Neurotic Outsiders

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What started out as a random mishmash of his musician friends, John Taylor ( Duran Duran) and Duff McKagen and Matt Sorum ( Guns N’ Roses), and a Monday night residency at the infamous club turned into Neurotic Outsiders. Manchmal ist die Stimme von Steve Jones aber leider zu sehr verzerrt wie bei “Six feet under“ und “Revolution“. Matt Sorum’s long-delayed autobiography, Double Talkin’ Jive has been released by Rare Bird Books this week, covering his career from playing in Tori Amos’ Y Kant Tori Read project, through the Cult, GnR, Velvet Revolver and beyond. The first line-up featured Billy Idol and Steve Stevens (together with McKagan and Sorum) but they were soon replaced by Jones and Taylor. Originally starting out as the resident Monday night band at LA's notorious Viper Room that hosted a wide array of surprise guests including Simon LeBon, Billy idol, Izzy Stradlin, Chrissie Hynde, Ian Astbury, Sporty Spice Mel C, Iggy Pop, Brian Setzer, and Slash, the band’s own internal chemistry between its four members was so apparent that soon Neurotic Outsiders was born.

Originally starting out as cover band that hosted a wide array of surprise guests including Simon LeBon, Billy idol, Izzy Stradlin, Chrissie Hynde, Ian Astbury, Mel C, Iggy Pop, Brian Setzer, and Slash, the band’s own internal chemistry between its four members was so apparent that soon Neurotic Outsiders was born. Of and a record, originally released in 1996 that stands as one of the better statements of the post-punk era, now re-released as an expanded edition ( the original remastered album adding four b-sides from a rare Japan-only EP) . As more and more of Jones' post-Sex Pistols originals started making their way into their sets, the band began embracing the new material. A seguito di un incontro in occasione di una sessione sonora al Viper Room, registrarono nel 1996 l' album omonimo per la Maverick Records, seguito da un tour in Europa e Nord America.Story Of My Life retells Jones’ own addict’s lament while Taylor’s Better Way is “a testament to our sober lives and it was not the song I would have envisioned writing with the co-author of Pretty Vacant. With Neurotic Outsiders, things felt completely loose,” laughs Taylor of the ragtag nature of the band.

As enthusiasm for the band increased, they were signed to Maverick Records, releasing one album, the self-titled Neurotic Outsiders, in 1996. The band started out with covers and hosted a number of surprise guests like Simon LeBon, Billy idol, Izzy Stradlin, Chrissie Hynde, Ian Astbury, Sporty Spice Mel C, Iggy Pop, Brian Setzer, and Slash. Yet from there on, the core band started working on their own songs, pulling in Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison to produce the album full of songs that reek of essence of punk in its prime form. Just as the band was starting to gather steam, each of the band members were - one by one - pulled away when their previously inactive bands started reforming again, leaving prospects of a continuation of Neurotic Outsiders swept away in the Viper Room's evening detritus.Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Other tracks include Angelina (a tribute to the inescapable 80’s / 90’s pink-haired billboard queen of LA), Good News (a bitter send-off with the lyric “the good news is you’re dying, the bad news is I’m alive”).

The hiatus is likely permanent, as Matt Sorum rejoined the Cult in 1999 and John Taylor rejoined Duran Duran in 2001. Neurotic Outsiders was a British-American rock supergroup founded in 1995, consisting of Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and John Taylor of Duran Duran. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. Included are covers Duran Duran’s “ Planet Earth” (from the Japan-only EP) and a furious rendition of The Clash’s “ Janie Jones.A frenetic, slightly dark blend of punk and pre-grunge Guns N' Roses-style hard rock, the band garnered some radio play with the explicit single "Jerk. The band was originally named Neurotic Boy Outsiders after an article in The Guardian Taylor had read in the 70s.