ADLER, the new band led by former GUNS N’ ROSES drummer Steven Adler, has postponed its previously announced summer tour due to Steven checking into an undisclosed rehabilitation center to continue working on his sobriety.
“We are truly sorry to all of the fans and promoters who were looking forward to seeing us on the road, but right now Steven‘s health is the most important thing,” states ADLER frontman Jacob Bunton. “We hope to make it up to everyone when Steven recovers.”
U.S. dates are currently being rescheduled to early fall.
Adler appeared on season two of on the “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” show and the first season of the spin-off program “Sober House” back in late 2008 and early 2009. Adler then went on to stints in real rehab centers after being ordered to by a judge as part of a DUI bust. He subsequently returned for Season 5 of “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” alongside Michael Lohan, Dwight Gooden and Bai Ling, among others.
“Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House” included footage of Adler being arrested on July 18, 2008 after he showed up at a sober-living home high and in possession of heroin.
Having been kicked out of his mother’s house on numerous occasions before he was old enough to vote, Steven Adler reportedly started skipping school and doing drugs when he was 11.
Steven Adler was the drummer for GUNS N’ ROSES from 1985 to 1990. He was eventually fired from the band due to his drug addiction, which caused him to spiral down into depression and more drug use.
Steven Adler‘s autobiography, “My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses”, came out in July 2010. In the book, Adler tells all, fearlessly addressing his struggles with heroin and crack addiction; his financial ruin after being kicked out of GN’R; his shattered marriage; and the severe health problems that nearly claimed his life on several occasions.
Joe Daly of The Nervous Breakdown recently conducted an interview with ADLER members Steven Adler (drums; also formerly of GUNS N’ ROSES) and Lonny Paul (guitar). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
The Nervous Breakdown: You recently said that you haven’t been this excited about playing music since your days in GUNS N’ ROSES. What is it about this lineup that’s so different?
Steven: It’s just a great team. Growing up and having Slash as a best friend, I couldn’t have been more blessed. But to meet someone when you’re forty seven years old, like I did with Lonny Paul, to have another best friend when you’re forty seven is a double-blessing. I just love being part of a team. I love that camaraderie where we’re all on the same page, we’re all after the same goal… we’re like a Super Bowl team! We’re trying to get to the Super Bowl, which for us is the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
The Nervous Breakdown: Speaking of that, the last time I saw you was on the day that you received word that GUNS N’ ROSES had been nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. You walked into the Rainbow that morning, having just received the call. Looking back now, having been inducted, how did it all go down for you, personally?
Steven: I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end that chapter of my life. And now, with this new record and new band, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to start the new chapter of my life.
The Nervous Breakdown: When you sat down to put ADLER together, did you give any thought to how it might relate to your GN’R legacy? Specifically, was there a conscious decision to avoid sounding too much like “Appetite For Destruction”?
Steven: It didn’t even enter my thinking. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with the GUNS sound; I love the GUNS sound and I’m proud of the GUNS sound. But that was five different guys. And now there’s four different guys that I’m working with now, and this is what we came up with and we had a blast making it. I just hope that the people listening to the record can hear the fun and the excitement and the passion that we had making this record. We’re hoping you can hear that.
The Nervous Breakdown: Slash guested on this album (on the song “Just Don’t Ask”). Steven, didn’t you teach Slash his very first guitar chord?
Steven: Yeah, I first met Slash in junior high school. After we met up, we went to my grandmother’s, where I lived off of Fairfax and Santa Monica. I had a little amplifier and a little cheap guitar and I knew two chords and two scales and he came over my house and we went into my grandpa’s room and put my KISS record on, turned the little amplifier up and I did these crazy little Ace Frehley moves. I showed him the two chords and two scales that I knew and within a week he was already playing and writing songs. He’s brilliant, and I couldn’t have asked for a better best friend growing up.
The Nervous Breakdown: With everything that you guys have been through, together and separately, what was it like to finally play with him again?
Steven: It was the best way to start this new chapter of my life. He wouldn’t let me watch him record… once he got there, we said hi, and he said, “Get out!” [laughs] But I didn’t get out. I was hiding in the laundry room, right next to him. I was right next to his room! It was great. It made me feel good because he’s very particular about who he works with. He wouldn’t work with me in the past because of my addiction problems, and he just doesn’t want to be around it. So for me, to have got myself to a place in my life where he’s willing to come around me and wanting to be around me, I couldn’t be happier and more proud. Things have changed. I’ll tell you, the biggest change was when Dr. Drew got a hold of Slash and I got the opportunity to apologize to Slash for blaming him for everything that happened in my life. Once I took responsibility for my own actions and started making amends, everything in my life became so much easier. Of course, I still have issues but that’s to be expected; I did drugs for thirty five years! It’s like going in the ring with Manny Pacquiao; it’s gonna take some time to heal after they kick you out of the ring. [laughs] It’s just nice that I got to the point of my healing where Slash is wanting to be a part of my life again, and to have him work with me is a plus.
