Neurotic Outsiders

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The first line-up featured Billy Idol and Steve Stevens (together with McKagan and Sorum) but they were soon replaced by Jones and Taylor. Other tracks include Angelina (a tribute to the inescapable 80’s / 90’s pink-haired billboard queen of LA), Good News (a bitter send-off with the lyric “the good news is you’re dying, the bad news is I’m alive”). The band started out with covers and hosted a number of surprise guests like Simon LeBon, Billy idol, Izzy Stradlin, Chrissie Hynde, Ian Astbury, Sporty Spice Mel C, Iggy Pop, Brian Setzer, and Slash. Duff McKagan made numerous albums, both solo and in other bands, and has written two books, before reuniting with the reformed Guns N Roses who’ve been touring since 2016.

Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Story Of My Life” retells Jones’ own addict’s lament while Taylor’s “ Better Way” is “a testament to our sober lives and it was not the song I would have envisioned writing with the co-author of ‘Pretty Vacant’. Comprised of no frills, guitar-drenched, cracking rock n’ roll tunes, most of the originals were unheard material leftover from Jones’ Sex Pistols/Professionals days. The album’s first single Jerk is a standard self-deprecating Jones’ track where he proclaims “I’m a jerk” as a chorus.

The album’s lyrics foreshadowed many of the themes addressed in Steve Jones’ acclaimed 2018 autobiography, Lonely Boy, now adapted by director Danny Boyle ( Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) as the 2022 Hulu miniseries “Pistol. A seguito di un incontro in occasione di una sessione sonora al Viper Room, registrarono nel 1996 l' album omonimo per la Maverick Records, seguito da un tour in Europa e Nord America.

Matt Sorum’s long-delayed autobiography, Double Talkin’ Jive has been released by Rare Bird Books this week, covering his career from playing in Tori Amos’ Y Kant Tori Read project, through the Cult, GnR, Velvet Revolver and beyond. It certainly was hard task to do something in music after you’ve been part of making rock history with a quick, sharp and very mercurial thing that was The Sex Pistols. Neurotic Outsiders, as they named themselves, along with jones on guitar and vocals included Duran Duran’s John Taylor on bass and vocals, Guns N’ Roses Duff McKagan also on guitar and vocals and Matt Sorum on drums.

A supergroup formed in Los Angeles the mid-'90s consisting of B-list guys from A-list bands, Neurotic Outsiders picked up an unexpected following when a one-time charity concert at the Viper Room led to a house-band engagement. Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets, and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go. Long out of print, Neurotic Outsiders is being re-released as an expanded edition, containing all the tracks from the album plus their rare Japanese only EP.