This page is dedicated to one of the best drummers ever, former member of uncredible band "Guns N' Roses" in the period of 1985-1990 years, with him were recorded famous then, classical today and legendary forever albums "Live Like A Suicide", "Appetite For Destruction" and "G.N'R Lies". This man was through really hard times, but he made it and today he's happy. If when he was in the Guns, he got our love, so today, except for love, he deserves our respect. Nice work, Steve! Keep on goin' this way! We luv ya!

Steven Adler: short history

Steve was born in Cleveland, Ohio, as Gilby Clarke and Dizzy Reed, other members of Guns N' Roses, on January 22, 1965. He said that in his childhood he was 'feisty little kid', because 'a super bad guy came out of me when I was a wee youngster. I was really bad: got thrown out of eight, nine different schools, I used to fight with the teachers, I'd get in the fight every day...". In 1972 his family moved to L.A., and in the age of just 12 he left his home and lived with grandma, and then he fell in love with music. One of his first drum influences were Roger Taylor ("Queen", Guns N' Roses later appeared on a tribute to Freddie Mercuy gig, but, sadly, already without Steve), Keith Moon ("The Who", inspiration of every drummer), and John Bonham of "Led Zep".
Steve's first step on the road to success was... crash on a scateboard. His schoolmate, Saul Hudson, later became known as Slash, was hanging out with the bike in some playground and, when he saw Steven who had fallen off his skateboard, went over to see if he was alright. ("I thoght he had killed himself" - Slash). They started to hang out after that, and back then Slash wasn't a guitarist. He came to Steven's place, and saw him playing KISS songs (Steve's other influence) on a guitar. It was an incitement for Slash to start practising the guitar, but Steven understood guitar is not his profile, and after trying to do something with vocals, he'd switched to drums. He had no drums at the beginning, and pounded on books and Tupperware. Then he worked for a while and bought himself a drum kit.
In 1984-85 they formed a band with Slash, who played guitar now well, and called it "Road Crew", but the band suffered without bassist, and then came Duff McKagan, who had just moved to L.A. They didn't succeed with that project, so Duff left in 1985 and soon got invitation to join Guns N' Roses, and some time after offered Slash and Steve as replacement for Tracii and Rob. For more Guns N' Roses story, click here.
Steve, as we know, by the end of the 80's became a heavy drug addict, and because of that couldn't continue with the Guns, though he tried hard to leave the drugs, but, as you understand, it's not so easy. But Guns couldn't wait, and in the middle of 1990 Steve was fired. His last show  was "Farm Aid IV", where Guns n' Roses first time performed UK Subs' cover "Down On A Farm". We can still hear Steve on "Use Your Illusion - II", though, on the track called "Civil War".
And then he, with love and support of his family, started the treatment. He cleaned up his act entirely and now he's sober, and we can say he did his best. Well done, Steve!
From his news we saw, that in 1993 he launched a lawsuit against Guns N' Roses, and blaimed them 'for turning him to drugs'. Well, don't know... Guns N' Roses made a $2.500.000 out-of-court payment to him in september.
After that came rumours, that Andy McCoy (???), ex-Hanoi Rocks' guitarist,
made him offer to join his band, and after this I didn't hear anything, and some rumours that Steve re-formed "Road Crew" with Davy Vain, also unconfirmed.
Later, he wrote the autobiographical book called "No Bed Of Roses", and in 1996 played with the band "Freaks In The Room". After that I heard news about his arrest for some rumble in 1998, and also some rumours that he plays now in the band called "BulletBoys".
This site will update every time I will know something new about the guy, so check it out frequently. If you know something new about Steven Adler, or wish to add sometning to this page, you need to contact me here.

Steven Adler: the photos

Well, it's a shame, but I got only three pics of Steven here right now. But with your help, I hope to make this photo collection more wider. Send me your photos of Steve to: Ronnie_Stradlin@yahoo.com, and it will appear here immediately with big thanx to ya!

1) The Four Drummers That Kick Butt - one of the best pics of Steven and  simply good pic: (left to right) Cinderella's Fred Coury, Metallica's Lars
Ulrich, Steven Adler and Tommy Lee from Motley Crue.

2) Steve relaxing before some early club Guns N' Roses show.

3) Steve shows his tattoo.

4) Steven live!

That's all for now, but I hope with your help here'll be helluva lot more pix soon.  J Thanks!

Steven Adler: the albums

As for the albums of Guns N' Roses Steven featured on, here they are - if you wanna check the full list of songs, players, lyrics, etc., go here.

"Live Like A Suicide", 1986

 

"Appetite For Destruction",1987

 

"G.N'R Lies", 1988

 

"Use Your Illusion - II"

Steven Adler: the links

Well, I see you startin' to raise your feasts and yell, "He can call it the page of Steven Adler?!! Where (the fuck) are links to other sites, dedicated to  Steven ?!!!???!!? "
You're quite right, and I'm sorry, my page features only one link, but it's FINALL Y THE OFFICIAL PAGE OF STEVEN!!!!!!!!!! CLICK HERE QUICKLY!!!!

Steven Adler's Official WebSite