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Found this on Wikipedia:

Hollywood Rose recorded demos that were years later released on the album The Roots Of Guns N' Roses. This album features 15 tracks, the first 5 of which are the original demos, the second five being (future Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist) Gilby Clarke remixes, and the third five being (Cinderella and former Guns N' Roses touring drummer) Fred Coury remixes. The Gilby Clarke remix tracks of "Shadow of Your Love" and "Reckless Life" feature guitar overdubs by original GN'R guitarist Tracii Guns.

The songs "Anything Goes" and "Reckless Life" were later recorded by Guns N' Roses itself and appeared on the albums Appetite for Destruction and G N' R Lies with new lyrics respectively. Also, there are other versions of the song "Shadow of Your Love" which exist in the bootlegging community. This song was practised in the studio and played at early Guns N' Roses gigs, drummer Steven Adler has stated in several interviews that it was his favorite track played during the sessions and was rather upset it didn't make the final cut of Appetite for Destruction.

The name Guns N' Roses came from the toungue in cheek idea of combining members of the bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. With the success of both L.A. Guns and Guns & Roses there was hope for a new line-up of Hollywood Rose without Axl. After an extensive search for a new singer, a talented young singer named Jimmy Swan from Minneapolis was recruited to fill the vacancy left by Axl and Jimmy joined with Chris Weber in the second carnation of Hollywood Rose, but the band never got off the ground or established a record deal, although it did showcase to the record industry in the late 80s at Paisley Park.

In 2007, Jimmy Swan and Chris Weber, have reformed the second line-up of Hollywood Rose, and have recently added Kaptain, a drummer who almost made the final line-up of Guns & Roses and who was the original drummer for New Improved God - another L.A. Band from the late 80s.

weird, first i've heard of it

can't find any other info anywhere

Is this for real? Anyway to confirm it? I say awesome! Although abit late on doing this.... Like 20 years late. haha

I found a cd of a band called Hollywood Roses. There is a sticker on the front that says Gilby and Teddy are on it. Is this anything to do with it?


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Nope - they're a GNR tribute band out of Hollywood. The band is actually Dopesnake (the singer of Hollywood Roses - Colby Veil's) side project. The label pushed it as a Hollywood Roses CD though.

www.hollywoodroses.net

The new incarnation of Hollywood Rose has a MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/hollywoodrosenow).

"Current Line Up: Chris Weber - gtr* Jimmy Swan - vox* Kaptain - drums* Matt the Barista - bass* Matt Beal - gtr*"


Apparently, they played a reunion show on August 25th (http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:Gqd_vH0ZL1cJ:forum.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dmessageboard.viewThread%26entryID%3D40679726%26groupID%3D102384008%26adTopicID%3D23%26Mytoken%3D0047971A-01AB-4271-B45943E33A6499FC59945397+%22chris+weber%22+kaptain+%22jimmy+swan%22&hl=fi&ct=clnk&cd=2)

A reunion?

I'm sorry, but that just made me giggle...

Riiiiiight.....


(http://a693.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/105/l_895ffcdf0b8563f6b85437afa05fed64.jpg)


Hollywood Rose 2007.


Give me the Hollywood Roses tribute band over this...

are they planning on releasing a cd?

Me too...I am suprised Axl doesn't own that name too and didn't put the kabosh on it...:)

I think Chris Weber owns the name. I'm not 100% sure though.

What do you have against the current band? And I am eagerly anticipating a new album. lol Hopefully they make some good stuff. I've heard their stuff on myspace and I like it..

This sounds cool.  I like the music, very good!  :)