in honour of the TJ Martell
Foundation for leukemia, cancer and AIDS research. The next four shows has to be cancelled. 
The forthcoming European shows are in jeopardy, but Axl calls Izzy who steps in for the first five
 shows. "Izzy and I grew up together and we're like a family in a lots of ways - including having our
 differences," comments Axl.

May 14, 1993 - The Drunk Fux plays at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California to raise 
money for a promoter who got injured in a motorcycle accident. The event raises $40,000. Slash
, Duff, Matt, Dizzy and Gilby all play at the concert. One of the guests is Lemmy from
Motorhead. The band plays covers such as "Communication Breakdown" and "Dead Flowers". 

May 22, 1993 - At 9pm Guns N' Roses hit the stage for the first show of the European leg of the 
" Get In The Ring Motherfucker - Round II"
tour in Tel Aviv, Israel. In the middle of the set, the band break into a rousing rendition of 
"Hava Nagila". Axl wears a Guns N' Moses t-shirt.

May 24, 1993 - The second anniversary of the "Use Your Illusion" world tour and a show at the 
Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.

Whilst Slash remains at the hotel bar, the rest of the band hit the Mercedes Club, with a selection of
 the world's top models, including
Claudia Schiffer. 

May 26, 1993 - The band leave Athens at 10am to fly to Turkey. After three songs, axl stops the 
show and says: "If you don't stop throwing lit
sparklers at each other, someone will get hurt and the band will be forced to leave the stadium."

The band fly overnight to Stansted

May 29, 1993 - First of two shows at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England. "Nightrain" opens
 the set. After an encore of "Paradise
City", Axl throws two dozen red roses into the crowd.

May 30, 1993 - Gilby Clarke and his wife arrive from Los Angeles. Second show at the National Bowl
 in Milton Keynes, England. Ronnie
Wood (the Rolling Stones) and Mike Monroe (ex Hanoi Rocks) joins the band onstage.

June, 1993 - GN'R releases the videos "Don't Cry - Makin' f**king Videos Part I" and "November Rain
 - Makin' f**king Videos Part II".

June 2, 1993 - Show in Vienna, Austria. This is Gilby's first show since he broke his wrist.

June 5, 1993 - With a strict 10:30pm curfew, the band start the set in daylight at 8:15pm.

June 6, 1993 - Second show in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Matt joins The Cult onstage for their last 
number.

June 8, 1993 - GN'R take a short flight to Copenhagen, Denmark. Halfway through the show, members
 of the entourage are found watching
the nightly news on a small hand-held TV set - on which images of the show are being broadcast from
 a zeppelin flying overhead.

June 9, 1993 - The band fly to Norway.

June 10, 1993 - Sell-out show in Oslo, Norway. That afternoon Duff pays a visit to a local dentist,
 where they remove a back tooth which has
been giving him problems for some time.

In honour of the nation's heritage, all of the crew don plastic Viking helmets for the show - much to 
the amusement of the band and crowd.

Before the show, the band are presented with Platinum discs. So far they've sold 300,000 records in
 Norway - no mean feat in a country whose population is only a little over 10 times that size.

June 11, 1993 - While on tour in Norway Matt visits his ancestral home town of Sorum.

Gilby and Duff go out to a private screening of the new Sylvester Stallone movie, Cliffhanger.

In the evening Matt and Slash go watch blues guitar legend John Mayall at a club. Mayall later invites 
Slash up to jam.

June 12, 1993 - Show at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. As the band leaves the stage, 
Slash tells the crowd that there will
be an aftershow party in Dizzy's room back at the Sheraton hotel. Luckily, only a few people 
understood what he was talking about!

June 15, 1993 - Slash does a live on-air interview on Swiss national radio station DRS3.

June 16, 1993 - The show at the St Jakob Fussballstadion is opened by Blind Melon and Quireboys

During the show a naked Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) walks onstage to deliver a pizza.

June 17, 1993 - In the evening Duff, Slash, Gilby and Matt go to the movies to see Alive. Dizzy revisits 
a tattooist and Axl takes a long sauna.

