WHAT in the World Is Wrong With Steven Adler?

Question by Capricorn: WHAT In The World Is Wrong With Steven Adler?
My boyfriend said he was the greatest drummer around in his day and can still be if he stays sober.

I am not familiar with him or his music. I only know him from Sober House but by the looks of things he will not make it anytime soon getting and staying sober.

A lot of rockers back in the day did all types of drugs, but they were able to kick it or they died. How did Steven get this far staying alive and is still on drugs?

I am so afraid we will read about him in the papers in the next few months dying from a drug overdose. I really feel sorry for him.

Does anybody out there know what happen to him? What is his history?

Best answer:

Answer by Noggin_BEEP
He had a stroke or something

Answer by Paul
I have written this article on Steven. He is a very close friend of mine, in fact he turned to me when his drug habit starting getting out of control. I am the one who convinced him to go to rehab.

Steven Adler (born January 22, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a well known American rock drummer. He is most famous for his tenure as a member of the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses, with whom he performed and recorded from 1985 to 1990.

Early Life
Steven Adler was born on January 22, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was born into the Jewish faith [1] and has some Icelandic heritage. [2]

Adler moved to Los Angeles with his mother, Deanna, and older brother Kenny, as a young child. His mother re-married to Melvin Adler and had another child, Jamie. Steven was forced to be on his own at age 11 when he came home one day to find all of his belongings packed up on the sidewalk. He attended PCC (Pasadena City College) at the age of 16-17…then he woke up and left. Steven’s younger brother Jamie is a booking agent for such hip-hop acts as Bone Thugs N’ Harmony and Tyrese. Most informed people close to Adler believe that his mother and stepfather squandered most of his money (10-20 million dollars) gambling in Las Vegas where Mel Adler was a high-roller who liked to frequent Caesar’s Palace. Steven’s nephew, Max, is also involved in the entertainment business producing stage-shows in Las Vegas and several reality television shows.[3]

Adler met future Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash at the age of 12. The two attended the same junior high school in California[4] and when Adler had a skateboarding accident, Slash stopped to help him.[3] The two became fast friends, and as Slash took up guitar, Adler gave up the guitar himself and took up drums, in order to form a band (albeit missing some components), Road Crew.

[edit] Guns N’ Roses era (1985 – 1990)
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 G N’ 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,” Don Henley filled in for Adler on drums. 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 Angel Appeal. Axl Rose has said in interviews that “Civil War was recorded a good 60 times” due to problems with Adler[citation needed] ; Slash, in another article, stated that the band had to edit the drum track to “Civil War” simply to be able to play along with it.[5] By Adler’s own admission, he tried to play the song “20, maybe 30 times.”[3] During the recording of “Civil War” Adler was still trying to stop using drugs.[4]

Adler was briefly fired from the band, but was reinstated after signing a contract promising to stop using drugs.[7] In July 1990, he performed with Guns N’ Roses at Farm Aid IV in Indiana. It would be his last appearance with the band. When problems in the studio continued, he was formally fired on July 11, 1990,[8][9] during the recording of the Use Your Illusion I & Use Your Illusion II albums, and replaced with Matt Sorum. The official reason for his departure, according to various members of the band, was his heavy substance abuse which impeded his ability to work. Geffen A&R rep Tom Zutaut, who worked with Guns N’ Roses, corroborated this claim, stating in a 1999 interview, “Steven Adler would show up at the recording studio completely high. Recording sessions would abort for several days when he couldn’t put it together.”[10]

In October 1991, he filed a lawsuit against his former Guns N’ Roses bandmates, claiming that they were responsible for his drug addiction and that the contracts he had signed actually took away his financial interest in the band.[11] In a 2005 interview he stated, “Doug Goldstein called me into the office about two weeks later. He wanted me to sign some contracts. I was told that every time I did heroin, the band would fine me $ 2,000. There

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