Izzy Stradlin A Mysterious Man Whose Life Is Very Dark, He Keeps His Spirit Because of Guns N Roses

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In March 1985 Stradlin founded Guns N Roses with Axl Rose and Tracii Guns, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner, as a favor to LA Guns manager Raz Cue, who had previously booked the act at the Troubadour. By June the lineup consisted of Rose guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler. They played nightclubs such as the Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy and The Troubadour and opened for larger acts throughout 1985 and 1986. During this period the band wrote much of its classic material and Stradlin established himself as a key songwriter. In July 1987 Guns N Roses released their debut album Appetite for Destruction, which to date has sold over 28 million copies worldwide including 18 million in the United States alone. Stradlin wrote or cowrote most of its songs including the hits Sweet Child o Mine and Paradise City. He also wrote the hit Patience on the follow up GNR Lies released in November 1988 to US sales of five million copies, despite containing only eight tracks, four of which were included on the previously released EP Live Like a Suicide. As their success grew, so did tensions within the band. In 1989 opening for The Rolling Stones, Rose made an on stage announcement in which he threatened to leave the band if Slash and Adler did not stop dancing with Mr. Brownstone, a reference to their song of the same name about heroin. After being sentenced to a year's probation for urinating in public aboard an airplane, Stradlin decided to attain sobriety, he returned to his house in Indiana where he detoxed from drugs and alcohol. By the release of the Use Your Illusion albums Stradlin had become dissatisfied with life in Guns N Roses, Once I quit drugs, I couldn't help looking around and asking myself, Is this all there is I was just tired of it, I needed to get out. On November 7, 1991 it was announced that he had left Guns N Roses, having played his final show as an official member on August 31 at Wembley Stadium. Stradlin added that getting sober played a part in his decision to leave, saying When you're fucked up, you're more likely to put up with things you wouldn't normally put up with. Some of Stradlin's guitar playing recorded during the Illusion sessions appears on Guns N Roses's 1993 covers album The Spaghetti Incident, although he was uncredited on the project.
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@user-yj5ve3fv6s 8 ай бұрын

Not one word about his absolute best album - Izzy Stradlin & the JuJu Hounds - released a few months after quitting G & R in early 1992 on Geffen. Please listen to it. It's amazing.

@TheHuckster100 8 ай бұрын

Yup, great album! I saw The JuJu Hounds live in February of '93 at The Vogue Theater here in Indianapolis, a fantastic, LOUD, show.

@couchwarrior2449 8 ай бұрын

I bought it on Casette. Didn't think much of it. But that's alright, that's just me.

@mercurypaints 8 ай бұрын

@@TheHuckster100, dude! I was there too! Fun night!

@KnowIt74 8 ай бұрын

Recorded in Denmark. I am from Denmark and saw the last GNR concert with Izzy.

@couchwarrior2449 8 ай бұрын

@KnowIt74 You are a lucky man. GnR at their peak. It was all downhill from there. Use your Illusion had some great songs, but overall it was a disappointment. To me, at least.

@ThePrettyUglys 8 ай бұрын

This is all wrong. I met Izzy in Huntington Beach he had just got to California. He said he played drums.. so did I. I invited him to band practice Rott Row . . We were playing beyond our ages . Bass player Don Haffke was already slapping his p bass and listened and learned from Jaco! Dan Root was guitarist singer he went on to play with Adolescents. We also played together later with Rik L Rik. So we did our original set fast raw punchy punkrockglammetalblues.. Izzy was blown away. After practice in the garage at bass players parents house (I also lived in the practice room). When everyone left it was early evening and we drank beer got stoned and smoked cigs.. I was playing guitar a beginner then . I said Izzy hop on the drums! He kinda didn’t want too but i was like let’s jam! So he did .. he was .. well no chops but could keep a beat before the forearms got tight.. lol so maybe 37 minutes later .. we just sitting on dirty carpet floor talking and I’m tuning to open G .. I start playing some stones “loving cup”, brown sugar.. Izzy says teach me how to do that! So I did real quick . Hour later he’s writing his own songs ! And says yeah my singer Bill (Axl) is coming out here soon . Meeting up in Hollywood . I said kool I’m headed there too next couple weeks . He says you want to be our drummer? Yeah . Fast forward couple months and Izzy now has the dyed black hair , black trench coat only eating garlic puffs! And he was already networking . Couple guys from RATT walked by they said hi to him . A few others same . So we hung out. Next few days he says I got a lead guitar player . Chris Weber. Bill just made it out was real quiet n shy. Didn’t barely talk and was feeling left out (he had a flannel, some bell bottom work jeans . So Izzy and I fixed him up showed him how to Teaze hair and wear make up and some pleather leggings and Izzy had a black leather motorcycle jacket he spray painted Pink.. we all pretty much lived in our same clothes for jeez months! Tight leather pants and converse. So we take my small car upLaurel Canyon to Chris Webers parents house to rehearse. A guy named Tony Babylon on bass he plays with Izzy now last few years. He was a huge Cheap Trick fan had a eight string bass too. And always had a couple hot chicks 😂like one on each arm! So we ready to play .. Chris’s parents video taped everything . Tape recorder on .. so Chris had riffs Izzy had some stuff .. we just kinda jammed on the riffs and see what happens .. all of a sudden .. there’s Axl belting out a high pitched vocal screaming from a peavey backstage 30!!! He’s on his knees.. doing those Elvis type moves .. this goes on couple hours .. super fun fast rock n roll. We were all lit up it sounded killer sometimes lol so these rehearsals are like maybe 1-2 times a week. And we all hanging clubbing .. Axl n Izzy rode with me . We would pick up some girls that worked at Pussycat theatre, and Strip clubs. Non stop rock n roll ..

