Em 1995, Slash sentou com Rose e os outros integrantes da banda para apresentar

gravações e demos de músicas e riffs de guitarra compostos por ele. O estilo das
gravações era semelhante ao estilo do Appetite For Destruction. Axl rejeitou o projeto de
Slash, alegando que as gravações não eram fortes o suficiente para serem lançadas em
um álbum e não se encaixavam em seus planos para a banda. Duff McKagan também não
aprovou as músicas. Slash estava organizando a sua banda, o Slash's Snakepit. Pouco
tempo depois, Axl chamou Slash para conversar e disse que havia mudado de ideia a
respeito das gravações e decidira gravar as músicas para lançar em um álbum, porém
Slash já havia lançado as músicas com o Slash's Snakepit. O álbum foi batizado de "It's
Five O' Clock Somewhere". O episódio teria deixado Rose bastante irritado.
A gravação de "Sympathy for the Devil", bem como a tensão entre ele e Rose,
levaram Slash a deixar a banda oficialmente em Outubro de 1996. Ele foi substituído
pelo guitarrista de turnê do Nine Inch Nails Robin Finck em janeiro de 1997, que
assinou um contrato de dois anos com a banda em agosto de 1997, tornando-o um
membro oficial. Matt Sorum foi demitido em abril de 1997 e, em seguida, o baixista
Duff McKagan se demitiu em agosto de 1997. Com isto, todos os membros que
haviam participado na gravação de Appetite for Destruction (com exceção de Rose)
haviam saído da banda. Em 1998, Rose realizou uma conferência de imprensa com o
seu novo elenco. Em 1998, ele fez um dueto com o cantor e guitarrista
conterrâneo Bruce Springsteen em um cover da música dos Beatles " 1970s[edit]
In 1970, when Beck had regained his health, he set about forming a band with
drummer Cozy Powell. Beck, Powell and producer Mickie Most flew to the United States
and recorded several tracks at Motown's famed Studio A in Hitsville U.S.A. with the Funk
Brothers, Motown's in-house band, but the results remained unreleased. By April 1971
Beck had completed the line-up of this new group with guitarist/vocalist Bobby Tench,
keyboard player Max Middleton and bassist Clive Chaman. The new band performed as
"the Jeff Beck Group" but had a substantially different sound from the first line-up.[citation needed]
Rough and Ready (October 1971), the first album they recorded, on which Beck wrote or
co-wrote six of the album's seven tracks (the exception being written by Middleton),
included elements of soul, rhythm-and-blues and jazz, foreshadowing the direction Beck's
music would take later in the decade.[citation needed]

