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Steven & Deanna Adler Reddit AMA - January 26th


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Q: Hey Steven, First off I'd like to say thank you for all the work thag you've done with GnR, Adler's Appetite, and Adler. Your drumming inspired me to become a drummer myself. My question is: Do you have any advice for up and coming musicians?

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Steven: Practice, practice, practice. Repetition makes the master. Stay away from alcohol and drugs and you can't lose.

Deanna: I agree with Steven, especially about staying away from alcohol and drugs. He practices every single day.

Steven: Alcohol and drugs are a waste of time.

Deanna: 3-4 hours a day he practices, even now.

Steven: That is because I love to play. Always practice and play with everybody and anybody you can.

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Steven: Hi Saffron, Thank you very much! I appreciates that. My favorite bands and my influential drummers were Roger Taylor from Queen, Peter Criss from Kiss. Pretty much any 60's, 70's drummers because in the 60's is first when they started using Jazz drumming and started turning ti into rock drumming and then the 70s just took it to another level. In the 80s it just went completely out of style until I came around and changed that.

Deanna: Because you are the king!

Steven: It's good to be king.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Padme said:

So far he answered one question about advice to musicians. He said many hours of practice and stay away from drugs and alcohol

I'm guessing theyll be very selective about what questions they answered and most will be geared towards promoting the book. 

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1 minute ago, RussTCB said:

I'm guessing theyll be very selective about what questions they answered and most will be geared towards promoting the book. 

Of course, but in that case doing an AMA doesn't make any sense. He is talking about practice and his favorite drummers

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4 minutes ago, GibsonLP said:

This should really be titled 'ask me some things'

that is how most of these work on Reddit, it is rare someone is an open book. The biggest debacle ever, that I have seen is Woody Harrelson when promoting Rampart a couple of years ago. 90% of answers... "Im here to talk about Rampart"

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What do you miss most about the rock n roll scene from the 80s compared to today?

Steven: It was more exciting back then 'cause you didn't find out everything like you do now. Everything is instantly over people's phones and everything. It was like exciting to read magazines and read about your bands and what's going on and it's just a completely different world now. I think I got to catch the end of when rock was really rock. That's what I miss. I miss going to record stores and hanging out. I miss going to magazine stands and reading magazines and looking at pictures. I miss looking at record albums and reading all the liner notes and looking at the pictures in the sleeves and reading how they did the record and what happened. That was exciting. Nowadays, it's nothing. You just push a button and you're on the computer. There's no liner notes. There's maybe one goofy picture that's been photoshopped. I like the real stuff. I like real instruments. Reality. Real. People practicing. I've never known one person that practices as a teenager and looked in the mirror and was air guitar playing practice to see how they look and thinking in their head, "Oh, I just wanna play for myself". No, it's that I wanna play for the world. And I miss that whole real kinda rock thing, ya know. Music.

Deanna: I miss him. That's it.

Steven: She misses me practicing my drums in the bedroom. Oh god, please stop! Pleeease!

Deanna: That's exactly right.

Steven: When he goes to school, I'm throwing these out.

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8 minutes ago, tsinindy said:

The good news is he isn't going to answer anything related to GnR.

The bad news is he isn't going to answer anything related to GnR.

Well for me at least it is more important that he is still involved with GN'R. That's one indirect answer that we got ;) 

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