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When Guns N’ Roses burst onto the scene, they were praised by many for injecting some much-needed venom back into rock music. The genre had grown somewhat stale at this point. While there were a few

bands still making decent rock music, it was more that a formula had been established, and most bands were sticking to it. There wasn’t a huge amount of variation available.

The formula was pretty simple: big hair, big riffs and big choruses. While there is no denying Guns N’ Roses fell into these brackets, they brought something a bit different along with it. There was a gritty jaggedness to them that people struggled to make heads or tails with, but that removed them from the norm enough that they were branded as something new.

You can understand why people were so drawn to them. Appetite For Destruction was their debut album, which opens with ‘Welcome To The Jungle’. You can only imagine what was going through listeners’ minds when they dropped the needle on that LP and the iconic alternating guitar line started.

Guns N’ Roses went on to make a lot of great music. While Appetite For Destruction was full of hard riffs, cutting guitar solos and screeching vocals. They went on to make more ballad-driven music in their Use Your Illusion albums and moved around various different styles of music throughout their time as a band.

However, while there is a lot to celebrate about the band, it has also had its ups and downs. The Guns N’ Roses line-up has famously changed many times throughout its career, as the original members weren’t even the members who ended up putting out the debut album. Since then, people have left, cursed the band, made up, and rejoined tours all in the space of a decade.

One of the members who left the band after friction between members became a bit too much was the rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin. Stradlin was a big part of the band for an extended period of time, but as tension rose with their rise to success, he started to fall out with both Slash and Axl Rose. Both the lead guitarist and the frontman would often complain about the way that Stradlin played guitar, and this grew so much that they ended up conspiring against the rhythm guitarist so that audiences wouldn’t be able to hear him.