He doesn't want to deal with Axl. The quote of the century.

@jonesy2111

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

The quiet, shy guy in the back......such an essential ingredient to the band.

@jimbehr2291

5 жыл бұрын

He isn't shy and he isn't quiet. He's intense and private.

@seanfree3821

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah right charlie watts is also like that in public. But I guess is just a rol.

@ponzo1967

3 жыл бұрын

All the greats have that one guy that quietly kicks ass. Izzy was that guy for GNR

@gammarose3758

3 жыл бұрын

He was an essential ingredient but he was far from quiet and shy amongst his friends. as far as I can see they have all been essential ingredients to creating this one time historical legendary band

@gammarose3758

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbehr2291 exactly that was just my comment. Izzy was far from it, he was just not as flamboyant.

I think Izzy was the best song writer in the band . His songwriting was perfect for Axl and slash to add their elements.

@PhoenixAndTheRaven

3 жыл бұрын

Uhhh no

@dambrooks7578

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, William Bailey was only capable of getting out of family church group because of Izzy, never thought that Billy Bailey ever forgave him for it to be honest 🙄

@byrons3604

2 жыл бұрын

Well sure enough, Guns n Roses didnt really produce another album with original lineup after Use Your Illusions and Izzy leaving

@robotube7361

Жыл бұрын

@Drewblues Izzy was the creative guy of the band. He knew what sound was "cool". He is one of those guys who knows how to make a cool sounding riff. He had his thumb on the pulse of the Zeitgeist in the late 80s and knew what people wanted to hear. Hatfield and Lars had that talent too but lost is sometimes in the last 90s Sadly, Izzy was just one of the ingredients. Slash was the virtuoso and the cool guy and Axl was the voice and face of the band. The thing is this is why its called "a band" and not a solo act. Every single one of them broight to the table what was needed to make it perfect. Izzy was the creative genius who knew the cool riffs Slash was the cool virtuoso Axl was the frontman with the voice and looks Adler was the party animal and funny guy Duff was the glue and the diplomat of the band. He made sure everyone was getting along Once Adler left- The fun was gone. They didnt laugh anymore and became strictly business Once Izzy left, they didnt know how to write a proper and catchy riff for the life of them. Axl started an ego trip and there was nobody to keep him in check. Its not coincidence. Izzy also wrote the riffs of the first Velvet Revolver album and this is why it was successful. But also izzy on his own is not enough. He doesnt have the looks or the cool factor of slash. So although his solo work is appreciated by critics- he went nowhere. I think Axl needs to pay izzy his share and make him an equal part of the band if they are to come up with some new and exciting stuff. Otherwise they will be stuck in the same loop of playing their biggest hits from 3 decades ago.

@CYCHIATRIC

10 ай бұрын

100%. You nailed it. And all the good songs on UYI 1&2 were written by him.@@robotube7361

Izzy probably has the best life of any GNR alum- enough money from those first few albums, famous enough that he can tour when he wants, low profile enough that he can do things in public without being bothered. Izzy FTW

@challism

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah.

@AaronStark1993

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said. GNR needs Izzy but Izzy doesn't need GNR.

@CommercialForest

5 жыл бұрын

@@AaronStark1993 Exactly! it's been over 25 years and people are still wondering when Izzy will rejoin.

@freddyferrillo9704

5 жыл бұрын

"First few albums?" Izzy is on AFD only. G&R's debut. One album. Not the "First few". I'm pretty sure Izzy is NOT credited for anything on any other G&R recordings. But yeah, i understand what you meant to say.

@CommercialForest

5 жыл бұрын

freddy ferrillo I think he wrote on afd and lies, too

It's been 14 years of silence, it's been 14 years of pain...

@orwwan

Ай бұрын

One of their best songs, there is a world of history between them

I‘m hitting 40 and I‘m a big GNR fan for 30 years now. Izzy has always been my favourite member. I even started playing guitar because of him. But every now and then I get a feeling that he might be the weirdest and craziest of them all.

@yerzaat

5 жыл бұрын

they say that Izzy is surely the most knowledgeable guy of them all. I also started playing the guitar 28 years a go because of Izzy. Still love his music...every album is a lill master piece...I keep covering his songs all the time..you know,just for the practice...the band warm up... for internal use . Playing his songs makes you feel high like no any drug :)

@joeanthony7759

4 жыл бұрын

And the most sober

@joeanthony7759

4 жыл бұрын

@very droll How do you know that's the case? You think he gives a toss about weed? It's the hard stuff (heroin, speed, cocaine, pills) that he was adamant about

@forrmarques6731

4 жыл бұрын

Gosh please can I hear it's so easy. Mr brownstone. Jungle. Again. Lol not! Just fucking retire already you clowns fucking lame. Thank God for metallic .. Maiden. Even def lep. Or rock would be dead

@AustinTexas6thStreet

4 жыл бұрын

@very droll yeah, sounds like a real Square!!

