Steven Adler

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Adler (left) with Gilby Clarke in July 2012

Steven Adler (born January 22, 1965 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American drummer and was a member of the rock band Guns N 'Roses from 1985 to 1990 .

Life

In 1983, Adler founded the band Road Crew together with the later Guns-N'-Roses guitarist Slash , in which he played drums himself. However, the group remained insignificant as the remaining positions were regularly vacant. While looking for a new bass player, Adler and Slash came in contact with Duff McKagan . In 1985 both switched to his recently founded rock band Guns N 'Roses, in which the drummer and lead guitarist positions had become vacant.

Guns N 'Roses became one of the most popular rock bands worldwide in the second half of the 1980s. Adler played on the two successful albums Appetite For Destruction (1987) and G N 'R Lies (1988) as well as on the EP Live Like a Suicide (1986). During this time, however, like other members of the band, he suffered from heroin addiction . Even after singer Axl Rose threatened to leave the group if the musicians continued to take illegal drugs, Adler was unable to get his addiction under control. In 1990 he was thrown out of the band by Axl Rose, as he was now severely impaired in his skills as a drummer due to his drug use. This happened at the beginning of the recording of the album Use Your Illusion , for which Adler was replaced by Matt Sorum . Adler can still be heard on some of the songs on the double album.

In 1996 Adler suffered a stroke after an overdose, which still affects his ability to speak today. In 1997, he won a civil case against his former colleagues in which he was awarded outstanding royalties of $ 2.25 million. Since 2003 Adler has played irregularly with his own band (initially Adler's Appetite , since 2011 Adler ). Adler has been in closer contact with the former members of Guns N 'Roses since 2005.

In 2008, Steven Adler was convicted of drug use because he was arrested with a large dose of heroin in July of that year. The sentence was only announced after the withdrawal was over . Adler took part in the 2nd season of the reality TV show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew participated and was escorted during a drug rehab.

Steven Adler's biography was published in July 2010. In 2019, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a knife for an unknown reason.

In the list of 100 best drummers of all time of Rolling Stone ranked Adler 2016 Place 98th

Fonts

  • with Lawrence J. Spagnola: My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N 'Roses . lt Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-191711-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Part II Steven Adler X-Guns N 'Roses Drummer , Metal Sludge. January 22, 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved March 28, 2008. 
  2. ^ "Steven Adler on meeting Axl Rose," Blabbermouth. February 14, 2007. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved March 27, 2008. 
  3. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten : Former Guns N 'Roses drummer convicted , November 17, 2008
  4. Blabbermouth : STEVEN ADLER's Tell-All Biography Due In June - Feb. 17, 2010 ( Memento of May 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), February 17, 2010
  5. Former "Guns N 'Roses" drummer Steven Adler stabs himself in the stomach. RTL.de, June 29, 2019.
  6. 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time. Rolling Stone , March 31, 2016, accessed August 6, 2017 .

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