And there was this dude standing outside who had the look that we were all about, that rock ’n’ roll trashy punk look. So one time we tagged along with her to see W.A.S.P. A friend of ours was super into W.A.S.P., but they hadn’t played San Francisco yet. We’re buddies now!”īilly Rowe (guitarist, Jetboy): Jetboy started to go to L.A. So right after they got done playing I walked up and said, “Hey man, I’m Tracii.” He said, “I’m Izzy.” And it’s like, “Okay, cool. I just figured he was a Mötley Crüe fan. He had on a leather jacket and white cowboy boots, with dyed black hair. Tracii Guns: I went to see Shire play at the Roosevelt Hotel, and this guy Izzy was their new bass player. I think that’s how we managed with all that was comin’ down. Axl and I were into anything that had a hard, loud beat.
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The girls didn’t even know how to dress when they went to gigs! So the prospects were absolutely zilch. The people, the girls, it was so backward. I started pissing around with a drum set, met Axl, and we hung out a lot.
Izzy Stradlin: I was seventeen when I came out to California … I grew up in Florida and moved with my mom to Lafayette, Indiana. He can scream that way you like it and he’s into Nazareth.” He kept telling me he was into Nazareth. He would say, “You guys are gonna get along great. Guns): Izzy would always tell me, “You’ve gotta meet my friend Axl.” Or, you know, “Bill,” at the time. Tracii Guns (guitarist, Guns N’ Roses, L.A. And then he was gone, down the hall, with a whole bunch of teachers running after him. Izzy Stradlin (bassist, Shire guitarist, Hollywood Rose, Guns N’ Roses): The first thing I remember about Axl, this is before I knew him - is the first day of class, eighth or ninth grade, I’m sitting in the class and I hear this noise going on in front, and I see these fucking books flying past, and I hear this yelling, and there’s this scuffle and then I see him, Axl, and this teacher bouncing off a door jamb. In the excerpt that follows, the band, as well as musicians who played in the many tributary groups that led to GN’R, explain how the man they knew as “Bill” came to change his name to Axl Rose and front the most dangerous band in Los Angeles. Nöthin’ but a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the ’80s Hard Rock Explosion, by authors and Rolling Stone contributors Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock, presents an oral history of GN’R’s formation in between chapters on Bon Jovi, Skid Row, Cinderella, Mötley Crüe, and other acts who embodied Eighties excess. Guns and the first GN’R lineup, have now recalled their wild origin story in vivid detail for a new book that chronicles hard rock’s decade of decadence.
The members of Guns N’ Roses, as well as musicians like Tracii Guns who played in both L.A.
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