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GUNS ‘N ‘DETH: NEW BIOS COMING FROM STEVEN ADLER AND DAVE MUSTAINE

 Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 3:30pm by

That’s right, folks, new autobiographies are headed to your nearest bookstore and online retailers from former Guns ‘n Roses drummer/VH1 house boy, Steven Adler and Megadeth mastermind/Metallica thorn, Dave Mustaine.

Adler, renowned not only for being the original drummer for Guns N’ Roses, but also for getting shit-canned by the band for being too much of a druggie, releases his allegedly self-penned account on June 22, entitled My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses.

I’m looking forward to Adler’s tale of his fall from rock ‘n roll grace, as I considered his druggen misadventures to be the lone highlight from Andy McCoy’s otherwise dreadful Hanoi Rocks tell-all, Sheriff McCoy.

Meanwhile, Dave Mustaine’s autobiography (co-written by Joe Layden of the New York Times), titled, no surprise, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, hits the bookshelves on April 13. Dave had originally planned on calling the book, Hello Me… Meet the Real Me, the classic opening line from his 1992 track, “Sweating Bullets.” Word has it that the book may also be titled Wake Up Dead.

Dave Mustaine, like Adler, was also famously shit-canned — in his case, Metallica — way before most of you were even a gleam in your daddies’ eyes.

I wonder if Dave’s publishers are mad-scrambling after former disgruntled bass player Dave Ellefson recently rejoined the ‘deth camp?

Interestingly, Steven Adler’s mother, Deanna, also gets in on the rock star bio mix with her book, Sweet Child of Mine: A Memoir of Steven Adler, co-written by Lawrence J. Spagnola. It hits the shelves May 25, before her son’s book comes out. Hmmm… maybe firing across the bow first?

In the below video, Dave Mustaine talks about firing Jay Reynolds (former guitarist for Malice) for being too fucked up to perform in the studio — a story from his autobiography:

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  • Dave

    Look for Mustaine’s book in the Fiction section of your local bookstore as it is sure to be about 95% lies, contradictions, and bullshit without about 5% information that’s factually correct…….. correct musicians’ names and band names constituting that 5%.

    • Erek

      Oh, you mean right along side EVERY SINGLE ROCK MEMOIR EVER PUBLISHED?!?

      Yeah.

      • NicePicDoc

        now now, most are like at least 10% fact and 90% BS

        there is a special % for Mustaine… clearly…

  • Honeynutzz

    Who the fuck really wants to read this shit. I will never understand it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Corey-Mitchell/660352330 Corey Mitchell

      I’m assuming HarperCollins (home to It Books) hopes tens of thousands of people will want to read these books.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kasper-Maigaard/1027001938 Kasper Maigaard

      I’m really, really looking forward to Mustains’s's. I just hope he renames it, “a Heavy Metal Memoir” is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too corny.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Javis-Davis/732759369 Aaron Javis Davis

      i’d actually read it so I finally won’t get to read any of our school libraries shitty books

  • Billy Chapman

    Basic Input Output System?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Corey-Mitchell/660352330 Corey Mitchell

      I am neither too hip to know what this means nor interested enough to Google it…

  • Jr.

    Oh I see Dave, so it was Metallicas fault you acted like a dick, gotcha.

  • SonOF

    Aldler’s book is “allegedly self-penned?” I’d believe that maybe if it was a coloring book.

    • SonOF

      ADler that is…

  • http://www.flamingtusk.com Zosimus

    Guys, do you know what is a reeeeeallly lame song? It is called Symphony Of Destruction.

    • Facebook User

      ha. i agree. finally somebody says it out loud. so true. but countdown to extinction is a great album none the less.

  • ColinJ

    It’s almost charming how Adler still thinks he would be any part of a full Guns ‘N Roses reunion.

    Now I’m not entirely sure just how good a drummer he was (is?), but with his health problems I don’t really see him handling a 2-3 hour set with some long, complicated songs like ‘November Rain’. Al least, not as well Matt Sorum who, let’s face it, has never been more than a glorified session drummer anyway.

    And I imagine Mustaine’s book will ned up being nominated for the Nobel Prize for fiction.

  • Steve O

    Jay Reynolds wasn’t fired for having a drug problem, he was fired because Dave felt it was pointless to have Jeff write his solos for him xD

    • Glenn

      See, we don’t know what the story really is. To hear Dave tell it in that interview and elsewhere, Jay was a total stoned douche who wanted someone else to record solos that he would then take credit for. That’s a pretty egregious accusation and simply doesn’t fit with how metal works culturally. Another instance of the story on Wikipedia expands things to note that Jay also wanted Jeff to transcribe previous Megadeth stuff in time for the tour, to operate essentially as an 80s version of guitartabs.com. That seems perfectly reasonable given the timeframe the band was working with. Still, no one really knows the details, and no one’s ever asked Jay for his take on it.

      I’m interested in this whole thing, not because I want to defend Jay (who I don’t know from Adam), but because Mustaine is making a big deal about “making amends” and yet his telling of this story is still outrageous as ever and deliberately disparaging of Jay. It’s the contradiction that interests me.

    • Glenn

      See, we don’t know what the story really is. To hear Dave tell it in that interview and elsewhere, Jay was a total stoned douche who wanted someone else to record solos that he would then take credit for. That’s a pretty egregious accusation and simply doesn’t fit with how metal works culturally. Another instance of the story on Wikipedia expands things to note that Jay also wanted Jeff to transcribe previous Megadeth stuff in time for the tour, to operate essentially as an 80s version of guitartabs.com. That seems perfectly reasonable given the timeframe the band was working with. Still, no one really knows the details, and no one’s ever asked Jay for his take on it.

      I’m interested in this whole thing, not because I want to defend Jay (who I don’t know from Adam), but because Mustaine is making a big deal about “making amends” and yet his telling of this story is still outrageous as ever and deliberately disparaging of Jay. It’s the contradiction that interests me.

      • Steve O

        Well, I know it is mostly a case of he said she said, but Jeff had an interview over on Ultimate-guitar.com a while back where he basically said Jay hired him to teach him the solos and then he would actually just record them for him a couple times, which Dave was initially unaware of. It’s kinda complicated in general, but that’s what happened according to him.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Glenn-Pillsbury/641369365 Glenn Pillsbury

          Thanks for the reference to Jeff’s interview. it’s really great to get that other perspective.

          As expected, the episode with Jay was a far more complex situation than Mustaine’s jokey, slapdish telling of it would indicate.

  • Alex_P

    How the fuck do you get kicked out of G’n'R for a drug problem? How many drugs do you have to take?

  • Facebook User

    I’m supposed to believe that steven adler wrote a book? he can’t even read a book. he can’t even read at a 3rd grade level for christ sakes. gimme a break. that being said, I’m definitely gonna read it. haha

  • dakotahowe

    who cares?