As Kurt Loder once put it " Guns N'Roses roots go all the way back to Indiana, home state of both Axl Rose and guitarist Izzy Stradlin. Un-appriciated in his hometown, Rose eventually made his way to Los Angeles, where he hooked up with Stradlin again, and an anglo-american guitarist who called himself Slash. With bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler rounding out the band, they startedscuffling on the clubs circuit." And Loder was right………for once.

Well, I think it's better if you get to hear (or read it) from the band themselves:

"I came to LA with a backpack, a can of mase in one hand, and a piece of steel in the other (*laughs*) and then when I came to Fullerton (sp?) I thought it was just the smallest city….I rode the bus around for 2 days, never found Izzy." Axl

"I just saw a picture..of Izzy and axl, and I said 'Slash, if we had these guys, we'de have the most rockin band' " Steven

"we ran an add for a heavy metal, punk, glam guitarist, blues influenced, and Slash showed up" Axl

"there was nobody else in LA we could of played with" Slash