Biography

Adler was born on January 22, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles with his mother Deanna and older brother Kenny, as a young child. His mother re-married to Melvin Adler and had another child, Jamie. Steven's older brother also had a child, Steven's nephew, Max Adler. Steven was born into the Jewish faith and has some Icelandic heritage.

Guns N' Roses era

Adler met future GN'R guitarist Slash at the age of twelve at their school in California[4] after Steven had a skateboarding accident.[1] The two became fast friends, and as Slash took up guitar, Steven took up drums (he played guitar before meeting Slash) in order to form a band (albeit missing some components), Road Crew. The two placed an ad in a newspaper searching for a bassist, resulting in Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, not only responding to the ad, but introducing the two to Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin, who were the only original members remaining from their band Guns N' Roses, with other original members, lead guitarist, Tracii Guns, bassist Ole Beich, and drummer Rob Gardner.

The three joined Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin to create the most famous and "original" line-up of Guns N' Roses. Adler drummed on the first three GN'R albums: their 1986 EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide, the multi-platinum Appetite for Destruction and G N' R Lies. Adler's work also appeared on one song on Use Your Illusion II, the opening track "Civil War", although his drum track is said to be heavily edited.

in 1990, as the band recorded "Civil War" for Nobody's Child, an album benefitting the Romanian Angel Appeal.] In April 1990, he performed with Guns N' Roses at Farm Aid IV in Indiana. It would be his last appearance with the band. He was formally fired on July 11th, 1990[1], during the recording of the Use Your Illusion I & Use Your Illusion II albums, and replaced with Matt Sorum.

Post-Guns N´ Roses era

In 1991, Adler formed a new version of his old band, Road Crew.

In 2003, he started the band Adler's Appetite,Featuring Members of RATT, L.A Guns, Love Hate and Slash's Snakepit and released an EP, Adler's Appetite. The band still performs live , performing sets heavy with Guns N' Roses songs He was recently featured on an episode of VHI's The Surreal Life: Fame Games as a judge for a hotel crashing challenge.

Adler appears to have repaired his relationships with most of his former Guns N' Roses bandmates. In 2005, he played a one-off show with Izzy and Slash at the Key Club in Los Angeles. In September 2006 Adler attended a Guns N' Roses show in Las Vegas and spoke to Axl Rose for the first time in over a decade.

In 2007 Adler's Appetite is back to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Appetite for Destruction having recently been joined at There Key Club show by Duff and Izzy there set to tour all over the world in the next year.