June 18, 1993 - Dizzy's 30th birthday. The band fly to Bremen, Germany for the first of five Greman
 shows at the Weserstadion. The band
play "Nice Boys" for the first time on this leg of the tour after which Axl invites the crowd to sing
 "Happy Birthday" to Dizzy.

June 19, 1993 - Unable to find an open restaurant in Cologne, band members once again settle for a 
McDonalds.

June 20, 1993 - A day-off. Sightseeing in Cologne. Slash and Gilby have dinner in an Italian restaurant 
next to the city's famous cathedral. The owner is unaware of the guitarist's sense of humour and so is
 delighted when Slash, unimpressed by the meal, signs the visitor's book:

"Of all the restaurants in the world, this is one!"

June 21, 1993 - Fly to Stuttgart. At the hotel, Slash records new materail on a portable studio in his 
room.

June 22, 1993 - Show at the 50,000 seat Wildparkstadion in Karlsruhe, Germany. Support band 
Suicidal Tendencies fail to show up because they have been double booked and are in Italy 
opening for Metallica! Brain May gets stuck in traffic but eventually plays a longer set
to compensate. GN'R hit the stage beneath a pouring rainstorm.

June 23, 1993 - Slash spends most of the day chatting with Axl and playing pinball.

June 24, 1993 - Travel to Frankfurt. At 3am, Del James and Axl take a walk on their own without the 
usual security team. They find themselves in a seedy part of town confronted by junkies and drunks.
 After a few tense moments, they manage to extricate themselves before retiring to an all-night diner. 
They return to the hotel as the sun comes up.

June 25, 1993 - Duff and the GN'R documentary film crew gatecrash a Geffen Germany sales
 conference in a nearby hotel. Duff commandeers the meeting, giving them a snaek preview of his 
solo album.

The show is held at Waldstadion. For the first time since this leg of the tour started, the band play 
"Estranged".

June 26, 1993 - Fly to Munich, Germany and a show at the Olympic Stadium. Parts of the "Estranged
" video are shot at this show.

June 28, 1993 - Day off in Munich before flying to Bologna, Italy. In-flight movie is This Is Spinal
 Tap.

June 29, 1993 - The show at the Stadio Braglia in Modena, Italy included a first rendition of Todd 
Rundgren's "Dust In The Wind".

June 30, 1993 - Tonight's show opens with "It's So Easy". Axl's assistant, Robert Finkelstein, is 
dumped at the front of the stage by three
members of the security team.

At around 3am, the GN'R plane takes off from Bologna airport for Barcelona, Spain.

July 1, 1993 - Duff's signing session at the Virgin Megastore in Barcelo attracts over 3,000.

July 2, 1993 - Slash and photographer Robert John are interviewed by a BBC film crew.

Axl, still in Verona, goes to watch U2.

July 3, 1993 - Axl and party travel to Venice for a day's sightseeing then on to Barcelona.

July 5, 1993 - Show at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Del James takes to the stage dressed 
in a Domino's Pizza uniform and plays congas on "Used To Love Her".

They fly out for Madrid at 3am.

July 6, 1993 - With late curfews in Spain, tonight's 22-song set doesn't start until 11:15pm. Matt and 
Duff swap instruments during
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door".

July 7, 1993 - Duff and Robert John tour the city finding locations to take potential publicity and 
album cover shots for the bassists forthcoming solo album.

July 8, 1993 - Fly to Nancy, France for a show at the 20,000 capacity Zenith arena. Rob Affuso joins 
them on congas during the acoustic set.

After the show, the band fly direct to Lyons.

July 9, 1993 - Show at the indoor Halle Tony Garnier in Lyons, France. Tour manager Bill Greer plays
 congas on "Used To Love Her".

July 10, 1993 - Day off, shopping and sightseeing. Slash buys a collection of small tables, each
 individually made in the shape of a Walt
Disney cartoon character.

July 11, 1993 - Leave for Belgium at 5pm. Show in Werchter. Suicidal Tendencies last show
 supporting GN'R. After Brain May, GN'R
play a 19 song, two hour 10 minute set.

July 12, 1993 - Slash, Gilby and a few of the netourage get a special guided tour of the dinosaur
 exhibition at Brussels' natural history museum.

