Axl and drugs

[2NaFish]

I think this "sex drug and rock n' roll" theory is extremely stupid. It's for people who don't have values. I'm happy to know Axl never was addicted to drug. I'm happy to know he is a little more "evoluated"as a person than most of "rockers" on this planet who think taking drugs is "cool": No, it's not. I think it was one of the reasons why the original band broke-up. Axl didn't want to deal with junkies. And I think, on that point, he was right.

A little one-sided don't you think? Axl did his fair share of coke, and i'd be he did a great deal more hallucinogenics.

Alot of people are basing their belief that axl wasn't an addict on interviews that were carried out in or around the time of the trial with stepehen. Basically the interviewer says

"Steven was kicked out for being a junkie. But he says you guys were junkies too. Is this true?"

Slash/Axl/Duff/Izzy's reply "I was never addicted to anything, but i did some. Stephen did too many, too often."

I'm not saying he definetly was, but alot of people are putting alot of faith in highly contentious interviews. None of the band could admit to being a junkie or steven would've had them by the balls.

[Narcissa]

I thought even Slash had said that Axl was 'never addicted to anything except cigarettes', or words to that effect.

Yeah that's what I thought too.

[kira]

i think axl was more addicted to sex teehee but doesn't everyone love sex. sex is much better then drugs

[matt88]

I'm under the impression that someone of axl's mental state would find stimulants ie:Coke more enjoyable.

[erose]

i think axl was more addicted to sex teehee but doesn't everyone love sex. sex is much better then drugs

you should try to combine the two, now thats rock n' roll for ya 

there is no doubht that Axl did heroin more than once, there's no doubht that he o.d.ed on pills, there's no doubht he smoked crack at times and there's no doubht he did lots of coke. The difference between him and the rest is that he didn't do it all the time thats all...

 

[horsey]

this is a touchy subject.i myself dabbled with heroin not getting addicted.but in other cases my bestfriend whom was dabbling at the same time.got very addicted.changing her life for the worst.i also lost friends from it.they died one night and i didn't.and did the same heroin as him.it made me wake the fuck up.i stopped doing all drugs but pot and beer now.touchy very touchy subject.

[*Izzy*]

Yeah, heroin is kinda a scary drug?

  Izzy?

[2NaFish]

america has in general been very lucky that heroin never became a "popular" drug. not that alot of people don't do it, it's just america's main problem drug is coke. heroin was incredibly popular where im from in the eighties and severly fucked up alot of people(see Trainspotting for more on this). nevermind getting onto the problems that sharing needles can lead to.....

it's really nasty shit.

[gilld1]

I used to work with a guy who was in the "pharmacutical" business and he told me that he had sold Axl some coke when Axl and the boys came to town in 1988.  The show was an hour from Lafayette and this guy provided pictures of Axl and him conversing about the deal.  Also, didn't Axl turn Shannon Hoon on to heroin?  That worked out really well...

I would more than happy to buy Axl a couple of 8-balls to get this album out

[journey]

I would more than happy to buy Axl a couple of 8-balls to get this album out

It doesn't take 8-balls to get something done. It takes real balls.

[AxlRoseVen]

We all know back in their hay day the old GNR had problems with drugs. Adler being fired due to his addiction, but does anyone know how Axl failed to develop a herion addiction like the others.

I know Axl experimented a little with drugs, didn't he write My world after getting high on magic mushrooms. Or was it another song? But why didn't he experiment with harder drugs? or did he. And i remember a quote from Slash i think saying that Axl never been addicted to anything except maybe cigerettes.

  grow up at all once dude !!!

...Axl came to live in L.A City when he was young, in L.A city drugs n' alcohol are a way to breath while u're there....so it's so easy to notice that Axl knew all kind of drugs at there but he wasn't a cocaine guy really like Steven or other rock stars...he just drinks so much now n' then!! 