Izzy was the soul of the band. Axl was the superstar but Izzy was the real deal.

We need an autobiography of him.

When I think of Axl and Izzy I like to think of them as the 2 teenagers (Bill and Jeff) in Izzy's room listening to Black Sabbath.

@maga-hat709

3 ай бұрын

Probably more likely it was Hanoi Rocks they were listening to.

Axl gets a lot of crap but people need to also remember that everyone else in the band had serious alcohol and drug problems, plus you had Izzy doing stuff like urinating in the aisle on an airplane flight! I’m not saying Axl didn’t get megalomaniacal or controlling but at the same time someone had to take charge.

@pjm-xc8ny

4 жыл бұрын

Listen they were all fucked up...Izzy peeing on a plane just so happened to be a Fed offense...it could've been a tree in the park for all he knew. Yeah, not pretty but addiction never is. They ALL had their moments like the rest of us. No one defines him by that except you! The best thing he did was leave!! I would've done the same. In my opinion, Izzy was the backbone of that band. Ok, listen to Izzy's solo stuff & then listen to what Duff is doing right now...I hate to say it but Duff's act is absolute garbage. Duff could've been anybody, he just got lucky, no real talent there. Izzy's solo work is pretty damn excellent! Slash w/out a doubt is amazing & Axl suited his purpose but I still don't see Axl as anything other than someone who got lucky w/ the one album that Izzy basically wrote. I mean look at the new tour; they're running on empty. You couldn't pay me to go see "NOT IN THIS LIFETIME" Hey, if they did it to make a buck that's great, I'm all for that but don't pretend like anything after Izzy was relevant. I hate to bash anyone, they all had something to give but most of them were replaceable; Izzy was not!

@fsh8026

4 жыл бұрын

@@pjm-xc8ny Why do you think that Izzy wrote all the material? Nothing indicates that. The credits are pretty clear on UYI 1&2. His solo stuff is more or less punkrock with a reaggae feel. I don't know what Duff is doing now, but he wrote some good songs on his first solo album in 93.

@angeliquegunnels7433

3 жыл бұрын

I find it ridiculous that people think a mostly sober person could be comfortable or happy with completely strung out people. It had to bother the shit out of him.

@angeliquegunnels7433

3 жыл бұрын

I H yeah that’s bs. Slash or Duff says in one of the biographies that Izzy would write simple songs and Axl would take them and elevate them into something really special.

@roxannemoser

3 жыл бұрын

Izzy was the first to get sober. He really got tired of being onstage, waiting on Axl, then Axl showing up with an attitude.

Have you heard Izzy's isolated rythm track for welcome to the jungle ? Jesus Christ ! There is just something about the way he plays.

@thevirus7368

5 жыл бұрын

@cat n' cheese it's amazing isn't it ? Hard to replicate that. Synch a relaxed bluesy style. Guys amazing.

@Salwerth2822

4 жыл бұрын

No! Where can I hear it?

@franklansino9805

4 жыл бұрын

yup, he's a really cool, great guitar player.

@blueyestu7950

4 жыл бұрын

There’s an isolated track somewhere of his playing on ‘Ghost’ off Slash’s album - that’s great too.

@roxannemoser

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved Izzy's look in the Jungle video. He reminded me of Andy McCoy from Hanoi Rocks.

To me there is no GnRs w/o Axl, Slash, Duff, Adler and Izzy. There may be Axl and a group of people that go by the name of GnR but that will never be Guns n Roses. Axl killed GnRs way back in the 90s.

@garlandstrife

4 жыл бұрын

After Use Your Illusion, GnR died. It became a shell of its former self.

@35cdl

3 жыл бұрын

Axl, slash and duff with guest appearances by Steven have been touring for 5 years. When Steven plays his songs it’s pretty close but without Izzy it’s just not 100%.

@luckpoof7261

3 жыл бұрын

That's a big statement

@jerk8266

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't only Axl, it was the whole band. They were all junkies n alcoholics. Izzy was heroin addict, Slash was, Duff Was alcoholic n drug addict. Addictions fkd them up.

@luckpoof7261

3 жыл бұрын

@@jerk8266 they'll blame Axl for it just for sport

Love the Izzy stories. Sounds like he and Duff were the positive balance in the group.

@williamberry8895

Жыл бұрын

Slash is like hi I'm slash

@RavenWolfDrum69

7 ай бұрын

Luv them both

Either in an arena or in a small club, I would put my life on hold and go watch Izzy play live.

