Created in 1985, Guns N’ Roses became incredibly popular in 1987, when its debut album appeared. However, after 1993 the band’s popularity decreased, as its members Slash and McKagan left. In 2016 both of them rejoined the band, starting a new era in its history.
The band Guns’N’Roses was formed in March 1985 in Los Angeles. Its founders are rightly considered to be Axl Rose and Tracy Guns. They met in the band L.A. Guns, where Tracy was the guitarist.
Later, Izzy Stradlin, Rose’s school friend, percussionist Rob Gardner and bassist Ole Bayh joined the newly formed musical group, which was called Guns N’Roses. After one of the concerts in which Gardner and Guns were unable to participate, guitarist Sol Hudson Slash and drummer Steven Adler were invited to join the band. Soon they became permanent members of Guns N’Roses.
The band gained worldwide popularity after Geffen Records released their first long-playing album Appetite for Destruction in 1987. The success was cemented by a world tour and two albums, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. They are one of the most successful rock bands, whose total circulation of sold records is estimated at 90 million copies.
What is Guns’n’Roses?
Guns’n’Roses is a legendary rock band, whose songs more than one generation grew up. The band was founded in 1985 in Los Angeles, California.One of the most successful American rock bands, whose popularity peaked in the early 1990s.
The initial logo for the legendary band was created in 1987 and the only state with Guns’n’Roses for a couple of years. It was a curvy arched ribbon in gradient yellow and red, placed on a black background. The ribbon had a thin black framing from the inside and boasted a classy and bold black uppercase lettering.
The band used a few alternative logos over the years. The very first symbol, with two roses, is also the one that the band currently uses. The stylized guns, which were the center of the first version, remained in all the subsequent emblems. The name of the band, written over the yellow background, reminds of the fact that Guns N’ Roses was formed from two bands: L. A. Guns and Hollywood Roses. Being a soft counterpoint to the guns, the roses emphasize the extreme emotions characteristic to the music played by the band.
In its early years the band used the so-called bullet logo. It features two opposite-facing revolvers girdled by a rose stem with thorns. There are also two red roses with dew drops on their petals. This is a creation of one of the Guns N’ Roses members, Steven. Reportedly, the inspiration behind this image was a picture of a classic revolver.
One of the two most well-known Guns N’ Roses logo versions represents a pair of revolvers with a human skull. There’s also a rose. This is a very well-known version, which can be seen on Guns N’ Roses t-shirts. According to some sources, this logo was hand drawn by the band’s member Slash. And yet, Axl Rose claimed that this was untrue, and actually the author of the emblem is the tattoo artist Bill White.
The bright and clear red color is paired with yellow and black, as well as shades of grey, creating an appealing and emotional combination.
Guns N’ Roses logo uses a customized typeface. One can notice significant differences between fonts used in different versions of the emblem.