STEVEN ADLER Talks About ADLER'S APPETITE And GUNS N' ROSES

Former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler and ex-LOVE/HATE/current RATT singer Jizzy Pearl spoke to Sweden's MetalShrine.se last Thursday (Feb. 17) when their new band, ADLER'S APPETITE, played in Stockholm. Several excerpts from the interview follow:

MetalShrine.se: What's the plan after this? Are you gonna put out an album?

Steven Adler: "We'll have an album out hopefully by May or June, around summertime. And we'll hopefully do some festivals, but if we don't do festivals we're certainly gonna tour worldwide. We're going to Japan soon, in the next two weeks and after that we're going to South America and we wanna come back to Europe and do some festivals.

MetalShrine.se: Did all you guys know each other? I guess you knew of each other before this band?

Steven Adler: Actually Jizzy and I went to the same high school together. Robbie and I and Slash hung out at the same elementary school and we rode skateboards and bikes and smoked weed. In a way we did grow up together.

Jizzy Pearl: It's a small community and back in the day, I can remember everybody going to the same clubs. It didn't matter if you had a record deal or not, or if you sold a million records or nothing. It was a real community. It's not the same anymore, the way it used to be! That's why it's so funny, cool actually, to see people sort of dressed up back...like how I remember my hair used to be and everyone's hair was big. And when you see that, and these people were probably not old enough to be that back then, but they really dig the scene that was. It's a shame that they missed it!"

Steven Adler: And the '80s was the decade of decadence too. People, when they went out, tried to look good and they dressed nice and in the '90s that changed. The grunge thing...!

MetalShrine.se: Do you guys think there's gonna be a GUNS N' ROSES album?

Steven Adler: "It's not GUNS N' ROSES!"

Jizzy Pearl: "You know what? I think, and there's no disrespect towards Axl at all, but I think that if there was a record and if there would've been a record it should've come out a while ago. I think that so many years have gone by that it's almost...it would have to be 'Sgt. Pepper', literally, or 'Back in Black'! Or 'Appetite...'! It would have to be that good to be able to reignite anything and that's a phenomenon that doesn't really happen. It's a shame that things happened the way they did! I wish it had come out earlier because I think it might have done well."

MetalShrine.se: You got into a bit of trouble with the Rockconfidential.cominterview about Andy McCoy [HANOI ROCKS] and his wife!

Steven Adler: "Ohhh, it had nothing to do with Andy! I love Andy and I don't even know who his wife is. I don't give a fuck! Well, she's not worth talking about! We were supposed to play in England with them [HANOI ROCKS] and they dropped us out of the show. Whatever, because ninety-five percent of the people went back and got their money back. So that kind of says something about us! And it's a shame...and fuck it, I don't even wanna talk about it! I love Andy and I love blah blah yada yada yada..."

Read the entire interview at this location.