I’m taking Izzy’s side on this one. Having recently been the one who stepped out of a band of egos I can relate to pretty much everything he said... except the bits about shit tones on money, strippers and cocaine.

@AustinTexas6thStreet

4 жыл бұрын

Music, money, strippers, and cocaine are Tight!!

@hyvakoira

4 жыл бұрын

A very talented guy, but he had been also described by some involved (including Niven) as the guy most paranoid about money - no touring because Axl wouldn't pay himself for showing up late and other delays. Nothing against him, of course, the majority of rock band members had feuds among themselves for all sorts of reasons.

Izzy had been in LA a long time before Axl. Axl went looking for his friend Jeff Isbell, but Izzy had already changed his name to Izzy Stradlin. Took Axl awhile to find him.

@riichan2895

3 жыл бұрын

ohhhhhhhhhh slash once said that he got pissed that axl let "jeff" in the band... and i was so confuse who jeff was , but now ik hes izzy :)

@mrsx7944

2 жыл бұрын

Roxanne what is your point?

@dolantho

2 жыл бұрын

@@riichan2895 that’d make no sense too me, Adler and slash came after izzy

@riichan2895

2 жыл бұрын

@@dolantho in the band but Axl and Izzy have been friends way before

Izzy Stradlin was Guns n Roses. Him and Axl. You can here it in the early demo tapes from their past bands.

14 years is a love/breakup song by Izzy about Axl nobody can change my mind on this

@candacekane3705

4 жыл бұрын

Sad so very sad 😥

@orwwan

Ай бұрын

I think everybody agrees with that. He was on his last leg with Axl at the time and when Axl didn’t change he just left. Relationships are hard this two i think harder than most.

Although, (Maybe some people didn't know this) Izzy appeared with GNR - Democracy era on the Chinese Democracy tour concerts (few shows as a special guest).

@krisberntzen

5 жыл бұрын

I was lucky to actually attend one of those shows. Axl was in a great mood, and introduced him: And here, on YET another guitar, here's my friend Izzy Stradlin!

@thevirus7368

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah he came onstage at download 2006 when I was watching them.

Love this stuff. I´d love to hear an episode about how he got his nickname "Stradlin" , given that his real name is Jeffery Isbell.

@grahamjarman

Жыл бұрын

i guess izzy comes from isbell

@Nghilifa

Жыл бұрын

@@grahamjarman I'd assume so.

Fascinating guy Izzy, definitely the most enigmatic member of G'n'R

I guess he found a million dollars that sumone forgot?

@johnsirrine6437

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty tied up

@RansomeStoddard

4 жыл бұрын

It's days like this that push me over the brinks.

@johnsirrine6437

4 жыл бұрын

Cool ranch dressing

@illegalewahrheiten2911

4 жыл бұрын

It was after a party and there was a check for about 1 million dollars just lying on the floor. Somebody in the band had forgotten about it. There is a similar story from the early 90s where Izzy is interviewed and he has a check for 900k and he doesn't know where he should keep it. The interviewer jokingly says he can hold on to it for him, something Izzy considers for a brief moment. It may be Izzy himself who forgot the check and then wrote a song about it.

@himoong

4 жыл бұрын

Nice haha

Izzy was their best songwriter. Major loss for GnR when he left. They never recovered.

@Baldmelon

4 жыл бұрын

yet we should trust Dizzy lol

@forrmarques6731

4 жыл бұрын

Yes your right perfect example is" pretty tied up". Being a badass player isn't the same as being a badass songwriter with all due respect to Slash I love! him and play very much like him but there's a reason it's taking sooo long to make new music. They don't have Izzy to write songs and how long are they gonna do the nostalgia thing .make new. Music for gosh sakes fuck Richard shreds allover Izzy. But he obviously can't write songs either ..they should have listened to Axl back in the day and had Zakk wylde in the band if they were gonna go this route it would've been awesome!

@mikebehrend3152

4 жыл бұрын

It’s plain as day that he was the glue. No Izzy you get Chinese Democracy from one side and Velvet Revolver from the other half, just wait the new GnR record will be Chinese Revolver. But at the same time he needs Duffs punk influence and Slash’s riffs over his Rhythms to make It GnR.

@espalier

4 жыл бұрын

RestrainingHollywood preach

@themadrapper101

4 жыл бұрын

I like the Illusions era and Use Your Illusions albums

Great video and story. I enjoy hearing about Izzy. You shed alot of light on their up and down relationship. Great job!

Great video. Thanks Sid.

