Paul Tobias

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Paul Tobias is a former member of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses.

A childhood friend of Axl Rose, he had been connected with the band from its early days, and was thanked in the credits for Appetite for Destruction. Tobias co-wrote "Back Off Bitch", "Shadow Of Your Love", "Oh My God", and "IRS" ^{[citation needed]}. He also played rhythm and lead guitar on the band's cover version of "Sympathy for the Devil".

He officially joined Guns N' Roses in 1994, and played in their concerts in January 2001 at Las Vegas House of Blues and Rock in Rio III, and at two New Year's concerts in Las Vegas at the end of the same year.

Industry sources state that Tobias continues to work on the long-delayed Chinese Democracy album, although he was officially replaced in the band by Richard Fortus in 2002 due to his aversion to touring <ref>http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/news/shownews.php?newsid=490</ref>. Interestingly enough, Guns N' Roses' first rhythm guitarist, Izzy Stradlin, was also a childhood friend of Axl Rose and left the band because of his opposition to life on the road.

Tobias is sometimes known as "Paul Huge", and was also a member of the band mank Rage.