@josephplatania5593 8 ай бұрын

Great story. I can’t imagine how much fun you had.

@marksmith402 8 ай бұрын

Did you know Tommy Yost? He was an incredible guitar player from Huntington Beach. Great info, thank you!

@ThePrettyUglys 8 ай бұрын

I might’ve if Tommy was in the mostly punk rock scene in HB . Then the beginning of Glam Metal scene .

@marksmith402 8 ай бұрын

Very Cool! He also played with bassist, Jonathan Daniel, who I met in Dallas..They made a record in the early 90's "Your Carma Ran Over My Dogma." Too Funny! Cheers Amigo!

@e.s.voellm6717 7 ай бұрын

That's a great story!!! Thanks for sharing!!

@mCblue79 8 ай бұрын

The future of KZfaq: AI generated crap.

@corporalclegg914 9 ай бұрын

‘Appetite’ will Always Be the Greatest Hard/Heavy Rock Guitar Album ever Created. the 3 main guitar player, Izzy, Slash & Duff (yes, Duff recorded 6-string parts) struck Gold with the tracks on that record, but their tones & performance will never be matched.

@couchwarrior2449 8 ай бұрын

Too bad the fame, the fortune, the booze and drugs and women got to them. They really went to shit fast.

@corporalclegg914 8 ай бұрын

@@couchwarrior2449 it’s a common tale, eh? but, they delivered one hell of a record before they went all sixes & sevens

@couchwarrior2449 8 ай бұрын

@corporalclegg914 Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll has ruined more bands than I can count. The list of successful bands with successful 10 or 20 year careers is quite thin.

@Scotty-P 7 ай бұрын

'Appetite' is a pastiche of genuinely great 70's and early 80's Rock albums.

@humanbeing2420 7 ай бұрын

@@couchwarrior2449 Seems to Axl Rose ruined the band. If he hadn't been such a douche, it likely would have held together for a lot longer.

@getwhatyougive Жыл бұрын

[His first album after GnR was with the Ju Ju Hounds. If Stradlin’s life is dark, what would you call Johnny Thunders’ life?]

@yannjodry7917 11 ай бұрын

Is that a contest?

@getwhatyougive 11 ай бұрын

[@@yannjodry7917 Nah, it's a comparison. Why, do you feel competitive?]

@AmericanStroker 11 ай бұрын

Great comment. No doubt you are a Gunner✌️🤟😎

@guitarlover302 10 ай бұрын

Great guitarist and musician ! G and R never sounded same when he left

@bobwreck3775 8 ай бұрын

Who would have thought the quiet second guitarist was the writer for the band.

@couchwarrior2449 8 ай бұрын

He was smart to get out when he did.

@eternity8811 8 ай бұрын

@@bobwreck3775that's such a cliche. Some of their best and most adventurous songs like coma and estranged had no writing contributions from him. He couldn't even play his parts to coma live without a chord chart on stage. Yeah he wrote a few good tunes but people carry on like he's a musical genius.

@Hen993 8 ай бұрын

Because he knew music theory

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

@@eternity8811Thank you! Izzy is overrated. Never belonged with GN'R.

@wadejamison6275 7 ай бұрын

His solo albums are awsome

@rbilleaud 8 ай бұрын

I detest computer generated voice overs because they're full of pronunciation errors and a weird cadence. It's just laziness from the content provider. Put in some effort.

