10 Musicians That Got Fired From Huge Bands

10. Steven Adler - Guns N Roses

In the early days of Guns N Roses, the whole appeal of the Appetite for Destruction era felt like more than just another LA band from the Sunset Strip. These guys carried themselves like a gang, with everyone contributing a piece to the puzzle, from Slash's fiery lead work to Duff McKagan's punk edge on his bass. The pulse of everything was always the swing of Steven Adler, which ended up coming to a dead halt once Use Your Illusion got underway.

Because with a lot of success comes a lot of drugs in rock and roll, and Steven went down a rabbit hole that he was never able to bring himself out of, always trying to get clean and continuing to struggle with his demons. While you couldn't necessarily call anyone in the rest of the band squeaky clean in terms of substance abuse, the rest of the guys started to notice Adler's drumming suffering for it, leading to multiple ultimatums where the band would go to his house and investigate for any drugs that he had.

By the time that they had to cut the tracks, Axl had put his foot down, choosing to leave him behind and drafting in Matt Sorum from the Cult to play on the record instead. Even though this was the first time that the core family of Guns N Roses would be pulled apart, this was only the beginning of the next few years of insanity that led to their breakup in the '90s.