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CAUTION - Contains Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll! Rock guitarist Adam 'Bomb' Brenner's autobiography is a wild ride. Beginning with his childhood as part of a well-known Seattle Jewish family (his father established the famous Brenner's bakery) he tells fascinating tales of his family's experiences and persecution during the pogroms leading up to and during the second world war, and their love and courage through very difficult times. On through the turbulent teenage years, as the electric guitar begins to cast its mesmerising spell, he takes us through the early awakenings of a rock & roll hunger, several broken guitars, school gigs and chaotic bands as he masters his instrument and starts to become a local guitar hero kid. Out into the world, there are backstage guitar lessons from Eddie Van Halen, sharing a stage with Kiss, and encounters with the struggling young rockers who would become Guns & Roses, Bon Jovi, Queensryche, Def Leppard...the list is endless. Adam's story is packed with experiences, good and bad, from the rock music biz. All laced with large measures of Sex, drugs and Rock & Roll! If you are a fan of guitars and gear (he shares a wealth of technique, both his own and passed down from the masters), loud rock music, or just a lust for life and an unquenchable drive to live the rock & roll life, you will love this book.

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Billy Idol set a new standard for debauchery when singer-guitarist Adam Bomb met him in 1985 in a suite at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif. In his new book, -911 Is Disconnected: So This Is Rock and Roll,- out April 10 from New Haven Publishing, Bomb recalls, -[Idol] was butt naked except for a pair of cowboy boots.-Bomb, who's performed with the late Chuck Berry and Mick Taylor, said Idol, a huge star following the release of his second album, -Rebel Yell,- was partying with his manager Bill Aucoin, who had discovered Kiss, and a half-dozen boys -most likely picked up on Santa Monica Boulevard,- all wearing black leather underwear. Richard Johnson New York Post Page Six Kiss auditioned dozens of potential replacements after Ace Frehley departed the line-up in the early '80s -- including a teenage guitarist calling himself Adam Bomb, who recounts the experience in his upcoming memoir. It wasn't his last time rubbing shoulders with rock royalty, however; more of Bomb's exploits -- including his experiences with members of Van Halen, Aerosmith, Guns & Roses, Bon Jovi, Queensrÿche and Def Leppard -- can be found in the pages of 911 Is Disconnected Jeff Giles Classic Rock Magazine

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Adam Bomb (Adam Brenner to his lawyers) was born sometime in 1963 and grew up in Seattle, where, in his early teenage years, he played guitar in a metal cover band called Tyrant. The band featured an equally peach-fuzzed Geoff Tate, future Queensryche front-falsetto, on proto-prog metal vox. Two years later, he joined legendary Seattle hard-rockers TKO. Although Kjarten Kristofferson (later of the Bang Gang) is credited on the album cover, Mr Bomb was actually the guitar player for TKO's finest album, 1984's In Your Face, which was actually recorded in '81, but shelved for years. Shelved albums have been a mainstay of Bomb's career. Rumour has it that Adam Bomb took the TKO gig after his first audition, with Kiss, fell through. He was 16 in '81, by the way. In 1982, Bomb quit TKO and moved to LA, to become a solo artist. He shared a room with a pre-GNR Izzy Stradlin, who lived next door to Black N' Blue axeman Tommy Thayer, who gave 'em the Bomb part of his name, 'cuz 'Adam Brenner' wasn't gonna cut it in a town full of, well, Izzys and Slash's and Dukey Flyswatters. Adam briefly joined Steeler, replacing Yngwie Malmsteen after he split for that hare-brained Viking solo project of his, but mostly, he spent the next year and half recording songs for the first Adam Bomb record. Adam Bomb signed to Geffen in 1984 (admittedly, not a hard thing for a metal band to do in 1984, but still) and released Fatal Attraction a year later. Word has it that Adam Bomb himself actually played everything on the album, but the back cover credits Billy Idol's bass player Phil Feit, ex-Riot man Sandy Slavin on drums, and ex-Aerosmith fill-in Jimmy Crespo on guitar. There's about 500 other people credited on this 'un too, including AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams, who added a little extra chug on I Want My Heavy Metal. In 1988, Adam Bomb-the-band still had no new record out. Adam-the-man, however, was having a hell of a year. He jammed with Chuck Berry on New Year's Eve. He did a solo three week tour of the UK, using ex-Babysitters drunk-glam legends The Last of the Teenage Idols as his backing band. Then he went to Stockholm and played guitar in the Johnny Thunders band for two months. '88 was a good year for me too, man, but not that good. In '89, Adam wrote and recorded songs with Steve Stevens, but you know how it goes with that cat. A year later, Pure Sex was finally released. However, it was on a French label, Musidisc, which was really no help to you and I. Meanwhile, the studio in New York where Bomb and Stevens recorded their new flash metal tracks went bankrupt, and their master tapes went missing. Or so the story goes. A year later, Adam emerged in the UK, where he formed the Last Bandits, with Dogs D'Amour bassist Steve James. They toured England throughout 1991. Then Little Steven asked him join his band. Then Axl told him Izzy almost asked him to join GNR in'84. Then somebody held his master tapes from the Stevens sessions for ransom. Then Adam played a few gigs with Mike Monroe. And so on. It's the craziest goddamn rock'n'roll story you ever heard, and almost all of it is true. And while Adam has mostly stayed a solo act in the past couple decades, he has definitely not kept quiet. In the late 90's, he formed, recorded and toured with the furious Get Animal band. In 1999, Adam Bomb (the man) released a 9/11 themed album called Third World Roar and toured England with Swede sleaze-rock sensations the Diamond Dogs. In 2012, Adam Bomb-the-band released the aptly named Rock On Rock Hard Rock Animal, and just last year he toured the world in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Fatal Attraction. According to his online bio, Adam's goals are to 'Promote the electric guitar and keep rock'n'roll alive. And I believe him, brother. That part I know is true. - SLEAZEGRINDER

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