All 23 Musicians Who’ve Been in Weapons N’ Roses

Few bands have had extra lineup modifications than Weapons N’ Roses. They’ve formally been a band since 1985, and there have been a complete of 23 musicians who’ve been out and in of the band since then.

Most of us like to consider their Urge for food for Destruction lineup of Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler because the “authentic” lineup, and it is also known as such. Nonetheless, when the band truly turned Weapons N’ Roses, it was a fusion of two Los Angeles bands — L.A. Weapons and Hollywood Rose.

Rose’s proper hand on the time was guitarist Tracii Weapons, and their names collectively had been mixed to kind the band’s identify. Subsequently, the “authentic” lineup truly consisted of Rose, Weapons, Stradlin, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner. Beich did not final very lengthy — some sources say he was solely part of the group for one or two classes — however he was nonetheless part of their historical past, so he counts. McKagan, who’d performed in one other L.A. band known as Street Crew with Slash and Adler, was employed in Beich’s place.

The band was set to play a handful of exhibits in 1985, and Weapons and Gardner give up on the final minute. McKagan instructed they name Slash and Adler, and thus, the lineup they turned identified for was born.

However, it solely lasted for Urge for food and its follow-up, 1988’s GN’R Lies. Once they entered the studio to begin engaged on the Phantasm albums in 1990, issues actually began to crumble. All through the ’90s, an increasing number of members had been fired or give up, and it bought a bit chaotic throughout the latter half of the last decade via the early 2000s once they had been engaged on Chinese language Democracy. The band primarily had a revolving door of musicians coming out and in, with W. Axl Rose as the only authentic member all through all of it.

Slash and McKagan had been the final members of the Urge for food lineup to depart the band in 1996 and 1997, respectively, so once they reunited with Rose in 2016 for the extraordinarily highly-anticipated Not in This Lifetime tour, it marked the trio’s first time onstage collectively in 23 years.

They usually’re nonetheless collectively immediately.

Scroll via the gallery beneath to find out about all 23 musicians who’ve been official members of Weapons N’ Roses.