I wouldn't paint it black and white, like many people do - Axl was the one who destroyed the band by showing up late to shows and other controversies and megalomaniac things while Izzy and the rest were cool, talented, down to earth guys and so forth. They knew from very early on, Izzy much better than anybody else, that their singer was literally a diagnosed lunatic (a sociopath or whatever) with unpredictable mood swings and flights of temper who stays up at night and then sleeps until 6 p.m. But he had a unique voice, powerful stage presence and was committed to the cause, and they would put up with his "little tyrant" behaviour especially as they indulged their own vices. Axl probably later got a picture on his unhealthy mind that 1) all his friends were alcoholics and junkies, largely uninterested in anything else, and someone would eventually die of an overdose, 2) so it was him who carried the torch (and the stress of doing business and putting out great shows), especially as all the criticism and mockery were always aimed solely at him. The record company and managers were happy to milk the band while they were still functioning, they knew very well too it wasn't meant to last long and didn't do much to intervene. As Duff said in his book, if managers cared about anything else but their own commission money, they would put them all into treatment back in 1988. In my personal opinion, GnR were a beautiful, one of the kind thing that happened against too many odds and was largely doomed from the very start to end up ugly, so no need to heap blame on or whitewash anybody, let's enjoy the stories and the music.

@angeliquegunnels7433

3 жыл бұрын

Great perspective.

@gerardspringer8576

3 жыл бұрын

Axl was making moves to take over. B4 they put put the Use your illusions albums, they had to sign over the G nR name. That was the beginning of the end. Izzy has played w/ them more recently. He did shows right before Use your illusions came out. I think he had enuff by then

@aaronbickford8725

3 жыл бұрын

I personally think another important thing to consider in regards to Izzy leaving the band is something a lot of people fail to understand: Izzy was newly clean off heroin and, at that time, staying clean on a GNR tour just wasn’t going to last forever, period. At that level of addiction, it is literally a life or death decision and, if the addict decides to make an honest, firm commitment to getting clean and actually staying that way, then sacrifices to one’s previous, enabling lifestyle will have to be made. People, places, and things have to change. It seems to me maybe a large part of his decision to leave was that, Axl’s behavior was just the icing on the cake that made the decision easier for him.

i would like to hear Axl's side of the story

First post! Love it, great ep. west Arkeen next?

Adler and Izzy were the swing of gnr!!

Maybe Izzy is doing the thing Freddy Mercury used to do, just write a song with completely random lyrics as when it's finished you can go back and work on them. The most famous example is 'One Vision' they didn't have the lyrics worked out so Freddy just started singing about "Fried Chicken"

Izzy wrote3/4 of their songs. Notice that haven't written anything decent since his departure. He was the real reason gnr made it

@andyedge263

4 жыл бұрын

not exactly..axl wrote nearly all the lyrics (which is 50 percent of songwriting credit right there)..axl also wrote a lot of the music (November rain, estranged) and with also being the frontman, he is by far the most important member of the band..

@fsh8026

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't hear that in Izzys solo albums.... The songs are not bad, but nothing great. Punkrock with some Reaggae vibe.

@pjm-xc8ny

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!! Truth! They all got equal enough credit on Appetite but he wrote most of it...even after on Illusions he wrote a great deal...one of the reasons he left...they stopped giving him equal credit even though he was pretty much founded the band & wrote soooo much of their stuff. Axl's head got to big for the room. I would've left too!! Rock on Izzy!!

@negativeindustrial

3 жыл бұрын

The magic of the band was the original five members. As each one left one at a time they took a piece with them. There is nothing left of that magic. Hasn’t been for decades.

@angeliquegunnels7433

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. And what has he done? Songs about the dentist.

Damn all of them are so weird! All of them- especially Axl Izzy Slash... drove each other crazy yet practically lived them entire career performing songs they created together. Whole ocean of artists around but kept bumping into each other for performing on stage or creating music every now and then. Be it Izzy+Axl, Izzy+Duff, Slash+Duff... sprinkle of good ol steven adler in between.. GnR broke up in prime of their youth..but looks like all these guys never really got over each other! No matter what mad stuff they said at different points of time...

Yes more stories about izzy please. He was the secret sauce to their success.

It should be at least mentioned that Izzy has over 10 complete solo albums. While they may not all be winners, he is definitely the most prolific member of the original GNR. I just checked iTunes. There used to be a few more available but they aren’t there anymore. I really enjoyed this video btw as Izzy is my favorite member.

@d.a.thorndike8772

5 жыл бұрын

Practically all his solo albums have been Japan only releases. Don't know why, but that is why they are so difficult to find (and expensive)

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

planninegoodtimes yeah and how many people actually remember those albums? Quality over quantity my friend.

