TWENTY years after their spectacularly brilliant heyday, its hard not to see today’s Guns N’ Roses as a pale imitation of one of the last genuinely dangerous bands to stalk the upper reaches of the charts. Since they hit their gloriously overblown peak with the release of 1992’s Use Your Illusion double set, Slash and Izzy Stradlin have left the band, leaving Axl Rose an increasingly erratic leader whose behaviour displays a very special kind of tyrannical paranoia.Read
