Who is guns and roses drummer

I was just sort of on this wild ride. The follow-up album you guys tried to make in the mid-Nineties was clearly destined to fail. Everyone was on a different page musically and the resentments had piled up too high.

Well, we came off the road and everyone was so burned out. We were out there for two and half years. It was doing five or six nights a week and partying hard. We got home and we could just never really get the musical thing going again. We went in the studio and tried to write, and everybody had too much money, everyone bought houses, and went separate ways in a lot of ways. And then I left. Scott Weiland was obviously an enormous talent and great frontman.

In hindsight, should you have found a singer that was a little more stable? If we could have found someone as great as Scott Weiland. That was the issue.

We spent two years looking for a great singer. And when Scott walked in the room, it sealed the deal. I talk about it in my book. We had a big licensing deal for a movie called The Hulk. Scott showed up almost an hour late. Everyone was there. That first album [ Contraband ], Scott really got his life together. He was in great shape. We worked really hard to clean up. We all cleaned up our act a lot. We used Aerosmith as our model. We got our stuff together. We all got in really good shape.

We were in our forties competing against younger bands. And we still had to come up with great songs. We nailed it with the first one. And we fell back into some of our old habits with the second record [ Libertad ]. A lot of drugs and alcohol reappeared in all our lives, and the money came again in a big way. That caused problems. I felt it when we were in the studio on that second record.

A real theme of your book is that singers are just a real pain in the ass. You had endless problems with Axl and Scott Weiland. I was there when they were at the height of their shenanigans. I was in the Cult when they were playing arenas. Ian was off the rails. All that shit that was going on brought a lot of intensity onto the stage.

I used to go onstage some nights so pissed off that I would just have to bash the shit out of the drums. It reminded me of being a kid. It was an unstable household. We all came from the same background, everybody in that band. Axl came from Indiana and his upbringing was shit. Slash grew up in kind of a weird Hollywood family.

That all sort of made for the fireworks. I think Axl is a loyal guy. Are you still in close contact with Slash and Duff? We talk to each other. I say in the book, I got him mad one time where we almost got into a fight. If they asked you again, would you show up and do it? I have a lot of different things going on in my life. I have six startup companies. I feel really good about my time in the band.

Everybody knows them. Everybody knows the name of that band. You could ask a grandmother. You can ask a little kid. His band Loudermilk was groundbreaking, mainly due to his drumming. When our drummer, Geoff Reading, had to leave the band, we called Isaac, and surprisingly he jumped on it. Isaac makes any band better. And he recorded and edited all of his drum parts in three days.

Isaac is a force, and you want him around from the writing process to the live shows. Skip to content. Digital Access FAQ.

My Account. About MD. Abe Laboriel Jr. Create a new list. Shopping cart. There are no products in the cart! I would actually say to them, 'Hey, bring both of us back,' you know. Let me play the other stuff. We'll have two drum kits. I don't care. If 'Appetite [For Destruction]' , [the band's debut] sounds better with Steven playing it, have both guys up there.

They can afford it.