July 13, 1993 - Last European show in Paris, France.

July 14, 1993 - GN'R fly to Argentina.

July 15, 1993 - The band arrives in Buenos Aires.

At 2:30pm, assorted band members in heavy disguise leave the hotel for a nearby cinema, where they 
sneak in to watch Jurassic Park.

Dizzy, Slash and Gilby end the night in the bar, entertaining fans on the piano.

July 16, 1993 - Show at the 70,000 capacity River Plate Stadium. 50 police officers from the city's
 narcotics division force their way into Axl's top floor suite, where he's eating dinner. They don't find
 anything.

The 21-song set starts with "It's So Easy" and ends with " Paradise City".

July 17, 1993 - The last show of the "Use Your Illusion" world tour. The show is going to be broadcast
 live on TV in Argentina and Uruguay.

The set kicks of at 9:30pm with "Nightrain".

After the show, Axl, Slash and Dizzy return to the hotel bar where Axl plays the grand piano. 
The festivities end at 5:30am.

July 18, 1993 - Gilby, Duff and Matt leave for the airport to head home at 6:30am. Later in the day,
 Slash, Dizzy and Del James sneak off
to see Jurassic Park again, beofre catching a 7:45pm flight home.

By 9:30am, everyone is back in Los Angeles.

It's been the longest tour in rock history. The band had played a total of 192 dates in 27 countries.
 Over seven million people had seen the band perform. Here's a couple of facts about the tour.

August 23, 1993 - Axl testifies against Steven Adler in the Los Angeles Superiour Court. During the 
testimony Axl revealed that Steven
couldn't play due to his drug abuse and that his drumtrack on "Civil War" had to be edited from 
over 60 takes. 

September, 1993 - GN'R made a $2.5 million dollar out-of-court settlement payment to Steven Adler 
in respect of his October 1991 lawsuit. 

September 26, 1993 - Duff plays his first show on his solo tour at Webster Hall in New York City. 
Slash joins Duff onstage and they perform
"It's So Easy" together. 

October, 1993 - Duff releases his solo album "Believe In Me" which featured appearances by Slash, 
Gilby, Matt, Dizzy and Sebastian Bach
(Skid Row)amongst others. 

November, 1993 - "The Spaghetti Incident?" is released. One of the songs is "Look At Your Game Girl"
 which was written by Charles
Manson. This causes some controversy.

April, 1994 - The homevideo called "The Making Of Estranged: Part IV Of The Trilogy" is released. 

June, 1994 - Gilby is fired from GN'R. 

June 26, 1994 - Slash plays at the Night Of 100 Guitars in London, England. Slash and Pride & 
Glory performs the Jimi Hendrix classic
"Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)". Slash also joins Paul Rodgers for a version of "The Hunter". 

Summer, 1994 - Gilby Clarke's "Pawnshop Guitars" is released on Virgin Records. Featured
 on the album is amongst others Slash, Axl and
Duff. 

August, 1994 - Slash joins Paul Rodgers onstage at the Woodstock 94 festival. They perform 
"I Don't Live Today" (which they actually recorded in 1993 for the "Stone Free" Jimi Hendrix 
tribute album), "Bad Company", "The Hunter" and "Alright Now".

December, 1994 - The Rolling Stones classic "Sympathy For The Devil" is released as a single.
 It's featured in the "Interview With A
Vampire" movie.

February, 1995 - Slash's Snakepit releases "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere". Slash's Snakepit is a
 band that was put together by Slash and it features Slash, Gilby, Matt, Eric Dover 
(formerly of Jellyfish) and Mike Inez (Alice In Chains). 

March 10, 1995 - Duff and Matt plays at the opening of the Hardrock Hotel in Las Vegas. 
They're in the houseband with Ted Andreadis and
they're called Wayne Neutron. Together they perform songs such as "Manic Depression", 
"Hey Joe" (both with Seal on vocals), "Rebel Yell", "Shakin' All Over" (both with Billy Idol on vocals)
, "Black Leather" (with Steve Jones) and "Raw Power" (with Iggy Pop and Steve Jones). Izzy Stradlin
, BB King and Bo Diddley also performed songs with the band.

