Steven Adler is best known for a career that ended almost as quickly as it began. As one of the original members of the rock band Guns N’ Roses, Adler was just beginning to enjoy his band’s fame and fortune when drug and alcohol addictions got him fired.
For nearly 20 years, Adler sank deeper into his addictions, suffering multiple overdoses, jail time and even a stroke.
“It’s a struggle he graphically recounts in the recently released memoir My Appetite for Destruction. ‘I wore my heart on my sleeve with this book,’ Adler says. ‘I’m here to show all the underdogs that you can survive and you can succeed.’” [Source: Postmedia News]
Adler admits he spent most of the past 20 years blaming his former band mates – believing they let him down, betrayed him, when they fired him. He’s just beginning to realize that he was the one who let them down.
His addictions prevented him from playing – he couldn’t do his job, so there was no reason he should have been allowed to keep it. Adler is now clean and sober, and has started his own band – Adler’s Appetite – which has embarked on a 50-city tour.
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