Slash's contributions on the slide guitar are ... melody accompanied by Axl Rose's signature whistling. It doesn't really get more country than a banjo, until the piano chords come in.

When you think of the genre of classic rock music, what comes to mind? Well, let's take a guess. Is it speakers exploding?

It starts with “Procession,” played by May in funeral march time on multi-tracked guitar, the Red Special ... Steve Vai, and Axl Rose, and remains an obvious influence on everyone from U2 ...

Frank Ferrer, the longest-serving drummer for Guns N' Roses, issued a statement nearly two days after the Axl Rose-led group announced Ferrer’s “amicable exit.” On Thursday, GNR revealed ...

In 2020, live music, along with the rest of the world, went into lockdown. With tours cancelled and no shows to review, ...

His final show with Guns N’ Roses was in Mexico on 5 November, 2023. Ferrer also played on five tracks from Guns N’ Roses’ 2008 album Chinese Democracy. In 2016, when lead guitarist Slash and bassist ...

Most songs are meant to be enjoyed by stadiums of people, but even the best artists have those tunes that defeated them live.

Classic rock is a popular subgenre, populated by bands from the '60s, '70s, and beyond. These are the albums that define that ...

Limping on with 1993’s “The Spaghetti Incident?” covers album, by the end of the decade frontman Axl Rose remained the only member from the classic line-up, iconic guitar maestro Slash calling it ...

We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry and Roisin O’Connor take a look at artists who’ve come to loat ...