"I've always felt this urge to go back and help my mom. I felt obligated to, but I don't anymore. She fed me and put clothes on my back, but she wasn't there for me."
Axl's mother died on May 28, 1996. Axl, Amy, and Stuart did visit her before she passed away.
*His Sister's name:Amy * Brothers Name:Stuart
Axl went to Pentecostal Church where he sang and taught Sunday School. The Bible was shoved down throat, and it really distorted point of view."
"Nothing ever happened to me. I watched my father speak in tongues and people interpret it. I watched him sing in perfect Japanese - and my dad doesn't know Japanese - and sing every note right on key with his eyes closed, driving 100 miles an hour down the freeway and not hitting a car. I don't know how that happened. I've seen people healed... I've seen people with no eyes read. It was very strang, but nothing ever happened to me. I always won all the bible contests. I taught Sunday school. I played piano. I knew more gospel songs than anybody I knew."
"My teacher had ears like a bat, so in order to get away with singing someone else's part, you'd really have to get it down. He used to wonder how come he's hearing a soprano in the bass section."
"When I was in the first grade, I wasn't allowed to cross the street until I sang two Elvis Presley songs. And then, when I was in the third grade, at recess, I would have to get up on top of a trees stump and the teachers would make me sing all the Top-40 Elvis tunes for the younger kids."
"I had to go to church anywhere from three to eight times a week. I even taught Bible school while I was beaten and my sister was being molested. We'd have televisions one week, then my stepdad would throw them out because they were satanic. I wasn't allowed to listen to music. Women were evil. Everything was evil. I had a really distorted view of sexuality and women. I remember the first time I got smacked for looking at a woman. I didn't kow what I was looking at, and I don't remember how old I was, but it was a cigarette advertisement with two girls coming out of the water in bikinis. I was just staring at the TV - not thinking, just watching - and my dad smacked me in the mouth and I went flying across the floor."
Axl had an abover average IQ and he was a loner in school. He dropped out of Jefferson High School in his junior year. His bad attitude soon became bigger than Indiana could handle. When Axl was 17, he had some troubles with the juevinile officials and decided to get out of dodge. He left Indiana on a Greyhound, destination L.A.
"When I was in school there was all stereotypes if you liked Rolling Stones you were a faggot
because of the time Mick jagger kissed Keith Richards on Saturday Night Live .If you liked the Grateful Dad you were a hippie.If you like the Sex Pistols you were a punker I guess that would make me a faggot hippie punk rocker"
"When I was in Indiana I was labeled a punk... a punk rocker. When I moved to L.A., the punks called me a hippy and didn't want anything to do with me. The Hollywood rock scene was a war-zone back then. I tried out for a punk band and I didn't make it because they said I sounded too much like Robert Plant."
Axl went to L.A.He looked for Izzy (who had previously left Indiana) for 2 days but didn't find him right away. But eventually he caught up with Izzy. All of the members of GN'R migrated from band to band before the Fab Five got together. Axl was part of L.A. Guns before fusing with Holly wood Rose to become Guns N' Roses. "I left Hollywood Rose and joined L.A. Guns and the drummer and bass player freaked out and we kinda broke up. In the meantime, Izzy had booked a gig for Hollywood Rose and there was no band left, then Tracii booked a gig for L.A. Guns and there was no band there either. We mixed what was left of the two band together and we got Guns N' Roses. Then Tracii left and went back to L.A. Guns and we got Duff. This line up was finalized on June 6th, 1985."
It wasn't always Roses for Axl. At times he barely got by. "We tried to live on $3.75 a day, which was enough to buy biscuits and gravy at Denny's for a buck and a quarter. ... That's it. We survived." He lived in the "Hellhouse" with the restof the band for many months. It was pretty much a just a studio with beds. "It didn't even have a shower."
Axl held several odd jobs before Guns made it. He did telephone sales, was a night manager at a Tower Video, and smoked cigarettes with Slash for $8 an hour for a UCLA medical test.
"Up until we got signed, I lived on the streets for five years. I never lived in one place for more than two month, always crashing at people's houses. My parents would say, 'Come back home and go to college and we'll pay for it' but I would reply, 'No, I have to do this now'."
"When we started we wanted to be the coolest, sexiest, meanest, nastiest, loudest, funnest band. There was a group consciousness of rape, pillage, search, and destroy."
@Gina Giler:His girlfriend in Indiana ,They came to L.A. together
@Erin Everly:They were married in 1989 .They divorced after some time.
She had a miscariage from Axl which drove him crazy and cause some psychological problems in him .Erin and I treated each other like shit. Sometimes we treated each other great, because the children in us were best friends. But then there were other times when we just fucked up each other's lives completely."
Motely Crue Tour- Axl is arrested at the L.A. Cathouse for leaping into the crowd and fighting with a security guard who was hassling one of the band's friends.
Summer 1987- Axl is arrested in Atlanta for assaulting another security guard.
December 1987- Axl is arrested, carried off stage even, at Perkins Palace in Pasedena for asssualting a security guard because the guard was hassling one of Axl's friends!
Aerosmith Tour 1988, Axl gets thrown in jail for punching a Chicago businessman for calling him a Bon Jovi look alike.
Aerosmith Tour 4 August 1988, Axl gets thrown in jail for wacking a parking lot attendant in Philadelphia for telling his brother, Stewart, to fuck off. GN'R's manager, Doug Goldstein got Axl out and to the show with just minutes to spare.
Use Your Illusion Sessions 30 October 1990, Axl's neighbor, Gabriella Kantor age 37, claimed Axl clubbed her with a wine bottle on the head, she went to a hospital but was released after 2 hours in "good condition". According to the Sheriffs investigators the argument began over loud music Rose alledgedly had been playing. He further said "It's really weird, she cranks my music all the time". Axl got arrested and spent 4 hours in jail before posting bail. (5000) The D.A didn't prosecute Axl citing "lack of evidence", after reviewing the evidence the D.A said "it doesn't appear (Rose) struck her with a wine bottle". I heard it was this day that Axl learned of his wife's (Erin) miscarriage
Summer 1991, warrant issued for Axl's arrest for four counts misdemeanor assault and one count property damage (inciting riot) at the St. Louis Riverport's Performing Arts Center. He was later arrested on 17 July 1992 at John F. Kennedy Internation Ai rport by U.S. Customs officials after returning from the European leg of the tour. A trial is set for October where he gets fined $50,000
