Birth Name: William Bruce Rose
Date of birth: February 6th 1962
Birth town: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Instruments: Vocals, Piano
In Guns N' Roses...: Vocals, Piano
Influences: Elton John, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin

He took classical piano lessons and also sang in the Pentecostal church choir. He began thinking about getting a band together when he was 17 and joined a succession of local Lafayette bands on vocals, but wanted to be a rockstar and looking for notority arrived in LA , in a Greyhound bus, the experience of this living directly influence more than one future Guns N' Roses song. Once there, after passing lots of difficulties he got to form a band called Hollywood Rose, which joined L.A. Guns for a special gig. Elements of the two bands came together and formed the well-known Guns N´Roses.

Birth Name: Saul Hudson
Date of birth: July 23rd 1965
Place of birth: Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Instruments: Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar
In Guns N' Roses...: Lead Guitar
Influences: Aerosmith, Motörhead, AC/DC etc.

His mother designed stage costumes for David Bowie while his father designed record sleeves for famouse artists. He grew up in a variety of musical tastes. Formerly, he was part of Road Crew, the band he left to join Guns N´Roses in the Hell tour, that´s the way it got dubbed. After successing with Guns N´ Roses , he´s solo projects have been pretty good, such as the two Snakepit albums, after touring with artist such as Alice Cooper or Michael Jackson.

Instruments: Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals
In Guns N' Roses...: Rhythm Guitar
Influences: Rolling Stones, Hanoi Rocks

Like Axl, Izzy left his hometown for LA as soon as the chance presented itself. Like Axl, he wanted to form a band and make it big. But unlike Axl, he already knew how he wanted the band to look and sound. Izzy had refused to participate in the band's expensive video for "Don't Cry" calling it a "...waste of money". In November of 1991 the rumour that Izzy had left was made official

The Seattle music scene was at the time quite limited though and so, just 20 years old, Duff decided to head for LA. It was this move that prompted a return to the bass. Duff joined Road Crew in the spring of 1985, but pretty soon becomes a Guns N´Roses member, at the time that Traci Guns left. Duff would remain a member of Guns N' Roses until 1997 when he left and Tommy Stinson of The Replacements took over on bass.

At school, Adler met Saul "Slash" Hudson, an English-born rock fan who had moved to LA with his father, and the pair hung out together and formed a two-man outfit called Road Crew. Then, in the Hell Tour, he joined Guns N´Roses, and was one of the five members of the "Appetite for Destruction" record. His problems with drugs would make the other members fire him, leaving the band in July 1990.

Instruments: Drums, bass guitar
In Guns N' Roses...: Drums
Influences: Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, early Genesis

He replaced Steven Adler as Guns N' Roses drummer in 1990. Matt's first assignment with the band was playing in front of 125,000 screaming fans at the "Rock In Rio" festival in Brazil! . Since the set list for Guns N' Roses' live shows was determined on the fly neither knew what they were supposed to play until they had to play it! In addition to this, for the first time in his life, Matt had to conjure up a drum solo! Despite the lack of preparation, the show went well and Axl at least deemed the new lineup to be a success. Matt was officially a member of Guns N' Roses until 1998 when it was confirmed that Josh Freese had taken over as sticksman

In April 1990 Dizzy contacted Axl. He was about to be evicted from his apartment and related the story, "Dude, I'm starving, as of tomorrow I'll have no phone, no apartment, no nothing, and if you guys need to know where to get hold of me, I can't tell you where I'm gonna be." Axl contacted Alan Niven (GN'R manager) and arranged for Dizzy to receive an advance so that he could get an apartment and for the contracts to be written up. Guns N' Roses had found itself a sixth member.

Instruments: Guitar
In Guns N' Roses...: Rhythm guitar
Influences: Rolling Stones, Aerosmith

Gilby Clarke joined Guns N' Roses as rhythm guitarist in 1991 after the departure of founder member Izzy Stradlin'. He had previously played with LA band Candy and then Kill For Thrills. Clarke played on the "Use Your Illusion World Tour" throughout the remainder of 1991, 1992 and into 1993. Izzy briefly rejoined in 1993 when Gilby fell ill but it was not a full fledged reunion. Gilby also played on 1993's "The Spaghetti Incident?", an album of cover versions and after making some outspoken comments about Axl Rose in the press. His replacement is longtime friend of Axl's, Paul Huge.