Guns with a new lineup, consisting of Paul Black, Mick Cripps, Robert Stoddard, and Nickey Alexander.

Black would soon be replaced by former Girl singer Phil Lewis while former Faster Pussycat bassist Kelly Nickels was added to the group.

However, the group went through numerous lineup changes (with Riley being the most consistent member) and failed to regain mainstream attention.

However, the group continued to change lineups and Guns eventually left to form the hard rock supergroup Brides of Destruction with Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe in 2002.

Guns, Gardner and Jagosz met at Fairfax High School and previously played in a band called Pyrrhus with bassist Dani Tull.

During this time, Gardner quit the group and was replaced by Steven Adler[12] with this line-up becoming known as the "classic lineup" of Guns N' Roses.

Guns with Mick Cripps, Paul Black, Nickey Alexander and Robert Stoddard, former The Dogs D'Amour singer, briefly became guitarist for the group,[21] co-writing the song "Nothing to Lose" that appeared on L.A.

[6][21] Black was soon replaced by former Girl singer Phil Lewis[6][23] while Kelly Nickels (formerly of Faster Pussycat) was added to the lineup.

[27] Although the group (Lewis, Guns, Cripps, Nickels and Riley) wrote the album's material,[27] "Never Enough" featured additional contributions from Paul Black, Gregg Tripp and Phil Roy.

[29][30][25] Due to the rise in popularity of Seattle's grunge movement,[6] the group waited a number of years before recording new material.

[6] During this time, Guns participated in the short lived supergroup Contraband,[31] the group put together by Alan Kovac.

Former drummer Riley was invited to rejoin the group for the subsequent tour;[25] however, both Lewis (who went on to form Filthy Lucre, releasing the Popsmear album in 1997)[34] and Cripps departed the group[25] with singer Chris Van Dahl replacing Lewis[6] and Johnny Crypt replacing Cripps on rhythm guitar.

PolyGram soon dropped the group, who had already begun sessions for a follow-up album, following the low sales of Vicious Circle.

[6][7][36][37] The group released the album, titled Shrinking Violet, in 1999 through Perris Records[7] before going on tour supporting Poison.

[7] A compilation album of re-recorded songs and new material, titled Greatest Hits and Black Beauties, was released in the summer of 1999.

Guns reunited with Phil Lewis, Mick Cripps and Kelly Nickels returning to the group in the fall, touring in support of the compilation album.

Both Cripps and Nickels would leave the group on the eve of a 2000 summer tour, replaced by Faster Pussycat guitarist Brent Muscat[38] and bassist Muddy.

Guns bassist Hamilton was briefly involved with this group (as keyboardist),[40] which was rounded out by singer London LeGrand[40] and Adema drummer Kris Kohls.

[25] They also pulled out of touring with Alice Cooper[45] followings Guns departure from the group in October[46] in order to concentrate on his project with Sixx,[40][41][42][47] though he would argue he never left.

Commenting on Blades addition to the lineup, Lewis stated that "Stacey really is a virtuoso type of guy and player.

[64] On March 7, 2012, the band announced a new studio album, titled Hollywood Forever, which was released on June 5 that year.

[68] In October of the same year, during the 20-year anniversary party for Cathouse Club, in Hollywood, Phil Lewis joined Tracii Guns' L.A.

[69] Despite Black's hopes that this would "relieve the tension between the two line-ups",[21] Lewis would later state that "Tracii [Guns] as good as he is, has had to pretty much lower himself to playing with these guys that if they were going to do anything they would have done it in the past twenty years, but they have done nothing.

"[70] In 2007, Alexander would be replaced by drummer Chad Stewart with the group playing shows in South America, Europe as well as numerous tours of the US.

[71] In December, the Tracii Guns version of the band's dressing room was robbed during a show at McGuffy's in Dayton, Ohio.

After being invited by bassist Jeremy Guns, singer Marty Casey, of Lovehammers, joined the group, who had signed a deal with Alexus Records,[76] in the studio co-writing material.

Guns singer Jizzy Pearl returned to group while guitarist Alec Bauer departed the band.

Guns announced they had signed a deal with Steve Vai's label, Favored Nations,[7] to release a "Deluxe Reissue" of Shrinking Violet, the only L.A.

[85] By September, it was announced that Pearl had departed the band, on good terms,[86] with former Rock Star: Supernova finalist Dilana joining in his place.

He was later replaced by Johnny Martin on bass and the band added Steve Preach on guitar, organ and piano, extending the line-up to a 5-piece.