After several arrests throughout his late-teens, he was threatened to be charged as a repeat offender, so he set off for Los Angeles to pursue the dream of being in a rock band.įollowing years of fronting different bands, staying at girlfriends' apartments and acclimating to the Los Angeles street culture, the future star met up with an old friend from Lafayette, Izzy Stradlin. He drank, smoked marijuana, dropped out of school and had frequent run-ins with the police. He was banned from listening to anything but classical music at home, which only intensified his rebellious desires as he got older.Īs a teenager, "Bill" Bailey was a delinquent. That's the part that I admire.According to Stephen Davis' Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses, Bailey discovered rock and roll one day at school when he heard Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Maker," and he would never be the same. "He knew it would likely invite a consequence like a riot or a cancelled tour, but he didn't seem to care back then.I truly think he wants things to be at the highest level, and he puts that on himself. "If he didn't feel like playing, for whatever reason, he just wouldn't show up," Mantia recalled. While Mantia doesn't defend Rose's tendency to cancel shows on a whim, he says there was something about the singer's attitude that he can't help but appreciate. Rose's renewed passion for his work has earned him high praise from Slash and McKagan. Since the 'Not in This Lifetime' reunion with Slash and Duff McKagan, the band has rarely if even been late to the stage or canceled a gig. In recent years, Rose has completely flipped the script on his diva reputation. Axl is two hours late!' I was sitting there eating an ice cream like, 'Who cares? Maybe we won't even play! That's even better! As long as the money comes, who gives a s-?'. "Everyone else was sitting there, freaking out, like, 'Oh my god. "I loved it," Mantia said of the Chinese Democracy-era of GNR. As long as he got paid on time, he was more than happy to have a front row seat for what he understood was rock and roll history unfolding before him.
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