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Steven Adler was kicked out his house as a teen lived on the streets, had sex with men and was eventually raped buy homosexuals when he was 14. (source: Adlers book)

in that order?

Please provide better context if you can.

edit - because it seems confusing that he would "have sex with men" before he was 14 as your sentence may seem to suggest.

VICKY HAMILTON (Original GNR manager): Oh yeah. So one day, I walk into the living room, and Kim Fowley (Elecktra record company exec) is sitting on my couch, talking to Axl and Izzy. I don’t think Slash was there that day. Kim is telling them he wants to buy the publishing rights to “Anything Goes,” “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City,” which was a brand-new song at that point. Three songs that ended up on “Appetite,” and Kim Fowley offers $2,500 for the publishing. Axl wanted to do it! I was like, “Are you fucking kidding me? Those are great songs that are worth a lot more than that!” And Axl goes, “Yeah, but I can write a million songs like those.” I was like, “You can’t write a million songs like THOSE songs. Don’t do it.”

source: http://www.metalsludge.tv/?p=34971

The Penguin guides are always good, both for jazz and classical.

Colin Wilson also wrote a very interesting book on classic music.

This question ceased to be relevant once the Beatles released Rubber Soul and Revolver.

Everybody knows that Satanic Majesties was a poor attempt at psychedelic rock a la Sgt Peppers.

The Dead Daisies legendary hunky Aussie singer Jon Stevens offers some insights into the band. Can't wait to see 'em on Sunday with a couple of mates at the Oxford Art Factory. Tickets still available. There should be heaps of wet pussy there, too. Am hoping to take some pictures with my Lumix LX5. Might even try to record the show with my iriver recorder.

Interesting read, thanks.

The Serpico one has got to be noted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1x2YH0xubk

Pathetic.

Oh really? If you can't laugh about it there's something wrong with you.

Yes, oh really.

I could laugh, but not for the reasons you might be expecting me to laugh. When I was younger, around 12, I found his rants amazing. A rock star telling the system to fuck off, damn, so cool. Yep, but when I was 12.

Now when you think about it, it's depressing, sad and pathetic. I mean, an old guy who is totally out of breath, ranting about the press (yet again) and his old bandmates, trying to portray himself as the victim (that's the Serpico reference) to an audience that couldn't care less about what he has to say? Nah, that's not funny at all and I find nothing to laugh about.

That said, Serpico is a great movie and I loved Al Pacino's performance. I could give you that.

Just one question. So it's ok for you to be pathetic, but not for Axl?

I just live in the finest city in the world, that's all: Sydney.

I'll only admit to being a from-the-sidelines type Prince fan as former girlfriends and sisters have been the ones all ga-ga about him, but the man can absolutely shred on a guitar and hearing The Beautiful Ones would be worth the price of admission.

being something of a working class pleb its difficult for me to remember songs that are just instrumental and based around the same kinda instruments

Well shut the fuck up then, ya fuckin' pleb!

Fool for Your Lovin'?

Every Rose Has It's Thorn is good, but Fallen Angel is better!

-edit- Something To Believe In isn't bad either.

The Serpico one has got to be noted -

"They are the bad cops"

If any rant will be included in any worthy future GN'R movie it will be this one.

And while watching it you just know Axl knew it when he ranted. He was well prepared.

The Serpico one has got to be noted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1x2YH0xubk

Pathetic.

Oh really? If you can't laugh about it there's something wrong with you.

Writing and recording sessions in Sydney -

I wish there a system where relevant tweets (eg. when GNR members, present and past, are involved in making music, touring, or anything otherwise of genuine broad interest) could be sorted out.

I mean, someone like Matt Sorum is an absolute tweet hog! the man tweets 43 times a day about every conceivable thing he can and fucking clogs up that tweets column here. Ok, he has a new album coming out, it's fair enough to tweet about that, but.... stopping the clog an removing his every irrelevant tweet might be a full time job...

Meanwhile current GNR members Dizzy and Fortus are doing major exciting things right now -- touring the world and recording new music with The Dead Daisies http://thedeaddaisies.com/2014/02/ , playing with major name players (like Darryl Jones from The Rolling Stones), etc... and none of their tweets appear here (in the tweets column) - https://twitter.com/TheDeadDaisies

The Serpico one has got to be noted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1x2YH0xubk

Concentrate on the first 7 albums - his initial 60's rise to fame (it's all essential except perhaps for his first self-titled album where he sounds a bit like he's trying to find his feet and which mainly consists of his take on traditional folk covers), peaking with Blonde On Blonde. Then, you'll want to hear more. The first three are his 'folk' period, then he starts to get progressively more poetic and wilder and more surreal. The folk establishment people in the NY folk scene couldn't really come to terms with it and it pissed a lot of them off, but they didn't get that he had a much grander vision. I'd read up on this initial 60's Dylan period so that you appreciate what a game changer he was in terms of songwriting, eg, he made it more direct and personal, greatly influenced The Beatles and so on (or, if you are so inclined, watch the Scorcese doc No Direction Home). So,

'Bob Dylan'
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Times They're A-Changin'
The Other Side Of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde

New single 'Washington'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XntCdbZlmg#t=20

Yes, that's Darryl Jones (Rolling Stones) on bass, subsequently replaced by Marco Mendoza (Blue Murder/Whitesnake). This band seems to be very well connected. Now they also have the drummer from The Cult, John Tempesta.

The Dead Daisies, 1st show of the Australian tour, Feb 6 '14, Adelaide:

Bought their album today... it's growing on me, solid stuff. Have also bought tickets for their show on the 23rd and been enjoying the whole trip of reading up on media reports and finding out all about their history. They have plans to record a second album soon with their stellar updated lineup (featuring Richard Fortus and Dizzy Reed, of course...), fresh from playing together on tour.

They have a very well-put-together website featuring links to several recent print, radio and tv interviews on the Australian tour they've just embarked on - http://thedeaddaisies.com/news/

ATTENTION MODS, would it be possible to add their twitter stuff on the twitter column here? - https://twitter.com/TheDeadDaisies

Walking Papers were fun, saw them open for AiC, singer had mike on a long cable, jumped into the crowd and walked around with it while singing, was pretty surreal being a fair few feet away from the stage then having the singer standing right in front of me.

Well it was a total surprise to me that a support band (Walking Papers) was Duff's band when my friend bought the tickets, so a bonus to look forward to.

Btw (off topic) dude, sorry i was rude to you here a couple of months ago, i was hitting the liquor pretty hard and made an ass of myself.

Classical. More straight out dramatic and easy to comprehend.

Jazz by and large is quite self-indulgent and quite often elitist.

Alice In Chains, Down, Walking Papers - Feb 25

The Dead Daisies - Feb 23rd

So, cool! - seeing Duff (w WP), & Fortus & Dizzy.

I caught ask those bands (except down) at uproar last summer.all amazing live, have fun!

Thanks ZSR, I'm curious to see if TDD will play anything other than their own songs here eg. a Noiseworks (Jon Stevens' old band, which i was a fan of) song, eg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri1MTXFu8No , that would be awesome.

one of them, anyway:

"I don't reckon i got no reason to kill nobody" (Slingblade)