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The New York Times bestselling epic tale of the last outstanding rock band

From the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods comes the finish story of Guns N’ Roses – from their drug-fueled blastoff in the 80s to the turbulent life of legendary singer Axl Rose, and his fifteen-year, multimillion dollar quest to make the perfective hard rock album.

Riotous world tours. Drug-induced rampages. One hundred millions albums sold. In his sixth major rock biography, Stephen Davis details the riveting story of the last outstanding rock band. Watch You Bleed documents the life of each band member, including the improbable story of W. Axl Rose. Davis brilliantly captures the Guns’ raw power – from the gutters of Sunset Strip to the greatest stadiums on the planet. Based on exclusive interviews, private archives, and packed with stunning revelations, Watch You Bleed is the savage, definitive, and highly unauthorized story of Guns N’ Roses. For the original time, millions of fans will learn the whole truth regarding this legendary band.

Review”Rampant rockin’ sex … a lurid tell-all.”
— New York Post

“The gold ordinary of rock biographers.”
— Boston Globe

“Stephen Davis – America’s rock biographer.”
— ABC News.com

“Five stars! Stephen Davis’s real coup is to show how Guns could be electrifying one moment and spectacularly stupid the next. You might not like Axl Rose upon finishing the book, but you may understand him better.”
– Mojo

About the AuthorStephen Davis is one of America’s preeminent rock journalists. His galore rock biographies include, most recently, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend (Gotham Books, 2004) and the New York Times bestsellers Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith and Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga.

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30 of 32 humans found the following review helpful.
Sometimes I feel like Davis is beating a Dead Horse
By Lifer73
This book was a total disappointment.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Unbelievable Factual Errors
By Fritz Montpelier
Davis’ book is passably written but marred by factual errors that even a 13 year old rock fan would pick out. Jimi Hendrix is described as lighting his Les Paul on fire (he played a Strat 99% of the time), Paul Stanley is apparently Kiss’ bass player (even my mother knows Gene Simmons plays bass), Joe Perry and Brad Whitford typify a kind of guitar playing known as ‘flash’ (never heard of it) and didn’t play on Get Your Wings, Slash showed up at the studio to record Appetite with the ‘original strings on his guitar.’ (absolutley unbelievable). Davis attempts a fly on the wall approach that never lets the truth get in the way of a good story…Axl apparently arrives in NYC where an old black wino yells “do you know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby! And you’re going to die!” And on and on and on…

Having said that, the Guns’ saga is too filthy and compelling to not read. Too bad a better writer more than willing to do the proper exploration (never mind a publisher that employs a fact-checker) hasn’t picked up the ball yet.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Highly readable, but it’s no The Dirt
By Erik Ketzan
First of all, I’m not a die-hard Guns n Roses fan. For those who, like the gentleman below, already know a ton regarding the band, I suspect this volume will add little to their understanding of the Guns for the simple reason that the book seems written largely from library research, footage and consultations that were already out there along with original consultations with ancillary characters. There is no indication that Davis talked to the band at any time or knew them.

That said, since I knew little when it comes to Guns n Roses beyond fond teenage memories of Appetite for Destruction, Davis’ book was a breezy, pleasurable read. He does a great occupation bringing those hundreds of consultations and perceptivities together, and by the end I felt I knew Axl, Slash and the rest of the band as well as any person not witnessing their wild lives first-hand ever could. The book is closely 80% regarding Appetite and the lives of the band until then. It devotes little time to Use Your Illusion and the lesser albums like Lies and Spaghetti Incident, and that’s in all likelihood a good thing. I finished it in a few days.

If you are a ordinary reader just looking for a great book in regards to the glam-metal-rock era, there’s a much better book out there: The Dirt, the story of Motley Crue, by Neil Strauss. It’s hard not to compare the two works, and what makes The Dirt so great– it’s told largely in the voices of the band members, looking back on their years of debauchery– highlights the weaknesses of Watch You Bleed.

By no means a must-read, but an gratifying and easy trip into the insane lives of Guns n Roses. A whiskey bottle is thrown, on average, each ten pages.

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