@ghenny69420

4 жыл бұрын

AGS 15 the quality is amazing, have you even listened to them? It doesn't matter if they didn't explode on the charts dipshit

@merileopardisaksassa7030

Жыл бұрын

@@adamgriffith-smith9106 How are people supposed to remember when they can't even buy them anywhere? Or if nothing plays on the radio because its Japanese release only? What a way to make an unnecessary patronizing non-statement.

@MERCURYSUNSET

Жыл бұрын

Not having a go at you man and I know a lot of people love Izzy , but i think he is overrated to be honest . He happened to be in the right place at the right time with Guns . I have seen where Izzy said something to the effect of writing 10 songs in 2 weeks with Duff .Well so what . I remember reading an interview many years with Blink 182 and Tom De Lounge or whatever the fuck his name is ,claiming they wrote 140 songs in 3 months after a tour .....If these goofballs had boiled down the 140 songs down to 4 songs they would have had 4 killer songs . Izzy should have done the same with his shit instead of burping out songs like a guy with a flu on a street corner lobbing out spitballs every 5 seconds

Izzy has released 11 solo albums since he left Guns, that's a very respectable output and most of the material is excellent. I dont think its fair to slag the guy for not releasing new material. Izzy left Guns in the middle of a world tour. I know he was miserable but you cant do that. Luckily the band was able to patch it up and finish but Izzy's exit could have really screwed the band financially and with the fans. Izzy made a mistake leaving like that and Axl could never trust the guy again, its pretty simple. When trust is absent there is no way to have a healthy relationship. Axl has never forgiven him for leaving like that. I wanted to see Izzy in the reunion shows but Fortus is a very good guitar player and he took his job, simple as that. (Also Izzy spilling his guts about Axl in high school is a little much, dude just bite your tongue and keep it to yourself)

Great channel with some very interesting stories.

Love izzy stories. Dude was the best songwriter in the band.

@giorgikobalava7430

5 жыл бұрын

No, he was n' t.

@diggz691

5 жыл бұрын

listen to the actual words on Chinese democracy and you'll see who the best songwriter in the band was

@deepcreep98

5 жыл бұрын

@@giorgikobalava7430 Make a list of the songs Izzy wrote and then line them up against the rest of them. Obviously you're not even aware of the members' contributions.

@giorgikobalava7430

5 жыл бұрын

@@deepcreep98 It' s on the contrary sport, it's you who' s not aware of members' contributions. You repeat bullshit you' ve heard. Get your facts straight before you mouth it off and when you' re done following your own advice, count how many credits more Axl has. That is, if you know how to count....

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

VideInfra that’s opinionated. Those songs never would have been hits if it wasn’t for the other members.

I wonder if Izzy asking where the money is inspired Duff to go back to school and learn how to manage money for other rockers.

“I fucking love this weird little guy”

I was in high school when AFD was released and I LOVED that record. By then "metal" music was played by a bunch of hacks who spent more time with a can of Aqua Net than a guitar. Guns and Roses was a blast of old school fresh air. Then they kept making records...

Everybodys hating Axl again. Izzy left without saying goodbye and was a heavy drug user. Thats not a very reliable character. I am glad GNR have Richard Fortus now. he's a rocker, great guitar player but without any attitude. I miss Adler, although he probably would make it professionally anymore but I don't miss Izzy. His solo albums are ok but nothing indicates he alone is the great songwriter. Slash writes massive groovy kickass riffs but lacks the skill of incorperating them into a great rock drama, which is clearly Axls strength. Duff is a little bit in between. Axl is also a great lyricist and singer with a unique voice. Izzy iz an ok singer but no more.

@roxannemoser

3 жыл бұрын

Izzy was NOT a user when he left. He had been sober for a year or so and it was eye opening. He really got tired of Axl's ego and the drug and alcohol abuse of the others.

@roxannemoser

3 жыл бұрын

Also, the song Patience that everyone believes the lyrics were written by Axl, was a completely Izzy written song.

Yes, more Izzy. He's my favorite GNR member and quite honestly, my favorite musician/songwriter period. He doesn't get his due; and I could go on and on about why it's likely he didn't end up on the reunion tour... but I won't. I have work to do. Thanks for video!

@giorgikobalava7430

5 жыл бұрын

On the contrary, he gets way too much credits.

When you're writing songs, it is common to use scratch lyrics or gibberish to figure out the melody and rhythm of the syllables. Scratch lyrics evolve into the final lyrics as you get more comfortable playing and singing the song. For example, “Tooth-pull-er” is 3-syllables like “You're-Cra-zy,” “My-Mich-elle,” or “Reck-less-Life.” The vowel sound in “Tooth” could evolve into “Move” like “Move-to-the-ci-ty.” When you're writing and demoing a new song then the 1st lyrics are frequently placeholders, which get replaced by the final lyrics.

