now by late 1994 guns and roses were another victim of the change in the rock scene and while
many people think that alternative rock and grunge were responsible for the group's disappearance and
demise that wasn't even remotely true. Guns and Roses would wrap up their two and a half year long
192 show Use Your Illusion tour in July of 1993 and many people consider 1992 and 1993 to be the
peak of alternative rock but remember back then guys guns n' roses were still playing and selling
out stadiums not just arenas all across the world and making tons of money Now Guns N'Roses death
was ultimately their own doing following the band getting off the road in the summer of 1993
the group's took some time off to rest and put out a covers album in 1993 called the spaghetti
incident The album found little fanfare because it was barely promoted and the band didn't tour
behind it and the spaghetti incident was meant to tide over fans until the band could release
their next album of original material. And Guns and Roses would start working on new material in
early to mid 1994 and in Axl Rose and slashes final interview together in January of 1994 on
rock line the frontman would claim the band would release an album of new material most likely in
1996 and looked to record a lot of ideas until then. Now throughout 1994 the band would try
to assemble to write new material but guitarist slash and frontman Axl Rose as well as bassist
Duff McKagan weren't on the same page as to what the band's next record should sound like. Slash
had written almost a dozen songs with drummer Matt Sorum and rhythm guitarist Gilby Clarke,
but Axl and Duff rejected the songs thinking they sounded too southern rock. Now happening the same
year it was a rhythm guitarist Gilby Clarke who joined the band three years prior in 1991 as
original guitarist Izzy Stradlin's replacement was fired from the band by frontman Axl Rose without
consulting the rest of the members. Now Rose would replace Clark with his childhood friend
Paul Tobias who was from Indiana and co-wrote the Guns N'Roses song back off [ __ ] which was found
on user illusion 1 slash disagreed with the change as him and Tobias didn't seem to click. By the end
of 1994 Axl and slash were barely on speaking terms and most of their communication was done
through management . The producers of the movie interview of the vampire would end up approaching
the band about possibly recording a cover of The Rolling Stones song sympathy for the devil. Slash
was a huge fan of both the Rolling Stones and novelist and Rice who wrote the book, but both
members Axl and slash had to see the movie prior to agreeing to get in the studio again. Now slash
wasn't a fan of the movie and according to him it bored him to tears while Axl personally loved
it but slash saw is an opportunity for the band to get the creative juices flowing and hopefully
re-entered the studio once the cover was done to record new material slash would write in his
memoir the only upside I saw to signing off on it was that it would accomplish what we've been
unable to do to any degree in the past 7 months. It would actually get all of us into the studio
now once the band agreed to cover the song the recording sessions didn't go as planned. Frontman
Axl Rose never showed up while the other members of the band were in the studio. It would be Duff
McKagan slash and drummer Matt Sorum who would go into the studio together at the very beginning to
record the instrumental track Axl wouldn't show up until a few weeks later to record the vocals
and slash would refer to the song as a very uninspired track. Axl Rose would also have
some feedback for slash about his playing on the song telling him he wanted to redo his guitar solo
to sound exactly like Keith Richards playing on the original track slash would recall in his book
Keith's playing is so awesome on that song that I didn't even want to come near it, but I did
and after doing so it left me feeling even more pissed off than ever. To make matters worse when
slash heard the finished recording of the song he noticed that Axl had gotten guitarist Paul Tobias
to put answers or his own solo on top of slashes guitar solo which further infuriated the guitarist
The song would finally be released in early 1995 and would be the band's last recording to feature
slash Axl and Duff McKagan together and slash wouldn't leave the band until two years later
in 1996. It proved to be another huge blow to Axl and slash his relationship which wouldn't
be healed for almost 20 years. Now slash would conclude in his book if you've ever wondered what
the sound of a band breaking up sounds like listen to Guns N' Roses cover of sympathy for the devil
there's one Gunn's track I'd like to never hear again it's that one that concludes today's video
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