Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses

I'm really surprised by all the poor reviews. I have read a lot of biographies and this one was VERY well written. I thought 400 pages would be long and tedious, but every page left me looking forward to reading the next. I thought the author wrote in unbiased manner in regard to each individual member of the band and their entourage. I like Slash's bio, but found this book to be much more "readable".

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Pretty good background on a definitive 80's rock band. Especially enjoyed all the info on Axl Rose in the early years. Would recommend this book highly for any Guns N Roses fan.

I thought that this book was an interesting look at the makings of an amazing rock band. What I did not enjoy about the book is that all of the information in it came from past interviews. There seemed to be no interviews done with the members of the band or those who worked closely with them, or even people who knew them. I wished throughout the book that the author had been able to talk with someone and give some new insights. None the less it was a good book.

First of all, I'm not a die-hard Guns n Roses fan. For those who, like the gentleman below, already know a ton about the band, I suspect this volume will add little to their understanding of the Guns for the simple reason that the book seems written mostly from library research, footage and interviews that were already out there along with original interviews 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 about Guns n Roses beyond fond teenage memories of Appetite for Destruction, Davis' book was a breezy, enjoyable read. He does a great job bringing those hundreds of interviews and insights together, and by the end I felt I knew Axl, Slash and the rest of the band as well as anyone not witnessing their wild lives first-hand ever could. The book is almost 80% about 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 probably a good thing. I finished it in a few days. If you are a general reader just looking for a great book about 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 enjoyable and easy trip into the insane lives of Guns n Roses. A whiskey bottle is thrown, on average, every ten pages.