The music producer Rick Rubin just did an interview with Joe Rogan. He said that the first time he met them, they were interested in doing an album with him and he turned them down. He said they had a really bad druggie vibe and he didn’t want to work with them.
He met them again years later and they were better. He ended up doing several albums with them.
Maybe they reformed?
We were in college, lived in a 15 bedroom dive party house, people in and out all the time, and a band practice space.
Those guys came over, started pawing on the female housemates and our girlfriends, drank all our liquor, tried to kick us out of our own house, threw beer bottles at the neighbors house, did drugs, puked, etc, etc.
Not long before dawn, I was so disgusted that I went to the stereo and played Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell.”
Within a year, one of those dudes was dead of an overdose.
I was only surprised that it took that long.
They pretty much cleaned up in the 90s, their original guitarist died of a heroin overdose.