Thomas Eugene Stinson (3)

Work outside Guns N' Roses

Outside of Guns N' Roses, Reed played on albums for his former bandmates Slash, Duff McKagan, and Gilby Clarke. He also guested on current Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson's 2004 solo effort Village Gorilla Head. Reed is additionally a fan of Larry Norman, a pioneer of Christian Music, and played on Norman's Copper Wires album. Most recently, he has composed music for the film scores The Still Life, released in August 2007, and Celebrity Art Show (2008).

When he is not touring or recording with Guns N' Roses, Reed frequently tours with his hard rock cover band Hookers N' Blow, in which he plays keyboard and guitar and occasionally sings lead vocals. For his work with Hookers N' Blow, Reed was named Outstanding Keyboardist of the Year at the 2007 Rock City Awards ("Rockies"). Hookers N' Blow was also named Best Cover Band.

Reed has also dabbled in acting, appearing as 'Mumbles' in the 2005 film Charlie's Death Wish.

Before Guns he was in a band called Wild and release an album called Wild 1, featuring great rock songs like Motor Angel, High Rider, She drew blood, Hot 4 love and Mean Dream Queen.

Personal life

Reed has been married to Lisa, an author and teacher, since 1991. They have two children. When not touring, he likes to unwind by spending time with his wife, describing himself as very faithful to her and his children.

In 2005, Reed took the unusual step of seeking admission to a college fraternity well after the traditional age of inductees, and on January 22, 2006 was admitted to the Cornell University chapter of Zeta Psi.

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Music career

As an adult, Reed pursued a music career in Los Angeles. He was a founding member of the club band The Wild in the late 1980s, with whom he spent five years[3]. He also replaced August Worchell as the guitarist of the group Johnny Crash although the band split up shortly after he joined.

Reed met the original lineup of Guns N' Roses in 1985; his band, The Wild, rehearsed in a neighboring studio. He kept in touch, and in 1990 was invited by friend Axl Rose to join the group for the recording of the two Use Your Illusion albums. His induction into GN'R was far from smooth: former bandmates Slash and Izzy have said that no one in the band but Axl talked to Reed for the first two weeks.

In spite of the rough start, Reed soon became an accepted member of the group and his work was heared on the majority of tracks on both albums. As a member of Guns N' Roses, Reed has become well-known for his keyboard work during live performances, music videos and on such songs as November Rain, Civil War, Live and Let Die, Yesterdays, as well his contributions to some of the band's new tracks, including Chinese Democracy, "Shacklers Revenge", Better, "Street of Dreams" "If The World", "There Was A Time", "Catcher in the Rye", "Scraped", "Raid N' the Bedouins", "I.R.S" and "Madagascar", and When not playing keyboards or piano, Reed frequently provides backup on percussion and vocals during live Guns N' Roses performances.

Dizzy continues to record and play live with the current Guns N' Roses line-up, and has now been a member of Guns N' Roses longer than any other member besides Axl Rose. Since he joined the band in 1990, five years after its formation in 1985, he cannot be described as an original member. However, apart from Rose, he remains the only remaining link to the Use Your Illusion era and Guns N' Roses's heyday in the early 1990s.

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Darren Arthur Reed (1)

Birth name : Darren Arthur Reed

Born : June 18, 1963 (age 46) Hinsdale, Illinois

Genre(s) : Hard rock

Occupation(s) : Musician

Instrument(s) : Keyboards, Piano, Guitar, Organ, Bass, Mellotron, Calliope, Hammond organ, Percussion

Years active : 1990-Present

Dizzy Reed (born Darren Arthur Reed, June 18, 1963 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is a contemporary rock musician. He is best known for his tenure as the keyboardist for the rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he has played, toured and recorded since 1990. Aside from frontman Axl Rose, Reed is the only member of Guns N' Roses to remain from the band's Use Your Illusion era.

Reed was born as Darren Arthur Reed on June 18, 1963 in Hinsdale, Illinois, and was raised in Colorado. As a child, Reed was described as reclusive and introverted. His grandmother began teaching him to play the organ when he was a young child, and before he was out of elementary school, he formed small local bands. At the age of fifteen, he took up keyboard playing as a release from the constant bullying he endured at school.

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Thomas Eugene Stinson

Birth name : Thomas Eugene Stinson

Born : October 6, 1966 (age 42), Minneapolis, Minnesota,U.S.A.

Genre(s) : Alternative rock, Hard rock

Instrument(s) : Guitar, Bass

Associated acts : The Replacements (1979–1991), Guns N' Roses (1998-Present), Soul Asylum(2005-Present)

Thomas "Tommy" Eugene Stinson (born October 6, 1966, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American musician best known for his work as the bassist for The Replacements and Guns N' Roses.

He was one of the founding members of the 1980s alternative rock band The Replacements, along with drummer Chris Mars, his older brother Bob Stinson, and singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg. Tommy Stinson was only 12 years old when he joined the band in 1979. He dropped out of high school in 10th grade in 1983 to go on tour with the band.

Bob Stinson left The Replacements in 1986, but Tommy Stinson stayed with the band until they broke up in 1991.

