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Duff McKagan, Wolfgang Van Halen and Slash

Wolfgang Van Halen join Guns N’ Roses onstage for show-stopping Paradise City performance

By Matt Owen

GNR signed off their 2021 US tour’s penultimate show in style by bringing on Van Halen, who had been supporting the band during the three-month stint round the country

Axl Rose and Slash performing live with Guns N' Roses

Guns N’ Roses announce new four-track EP, Hard Skool

By Matt Owen

It will be the first time in 28 years that original members Slash, Axl Rose and Duff McKagan have all joined forces for a new GNR record

[L-R] Axl Rose and Slash of Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses drop hard-rocking new single, Hard Skool

By Sam Roche

Like last month's Absurd, the track is an axed take from 2008's Chinese Democracy

Slash of Guns N' Roses performs in concert during weekend one of the 2019 ACL Fest at Zilker Park on October 4, 2019 in Austin, Texas

Slash teases new Guns N’ Roses song with soundcheck TikTok video

By Jackson Maxwell

Titled Hard School, the song – like the band's recent single, Absurd – dates back to the Chinese Democracy sessions

Richard Fortus

Richard Fortus: "Gretsch were in rehearsals with us, winding pickups on the spot while I was trying them out"

By Rod Brakes

The Guns N’ Roses guitarist on how he developed the hybrid PAF/Filter’Tron pickups for his signature Gretsch Falcon

Dave Grohl, Duff McKagan, Slash

Watch the pro-shot version of Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl’s plug-pulling Paradise City performance

By Matt Owen

The new release lets us hear how the energetic end to the song was meant to sound, complete with Slash's closing solo, though still features the crowd’s show-carrying vocals when the sound abruptly stopped

Guns N' Roses with Dave Grohl

Watch the moment a festival pulls the plug on Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl – and they carry on regardless

By Matt Parker

BottleRock Music Festival muted the PA before the band's set had finished, not that anyone onstage seemed to mind…

Bumblefoot playing live with Guns N' Roses

Bumblefoot recalls recording guitar parts for the song that became Guns N’ Roses’ new track, Absurd

By Matt Owen

The former GNR man gives his opinion on how the old Chinese Democracy cut, once known as Silkworms, turned out

Gilby Clarke and Brad Gillis

Night Ranger enlists Gilby Clarke to fill in for Keri Kelli during recent gig

By Matt Owen

The former Guns N’ Roses axeman stepped up in place of Kelli, who missed out due to a knee injury, at the band’s South Dakota concert

Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses cover The Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog at their first show in 16 months

By Sam Roche

The rock giants took to the stage at the Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania over the weekend, delivering a string of hits from their expansive catalogue

[L-R] Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen

Guns N' Roses announce US tour with Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH

By Sam Roche

The run marks a pretty grand touring debut for WVH's new project

Slash

Slash has been recording demos for the new Guns N’ Roses album using AmpliTube

By Michael Astley-Brown

The top-hatted one details his digital-first approach to writing

Slash of Guns N' Roses performs onstage during the "Not In This Lifetime..." Tour at Madison Square Garden on October 11, 2017 in New York City.

Slash drooled while recording his Appetite for Destruction guitar solos, apparently

By Guitar World Staff

“He's so focused when he plays, he doesn't realize he's drooling – or doesn't care,” says engineer Micajah Ryan, who worked on the landmark Guns N' Roses album

Izzy Stradlin's Gibson ES-175D

Izzy Stradlin’s ‘Appetite for Destruction’ Gibson ES-175D is hitting the auction block for $50,000

By Richard Bienstock

The Guns N’ Roses guitarist used the hollowbody model in the studio and onstage

Richard Fortus, Slash and Melissa Reese of Guns N' Roses perform onstage during day 2 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend 2 at the Empire Polo Club on April 23, 2016 in Indio, California

Richard Fortus recalls the time he and Slash tried out modeling amps with Guns N’ Roses

By Richard Bienstock

Fortus, an avid fan of modelers, explains why they don't work for the GNR sound

Guitarist/singer Marc Ford of The Magpie Salute and Black Crowes performs onstage at The Fonda Theatre on September 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California

Ex-Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford declined offers to join Guns N’ Roses twice

By Richard Bienstock

Ford says he was first approached by Slash in 1991 to replace Izzy Stradlin

Slash signature Epiphone Les Pauls

Slash shares surprise sneak peek at new Epiphone Signature Les Pauls

By Matt Owen

The all-new signatures seem to take inspiration from the Gibson Slash Collection

Axl Rose borrowed Dave Grohl's "throne" after breaking his foot

Axl Rose had Slash pick out a guitar for Dave Grohl as a thank you for lending the singer his onstage “throne”

By Richard Bienstock

The guitar, a vintage ES-335, “was the nicest I have ever played in my life,” Grohl says

Slash collaborates with Jerry Cantrell... to solve the Alice in Chains guitarist's rattlesnake problem

By Richard Bienstock

Today in bizarre A-list guitarist news: "Who you gonna call? Slash, of course, duh”

Paoletti and Guns N' Roses' Richard Fortus announce the Richard Fortus Signature #2

By Richard Bienstock

New signature model from the Guns N’ Roses guitarist boasts a reclaimed chestnut body, Italian leather top, handmade pickups and more