Other artists at the opening were Sheryl Crow, Weezer and Duran Duran (with John Taylor)
. This was the show where Neurotic Boy Outsiders were born.

August, 1995 - Slash's Snakepit plays at the Monsters Of Rock at Castle Donington, England. 

September, 1995 - Slash joins Michael Jackson onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards.

October 21, 1995 - Shannon Hoon dies of an overdose in New Orleans. He was the lead singer of 
Blind Melon. Shannon sang on a
couple of tracks on the "Use Your Illusion" albums. He can also be seen in the "Don't Cry" video.

August 14, 1996 - Slash played in Budapest, Hungary at the Pepsi Island festival. Teddy Andreadis
 played keyboards and sang.

August & September, 1996 - Neurotic Outsiders releases their debut album on Maverick Records. 
Neurotic Outsiders is a band that
features Duff, Matt, John Taylor (Duran Duran) and Steve Jones (Sex Pistols). The band tours in 
North America and Europe.

October 3?, 1996 - Hard Copy (a TV-show) did a story on Steven Adler. Apparently Steven
 have had a stroke in the past because of his drug
abuse but he's sober now.

October 16, 1996 - Slash did an online chat.

October 30, 1996 - Slash leaves GN'R! Axl sent a fax to MTV which said that Slash hadn't been a part
 of GN'R since 1995.
November, 1996 - Slash's Blues Ball plays at The House Of Blues in Hollywood. It's a band put
 together by Slash. They play covers like
"Heartbreak Hotel" and "Knockin' On Heaven's Door".

January, 1997 - Axl buys the rights to the name Guns N' Roses.

May 30, 1997 - West Arkeen died from an accidental drug overdose. He was a friend of the band
 and co-wrote songs such as "The Garden" and "Yesterdays".

July 31, 1997 - "Appetite For Destruction" was released ten years ago!

February 11, 1998 - Axl arrested after allegedly threatening security worker at Phoenix's Sky Harbor 
Airport.

March 9/10, 1998 - Izzy Stradlin's 117 released.

May 5, 1998 - 10 Minute Warning releases their debut album on Sub Pop.

October. 27, 1998 - A home video called Welcome To The Videos released. 

January 24, 1999 - Duff, Matt and Slash played at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. 
They performed music from the
Soundman (Matt scored the movie along with Lanny Cordola). They also performed a couple of
 covers, "Superstitious", "f**king Attitude", "Ziggy
Stardust", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Honky Tonk Woman"

The media called this "a GN'R reunion".

February 18, 1999 - Axl pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. He was
 slapped with a $500 fine and one day in
jail - which he already served. The charges stemmed from an incident in 1998 at Phoenix's Sky Harbor
 Airport.

March 16, 1999 - GN'R were presented with the new Diamond Award from the RIAA, 
commemorating the sales of 15 million copies of "Appetite For Destruction". The award was accepted
 in New York by Steven Adler.

May 27th?, 1999 - Loaded released their debut album. It's a live album called "Episode 1999: Live". 
It can only be ordered through their
web site.

June 25th, 1999 - Adam Sandler's movie Big Daddy premiers. Over the end credits a version of
 "Sweet Child O' Mine" is played. Apparently the song begins with a live version, then morphs into a 
new version recorded by the new GN'R.

August 1st, 1999 - Robin Finck leaves GN'R and rejoins his former group, Nine Inch Nails.

September 9th, 1999 - A short clip of a new GN'R track called "Oh My God" appears in a trailer for 
the new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
End Of Days. The trailer premiered during the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.

October 8th, 1999 - "Oh My God" is played on US radio!

November 9th, 1999 - Axl does a phone interview with Kurt Loder on MTV.

November 24th, 1999 - World premiere of End Of Days.

November 30th, 1999 - "Live Era '87 - '93" released in the US.

December 14th, 1999 - GN'R's management company, Big F D Entertainment sued former 
bandmembers Slash and Duff McKagan for what Big F D says are monies owed.

December 31st, 1999 - Slash plays at the American Millenium Party in Washington, DC.

                                                                The End.