After the Replacements disbanded, Stinson formed the band Bash & Pop who in 1993 released one album Friday Night Is Killing Me. In February 1995, his brother died at the age of 35 as a result of years of substance abuse.

After Bash & Pop broke up, Stinson formed a band called Perfect, who released an EP in 1996 titled When Squirrels Play Chicken. In 1997 Perfect's album Seven Days a Week was shelved due to record company problems, but was later released in 2004 under the title Once, Twice, Three Times a Maybe.

In 1998 Stinson appeared on Puff Daddy's "It's All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix)" along with Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. He also can be seen playing bass for the song in the music video.

Also in 1998, Stinson joined Guns N Roses, and he has been their bass player ever since. His bass playing is featured prominently on their long-delayed Chinese Democracy album which appeared in late 2008. Stinson has pursued a variety of other projects during Guns N Roses' abundant downtime.

Stinson played bass for the recording of MOTH's 2002 album "Provisions, Fiction and Gear".

In 2004, in addition to the long-shelved album by Perfect, Stinson released a solo album Village Gorilla Head which was well-received by the music press.

In the fall of 2005, Tommy joined Soul Asylum for a few gigs in tribute to Karl Mueller. Stinson and Dave Pirner (founding member of Soul Asylum ) were friends in high school in Minneapolis, MN. He and BT also scored the Jennifer Garner movie Catch and Release.

In between touring and writing, he managed to produce Bobot Adrenaline's debut album Unfurled.

In December 2005, he reunited with his surviving Replacements bandmates Paul Westerberg and original drummer Chris Mars to record two new songs for a greatest-hits collection. Stinson further collaborated with Westerberg on the soundtrack to the Sony feature film Open Season, recording bass tracks for 'Love You in the Fall' and 'Right to Arm Bears'.

On November 24, 2006 at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena, Axl Rose called the Eagles of Death Metal (one of Guns N Roses' opening acts) the "Pigeons of Shit Metal." Jesse Hughes, the Eagles of Death Metal's lead singer, told the New Musical Express that Stinson took his bass off and threw it on the floor saying "Fuck you, that's it" and threatened to leave the band. [1] Stinson did not leave Guns N Roses; however, the Eagles of Death Metal were fired from the tour. On December 2, 2006, Stinson issued a statement reading, in part: "Eagles of Death Metal were a suggestion of mine a while ago. Turns out they were the wrong band for our crowd. They were booed and did not play for as long as they were scheduled to. ... In the past I have thrown my bass. I have never thrown it at Axl or anyone else in the band nor has anyone thrown my bass back at me... yet. Axl has been a dear friend to me for nine years. We have no problem communicating and wish that people would stay the fuck out of shit they don't know anything about

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AXL ROSE

Name: Bailey, William Bill (Axl Rose)

Nick name: Axl Rose

Birthday : February 6th 1962

Hometown : Lafayette IN, USA

Occupation : Singer, Entertainer, Pianist, Guitarist

Bands : AXL, Rapidfire, Hollywood Rose, L.A. Guns, Guns N' Roses

Some say Axl Rose is the best entertainer on the planet. Ax Rose certainly had the world at his feet back in 1992-1993. Back in 1991, when the whole world was awaiting (the first) return of Guns n' Roses, one could real in Rock music magazines : "What the world needs is Axl Rose".

Axl Rose was a choirboy, gospel singer, pianist, and even taught Sunday school in his childhood. His extremely strict upbringing led him to rebel by the age of sixteen. Getting into trouble left and right with over 20 terms (he only admits to guilt on about 5 occasions).

Axl Rose was once known by the name of Bill Bailey. Bailey being his stepfathers name. He took the name of Rose when he found out when he found out it was his real father's name.

Rose felt that leaving Indiana was his only option so he took off in search of his friend Jeff (Izzy) Isbell, who had already left to seek fame and fortune in Hollywood. In 1986, William legally changed his name to Axl. Axl Rose is the singer of Guns N' Roses since June 6th 1985 (date the band lineup was finalized). Axl Rose is multi-talented with an extreme and powerful vocal range, piano skills, and has even recently taken up the guitar to add to his abilities. Axl Rose is currently the only original member still part of Guns n' Roses. Axl Rose has also bought the name "Guns n' Roses" and is the sole owner of the name.

The year 2001 will certainly be remenbered as the year of the second return of Guns n' Roses considering that Axl Rose did 4 concerts (we'll just forget about the twice cancelled European tour). Axl Rose also said he was working day and night on a new album to be called "Chinese Democracy". Doug Goldstein (Guns n' Roses manager) also talked about the soon to be released album.

2002 will be remembered for the European Tour, the Axl Rose performance at the MTV Music Video Awards, and the North American Tour complete with two riots (Vancouver and Philadelphia) that came to a crashing halt in Philadelphia USA after Axl Rose again failed to show for a concert so the tour promoter pulled the plud on the North American Tour.

Axl rose is now believed to be working hard to finish the upcomming album "Chinese Democracy". Checkout the latest Axl Rose press release about the upcomming album.

Does the world still need Axl Rose? You betcha!

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