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February 6th, 1962
W. Axl Rose (William Bruce Rose/William Bruce Bailey) is born in Lafayette, Indiana. His stepfather's surname is Bailey, but when he discovers (on his own) that his biological father's surname is Rose, William changes his surname back to Rose. "Axl" was also the name of a band he used to sing in. His mother's name was Sharon, his step-father's name : L. Steven Bailey. April 8th, 1962 Izzy Stradlin (Jeff Isbell) is born in Lafayette, Indiana. February 5th, 1964 Duff McKagan (Michael) is born in Seattle, Washington. January 22nd, 1965 Steven Adler is born in Cleveland, Ohio July 23rd, 1965 Slash (Saul Hudson) is born in Stoke-On-Trent, England. 1972 Steven moves to Los Angeles. 1976 Slash moves to LA with his mother. 1980 Izzy moves to Los Angeles. He joins a punk band called "Naughty Women" as their drummer. Later he plays with the "Atoms" (drums) and "Shire" (bass). At the age of 16, Duff becomes "The Fastbacks'" second drummer. Before joining "The Fastbacks", he had played in the "Vains" and the "Living" (with Greg Gilmore). Duff had lived in San Francisco when he was in the hardcore band "Silly Killers" (drummer). He moved back to Seattle and joined "Cannibal" (guitar). He also played in the last version of the "Fartz". December 5th, 1980 Duff plays his first show as "The Fastbacks'" drummer at the Gorilla Room in Seattle, WA. January 20th, 1981 "The Fastbacks", with Duff on drums, entered Triangle studios for their first real recording session. They recorded four songs: "Someone Else's Room", "Was Late", "It's Your Birthday" and "You Can't Be Happy". March 6th, 1981 "The Fastbacks" open a show for Joan Jett. July 24th, 1981 Duff plays his last show as the drummer in "The Fastbacks" at the Gorilla Room in Seattle, WA. September, 1981 A Seattle concert venue called The Gorilla Room was shut down by the Liquor Board because of repeated violations. Underage musicians were getting in to play, which was legal under certain restrictions, but they were getting their underage friends and siblings in, which wasn't legal. One of the under-21s caught on the premises was Duff. December 19th, 1982 Axl leaves Lafayette for good. He moves to Hollywood. 1983 In 1983 "The Fartz" changed their name to "10 Minute Warning" when bassist Steve Fart quit. The remaining members (Blaine Cook, Duff McKagan and Paul Solger) concentrated on what Duff called "tunes for groovin', not tunes for anti-this or anti-that". Solger recalls the band as "melding punk rock with more psychedelic 60s stuff; not so much heavy metal yet, except for early Black Sabbath". David Garriques joined on bass. He was succeeded by Daniel House. Soon Cook, who was the last original "Fartz" member, quit. His replacement as the new singer was Steve Verwolf. This line-up recorded tracks for an unreleased EP in early 1984. When drummer Greg Gilmore joined, Duff switched to guitar. While House and Verwolf were in the band, "10 Minute Warning" evolved further from hardcore toward a semi-improvisational gothic feel that Henry Rollins compared to a punk version of "Hawkwind". This lineup recorded an album's worth of material, unreleased, before they split at the beginning of 1985. Their last official gig was at Lincoln Arts. While living in Seattle Duff had been asked to join an English band called "Angelic Upstarts". But by joining the band he'd have to move to England, so he declined the offer. Axl plays in a band called "Rapidfire" in 1983. In May 1983 they record a demo with the songs "Ready To Rumble", "All Night Long", "The Prowler" and "On The Run". Chris Weber met Izzy through Tracii Guns. Izzy introduced Axl to Chris and together they started a band called "Rose" (which was first called "A.X.L."). Other members in Rose were Chris Weber (guitar) and Johnny Kreiss (aka Johnny Christ) (drums). Johnny was found through an ad in "The Recycler". On bass they had Rick Mars and later Andre Roxx. Later they changed the name to "Hollywood Rose". The band's first show was at the Orphanage. They also played venues such as the Troubadour, the Country Club and Madam Wong's East. They played shows with bands such as "Mondo Cain", "Bitch", "The Mercenaries" and "Candy". While Axl and Izzy were in Rose they wrote a song called "My Way - Your Way". It turned up as "Anything Goes" on "Appetite For Destruction". Other songs from that period are "Shadow Of Your Love" and "Wreckless" (later renamed to "Reckless Life"). |
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