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STEVEN ADLER |
Submitted By Cassie on 06/10/06
Link to Adler’s Appetite Discography
Steven Adler (born January 22, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio) is most famous as the drummer of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985 - 1990. He was fired from the band in 1990 when he was unable to competently record on the Use Your Illusion I & Use Your Illusion II albums with the band as a result of his drug addiction. Adler was replaced by former Cult drummer Matt Sorum, now of Velvet Revolver.
He met future GN'R guitarist Slash as a teenager in California. The two became fast friends, and as Slash took up guitar, Steven took up drums in order to form a band (albeit missing some components), Road Crew. The two eventually joined forces with Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, and Duff McKagan in a reformed GN'R, replacing Tracii Guns and Rob Gardner, respectively. Steven drummed on two of GNR's albums, Appetite for Destruction and GN'R lies. Matters came to a head when it came time to start recording for the UYI albums and Steven was still not past his heroin addiction. Steven was soon fired, his playing remaining only on the first track of Use Your Illusion II, "Civil War". Axl has said in an interview that "Civil War was recorded a good 60 times" due to problems with Adler.
GN'R fans are often divided into two camps: one favouring the brighter-sounding early GN'R with Adler, the other preferring the heavier sound GN'R acquired with replacement drummer Matt Sorum. Izzy Stradlin, who quit the band (citing Axl's dominance) a short while after Steven was fired, insisted later that Steven's drumming was crucial to the band's sound, and agreed to an interviewer's comment that replacing him with Sorum turned GN'R from a hard rock band to a heavy metal one. Sorum, nonetheless, became an integral part of GN'R, and continues to work with Slash and Duff today in Velvet Revolver.
After being fired, Steven was taken advantage of by many former "friends" and had an overall tough time in the 90's. He still couldn't quit drugs and eventually, as the result of a 'hellacious speedball' suffered a stroke which impairs his speech. Now clean, Steven drums for his band Adler's Appetite, formerly Suki Jones (After the Aerosmith lyric in Back in the Saddle). He is still in contact with Stradlin, and has repaired his friendships with Slash and McKagan.
When Slash and Duff began creating Velvet Revolver, Steven expressed hope that history could repeat itself and that he would be in a band with them once again. Velvet Revolver was created with Matt Sorum instead (the first band Sorum was a part of from the beginning - as opposed to joining as a replacement - a detail he cherishes), and Adler continues instead with Adler's Appetite, which plays many GN'R classics at GN'R's original type of venue: clubs.
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