Beck playing in 1973

A second album Jeff Beck Group (July 1972) was recorded at TMI studios in Memphis,
Tennessee with the same personnel.[26] Beck employed Steve Cropper as producer[27] and
the album displayed a strong soul influence, five of the nine tracks being covers of songs
by American artists. One, "I Got to Have a Song", was the first of four Stevie
Wonder compositions covered by Beck. Shortly after the release of the Jeff Beck
Group album, the band was dissolved and Beck's management put out the statement that:
"The fusion of the musical styles of the various members has been successful within the
terms of individual musicians, but they didn't feel it had led to the creation of a new musical
style with the strength they had originally sought."[28]
Beck then started collaborating with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, who
became available following the demise of Cactus but continued touring as the Jeff Beck
Group in August 1972, to fulfill contractual obligations with his promoter, with a line-up
including Bogert, Appice, Max Middleton and vocalist Kim Milford. After six appearances
Milford was replaced by Bobby Tench, who was flown in from the UK[29] for the Arie Crown
Theatre Chicago performance and the rest of the tour,[30] which concluded at the Paramount
North West Theatre, Seattle. After the tour Tench and Middleton left the band and
the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice appeared: Appice took on the role of vocalist with
Bogert and Beck contributing occasionally.[31]
They were included on the bill for Rock at The Oval in September 1972, still as "the Jeff
Beck Group," which marked the start of a tour schedule of UK, the Netherlands and
Germany. Another U.S. tour began in October 1972, starting at the Hollywood
Sportatorium Florida and concluding on 11 November 1972 at The Warehouse, New
Orleans.[32] In April 1973 the album Beck, Bogert & Appice was released (on Epic Records).
While critics acknowledged the band's instrumental prowess the album was not
commercially well received except for its cover of Stevie Wonder's hit "Superstition".
On 3 July 1973 Beck joined David Bowie onstage to perform "The Jean Genie"/"Love Me
Do" and "Around and Around." The show was recorded and filmed, but none of the
released editions included Beck. During October 1973 Beck recorded tracks for Michael
Fennelly's[33] album Lane Changer and attended sessions with Hummingbird, a band
derived from the Jeff Beck Group, but did not to contribute to their eponymous first
album.[34]
Early in January 1974 Beck, Bogert & Appice played at the Rainbow Theatre, as part of a
European tour. The concert was broadcast in full on the US show Rock Around the
World in September of the same year. This last recorded work by the band previewed
material intended for a second studio album, included on the bootleg At Last Rainbow. The
tracks "Blues Deluxe" and "BBA Boogie" from this concert were later included on the Jeff
Beck compilation Beckology (1991).[35]
Beck, Bogert & Appice dissolved in April 1974 before their second studio album (produced
by Jimmy Miller) was finished. Their live album Beck, Bogert & Appice Live in Japan,
recorded during their 1973 tour of Japan, was not released until February 1975 by
Epic/Sony.[citation needed]
After a few months Beck entered Underhill Studio and met with the group Upp, whom he
recruited as backing band for his appearance on the BBC TV programme Guitar
Workshop in August 1974. Beck produced and played on their self-titled debut album and
their second album This Way Upp, though his contributions to the second album went
uncredited. In October Beck began to record instrumentals at AIR Studios with Max
Middleton, bassist Phil Chen and drummer Richard Bailey, using George Martin as
producer and arranger.[citation needed]
Jeff Beck's solo album Blow by Blow (March 1975) evolved from these sessions and
showcased Beck's technical prowess in jazz-rock. The album reached number four in the
charts and is Beck's most commercially successful release. Beck, fastidious
about overdubs and often dissatisfied with his solos, often returned to AIR Studios until he
was satisfied. A couple of months after the sessions had finished producer George Martin
received a telephone call from Beck, who wanted to record a solo section again. Bemused,
Martin replied: "I'm sorry, Jeff, but the record is in the shops!"[7]
Beck performing in Amsterdam; 1979

Beck put together a live band for a US tour, preceded by a small and unannounced gig at
The Newlands Tavern in Peckham, London. He toured through April and May 1975, mostly
supporting the Mahavishnu Orchestra, retaining Max Middleton on keyboards but with a
new rhythm section of bassist Wilbur Bascomb and noted session drummer Bernard
"Pretty" Purdie.
In a May 1975 show in Cleveland, Ohio (Music Hall), he became frustrated with an early
version of a talk box he used on his arrangement of the Beatles' "She's a Woman", and
after breaking a string, tossed his legendary Yardbirds-era Stratocaster guitar off the stage.
He did the same with the talk box and finished the show playing a Les Paul and without the
box. During this tour he performed at Yuya Uchida's "World Rock Festival", playing a total
of eight songs with Purdie. In addition he performed a guitar and drum instrumental with
Johnny Yoshinaga and, at the end of the festival, joined in a live jam with bassist Felix
Pappalardi of Mountain and vocalist Akira "Joe" Yamanaka from the Flower Travellin' Band.
Only his set with Purdie was recorded and released.[citation needed]
He returned to the studio and recorded Wired (1976), which paired ex-Mahavishnu
Orchestra drummer and composer Narada Michael Walden and keyboardist Jan Hammer.
The album used a jazz-rock fusion style, which sounded similar to the work of his two
collaborators. To promote the album, Beck joined forces with the Jan Hammer Group,
playing a show supporting Alvin Lee at The Roundhouse in May 1976, before embarking on
a seven-month-long world tour. This resulted in the live album Jeff Beck with the Jan
Hammer Group Live (1977).[citation needed]
At this point, Beck was a tax exile and took up residency in the US, remaining there until his
return to the UK in the autumn of 1977. In the spring of 1978, he began rehearsing with ex-
Return to Forever bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Gerry Brown towards a projected
app
). Sorum foi substituído por Chris Vrenna por um tempo curto em abril-maio de 1997,
seguido brevemente pelo Pod, e finalmente por Josh Freese, no verão de 1997. Até o final
de 1998, uma nova versão do Guns N' Roses surgiu: muitos músicos vieram e se foram da
banda nova, mas o grupo central incluiu Rose, Stinson, o tecladista Dizzy Reed e o multi-
instrumentista Chris Pitman.
Em novembro de 1999, a Geffen Records lançou Live Era: '87-'93, uma coletânea de
performances ao vivo de vários concertos durante as turnês de Appetite for
Destruction e Use Your Illusion. A banda devia, à Universal/Interscope, um álbum ao vivo,
que foi, principalmente, montado por Duff, que, na época, ainda era um parceiro de banda.

