Table of Contents
PART I: EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!CHAPTER 1: “The Pussy-Plucking-Posse Pocket of Hollywood”
CHAPTER 2: “Dinosaur Music”
CHAPTER 3: Interview: Michael Anthony of Van Halen
CHAPTER 4: “Just Because Someone Says You Suck Doesn't Mean You Don't Suck”
CHAPTER 5: “Rhymes with Rockin’ ”
CHAPTER 6: “Blue-Black Hair and High Heels”
CHAPTER 7: “Ratt ‘N’ Roll”
CHAPTER 8: “Don’t Just Tackle the Quarterback—Break His Arms and Legs, Too”
CHAPTER 9: “The Yellow and Black Attack”
CHAPTER 10: “It’s Male Dominating. Macho-ism or Whatever”
CHAPTER 11: “We Prayed in the Limo, Sure”
CHAPTER 12: "We Know What We're Doing, Fuck You!"
CHAPTER 13: “Okay, Where's the Knives?"
PART II: FEEL THE NOIZE
CHAPTER 14: “Anthem Participatory Rock”
CHAPTER 15: “This Is Gonna Go”
CHAPTER 16: “Then I Got the Ozzy Gig...”
CHAPTER 17: “When You’ve Got Nothin’, You’ve Got Nothin’ to Lose”
CHAPTER 18: “I'm Not Running Any Fucking Circus!”
CHAPTER 19: “You’ve Gotta Meet My Friend Axl”
CHAPTER 20: “We Just Made It a Friggin’ Party”
CHAPTER 21: “It's Hard to Believe, But at that Time Jani Was Really Kind of Shy”
CHAPTER 22: “Everybody Would Be Throwing Up, Passing Out, Hallucinating or Banging Outside”
CHAPTER 23: “Pop Songs with Heavy Guitars”
CHAPTER 24: “I Broke Nikki’s Nose. I Broke Tommy’s Nose. I Punched Poor Mick Just for the Heck of It”
CHAPTER 25: “I Believe Our Bus Got Crabbed Out”
CHAPTER 26: “George and Don Hated Each Other…Really Hated Each Other”
CHAPTER 27: “Guns and Rose”
CHAPTER 28: “What's Going in These Grooves is for All Time”
CHAPTER 29: “The Poison Thing[TB1] ”
PART III: KNOCK ’EM DEAD, KID
CHAPTER 30: “They’re Guys That Became Women”
CHAPTER 31: “The Girls Were Just, Like, Melting”
CHAPTER 32: “People Didn’t Know Whether to Fuck Us or Fight Us”
CHAPTER 33: “How Do I Get a Record Deal?”
CHAPTER 34: “Our Hero is Gonna Fucking Split His Brains Open in Front of Us Right Now!”
CHAPTER 35: Interview: Alan Niven
CHAPTER 36: “And We’ve Got the Pictures to Prove It”
CHAPTER 37: “Who is that Guy that Climbed Up that Tree?”
CHAPTER 38: “Flyer Wars”
CHAPTER 39: “If They Had Cameras Back Then That Whole Scene Would Be in Jail”
CHAPTER 40: “It Felt Like Beatlemania”
CHAPTER 41: “Garden State Music”
CHAPTER 42: Interview – Dave “Snake” Sabo of Skid Row
CHAPTER 43: “You Mean Slash Coulda Played the Chris Holmes Part?”
CHAPTER 44: “We Never Even Knew We Had Money in Our Bank Accounts”
PART IV: YOUTH GONE WILD
CHAPTER 45: “You Just Signed Kip Winger!”
CHAPTER 46: “Michael Jackson Saw the Value in Poison”
CHAPTER 47: “If You Put Tits on Him, He Could Run for Miss Texas”
CHAPTER 48: “If You Look at the Clothing It’s All Pretty Outrageous, Innit?”
CHAPTER 49: “Saving Whales Doesn’t Sell Albums; Leather Pants Do”
CHAPTER 50: “Send the Check for the Nelsons—They're Ready”
CHAPTER 51: Interview: Rick Krim
CHAPTER 52: “We Call Them, Uh, ‘Panty Wetters’ ”
CHAPTER 53: "Fucked If I'm Gonna Do This Every Night."
CHAPTER 54: “Tommy Lee Came to Our Room With a Plate. And He Had Shit on It.”
CHAPTER 55: “Bon Jovi, Jr.”
CHAPTER 56: “It Was Like Being on a Plane with 200 Gremlins”
PART V: THE LAST MILE
CHAPTER 57: “Is It a Gun Problem or a Bat Problem?"
CHAPTER 58: Interview: Steve Brown of Trixter
CHAPTER 59: “The Scorpions Wanted Us Off the Tour After the First Night”
CHAPTER 60: “Cherry Pie Guy”
CHAPTER 61: Interview: Brian Baker of Junkyard
CHAPTER 62: “What Comes Around Goes Around”
CHAPTER 63: “It Was a Total Scene Out of Gunslinger or Something”
CHAPTER 64: “The Girlfriends and Wives Didn't Want Us There”
CHAPTER 65: “The Party Cost a Quarter of a Million Dollars”
CHAPTER 66: “It Was Like, ‘Fa-an-nu-no-nu-sh-abba-abba’ ”
CHAPTER 67: “You’re Gonna Lose Half Your Audience”
PART VI: SHUT UP, BEAVIS
CHAPTER 68: “38 Guns N’ Roses, 20 Ratts, 14 Warrants…”
CHAPTER 69: “We Said, ‘Fuck It’ and Hung It Up”
CHAPTER 70: “I Don't Think Nirvana Ever Wanted to Kill Anyone's Career”
CHAPTER 71: “All of a Sudden You Were Radioactive”
PART VII: EPILOGUE
CHAPTER 72: “This Is What We Do”