07/17/93: Guns N Roses (GnR) play the last show of their Use Your Illusion world tour.11/23/93: GnR releases an album of punk covers called The Spaghetti Incident?
January 1994: GnR lead singer W. Axl Rose and guitarist Slash appear on the radio show Rock Line and say they’re about to start work on the next Guns N Roses studio album. Axl also reveals he is working on a “top secret project” and hoping to collaborate with Queen guitarist Brian May.
January 1994: Slash tells Kerrang! magazine the next GN'R album will be out in the Summer.
Early 1994: Axl, Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum, keyboardist Dizzy Reed and guitarist Gilby Clarke enter the studio to begin work on their first album of original material since the 1991 albums Use Your Illusion I and II.. GnR’s record company Geffen says they hope to have the album out before the end of the year.
May 1994: Gilby Clarke tells Kerrang! magazine: "There is no `next GN'R album'. We started working on one, and it got canned. It's an Axl thing. He just wasn't into what we were doing, so he's kind of rethinking what he wants to do. He just kind of threw a wrench into everything that me, Slash and Matt had worked to."
June 1994: Axl fires Gilby Clarke and replaces him with his childhood friend Paul "Huge" Tobias.
December 1994: GnR’s cover of the Rolling Stones "Sympathy For The Devil" is released as a single and featured in the film Interview With A Vampire.
February 1995 Slash's Snakepit releases their debut album It's Five O'Clock Somewhere. Made up primarily of material Slash wrote for the new Guns N Roses album that was rejected by Axl.
November 1995: Slash tells Metal Hammer magazine: "I played him (Axl) the material that I was writing, and he was like, ‘I don't wanna do that kind of music.’ So I took the material back And then I booked a tour, and at this point Axl turned around and wanted the material back. And that's where the big shit started, because I told him, "Dude, it's gone. If I remember correctly, it was turned down flat." And that's where we got threats of lawsuits and this, that and the other."
Fall 1995: Axl brings in Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde to work with GnR. He quits after a few weeks.
1995: GnR’s original rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin is brought into write songs with Axl and Duff for the new album. He winds up working mostly with Duff. The pair collaborate on Izzy’s next two solo albums.
August, 1996: Neurotic Outsiders, featuring Duff and Matt Sorum, release their first album. The band then tours North American and Europe.
10/30/96: Slash announces he has left Guns N Roses. Axl sends a fax to MTV which says Slash hasn’t been a part of GN'R since 1995. Despite Slash's departure, Axl says Guns N Roses will continue.
January 1997 Axl officially buys the rights to the name Guns N' Roses.
January 1997: In an interview with the Addicted To Noise online magazine, Slash talks about giving up his rights to the GN'R name. "I was blindsided by it, more or less a legal faux pas. I'd be lying to say I wasn't a little bit peeved at that. The fact that he (Axl) can actually go and record a new GN'R record without the consent of the other members of the band."
Early 1997: Former Nine Inch Nails member Robin Finck becomes Guns N Roses new lead guitarist.
May 1997: Duff and Matt appear at the Music West conference. Matt confirms that drummers Chris Vrena (ex-Nine Inch Nails) and Dave Abbruzzese (ex-Pearl Jam) have been working with GnR and that Moby is helping produce.
May 1997: MTV says Mike Clink (producer of Appetite for Destruction) is now working on the album.
Summer 1997: Matt Sorum is fired from Guns n Roses.
August 1997 Duff McKagan quits Guns N Roses.
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