Steven Adler Memoir: My Appetite for Destruction

[Faridbak]

Steven Adler Memoir: My Appetite for Destruction

Steven Adler, drummer for seminal Sunset Strip outfit Guns N' Roses, has dropped his own memoir, titled My Appetite for Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N' Roses. In the maelstrom of excess that followed the band's breakaway hit Appetite for Destruction, everyone int he band ended up on drugs. Steve Adler was fired from G 'N R for excessive drug use, which is saying quite a bit.

Among the revelations in Steven Adler's book is that, as a teenager, he was raped and beaten at a party. This has never been mentioned publicly before.

Slash's self-titled autobiography chronicles the rise and fall of the rock juggernaut, and the tales of excess are extraordinary. Also, Stephen Davis wrote Watch You Bleed, chronicling the band's rise and fall.

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Guns N' Roses Reunion: Steve Adler Wants It, Axl Rose Does Not

While Guns N' Roses still exists as an entity, the only remaining original member is Axl Rose, whose meticulousness is now the stuff of legend, following the 14-year delay of Chinese Democracy.

Steven Adler is touring with his own band, Adler's Appetite, and Slash is touring in support of his latest album as well. Adler is up for an eventual Guns N' Roses original-lineup reunion, but Axl Rose wants no part of it. There also seem to be legal issues which keep them from talking about each other in the press.

Q. You wrote in the introduction, "People love train wrecks." Is this the story of a train wreck?

A very successful train wreck. If you're going to do something, do it right. Definitely it was a major train wreck. Of course it didn't start off that way, but when you're doing drugs and drinking and hanging out with the wrong people, it's bound to turn into a crash.

Source: northjersey.com

"It's so healing, getting all those things out of my system," says Adler, who was fired from the band in 1990 and battled severe drug addiction, even suffering a stroke, before reaching his current state of sobriety. "You can't take 30 years of pain and all that stuff and just get rid of it immediately, but at least I'm starting to get it out and I'm starting to become my own person again. I wasted so much of my life, it's great to have survived and be living again."

Source: www.nowpublic.com/culture/steven-adler-releases-his-own-guns-n-roses-memoir-2644586.html

[Angeles]

If God Tried To Talk To Axl Rose, Axl Would Make Him Wait?
08/02/2010
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You can always count on Steven Adler for a classic quote. This time the quote comes from an interview with the Boston Herald who were talking to him about his new autobiography, "My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses".

The conversation of course turned to the possibility of a reunion of the original Guns N' Roses lineup and Steven replied, "It's not up to Slash or Duff or Izzy, who wouldn't do it for the money but for the fans. It's all an Axl deal. He's got to be the one to say OK.

"But I won't pray to God to talk to Axl because if God tried to talk to Axl, he'd make him wait. So I'm not going to bother God with that because he'll come back to me saying, 'Steven, you made me go talk to him and the (expletive) made me wait outside all day."

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[Faridbak]

lol steven always trying to het attention by mentioning something wacky about Axl.. well he does have something to promote this time

[Angeles]

Adler still talking ....

Would GUNS N' ROSES Ever Reunite Without AXL ROSE? - Aug. 3, 2010

LED ZEPPELIN was reportedly incredibly close to touring without singer Robert Plant, but it never happened. It's an interesting idea, though, for a band to hit the road even if their vocalist isn't interested. That might be the case for the original members of GUNS N' ROSES since Axl Rose doesn't seem too keen on reuniting with them. So would drummer Steven Adler ever consider going out with just Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan?

"No, no, never, no, no, that's ridiculous," Adler told VH1 Radio Networks' Dave Basner. "'Appetite for Destruction' [GUNS N' ROSES' classic 1987 debut] is one of like five records that is still selling 20, 30 years later and is still popular. That shows right there how difficult it is to find four or five of the right people that can make that magic, that special magic."

Adler went on to say who they'd consider if they considered anyone.

"That Myles Kennedy [singer from ALTER BRIDGE] that Slash is working with, he's awesome," Steven told Basner. "Dude, that's 'Thor,' the god of thunder. He's great and if anybody could go in there, it would be him, but he don't have the chemistry that the five of us did because Axl, his attitude, Izzy's coolness, Duff's shyness, Slash's craziness and my outgoingness, it just all meshed together right."

As previously reported, Adler slammed his replacement in GUNS N' ROSES, Matt Sorum, in a new interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com. Adler was kicked out of the band in 1990 due to his drug use, and when asked how he felt when he heard that Sorum would play on the band's 1991 "Use Your Illusion" records, Adler said, "His were just half-assed, crappy versions. Nothing personal against the guy, but he's like a goddamn drum machine. He's got no heart; he's got no soul; he's got no feel. And as life and the years have shown obviously I'm not the easiest drummer to replace."

Adler added that he thinks the "Use Your Illusion" albums would have been bigger than the band's 1987 debut, "Appetite For Destruction", if he had been on them.

As for the chances of the original GUNS reuniting, Adler said, "I would love that more than anything, but it's an Axl thing; it's up to him if he wants to do it. Put it this way, it's the stupidest thing in the world for us not to do it."

Sorum told The Pulse of Radio a while back that if the original band reunites, they should perform with both him and Adler. "If it's me on drums or Steven or whatever, if it happened, it'd be great, you know," he said. "I would actually say to them, 'Hey, bring both of us back,' you know. Let me play the other stuff. We'll have two drum kits. I don't care. If 'Appetite' sounds better with Steven playing it, have both guys up there. They can afford it."

Adler has battled drugs for years and was a cast member of "Celebrity Rehab", although he relapsed briefly after appearing on the program.

Adler is on the road with his band ADLER'S APPETITE and also recently played on ex-GUNS guitarist Slash's self-titled solo album. He has just published his autobiography, "My Appetite For Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N' Roses".

Slash, Sorum and bassist Duff McKagan are also all in VELVET REVOLVER.

Axl Rose has been fronting a completely different GUNS lineup for several years now, with that band playing the Sturgis Bike Rally next week.

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