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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