7:00 sounds like AvPd/PDA were unaddressed symptoms of Axl's manifold inner issues. Everyone talks about the egomania and BP and his acting out, but not the social anxiety and avoidance (especially demand avoidance, in the case of ChiDem).

I want to hear that song about the dentist

Izzy and the dentist. 😔🤣

I think Axl gets a lot of crap for how he was in the ‘90s, and some is probably deserved, but also remember Axl was the only member of GnR at that time without a major drug problem. Could you imagine being in that position and having to deal with your bandmates all seriously messed up on heroin and cocaine?

@Yup712

4 жыл бұрын

Walkin' Tall Agreed! Even though I was incredibly happy to see GnR reunite finally after all these years, I was pretty annoyed that it took that long!

@thinkingagain5966

4 жыл бұрын

So what? It's not like GNR was the first or only band to have drug addicted members

@SkyxDreamboat

3 жыл бұрын

@@thinkingagain5966 and it's not like there was never a rockstar who was controversial like Axl but they didn’t get so much crap as axl. And why is it only him?

@mrsx7944

2 жыл бұрын

@@SkyxDreamboat exactly. Ppl judge him way too harshly.

Love his instrumentals !

I saw Izzy play with the Nu-GNR at Download Festival in the UK in 2006, I'd be interested in knowing how that came about. By some luck I saw Duff join Axl on the Chinese Democracy tour in 2009 at the O2 London, the next time I saw them! I've now finally seen all of them in different scenarios thanks to the Not in this lifetime tour (except Steven Adler)

@krisberntzen

5 жыл бұрын

I've seen all of the AFD line up, except for Steven. I've even seen Teddy Zig Zag at the Slash and Friends show (with Ronnie wood, ozzy and Jason Bonham!). Gilby was actually booked at a club in my town, but it got canceled. A guy I work with has a series of shows, usually featuring burnt out 80's rock guys, and he was very close to booking a show with Adlers appetite. I haven't come close to Matt, though, but he'll come around sooner or later I guess

@johnmarshall8644

5 жыл бұрын

I've seen them all but izzy with g n r

It's totally fucked up that Steve is being treated like an outcast. He IS a part of Guns and IS an Awesome musician AND most DEFINITELY be in the Reunion!! He's being treated like Pete Rose! It's mainly Axl who is the problem. Love from NYC🤘

Him and axel are gnr , izzy made their sound what is it was mostly his riffs that shaped their sound and slash was a good bluesy lead player but his riffs were never song makers

Hi Sid, Do you have any Live footage of Izzy interviews as I have never seen one ?

Always 2 sides to the story, but I think it was a power/control thing with Axl. I would have to blame Mick Jagger and David Bowie for personally putting shit into Axl’s head about business over music first.

@jonesy2111

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

listen again; i think you'll realize steven was the real magic ingredient in appetite. it's all about steven.

@AustinTexas6thStreet

4 жыл бұрын

Poor guy

@notyetskeletal4809

3 жыл бұрын

His playing was an important part of that machine. Really notice it when it wasnt there.

Dude, keep on goin. Dig.

Well uh you said this in 1982...

More Izzy videos please!

Anything Izzy I love dude. More Izzy stories !

many riffs i always admired and thought they are slashs, were izzys. he was the foundation to slashs sound ond appetite. like the melody in the intro of jungle, thats him.

@TheSmashingDoc1

4 жыл бұрын

@juntao11 if you listen closely, izzy does half of the work. also in acdc, the second guitar fits perfectly around the lead. and in the jungle intro you can hear that slash is playing the tam tamtam tamtam, while izzy makes the taaaam tamtamtamtamtam taaam taaaam taaam.

Ya know, this collection of interviews could explain why GN'R (the real one) hasn't recorded original studio material since 1991. Izzy's post-2000 material is very one-note/samey. What if Izzy was the core of the writing team and/or inspiration from 1987-1991. He blew his creative load, and now the current GN'R can't move forward with a true sequel to UYI, because without Izzy, there's no songs. And even if Izzy wanted to write, the same fire just isn't there and wasn't post 10 years after leaving GN'R.

So what's Izzy's new album called,This is how i do my dishes? lol

00:56 he's looking like that guy of the movie "Mask".

Izzy's best solo albums are On Down the Road, & Like a Dog.

@rodeldicang3291

3 жыл бұрын

His first solo album with the juju hounds was the best ever

Izzy is absolutely priceless. He is also sane lol

I'd love to know which songs he had input into on the VR albums and also Chinese democracy.

