The bands alcohol/drug use

Well, the stripclub thing is in the booklet of Slippery, so THAT's hardly a secret.

Didn't somebody on here claim the blonde in Bed Of Roses was a guitar? That always struck me as off.

But yeah, the band didn't have a drug heavy image or fanbase I guess. From what we know they also always were super disciplined in the studio; not like Mötley Crüe or Poison who were barely able to record or showed up to writing sessions way late.

My take is that the band did party, but JBJ was always way too focused to want it to get out of hand and is himself a very controlled person. But they were rockstars in the 80s - of course they had their share of vices.

About Bed Of Roses, in a interview, Jon stated that the whole first verse was true. He had went out the night before and it was a lot of fun, but he was felling guilty as he was leaving the hotel room, because he hadn´t touch the piano in his hotel room yet, so he sat down and wrote the lyrics up to ``...about movies that won´t make of me when i´m dead``.

The interview link you posted in no way conflicts with what I said. He said he experimented—which he did—and you seemed to have missed the part that he doesn’t anymore and hasn’t “in SO MANY years.” That was 1993.

BTW, thanks for that link. I have that on video tape somewhere and have not been able to find it for probably 20 years. It’s one of the best interviews with Jon and I look forward to watching it in full when I have time. I’m really excited to see it again!

I'm pretty sure that Rdkopper had claimed that and it never made sense to me either. But Jon's words in the recent Facebook interview clearly indicate it's about the woman from the night before.

It's his Guitar

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Search the word "blonde"... Someone else knows the story too

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1149

Gotta back RDK on this one. I had heard the "blonde" guitar too. I'll have to see if I can find the source.

That's the difference between rockstars and us common folk.

They can write hits while hungover and all I can do while hungover is accidentally mistake my shaving foam for deodorant. That was a mess.

If you want gossip (and stories about substance abuse) you should check the book "Star man" by Michael Francis:

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Man-Righ.../dp/0743462351

I read this many years ago and remember it being an entertaining read, but I can't remember details. I still have it, so I will have to give it a re-read