In June 2010, former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler published My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses, a memoir that told the story of his chaotic rise and subsequent fall with the so-called most dangerous band in the world. Shortly before the book was published, Steven spoke with Classic Rock.
If anyone in Guns N’ Roses had an appetite for destruction, then it was drummer Steve Adler. While the rest of the band found a way of precariously balancing on the precipice, he was the one who regularly fell off the edge. His addictive behaviour was so extreme that, when in 1993 a lawsuit the drummer brought against the band was settled with an award of just over $2 million, Slash sighed: “All we’ve done is give him the money to buy enough drugs to kill himself.”
