Guns, Tracii Guns, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner, as a favor to L.A.
In March 1985, Stradlin founded Guns N' Roses with Axl Rose and members of L.A. In December, he reunited with Hollywood Rose. He also formed the short-lived band Stalin with singer Eric Leach and guitarist Taz Rudd of Symbol Six. The group disbanded in August, following which Stradlin briefly joined Sunset Strip staple London. In January 1984, the band recorded a five-song demo featuring the tracks "Killing Time", " Anything Goes", "Rocker", "Shadow of Your Love", and " Reckless Life", which were released in 2004 as part of the compilation album The Roots of Guns N' Roses. In 1983, Stradlin formed Hollywood Rose with his childhood friend Axl Rose, who had moved to Los Angeles the previous year. Stradlin then joined the heavy metal band Shire, during which he took up rhythm guitar to aid his songwriting. During his ill-fated first show with the band, audience members began attacking the musicians Stradlin recalled, "I just grabbed a cymbal stand and stood on the side trying to fend them off, yelling, 'Get the fuck away from me, man!' That was my introduction to the rock scene in L.A." His two-month tenure in Naughty Women was followed by a stint in punk band The Atoms, before his drum kit was stolen from his car and he switched to bass. Shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles, Stradlin joined punk band Naughty Women. Set on a career in music, he subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California. There were no clubs to play at, so we never made it out of the garage." Despite his aversion to school, Stradlin graduated in 1980 with a D average, the only original member of Guns N' Roses with a high school diploma. We weren't jocks, so we ended up hanging out together.
Stradlin recalled, "We were long-haired guys in high school. In high school, Stradlin started a band with his friends, one of whom was singer William Bailey, later known as Axl Rose. Inspired, Stradlin talked his parents into buying him a drum kit. His biggest musical influence was his paternal grandmother, who played drums in a swing jazz band with her friends. Stradlin developed an interest in music early in life by the age of eight, his musical favorites included Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, and Led Zeppelin. We rode bikes, smoked pot, got into trouble - it was pretty Beavis and Butt-Head actually." It's a small town, so there wasn't much to do.
There's a courthouse and a college, a river and railroad tracks. Of his hometown, Stradlin later said, "It was cool growing up there. His father remarried in 1975 and had two daughters with his new wife. They divorced when he was eight and his mother moved with Stradlin and his two younger brothers, Kevin Thomas Isbell and Joseph “Joe” Isbell to Lafayette, Indiana. His father, Richard Clyde Isbell, was an engraver and his mother, Sonja LaVern Isbell, née Reagan, worked for a phone company. Stradlin was born as Jeffrey Dean Isbell in Indiana.
1.4 1992–1994: Ju Ju Hounds and first return to Guns N' Roses.