Bloody-Disgusting.com recently conducted an interview with ADLER and LYNAM frontman Jacob Bunton. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
Bloody-Disgusting.com: How’d this all come about with ADLER? Did you know Steven [Adler, ADLER drummer] beforehand?
Jacob Bunton: No, I’d never met him before. I was actually at Jani Lane‘s [WARRANT] memorial, and he was actually a friend of my whole band LYNAM‘s, and I was with a producer friend of mine, a guy named Jay Ruston, and he knew Steven and the guys. They were looking for a singer, because Steven was tired of doing the ADLER’S APPETITE thing. He had been doing it for a while where they just played GUNS N’ ROSES cover tunes for all of the fans, and he wanted to do something brand new from scratch. So he was also looking for pretty much a new band from scratch, and Jay said, “I know the guy to sing,” and Steven had heard LYNAM‘s song “Is This A Heartbreak Or A Loaded Gun?”, and he really liked it. He also didn’t think that I sounded like anybody else, and that’s what he liked; he wanted a singer that didn’t sound like anybody else so that when the song came on the radio people would be like, “Oh, well that’s THAT band.” And a lot of the bands on the radio now, depending on what format, if you turn on an Active Rock station, it’s hard to tell who’s who. And if you turn on a Top 40 station it’s hard to tell who’s who; It could be Katy Perry, it could be Pink, it could be Britney Spears, you never know these days because everything pretty much sounds the same. So that was that, and then he came to my hotel a day or two later, and we really hit it off. We started talking about different bands that we both love, music that he grew up on and music that I grew up on. It was funny, because obviously the music that he grew up on was ’60s and ’70s rock, you know, everything from the RASPBERRIES to QUEEN to THE DOORS. And, of course, the music that I grew up on was GUNS N’ ROSES and MÖTLEY CRÜE and all of that. [laughs]
Bloody-Disgusting.com: So the album’s first single, “The One That You Hated”, which is excellent by the way, tell me a little bit about how that came to be.
Jacob Bunton: Thank you! Yeah, that was actually the first song that me and Lonnie [Paul], wrote together, and the last song that we recorded. How it came about was we were just sitting in Lonnie‘s living room with a couple of acoustic guitars, and I had the music and the verses, I just didn’t have the chorus, and once it got to the chorus, Lonnie just started singing “I’m the one that you hated,” and I was like, “That’s it, that’s awesome!” So it came together really naturally and really quick. And the funny thing is, it’s the first single, but it’s not like it’s the best song on the record or anything like that. Literally, Steven was about to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and he said, “You know, Slash has got his thing and Duff [McKagan] has got his thing, but nobody’s heard anything from me for a long time. I would like my fans to know what I’m up to.” So, literally, we just pointed at a piece of paper with all of the songs that we had recorded on it, and went, “Eeny meeny miny moe,” and that’s the one that we picked. And we shot the video, and the cool thing about it is VH1 just added the video two weeks ago. So they’ve been playing it, which is very cool.
Bloody-Disgusting.com: And as far as the ADLER album goes, is there a release date for that yet?
Jacob Bunton: Yeah, as far as ADLER goes, there’s no release date for it. The record’s been done now for a little while, but it’s still getting mixed and mastered. I think half of the record is now mixed, so we’re probably looking at early next year before the record is actually released.
The first episode in a new three-part web series from Deanna Adler, the mother of original GUNS N’ ROSES drummer Steven Adler can be seen below. In the clip, she discusses her reasons for writing her long-awaited tell-all book, “Sweet Child Of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N’ Roses” (formerly “No Bed Of Roses”) and how Steven really feels about it.
“Sweet Child Of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N’ Roses” will be released on August 28 via 4th Street Media.
Several excerpts from the book can be found at this location.
Deanna gives an honest and revealing look into a life beset by abuse and betrayal and what it was like raising a child who became a member of one of the greatest rock bands in history, and a heroin addict of equally epic proportions. The book emotionally and enthrallingly details a mother’s love for her infamous son, whose phenomenal success is surpassed only by his astounding capacity for self-destruction.