@CoastShuttle 8 ай бұрын

The scary part is imagine befriending Axl, who is or at least was, certifiably insane. Just read Slash's autobiography to fully fathom just how crazy that fucker is (was).

@mickeybrennan8775 11 ай бұрын

Saw the Gunners live at Metrecon Stadium 🎸 and believe me of the 80000 people Rockin there was little doubt the person having the best time was Izzy 🎼 Legend 🌟 Mickey Australia 🦘

@AmericanStroker 11 ай бұрын

Decent bio but that robot narrator ruined it for me. Couldn't watch it all the way thru but what I watched up to that point was okay.

@interstellar618 8 ай бұрын

I thought Izzy was cool af when he was just a local Hollywood musician. When he became famous and at the height of his rockstardom..he just said "well..bye"..!!!! I thought it was one of the greatest rockstar moves ever!! He's a legend!!

@jeffgreene1055 11 ай бұрын

This is the most wildest video I've watched in a long time....this is a full on A.I.

@eastcoastmonkey 8 ай бұрын

there is a lot wrong in this video. so just keep that in mind.

@brushstroke3733 8 ай бұрын

@@eastcoastmonkeyProbably because the script was AI generated just like the voiceover was. This whole production was probably made in five minutes by AI.

@eastcoastmonkey 8 ай бұрын

I'm glad you understand that.@@brushstroke3733

@kevinnoble6320 8 ай бұрын

IZZY is one main reason y GNRwas the best. He had a hand in writing all of Appetite and Lies the best hard Rock music and band ever from 85 to 90. After he left they were not as good . Period. Izzy is the shit. Wrote most those riffs melodies and put down most the arrangements

@couchwarrior2449 8 ай бұрын

Who played the acoustic guitar part over the chorus of "I Think About You" ?

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

They were better after he left. He's a geek who never fit in with the rest of the band. Might've been a minor reason.

@kevinnoble6320 7 ай бұрын

Who do u yhink wrote all there hits. ?? IZZY did. U must be a new fan cuz u dnt know shit bout Guns or Izzy

@kevinnoble6320 7 ай бұрын

APPETITE AND LIES WERE THE BEST. YHEY SUCKED AFTER IZZY LEFT..NOT EVEN AS GOOD OR WAS ILLUSIONS ALBUMS..

@imagine9265 8 ай бұрын

Definitely little unhinged but man he's a amazing rhythm guitarist 🎸

@eastcoastmonkey 10 ай бұрын

The whole story about Velvet Revolver is wrong but whatever. I think all the information for this came from Wikipedia, so.

@tillross4078 8 ай бұрын

He also did guitar work with Mellencamp in the song Grandview

@adamwatson6916 8 ай бұрын

Duff didnt play bass on Izzys first solo album.

@SilverbackOrangutan71 8 ай бұрын

Izzy is 1 of the kindest person I ever was lucky to meet. Dude is Guns N’ Roses

@mistersniffer6838 8 ай бұрын

Uhm, no..... GnR are strung out greasy bags of shyt with copious amounts of talent extruding out of their pores. Izzy, not so greasy. He joined Mr Toads wilde ride, got fkt on drugs and didnt like it. Still, GnR isnt GnR without him though, for sure!

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

Not even.

@dba4292 6 ай бұрын

Having a loaded gun around doing lines upon lines of cocain hearing people walking on his roof over a lost million dollars right after he left Gn’R is hardly what I call kind-guys business. I like him a lot but I have more stories too. He is not as nice as you think, maybe to people he can tell is a huge fan of him and his work.

@SilverbackOrangutan71 6 ай бұрын

@@dba4292 met him 2x

@dba4292 6 ай бұрын

@@SilverbackOrangutan71 Your point?

@user-le8ds6cl6q 8 ай бұрын

this musician has become some sort of a legend

@Liam-zw1ek 7 ай бұрын

Where's the mention of his debut and biggest album with the JuJu Hounds? A glaring omission.

@bzzth 7 ай бұрын

Voiceover sounds like one of those automated things from 30 years ago where you could call in and they'd tell you what time it is. Hilariously low quality "content".

@kevindoherty8224 9 ай бұрын

Appetite for Destruction best guitar and vocals album ever

@poliziagrammaticale9430 8 ай бұрын

Let's not exaggerate.

@jaybirdk7414 8 ай бұрын

I learned two different guitar styles, and how to make the bass stand out, by listening to this album. The Illusion albums didn’t have the same sense of urgency as Appetite.

@rhys180606 7 ай бұрын

Missed a fair few chunks of his life and career

@pitfox1762 8 ай бұрын

The main guns n roses compouser and the soul of that band . ❤❤❤❤

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

Main writer.

