10 Musicians Who Came Back From Huge Band Breakups

Almost every die hard Guns N Roses fan probably knew that the band was done after the Use Your Illusion tour wrapped up. Going around the world with something that huge was going to do a number on any band, and while The Spaghetti Incident may have tided people over, it was only covering up the real tension that was going on behind the scenes. The street gang had turned into Axl Rose and Friends show, and Slash needed to stretch his muscles beyond what Axl wanted.

While Slash is known as a guitar god these days, the first few years of his solo career were actually serving other artists, guesting on songs by everyone from Bob Dylan to Michael Jackson to Carole King. His soul always drifted back to dirty rock and roll though, and projects like Slash's Snakepit was more in line with the classic sound he was known for, almost sounding like the record that should have come out right after Appetite for Destruction. After a few years apart though, the GNR brothers got back together without Axl for Velvet Revolver, with Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland bringing an alternative tinge to the sleazy rock and roll of GNR on songs like Slither and Fall to Pieces.

Once Velvet Revolver had run its course though, Slash had gotten to the point where the big names came to him, making a record with multiple different singers before creating a band from the ground up with Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge out front. GNR might have gotten back together in the past few years, but Slash is never one to be contained to just one band anymore.