“Sweet Child Of Mine” is the universal journey of a mother’s devotion to her child, filled with moments of both profound joy and crippling heartache. Deanna takes readers on a roller coaster ride through raising a troubled young boy who ultimately reached the pinnacle of fame and success, only to then be publicly branded a junkie and kicked out of his band in front of a television audience of millions; go on to endure continuing addiction, legal battles, financial ruin, two heart attacks, multiple suicide attempts, a debilitating stroke, and numerous stints in rehab. But it is her courage and indomitable spirit that both educates and inspires, as she is living proof that devotion to family, a sense of humor, and faith in a higher power are the foundations for achieving peace and purpose in life.
Deanna Adler appeared on the second season of “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew”, on which Steven was a cast member. During the season’s episode five, Dr. Drew, Dr. Sophy and Steven sat down for a meeting with Deanna in a what was described as “a tense whirlwind of accusations, denials and resentment. Steven is so flustered that he storms out of the room, leaving the many issues between he and Deanna unresolved, possibly forever.”
You can see Deanna Adler‘s appearance on “Celebrity Rehab” at this location. (Deanna Adler first appears around the 19-minute mark.)
Having been kicked out of his mother’s house on numerous occasions before he was old enough to vote, Steven Adler reportedly started skipping school and doing drugs when he was 11.
Steven Adler was the drummer for GUNS N’ ROSES from 1985 to 1990. He was eventually fired from the band due to his drug addiction, which caused him to spiral down into depression and more drug use.
Steven Adler‘s autobiography, “My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses”, came out in July 2010. In the book, Adler tells all, fearlessly addressing his struggles with heroin and crack addiction; his financial ruin after being kicked out of GN’R; his shattered marriage; and the severe health problems that nearly claimed his life on several occasions.
ADLER/former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler spoke with Andy Greene from Rolling Stone about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony which was held in Cleveland on April 14th.
Here are a few excerpts from the chat:
Rolling Stone: How did the induction ceremony go for you?
Adler: “It was the greatest way to end that chapter of my life. It couldn’t have gone better. It ended that chapter of my life great, and it’s starting this new chapter of my life, with my new band, even bigger and better. It’s very exciting. It’s fucking exciting. Life is exciting again.”
Rolling Stone: You think the Guns N’ Roses chapter is closed?
Adler: “That’s done. That’s totally out of my system. I was hoping that the five of us would have been there to play and show our respect to the fans, but the three of us who really do care about what our fans think and how much they’ve done for us were there, and we showed our love and respect. In my thank-you speech, I ended it with the words of the late, great Freddie Mercury. ‘I’ve taken my bows, my curtain calls, you’ve brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it, and I thank you all.’ I think that says it. It couldn’t have gone better. I showed my thanks and my love. Slash is really the main person from that band that is really super-duper…they’re all important, but Slash is the most important, because we grew up together, we started the whole thing together, so it was really great ending that chapter with him.”
Rolling Stone: How did it feel playing those songs with Slash and Duff again?
Adler: “It was great, and Myles Kennedy did a fabulous job…This is the only thing I’m going to say about Axl, and this is the last thing I’m ever going to say, ever, you’re getting it, is I feel blessed and thankful that he was a part of my life for that chapter of my life, but that’s it. That’s it. I have no desire to know him or work with him or do anything with him again. Letting go of that was like a huge weight was lifted off my body. I feel fucking free. Yay!”
Rolling Stone: You and all the fans have wanted that reunion for years. That desire is gone on your part?
Adler: “Yeah, it’s gone. If it was going to happen, that’s when it was going to happen, and in Axl’s letter, he showed his true colors to the world. After that, that’s it. Like I said, the main person I wanted to end that chapter with, and I’m going to start a new chapter with, was Slash.”
ADLER, the new band led by former GUNS N’ ROSES drummer Steven Adler, will release its debut single, “The One That You Hated”, via iTunes on April 10.
In addition to Steven, ADLER features Lonny Paul (ADLER’S APPETITE) on guitar and Jacob Bunton (LYNAM, MARS ELECTRIC) on vocals/guitar. The group has been recording its debut album in Los Angeles with producers Jeff Pilson (former DOKKEN and current FOREIGNER/TOOTH AND NAIL bassist) and Jay Ruston (ANTHRAX, STEEL PANTHER, ADRENALINE MOB).
ADLER‘s CD will feature guest appearances by ROB ZOMBIE/ex-MARILYN MANSON guitarist John 5 and Steven‘s former GUNS N’ ROSES bandmate Slash (guitar).