[POPmetal]

Hollywood Rose guitarist Chris Weber on their early days in LA

Yeah, we had a great time! Nobody wasn?t really drinking or doing drugs or anything. It was just about getting into the idea that the music scene was more intoxicating than any drug or alcohol. We spent alot of more time getting ready and know what we looked like. Hair everywhere and make up. It took two hours to do and if you were drunk you couldn?t put that together. And then there was a lot of hours working for the band. Putting out flyers and doing promotion at night between two o?clock and three o?clock in the morning when the bars let out. You would stand in front of a bar: "We?re playing next week!" blah blah!

quote from http://web.telia.com/~u43120602/mfintervju146.html

I wonder how much of the whole drug thing was just for show, so they can appear dangerous and "cool" to sell records. I don't doubt that they've all tried stuff, and some of the members eventually got addicted and really fucked up. But if everyone was fucked up all the time, Guns wouldn't have reached the heights (no pun intended) they did. At least somebody was doing something right between 87 and 92.

[*Izzy*]

They, like most, took drugs to escape from reality and overpower their other problems and because they're good?

  Izzy?

[horsey]

what i was tryin to get at in the other  topic about heroin.one person may become addicted when another may not.it all depends on the person.if addictive type of person.experamenting with drugs could have bad results.but you don't think of it while doing drugs.till finnally something happens to make you aware.maybe family members can help but if you are too far gone it may not even help.like i said all depends on the person.if addicted.

[im rickjames bitch]

so if axl did get fired in 86 then we would have never have heard of axl. GnR might have stayed together still with slash, duff and sorum and maybe david lee roth or some other singer.  hmm interesting

[Sino-lieS]

I always thought Axl was only addicted to cigarettes and sex. ( I know he loved seeing 2 women going at it....mmmm). After reading all the articles I always figured Axl did not want to deal with the drugs and booze the others were doing. After shows I 'think' Axl went off with strippers and close friends or his brother while the others went boozing etc. There is nothing worse than watching everyone around you drink and enjoy themselves while you can't be involved .
Reading more recent articles we read that even cigarettes were banned from the studio while recordings went on with the new band. Interesting topic!

[Crashdiet]

I used to work with a guy who was in the "pharmacutical" business and he told me that he had sold Axl some coke when Axl and the boys came to town in 1988.? The show was an hour from Lafayette and this guy provided pictures of Axl and him conversing about the deal.? Also, didn't Axl turn Shannon Hoon on to heroin?? That worked out really well...

I would more than happy to buy Axl a couple of 8-balls to get this album out

Shannon hoon died from a coke overdose, not herion. Shannon said he stopped herion after he peed on the crowd in vancouver... I highly doubt axl turned him on to it. I don't axl did herion much after the appetite tour

[Crowebar]

Axl loves cocaine.

Always has loved Bolivian Flake Cocaine and always will.

He sat up in his mansion for years doing huge lines of coke.

That's why he showed up at RIR#3 all fat and shit looking like Elvis did.

That kind of bloated-ness is only caused by one thing.

Heavy and sustained fucking drug use.

Axl's a fucking CRACKHEAD!!!!!

[disease51883]

Everyone knows Axl dabbled in drugs in the old days. I doubt he does anything anymore. I kind of see it like this...

Appetite era = the heroine years (look how scrawny he is in the "Sweet Child O' Mine" video)

Illusions era = the coke years

Chinese Democracy era = the football jersey addiction years? 

[erose]

I used to work with a guy who was in the "pharmacutical" business and he told me that he had sold Axl some coke when Axl and the boys came to town in 1988.? The show was an hour from Lafayette and this guy provided pictures of Axl and him conversing about the deal.? Also, didn't Axl turn Shannon Hoon on to heroin?? That worked out really well...

I would more than happy to buy Axl a couple of 8-balls to get this album out

Shannon hoon died from a coke overdose, not herion. Shannon said he stopped herion after he peed on the crowd in vancouver... I highly doubt axl turned him on to it. I don't axl did herion much after the appetite tour

i think shannon managed pretty well by himself to stumble across good ol' mr brownstone, i do think it was heroin that took his life tho, not coke...