For a UYI show I don't think you can go past the energy of this performance, no wonder it ended in a riot (St Louis).  Axl was spitting venom as he sang the first song Perfect Crime.  Seems like something really set him off, he looked mega wound up!

I would love to see some kickass passion and energy like that again!

I would imagine Ron is probably getting pretty tired of answering the same old questions.  I gotta admit he has more tolerance than I would, by now I would have snapped from being Mr Nice guy and just said STFU.

He's in a shit position really, he probably wants to do and say a lot more but it's out of his hands.  I have heard his "employer" can be a real wanker if he gets his back up so I'll cut him some slack

Well I finished Adler's book a couple of days ago (only took me 3 days to read it).  Will admit to being pretty underwhelmed with the whole book, although I'm not suprised that I am.

Adler's upbringing and his early days was the only new stuff to me.  Sounds like he was always a handful and irresponsible.  Beyond that there really were no great insights or anything else for that matter.

Even the "sex and drug stuff" there was nothing entertaining in a "Motley Crue - The Dirt" type of manner.  In the end all it consisted of was Stevie wanting to "party" all the time while his life continued to slip away.  The way the book finished and knowing loosely where he is at now via the net and articles etc, I don't see why things will be different now and he won't relapse.  He didn't share any massives "break throughs" that he achieved so I don't see why the current stint of being sober will end any differently to the previous??  Although I hope I'm wrong there.

Regarding him getting kicked out again there wasn't a lot of details.  Other than Adler continuing to be carefree/happy go lucky and "partying" all the time as they started having success.  Then suddenly he claims Duff and Slash started distancing themselves from him then BANG he's out of the band. But then I wouldn't imagine he would be capable of remembering too many details due to the drugs. 

Whilst he sticks his hand up and somewhat takes responsibility for his situation due to his drug abuse etc, there are some conflicting vibes in his whole story.  I still get the feeling that he blames the other guys somewhat and feels that he isn't completely responsible.

As someone else pointed out, it's a shame also he didn't mention anything about his meeting with Axl in Vegas (or whereever it was) more recently.

I found it funny too that he thought The Key Club semi reunion/AFD 20th Anniversary was awesome.  The vibe I got from the whole thing was it was slightly embarassing.  Interesting he also said that the reason Slash didn't play was because he didn't want to piss off Axl and jeopardise any chance of a reunion.

In summary I hope Adler is able to stay clean.  As for the book as you would expect there isn't any great insights and even from a superficial story telling point of view it's pretty boring.  There is hardly even any intersting ancedotes (real or imagined) that I hadnt' heard.

Cheers, I ordered one for the Sydney gig then - they aren't cheap though