THE FIRST 50 GIGS: Guns N‘ Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction

Episode #10: Featuring Steven Adler

For our final interview of Season One, we catch up with Steven Adler in his home in Los Angeles to talk about his early days with Slash, Marc Canter’s dedication to the b

Episode #9: Hell Tour Featuring Danny Biral

We pick things up only 48 hours after the newly formed Appetite lineup finishes their first gig together at The Troubadour on June 6, 1985. The band quickly packs up thei

Episode #8: The Appetite for Destruction Lineup is Born

We pick things up after Tracii and Rob leave Guns N’ Roses and the revolving door of band members spins for the final time. Slash and Steven agree to join Guns N' Roses a

Episode #7: Rob Gardner Original Drummer for L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses

During the Fall of 1984, The New Hollywood Rose had called it quits, Izzy had joined London, and at that time, Rob Gardner was playing drums in a band with Tracii Guns ca

Episode #6: First 50 Gigs Mid-Season Recap

We got The First 50 Gigs team together to recap the first five episodes of the First 50 Gigs and the Appetite lineup origin story. In this episode, Marc Canter, Jason Por

Episode #5: Bassist Steve Darrow talks about his time in the New Hollywood Rose

We continue the origin story of the Appetite lineup by following what Slash called “the incestuous revolving door of band and musicians.” Our guest Steve Darrow was the b

Episode #4: Chris Weber Discusses A.X.L, Rose and Hollywood Rose

In Episode 4 we pick up the narrative thread of the origin of the Appetite lineup of Guns N’ Roses. In 1983, bass player Chris Weber, singer Bill Bailey and guitarist Izz

Episode #3: Welcome to the Jungle (Part 2) Ft. Domenic Priore

Domenic Priore, author of Riot on the Sunset Strip, picks up where we left off in 1966 on the Sunset Strip during the counterculture riots and takes us on a rock n’ roll

Episode #2: Welcome to the Jungle (Part 1), Ft. Laurie Jacobson

“Do you know where you are? You’re in the Jungle baby!” In Episode 2 of the First 50 Gigs, we’re taking you back…all the way back to the origin of the Sunset Strip and an

Episode #1: Slash‘s Garage Bands Ft:Adam Greenberg

In this first episode, we’re going back to the beginning when Marc and Slash become friends in elementary school and bond over their love of Aerosmith and dirt bikes. Sla

Episode 0: Series Introduction

Welcome to the series introduction of The First 50 Gigs: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction where you'll get a front-row seat to experience the play