Well, Here Comes the Rain is the great tune by Izzy. If he's found inspiration watching the weather channel on TV,,,good for him, who cares...music is the only important thing since we are talking about the musician :) Izzy always writtes about the real shit happening around....Dehydrated might be a lill bizzare song, but Upside is ultimate ass kicking song....considering everything , it's impossible to put Izzy in negative context. He's personification of a true rocker with all goods and bads that come along with it. Most talented song writter in last 3 decades. Hats off ....he does whatever he wants cos he can afford that life style. And he went long road coming to such position. His solo albums are , by far, the best music that came out from what used to be Gn'R camp.

@giorgikobalava7430

5 жыл бұрын

If you think Izzy is the best songwriter " in the last 3 decades", you, sure as shit, have n' t listened to much quality music. It's all a derivative and bland Stones rip-off crap, Not even good era Stones rip-off.

you should do a story on Taz Rudd who played in a band with Izzy on drums and word is taught Izzy guitar

It seems that Izzy just wanted out from GNR when they became too famous, and their lives had become restricted. Izzy was always a free spirit, and didn't want to play massive stadiums, plus his arguments with Axl. In a way I don't blame Axl for making them sign contracts because Izzy was unreliable and just not show up, and they were all deep in the drugs, so Axl could see it all going downhill and was told by his lawyers to secure GNR. Maybe he did it the wrong way, but GNR exists today because of Axl. Izzy seemed to loose his momentum if what Dizzy said is for real

Well my opinion is that Izzy has always been more of a bar fly then a big rocks musician. And to be honest he's almost now I say almost a big drama queen as much as Axl...lol. I could see the guy being paranoid because he honestly looks like that tight but I also think that he keeps running back to axle every couple of years because he want to be needed but at the same time he doesn't want anything to do with them oh, it's kind of weird

@SkyxDreamboat

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thought

Dust N. Bones is the best GnR song, period.

I miss Izzy

0:42 is that Ron Wood on the right?

More Izzy!!!!

So years ago when Axl wanted everyone to sign over their publishing to him. Who out of the band actually did that? After I got up off the floor laughing, I would have told him to stick it. That story has always irritated me.

@tombouchard9606

5 жыл бұрын

Right on

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

Ted Mac that story is bullshit. Axl said that such things would be illegal.

Slash have clamied that Izzy was a better guitarist slash just became more popular because he does the "cool" guitar solo stuffs but izzy actually did the guitar parts the most and was a great writer

Shame he never wrote a song about his visit to the proctologist.

@kmjr2400

4 жыл бұрын

NO SH-T! 👍👍🤘🤘🤘🤘🤣😂🤣😂💩💩💩💩

@SelectCircle

4 жыл бұрын

I thought that's what Welcome to the Jungle is about. ... o_O

@sweetbitter2

3 жыл бұрын

Trollsif Stalin 😂😂😂😂😂

Beyond the craziness of everybody in the original band, I'm gonna go on a limb and suppose Izzy would bring to the table stuff reminiscent of Appetite - and to me without Axl's vision they would have disbanded after Appetite and we wouldn't have UYI 1&2

Izzy was guns silent bullet! You have to have the riff man, without the riff man you have nothing. Yes slash no doubt put his timeless licks on a chemistry that blew up the world, what great fortune to find that chemistry bigger than the sun far as a band, but now how can you top it? Tell me......

He should come back. Axl is a totally different person now. Even his attitude is gone after the reunion (which is fucking sad).

he was probably the most talented, he wrote most the early songs and slash play lead ? with out izzy there is no guns and dont matter how good the lead guitar is.

@nkmcfrln

4 жыл бұрын

So tell me what songs Izzy wrote for Appetite for Destruction and his participation in the writing and recording of Use Your Illusions. You're full of shit

@ghenny69420

4 жыл бұрын

nkmcfrln he was in all the recordings in UYI they just turned his guitar down in the mix. Here are GnR songs he wrote/heavily contributed to writing: you could be mine, you aint the first, shadow of your love, right next door to hell, reckless life, pretty tied up, perfect crime, move to the city, dust n bones , double talkin jive, dont cry, bad obsession, bad apples and 14 years. Not to mention the large role he played in AFD, he plays parts that people assume slash played. You're full of shit

4:50 1987-1991 we've been dancing with mr brownstone 1995 I got my tooth ya I got my tooth pulled

@margaretreefer1145

4 жыл бұрын

It's been aching, it won't leave me alone. No, no no oh oh... won't leave me alone.

Izzy was the best songwriter. GNR never had a good song after his departure. Thanks Sid. More Izzy and Hell House stories

@giorgikobalava7430

5 жыл бұрын

Please, Better alone shits on everything Izzy has crapped out on his own.....

