10 Most Infamous Guns N' Roses Moments

By Wayne Madden /

6. Axl Rose Arrested, 1990

No doubt Axl Rose has seen his day in court. Original reports of his younger exploits lead sources to suggest he was arrested 19 times before originally leaving Layette, Indiana, for LA and that on the occasion he did leave he was skipping bail. But it was his arrest in early 1990 which provided for the most colourful of inspirations. Rose had an altercation with a neighbour, Gabriella Kantor, who claimed the singer hit her with a wine bottle and threw her keys from his apartment - forcing her to suffer serious headaches since the incident. Rose was arrested, as a matter of precaution, later being released on bail after Kantor called the police. What made this incident even more unusual is that Rose later spoke to People Magazine about it, "Frankly," he says, "if I was going to hit her with a wine bottle, she wouldn't have gotten up. I would have become a criminal at that point, wondering what I was going to do next to not get busted over the quivering body in my hallway." Rose dismissed Kantor's claims as absurd, but it did lead him to write the lyrics for 'Right Next Door To Hell', a particularly hate filled track that opened the bands Use Your Illusion 1 album. A lot of this was also fuelled by the fact that Rose's then wife, Erin Everly, had recently suffered a miscarriage and Kantor was accused of stalking the singer and demanding his time. Rose later said that he would file a civil action suit against his neighbour and told Rolling Stone he'd spent his time in jail signing autographs for guards and talking to one older officer about when he'd attended Woodstock. Inspiration can come from anywhere really.