subject: Guns N' Roses Tickets : Ozzy Osbourne Called Guns N' Roses The Next Rolling Stones [print this page] The music of Guns N' Roses is a fusion of punk rock, blues-rock, heavy metal and hard rock.In the 1990s, the band integrated keyed instruments (played by either Rose or Reed, and accompanied on tour by Teddy Andreadis) into the band, and for roughly half of the Use Your Illusion tour, added a horn section to the stage.
While Reed has remained on some of the Chinese Democracy demos, tours since 2000 have not included wind instruments, though the band has employed synthesized horns on some of their new songs.A heavy influence on both the image and sound of the band was Finnish band Hanoi Rocks (singer Michael Monroe and Rose have collaborated on various occasions).
Rose has stated that the band was massively inspired by groups like Queen, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones,and Rose Tattoo and that the sound of Appetite for Destruction was influenced by AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, the New York Dolls, and Hanoi Rocks.
Also, Guns N' Roses has influenced many bands such as Marilyn Manson, Bullet for My Valentine, Korn, Limp Bizkit, X-Japan, Kid Rock, Buckcherry, Avenged Sevenfold, Crashdiet, among many others.Guns N' Roses signed with a major label within eight months of their inception and topped national sales charts weeks after garnering late hours airplay on MTV. Appetite for Destruction is the highest-selling debut album of all time in the United States.
Their peers in the music industry often spoke highly of the band. Joe Perry said that they were the first band to remind him of Led ZeppelinOzzy Osbourne called Guns N' Roses "the next Rolling Stones." In 2002, Q magazine named Guns N' Roses in their list of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die". Also, the television network VH1 ranked Guns N' Roses ninth in its "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" special, and also ranked 11th on "Top 50 bands".
Appetite for Destruction appeared in Rolling Stone magazine's special issue "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Guns N' Roses #92 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". "Welcome to the Jungle" had also been voted "Best Hard Rock Song" out of 100 others by VH1.
The band has not been free of criticism. The flagrant alcohol and drug abuse by some members of the group, and Axl's fondness for Charles Manson T-shirts, were used by the media to portray Guns N' Roses as a poor example and negative influence on their young fans.
The long periods of time that the band took to release albums were also a source of heavy criticism: the band's second album, G N' R Lies, was actually an EP packaged with another older EP, and one of the songs was an acoustic version of a song from their debut album.
It took four years for the band to release a proper follow-up to Appetite for Destruction, and it took Rose another 15 years after The Spaghetti Incident to release Chinese Democracy. Their late appearances and "war" with Reading and Leeds festival (2010) have been criticized by other artists.
In October 2009, Ulrich Schnauss's record labels, Independiente and Domino, sued Guns N' Roses, alleging that the band had committed copyright infringement by using portions of Schnauss's compositions in the track "Riad N' the Bedouins" on the album Chinese Democracy.The bosses of the video game Mega Man X5 were named after the various members of Guns N' Roses.