O "novo" Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy (1999-2011)

Izzy Stradlin no palco com o Guns N' Roses em 2006.

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Em 1999, a banda lançou uma nova música, "Oh My God", que foi incluída na trilha sonora
do filme Fim dos Dias. A faixa de trabalho foi caracterizada pelas guitarras adicionais
de Dave Navarro e Gary Sunshine, o professor de guitarra pessoal de Rose. O lançamento
da canção foi destinado a ser um prelúdio para o seu novo álbum, intitulado Chinese
Democracy.
Também em 1999, durante uma entrevista com Kurt Loder da MTV, Axl disse que ele tinha
regravado Appetite for Destruction com a banda então nova, além de duas canções que
ele havia substituído por "Patience" e "You Could Be Mine".
Chinese Democracy estaria sendo feito desde 1994, com Rose como único membro
original ainda na banda. Em 1999, o guitarrista Robin Finck saiu da banda para se reunir
com o Nine Inch Nails em turnê. Em 2000, o guitarrista de vanguarda Buckethead entrou
para o Guns N' Roses como um substituto de Finck. O baterista Josh Freese foi substituído
por Bryan Mantia (ex-Primus). Robin Finck voltou para a banda no final de 2000, para
complementar Buckethead na guitarra solo.
Em 2000, o Guns N' Roses é anunciado como uma das principais atrações do
festival Rock in Rio III, que seria realizado em janeiro de 2001 no Rio de Janeiro.
Este show foi marcado como 'a volta do Guns N' Roses' e também por ser o maior público
na história da banda, com cerca de 240 mil pessoas. A formação consistia em Axl, Dizzy,
Tommy, Robin, Paul, Buckethead, Brain e Chris Pitman, este último não reconhecido como
membro oficial da banda. No show, são apresentadas cinco canções novas ("Oh My God",
"Madagascar", "The Blues", "Silkworms" e "Chinese Democracy"), além dos antigos
clássicos. Em uma homenagem inusitada, Robin Finck tocou uma versão rock and roll do
sucesso "Sossego", do cantor brasileiro Tim Maia.[18]
Em 2002, Paul Tobias abandonou a banda. Foi substituído por Richard Fortus, ex-Love
Spit Love. O grupo seguiu com shows em agosto na Europa e na Ásia, seguidos por uma
aparição surpresa no MTV Video Music Awards. Em novembro, começaram nova turnê
americana, mas o primeiro show, em Vancouver, foi cancelado pelo fato de Axl não
conseguir ir para o Canadá. 16 shows se seguiram, esgotando-se em mercados
como Nova Iorque e não vendendo bem em mercados menores. Então,
um show na Filadélfia foi cancelado por supostos problemas repentinos de saúde de Axl.
Os 15 mil fãs presentes se revoltaram e destruíram o local,[carece de fontes] e o resto da turnê foi
cancelada.
Dois anos depois, em março de 2004, o guitarrista Buckethead abandona a banda,
alegando falta de interesse do Axl em lançamento de material e shows, fato que só seria
oficialmente anunciado quatro meses depois. Com a saída de Buckethead, a banda
cancela sua apresentação no Rock in Rio Lisboa, que aconteceria no mesmo ano.
Nenhum guitarrista substituto fora anunciado.
No mesmo mês, a Geffen lançou a coletânea Greatest Hits, já que o novo álbum de
estúdio Chinese Democracy não saía há 11 anos. Rose demonstrou seu desprazer com o
álbum, já que a lista de faixas fora feita sem seu consentimento, e tentou impedir seu
lançamento