ADLER'S APPETITE bassist
Chip Z'Nuff (also of
ENUFF Z'NUFF) told
Gerry Gittelson of
Patch in a new interview that the band has inked a "massive deal" with an as-yet-undisclosed record company. "We just signed a new deal with this label — I can't mention the label's name right now, but it's a massive deal,"
Chip said. "Especially for me, being [that] in the early days of
ENUFF'ZNUFF we signed with
Atco/
Atlantic, and then
Clive Davis signed us over at
Arista, we worked our way through
Spitfire and
Mayhem and all the different labels, even released a couple of records on
Sony."
ADLER'S APPETITE — the band led by former
GUNS N' ROSES drummer
Steven Adler — kicked off its U.S. headlining tour on May 5 at Brixton in Redondo Beach, and
Patch was there to capture all the action. The seven-minute clip can now be viewed below (filmed by
Craig Clough).
ADLER'S APPETITE has officially recruited singer
Patrick Stone (
ACES 'N' EIGHTS) and guitarist
Lonnie Paul following the recent departures of
Rick Stitch and
Alex Grossi.
In a recent interview with
Metal Sludge,
Adler stated about
Stitch's exit from
ADLER'S APPETITE, I think he went about it the wrong way, 'cause I didn't even find out that he quit the band from him, I found out from someone else." Guitarist
Michael Thomas added, "It was very strange; it was out of the blue. All of a sudden we got a text message saying 'Check your e-mail.' And there was a short little paragraph saying that, 'As of today, I'll no longer be carrying on with the band, I wanna concentrate on my other band, my original band, full time.' So he decided that was where his priority was at, that he was going to work on his original music and continue on with that."
Regarding
ADLER'S APPETITE search for
Stitch's replacement,
Thomas said, "As soon as it went on the Internet that
Rick was leaving the band, there was a flood of e-mails and responses [that] came in; it was overwhelming. And now we're weeding through all these people, and what we really wanna do is give a chance to somebody who is a star to walk in the door and sing some of the most legendary rock and roll songs of all time. It's an incredible opportunity. So, for us, we take it very seriously, because we also have to live with this person and create and write with this person, 'cause, as you know, we've released new songs recently —
'Alive',
'Stardog' and
'Fading' — which are actually on
iTunes. So they're gonna be singing not only the
GUNS stuff, but original material and putting their stamp on this new stuff that we've been writing since we got home from the European tour last month. So there's so much going on; it's a crazy circus. We're just really excited about the opportunity of working with some new cats that can really come to the table and bring it."
Stitch announced in March that he was leaving
ADLER'S APPETITE in order to concentrate on his Los Angeles-based original project
LADYJACK.
Stitch's
LADYJACK bandmate
Robo (guitar), who was filling in for
ADLER'S APPETITE guitarist
Alex Grossi on the latter group's most recent European tour, will not be continuing with
Adler's outfit.
Grossi recently left
ADLER'S APPETITE in order to focus on his work with the resurrected
QUIET RIOT.
Interview:
Performance: