CONTENTS

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Notice
3. Dedication
4. Foreword by Corey Taylor
5. Cast of Characters
6. Introduction
7. PART I: EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
8. 1.   “The Pussy-Plucking-Posse Pocket of Hollywood”
9. 2.   “Dinosaur Music”
10. 3.   Interview: Michael Anthony of Van Halen
11. 4.   “Just Because Someone Says You Suck Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Suck”
12. 5.   “Rhymes with Rockin’!”
13. 6.   “Blue-Black Hair and High Heels”
14. 7.   Ratt ’N’ Roll
15. 8.   “Don’t Just Tackle the Quarterback—Break His Arms and Legs, Too!”
16. 9.   The Yellow and Black Attack!
17. 10.   “It’s Male Dominating. Macho-ism or Whatever”
18. 11.   “We Prayed in the Limo, Sure”
19. 12.   “We Know What We’re Doing, Fuck You!”
20. 13.   “Okay, Where’s the Knives?”
21. PART II: FEEL THE NOIZE
22. 14.   “Anthem Participatory Rock”
23. 15.   “This Is Gonna Go”
24. 16.   “Then I Got the Ozzy Gig…”
25. 17.   “When You’ve Got Nothin’, You’ve Got Nothin’ to Lose”
26. 18.   “I’m Not Running Any Fucking Circus!”
27. 19.   “You’ve Gotta Meet My Friend Axl”
28. 20.   “We Just Made It a Friggin’ Party”
29. 21.   “It’s Hard to Believe, but at That Time Jani Was Really Kind of Shy”
30. 22.   “Everybody Would Be Throwing Up, Passing Out, Hallucinating, or Banging Outside”
31. 23.   “Pop Songs with Heavy Guitars”
32. 24.   “I Broke Nikki’s Nose. I Broke Tommy’s Nose. I Punched Poor Mick Just for the Heck of It”
33. 25.   “I Believe Our Bus Got Crabbed Out”
34. 26.   “George and Don Hated Each Other … Really Hated Each Other”
35. 27.   “Guns and Rose”
36. 28.   “For One Thing, We Never Wore Any Fucking Lipstick!”
37. 29.   “The Poison Thing”
38. PART III: KNOCK ’EM DEAD, KID
39. 30.   “What? A Chick in Our Band?”
40. 31.   “The Girls Were Just, Like, Melting”
41. 32.   “People Didn’t Know Whether to Fuck Us or Fight Us”
42. 33.   “How Do I Get a Record Deal?”
43. 34.   “Our Hero Is Gonna Fucking Split His Brains Open in Front of Us Right Now!”
44. 35.   Interview: Alan Niven, Guns N’ Roses and Great White Manager
45. 36.   “And We’ve Got the Pictures to Prove It”
46. 37.   “The Horniest Band in L.A.”
47. 38.   Flyer Wars
48. 39.   “If They Had Cameras Back Then, That Whole Scene Would Be in Jail”
49. 40.   “It Felt Like Beatlemania”
50. 41.   Garden State Music
51. 42.   Interview: Dave “Snake” Sabo of Skid Row
52. 43.   “You Mean Slash Coulda Played the Chris Holmes Part?”
53. 44.   “We Never Even Knew We Had Money in Our Bank Accounts”
54. PART IV: YOUTH GONE WILD
55. 45.   “You Just Signed Kip Winger!”
56. 46.   “Michael Jackson Saw the Value in Poison”
57. 47.   “If You Put Tits on Him, He Could Run for Miss Texas”
58. 48.   “If You Look at the Clothing, It’s All Pretty Outrageous, Innit?”
59. 49.   “Saving Whales Doesn’t Sell Albums; Leather Pants Do”
60. 50.   “Send the Check for the Nelsons—They’re Ready”
61. 51.   Interview: Rick Krim, MTV Executive
62. 52.   “We Call Them, Uh, ‘Panty Wetters’”
63. 53.   “Fucked if I’m Gonna Do This Every Night”
64. 54.   “Tommy Lee Came to Our Room with a Plate. And He Had Shit on It”
65. 55.   “Bon Jovi, Jr.”
66. 56.   “It Was Like Being on a Plane with Two Hundred Gremlins”
67. PART V: THE LAST MILE
68. 57.   “Is It a Gun Problem or a Bat Problem?”
69. 58.   Interview: Steve Brown of Trixter
70. 59.   “The Scorpions Wanted Us Off the Tour After the First Night”
71. 60.   “Cherry Pie Guy”
72. 61.   Interview: Brian Baker of Junkyard
73. 62.   What Comes Around Goes Around
74. 63.   “It Was a Total Scene Out of Gunslinger or Something”
75. 64.   “The Girlfriends and Wives Didn’t Want Us There”
76. 65.   “Chachi’s Bumming Everybody Out”
77. 66.   “It Was Like, ‘fa-an-nu-no-nu-sh-abba-abba’”
78. 67.   “You’re Gonna Lose Half Your Audience”
79. PART VI: SHUT UP, BEAVIS
80. 68.   “38 Guns N’ Roses, 20 Ratts, 14 Warrants…”
81. 69.   “We Said, ‘Fuck It,’ and Hung It Up”
82. 70.   “I Don’t Think Nirvana Ever Wanted to Kill Anyone’s Career”
83. 71.   “All of a Sudden You Were Radioactive”
84. PART VII: EPILOGUE
85. 72.   “This Is What We Do”
86. Photographs
87. Acknowledgments
88. Notes
89. About the Authors
90. Copyright