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

J C and Izzy hasn’t had a songs on GNR level on his own either. Your logic is flawed

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

nobody nobody my point is they all made GNR. People saying it was only Izzy are delusional

@seanfree3821

4 жыл бұрын

How do you know wich parts did he write? Please tell me.

1995 wasn't the last time Izzy played with Axl... sporadically throughout the years, I'm pretty sure in the late 2000's, Izzy and Duff both have joined Axl on stage for a song or 2... not very often, but there's definitely footage on YT.* 2012 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lIWAo5uHf7bFf9I.html

Don't forget, Izzy DID write Double-Talking Jive. Possibly why Axl dedicated it to him.

@enviousfred

5 жыл бұрын

this was mentioned, I remember on a vinyl recording of Axl interview, after he had smashed a full-wall mirror in his house! Axl stated that "Izzy has a news song: D.T.Jive give us the money M-F cos I got no more patience." This was around 1989.

@giorgikobalava7430

5 жыл бұрын

Which is a pile of shit. If I had been Axl back in 91, I would have removed half assed, generic and uninspired shit Izzy came up with.

@tieukhavu8832

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe as a Thank You or sort of pissed of at you kind of thing.

@deepcreep98

5 жыл бұрын

@@giorgikobalava7430 Loser alert.

@deepcreep98

5 жыл бұрын

@@giorgikobalava7430 Let's hear your songs.

Izzy looks like he could be your neighbor. Axl looks like he could be your weird neighbor.

@laracroft1962

Жыл бұрын

I'd say Izzy is the weird one and Axl the weirder one lol

@jameza6129

Жыл бұрын

@@laracroft1962 Izzy looks like the guy in the neighborhood who could sell you weed 🤣

Most songs aren’t about anything. So it doesn’t matter to me what the song is about, as long as it sounds good. I’d have to hear that tooth pulling song or the weather song. I do know is Izzy wrote “I think about you” and it’s my favorite gnr song.

There's as many sides to a story as there are people involved. And then there's the outsiders trying to interpret it. I take it all with a grain of salt.

Izzy, is GN'R.

Most song writers will write about anything to keep up the skill set. So writing a song about going the dentist is an exercise for a professional song writer.

I believe Izzy is right Axl is a madman

Man, people analyze this band to death & back! They made 2 albums! (Illusion was full of filler, and could have been one great record).

@laracroft1962

Жыл бұрын

Yup they were that good. It's not the quantity that matters but the quality.

He dosn't wnat to be taken advantage of like Syd Barett who wrote all the songs for Pink Floyd. And when he couldnt be used anymore so he was gone.

Izzys my favourite member

WAxl also said that Izzy didn't like having to make videos, I suspect Izzy wasn't very 'show businessy' and thought of himself as a pre MTV musician. Music Videos are quite lame, they were ok in the Appetite era, but once you got to the absurd spectacle of Axl at the Altar there was no going back to a pre UYI innocence.

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

Semper Terra the November rain video was brilliant though

@semperterra3235

5 жыл бұрын

AGS 15 - Yes the video was perhaps impressive on its own terms, but I always wondered what Slash thought when he was standing in the outdoors pretending to play guitar while a helicopter with a camera repeatedly flew over his head filming him. I doubt it was something he ever imagined when he began playing guitar. I am of the opinion that it was the sort of thing Izzy Stradlin hated.

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

Semper Terra well if slash didn’t like it he could of walked away but then that would mean missing out on a pay check lmao

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

nobody nobody it was a piece of art. Just cause you’re too sensitive to handle it isn’t their problem

@Salwerth2822

4 жыл бұрын

@@nobodynobody3182 yes, it is dark and depressing. And brilliant. I've never quite expected them to sing of daisies and sunshine.

One of the big problems Axl and Slash towards the end was bringing in Axl old Indiana buddy to play guitar, Paul Hues or something like that.

It's like baking a cake, you need all the ingredients. You can swap Steve & Matt and it still works, it tastes a bit different but it's still tasty. No Izzy, No GN'R. PERIOD.

@adamgriffith-smith9106

5 жыл бұрын

btjonny5 we’ll just wait what the new record sounds like then we’ll see

I mean fair enough, sounds like he just doesn’t want to be famous, lmao when he played at Wembley and the next day was just like “yeaahh that’s enough for me” 😭

Any chances of videos on Izzy's relationship with Tracii? Or Steven Adler? I find those to be more interesting relationships than Izzy/Axl, plus there's much less easy-to-find information about them.

I like Izzy. I think he was the first one to quit drugs he seems like the guy who wanted just to enjoy making music with his friends and the whole thing turned into a totally different thing with success.

Lol I didn't know who izzy was till the TERMINATOR told me. I kept asking my brother who izzy?