Axl Rose in court (Part 1/2)

Part 2: www.youtube.com Slash and Adler met their future Guns N’ Roses bandmates when they placed an ad in The LA Times searching for a bassist for their band. Duff McKagan responded to the ad, and later worked with Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin in Hollywood Rose, who Slash had originally auditioned for, before merging with LA Guns (Rob Gardner, Tracii Guns and Ole Beich) to create Guns N’ Roses. The three joined Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin to create the most famous and “original” line-up of Guns N’ Roses. Adler drummed on the first two GN’R albums: the multi-platinum Appetite for Destruction and GN’ R Lies. Adler’s work also appeared on one song on Use Your Illusion II, the opening track “Civil War”, although his drum track is said to be heavily edited.[5] In late 1987, while Guns N’ Roses was on tour, an intoxicated Adler broke his hand when he punched a streetlight after a barroom brawl. Fred Coury from the band Cinderella substituted on drums for several shows until Adler recovered.[6] At the 1989 American Music Awards, where Guns N’ Roses performed their latest single, “Patience,” Nobody filled in for Adler on drums because no drums were planned for the song and it ended up being acoustic only song. Officially, the absence was attributed to a case of the flu; it was later revealed that Adler had actually been in a drug rehabilitation program at the time. Problems continued in 1990, as the band recorded “Civil War” for Nobody’s Child, an album benefiting the Romanian …
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