The Beautiful (band) 2006, Frank Ferrer has been a member of Guns N' Roses (replacing Bryan Mantia)—supplying drums on the songs "Chinese Democracy", "Better", "If the World", "There Was a Time" and "I.R.S." on their 2008 album, "Chinese Democracy", and touring throughout the world with the band. After the Beautiful and prior to joining Guns N' Roses, Ferrer also played drums for a variety of acts, including The Psychedelic Furs, Perry Farrell, Wyclef Jean and Tool, among others. The musical style of the Beautiful has been described as "A mix of Jane's Addiction at their most wistful and the broody flowery sway of
Chinese Democracy Tour completed the band's first performance in seven years, which was praised as "a triumphant return" by music magazine "Rolling Stone". The band performed a number of new songs, including "Oh My God" (released as a single in 1999), "Riad N' The Bedouins", "Chinese Democracy", "Street of Dreams" (all later released on "Chinese Democracy") and "Silkworms" (which remains unreleased as of April 2016), including a bulk of original songs and 'classics' such as "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", "November Rain" and "You Could Be Mine". The Las Vegas show was followed two weeks later by the performance at Rock in