“I love the music that we’re creating!” states Adler. “I haven’t been this excited about my band since the GN’R days. Jacob is exactly the singer I have been searching for. He has an amazing range and is a great writer and frontman. Lonny is an amazing guitarist and songwriter and the vibe is amazing!” He added, “I’m so excited for everyone to hear this record!” Source: Blabbermouth.net
According to a recent tweet from original GUNS N’ ROSES drummer Steven Adler, his mother, Deanna Adler, has signed a deal for her long-awaited tell-all book, “Sweet Child Of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N’ Roses” (formerly “No Bed Of Roses”). The book, which was previously expected to arrive late last year via HarperCollins, is now due in April.
In the bestselling tradition of “Come Back” and “Augusta, Gone”, comes her story of heartache and strength as Deanna Adler stood by her son at his most troubled times.
During the last quarter century, Deanna Adler kept her diaries, journals, and personal letters, as well as a dozen scrapbooks and hundreds of photographs, putting them aside for safekeeping. “Sweet Child Of Mine” is her stunning book about raising her son, Steven Adler, the drummer for GUNS N’ ROSES, and the travails of keeping him alive and herself sane.
Deanna‘s son has had a turbulent life in GUNS N’ ROSES and afterward; he struggled with drug addiction, financial ruin after being kicked out of GUNS N’ ROSES, and health problems that almost claimed his life several times — two heart attacks, a suicide attempt, and a debilitating stroke. Now, he appears to have finally beaten his epic twenty-year addiction to crack and heroin. But through it all, his mother was by his side. Deanna offers a window into the world of rock’n'roll and addiction while at the same time providing deep insights into her son’s tortured years.
These are the memoirs of a mother’s love for an infamous son whose phenomenal success is only surpassed by his astounding capacity for self destruction. Her pages are filled with moments of profound joy and crippling heartbreak. “Sweet Child Of Mine” will inform and inspire others to find the strength to help their loved ones.
Deanna Adler appeared on the second season of “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew”, on which Steven was a cast member. During the season’s episode five, Dr. Drew, Dr. Sophy and Steven sat down for a meeting with Deanna in a what was described as “a tense whirlwind of accusations, denials and resentment. Steven is so flustered that he storms out of the room, leaving the many issues between he and Deanna unresolved, possibly forever.”
You can see Deanna Adler‘s appearance on “Celebrity Rehab” at this location. (Deanna Adler first appears around the 19-minute mark.)
Having been kicked out of his mother’s house on numerous occasions before he was old enough to vote, Steven Adler reportedly started skipping school and doing drugs when he was 11.
Steven Adler was the drummer for GUNS N’ ROSES from 1985 to 1990. He was eventually fired from the band due to his drug addiction, which caused him to spiral down into depression and more drug use.
Steven Adler‘s autobiography, “My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses”, came out in July 2010. In the book, Adler tells all, fearlessly addressing his struggles with heroin and crack addiction; his financial ruin after being kicked out of GN’R; his shattered marriage; and the severe health problems that nearly claimed his life on several occasions. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Chino Moreno (DEFTONES), Gilby Clarke (GUNS N’ ROSES), Glenn Hughes (BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH), Steven Adler (GUNS N’ ROSES), Sebastian Bach (SKID ROW), Billy Duffy (THE CULT), Billy Gibbons (ZZ TOP), Mark McGrath (SUGAR RAY) and Frankie Perez are among the guest musicians who performed with CAMP FREDDY Friday night (December 16) at the third of four shows as part of the band’s fifth annual Christmas residency at the world-famous The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California.
Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below.
CAMP FREDDY is the Los Angeles-based “jam” group featuring Dave Navarro (JANE’S ADDICTION, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS), Billy Morrison (ex-THE CULT bassist, current CIRCUS DIABLO vocalist), Matt Sorum (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N’ ROSES), Donovan Leitch (son of legendary folk singer Donovan), and Chris Chaney (JANE’S ADDICTION, ALANIS MORRISETTE).
In an interview with Gibson.com, Navarro was asked if there will ever be a CAMP FREDDY album. “We talked about it for many, many years, but the logistics of something like that really doesn’t translate to what we’re about,” he replied. “We’re a live band and we’re about the fun on stage and whoever’s gonna get up with us — we don’t know from night to night. And when you go into a studio to record songs that have already been recorded, it’s difficult to recreate that kind of energy and spontaneity, so it’s unlikely at this juncture.”
Since its formation eight years ago when they rocked the opening of The Standard Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles at the invitation of Brent Bolthouse, CAMP FREDDY has performed on both coasts of America and on national television shows (“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, “Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn”, “Last Call with Carson Daly”).
