L.A.’s Roxy — the Center of Sunset Strip and its 80s Hair Metal — Attempts to Revitalize Itself

There’s a good article on the Sunset Strip’s legendary club, the Roxy, and its owner Nic Adler (above), in today’s New York Times.
The club has a lot of history — it was certainly fun to visit during glam metal’s heyday — and Adler has a sense of that and its place in the future.
“Having the [...]

A Minor Guns N’ Roses Reunion: Slash and Steven Adler Back Together Again

Even if it will be only a brief period of time … like, um, maybe one song … Adler and Slash will jam on stage for the Slash & Friends benefit concert in L.A.  The Slash & Friends concert is a fundraiser (dubbed LAYN ROCKS) for the Los Angeles Youth Network (LAYN),  a non-profit organization [...]

Ex-Guns N’ Roses Share Restraining Order

It seems Steven Adler would do almost anything to be as close of a buddy to Slash as he once was. Now they can share the same restraining order.
That’s pretty close.
Looks like some fan(atic) has stalked both Adler and Slash in the same bizarre fashion. And both “buds” were granted a restraining order against the [...]

Steven Adler Brags that Fans Liked His Band Better Than Axl’s

Axl’s band meaning Guns N’ Roses, of course.
Adler:
I couldn’t believe it, but all I can say is so many people really loved our show and said it was better than when they saw what Axl was doin’. It’s crazy, but that’s the main thing I heard!
Zing! Man, Adler loves to take shots at his old [...]

Guitarist Dennis Stratton Does Not Regret Leaving Iron Maiden in 1980

Anyone remember Dennis Stratton? I sure do.
Even though he was with Iron Maiden for only one year, Stratton left his mark as one of the lead guitarists on Maiden’s brilliant debut album.
So now he says he never felt regret for leaving Maiden, bound for the lower rung of NWOBHM like Lionheart [...]

Steven Adler Believes It Was Axl Rose Who Ran Guns n’ Roses into the Ground

Steven Adler still can’t let go. Or they keep bringing it up to him: a GN’R reunion, a GN’R reunion, a GN’R reunion…
It’s never going to happen. Never. Go ahead, check with Vegas. The odds are worse than Plant pulling that stick out of his ass and joining Page to reunite Zeppelin.
What’s interesting is Adler’s [...]

Finally — Steven Adler About Axl Rose: “F Him!”

Thatta boy, Adler! Ex-GNR drummer Steven Adler tells Psycho Babble TV:
“It would be nice if [the original Guns N' Roses lineup] could do a reunion. I know it would help me in my life. Because I’m afraid when I die I’m gonna have to come back again to finish what I started. And if I [...]

Steven Adler Gives Axl Rose a Backhanded Compliment

The Daily Times asked ex-GNR drummer Steven Adler what he thought of the last Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy:
“It sounded pretty good — there was something in there about blood, that’s all I can remember. God bless Axl Rose. I still love him and all those guys, so God bless him — God or [...]

Axl Rose: Slash is a “Cancer” and a “Whore for the Limelight”

Yeah, right. And all this coming from what many musicians consider to be a walking-and-talking human tumor.
Axl Rose was speaking to AOL’s Spinner.com about any chance of a Guns N’ Roses reunion. You know, of the Appetite For Destruction kind. And the trash-talk express pulled up.
“I suppose Duff (McKagan) could play guitar on something somewhere [...]

Guns N’ Roses’ Steven Adler to be Brutally Murdered in Horror Flick

Ex – Guns N’ Roses drummer, Steven Adler, has been enlisted to be the fall guy (serial killer victim this time) in a movie about Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killing cannibal (Movie title: “Dahmer vs. Gacy”). Adler will play a guy who gets cruised by (an irresisitable?) Dahmer and later get a drill to the [...]