Check Out How Your Favorite Musicians Stumbled Into Choosing Their Now-Iconic Names

Guns N’ Roses Were Just Plain Lazy

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The legendary rockers may have had some pretty creative and masterful songs, but their band name was pretty uncreative. Lead singer Axl Rose and guitarist Izzy Stradlin were in the band Hollywood Rose. Stradlin had a roommate in a band called L.A. Guns who needed a new lead singer.

The two bands joined forces and combined the names in Guns and Roses. They eventually decided the “and” was too wordy and changed it to Guns N’ Roses. Combining the two names might seem lazy but their other ideas weren’t very good. Some rejected names were “AIDS” and “Heads of Amazon.”