@captainkirk70 Ай бұрын

I'm friends with Taz. He told me Izzy was straight up crazy. They'd get together and rehearse for a tour and album then Izzy would disappear and not return calls. Then do the whole thing over again years later. Izzy should have at least done a Japanese tour and released a pro-shot. I'm sure he would have got a big payday. I see he's got his mansion in Ojai up for sale for 4 million. I'm sure he's well off still but royalties have probably dried up by now.

@LaserRanger15 8 ай бұрын

Robo narrators suck generally, but this is one of the worst.

@MrG-wk6jw 8 ай бұрын

This is literally word for word from Wikipedia

@davidpaul6656 8 ай бұрын

Not bad, but not completely right either! 😂 First of all the album was called LIVE Like a Suicide!! Ya know, like ALIVE? 🤦 Second his first solo record after leaving GnR was Izzy Stradlin and the JuJu Hounds in 1992!! Followed by a LIVE EP recorded in Dublin and released only in Japan. THEN 117° in 1999

@laynestaley147 7 ай бұрын

but live like suicide was not recorded live

@davidpaul6656 7 ай бұрын

@@laynestaley147 - Ok, but the album was still called LIVE like a Suicide

@laynestaley147 7 ай бұрын

@@davidpaul6656 somehow yes

@laynestaley147 9 ай бұрын

we don't hear Izzy's guitar on Spaghetti incident it was all re-recorded by Guilby

@kevinnoble6320 8 ай бұрын

Ya no wonder that album suvks. So does Gilby

@kevinnoble6320 8 ай бұрын

Ya no wonder that album suvks. So does Gilby

@kevinnoble6320 8 ай бұрын

Ya no wonder that album suvks. So does Gilby

@kevinnoble6320 8 ай бұрын

Ya no wonder that album suvks. So does Gilby

@kevinnoble6320 8 ай бұрын

Ya no wonder that album suvks. So does Gilby

@adamwatson6916 8 ай бұрын

Pretty sure they erased his parts on Spaghetti incident and had Gilby rerecord them .

@laynestaley147 7 ай бұрын

they did

@OzziePete1 8 ай бұрын

This narration is word for word, from Stadlin's Wikipedia listing. > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzy_Stradlin

@beefcake0354 2 ай бұрын

it was bad when they kicked out Adler and replaced him with Sorum whose drumming style was totally different. but when Izzy left, that for me was the true end of G'n'R.

@captainkirk70 Ай бұрын

Tracii Guns should have been in the Axl GnR instead of the goofy guy he got to replace Slash's position. Perfect choice as he is still a great guitar player and has the pedigree.

@captainkirk70 2 ай бұрын

There's no way his biggest influence wasn't Keith Richards. Just impossible.

@IztoZhimo 2 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness what a peculiar man he was I think

@michaelsena7445 8 ай бұрын

Izzy is so Cool 😎

@pihuey 8 ай бұрын

God I HATE AI narration!!

@lannyhelton9287 8 ай бұрын

Wasn't he in London Quireboys?

@jimbanda 8 ай бұрын

WTF is that thumbnail headline?? Maybe he has everything sorted and more based..., after all he gets millions from gnr every year and has the comfort of the non-celeb life. I'm only amazed they survived without him.

@adamwatson6916 8 ай бұрын

Izzy was a heroin addict as well . Not just Slash and adler .

@laynestaley147 7 ай бұрын

but izzy stopped the drugs way before Slash and Duff

@adamfindlay7091 7 ай бұрын

His hair is dark. But wtf? Is that his whole life...

@RavenWolfDrum69 8 ай бұрын

LOVE ❤ IZZY ❤

@kikiki4592 5 ай бұрын

Seems you missed the debut album he made with the Ju Ju Hounds, what's up with that, it was his biggest seller and had 3 of the 4 official videos he ever made.

@ErotmousErection 8 ай бұрын

Izzy Stradlin and The Juju Hounds....I still have that album....one of the few.....maybe the only one left.....

@lukesmith720 6 ай бұрын

I guess not everyone likes to be in the spotlight

@marksienicki1253 8 ай бұрын

Hoosier!

@palacerevolution2000 8 ай бұрын

It's crazy hearing this AI voice ramble on

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

Yesittotal......ly suckedass!

