Guns N’ Roses Announce New Guitarist
Guns N’ Roses have announced who will replace former NIN guitarist Robin Finck in the band.
DJ Ashaba, co-founder of Nikki Sixx’s side-project Sixx A.M. and a former member of Beautiful Creatures, has been announced as the new guitarist in Guns N’ Roses.
A statement from Axl Rose on the GN’R official website says: “Dj’s a gifted, energetic guitarist that Guns N’ Roses is proud to have on board!! We’re very excited to have the opportunity to work together. Guns’ radar has silently been aware of Dj’s presence for quite some time. He brings a fresh approach to our particular brand of mayhem expanding the tapestry of Guns N’ Roses live. Once Dj’s name was in the hat, the hat disappeared!!”
“It’s an honor to have the opportunity to be a part of a band that I have always loved and respected,” says Dj Ashba. “I’m looking forward to working with Axl, who is not only one of the few great front men of our generation, but a true artist.”
Dj Ashba co-wrote and co-produced Motley Crue’s latest album Saints of Los Angeles, as well as co-writing and co-producing the Sixx AM album, Heroin Diaries.
In other Guns N’ Roses news, the band are said to be weighing up a worldwide stadium tour with Van Halen. This announcement of a new guitarist would seem to support this claim, wouldn’t it?
As much as I love Axl, this is now really taking the Rise. In Finck you had a great musician and someone that gave the band a bit of credibility – its now a real joke, bit of a tipping point for me now, I was almost taking the ‘New Guns’ tag seriously…not anymore.
who opens for who?
Robin is just another casualty of the ridiculous amount of time it took to release this record. Was he supposed to hang around waiting on Axl for yet another year or 2, whilst Trent Reznor was knocking at the door, asking him to rejoin NIN and one of the slickest, most spectacular tours in recent times??
Its a no brainer, Trent could have played half the countries in the world before Axl has decided what colour of shoes to wear.