@cherobinson6371 7 ай бұрын

This dark? Mystery man tag? On the Streets that’s Called Heroin Addict. He’s Was/ is a Heroin addict that’s why he’s invisible

@cowboysfan782008 8 ай бұрын

I was born in 1968 and graduated HS in 86'. I grew up 20 min S of Hollywood, and my buddies and I were all into hard rock starting at a young age. My friends band played the Troubador in 1983 when he was only 15 or 16. In 81/82, 8th grade (In So CA) rock was still hanging on with Diver Down, and Journey, etc, but by 82/3 my Freshman year it was the Stray Cats, New Wave and short hair. Right when I was coming of age the same 70s bands that are doing geriatric concerts today had fallen out completely, only to be replaced by bands like Quiet Riot and Ratt (IMO Basic Crappola), and when VH decided to "Jump" that silly song just put another nail in rocks coffin. My long winded point is that without Motley's 1st album in fall of 82', and Guns's 87' album appetite giving those talentless hair bands a kick, the nostalgia for 70s rock might not be what it is today. My friend that played the Troubador formed the Big Bang Babies in 1990 and played the Whiskey a few times, and he's now the lead singer etc in an outlaw type country band called Broken Arrow.

@nicholaskruger9460 8 ай бұрын

True. I was born sane year. Too fart for love was great. I felt Rock died 84-86. Then guns and Janes addiction resurrected it in 87

@jezzylawson936 3 ай бұрын

This voiceover sounds CHAPGPT

@brushstroke3733 8 ай бұрын

Love that AI narration!

@johnspaulding1681 7 ай бұрын

robo voiced click bait BS don't waste your time

@acb9896 7 ай бұрын

Nice AI voice...I didnt know you could just plagiarize the Wikipedia page and put up other actual artists' video and stills. Probably.

@Jacob-tj8ig 7 ай бұрын

Honestly, his life wasn't that dark. He had a few years of addiction, but those years were also the height of his career and gave him money that he can still live off. He then got clean in late '89 and seems to have lived a very good life ever since. Far from Axl's drama and the fakery of the big music business. He does his own thing and seems to be enjoying life. It's just a shame they tried to screw him over for money so that he didn't join the reunion.

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

They just didn't want to pay him what Axl, Slash and Duff were getting paid. They're the main attractions. Besides, isn't Izzy worth something like $30 million dollars? He's not hurting, I'm sure.

@Jacob-tj8ig 7 ай бұрын

@@joeymorvant161 I know and I get Axl and Slash. Especially Axl since it's his band by now. But Duff? No fucking way man. No way what so ever. The clueless semi fans do not buy tickets to see Duff. And as for the hardcore fans, Izzy would sell far more tickets than Duff. And let's not forget Izzy's contributions as a songwriter. He wrote more than Slash and far more than Duff. You would think that accounts for some gratitude, but no. Fuck those guys, seriously. And the way they shut Steven out was bullshit as well. Claiming he can't play the material. He plays the Appetite songs better than anyone and he knows most of the UYI material that they usually play too. The only songs he would struggle with would be a few UYI songs and the Chinese Democracy stuff. But no person on this earth would be more willing to put in the effort than Steven and besides no one cares about Chinese Democracy. As much as I love GNR, those guys have really disappointed me. Axl is still a dictator and Slash and Duff are cowards. Always have been.

@TheGravygun 8 ай бұрын

Easily straddling. pure genius.

@anthonylynch4737 8 ай бұрын

He wrote all the gunner songs

@laynestaley147 7 ай бұрын

not all but some of them

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

@@laynestaley147Thank you!

@9090Account 5 ай бұрын

The voiceover artist is reading from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzy_Stradlin :P

@positivepsycho2932 7 ай бұрын

I hate this stilted AI narration people are doing.

@USArmy91222 4 ай бұрын

completely moronic to leave a band that reached the success G n R did!

@MandyLee-qc1cp 7 ай бұрын

Alot of wrong info.

@YahmoBeadair 9 күн бұрын

BS click bait video... what did you read straight off wikipedia verbatim for this video?

@lorettahookano6139 8 ай бұрын

I think Izzy is better than Slash

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

Oh, come on!

@Alanoffer 8 ай бұрын

Imagine the money he has pouring in from those big sellers , why should he give a fuck about anyone

@patrickmartin2989 8 ай бұрын

Fake voice, didn't watch.

@ndesdsadfd 8 ай бұрын

Once he left...it was over.

@leemehan 8 ай бұрын

Huge dent in the band and GNR was never the same after Adler was 🔥 fired. Like a main part of a muscle 🚗 car is missing to make that roaring sound! Adler gone the muscle car was already missing the spark plugs.. Never sounded the same ever since!

@joeymorvant161 7 ай бұрын

It was not over, it was better. Steven being sacked was sad. Izzy quitting didn't matter.

@ErotmousErection 8 ай бұрын

Axl was a break dancer....he carried a beat box....so did I.....in Houston....