Welcome
To Johnny Kreis's Untold and Never published before pictures and story of my time of playing drums with the Bad Boys of Heavy Metal Hollywood Rose personal website.

This site is created for those who never really knew that I (A Dutch-Indonesian American born in California) really did play drums (late 1981,82,83,84 Whatever!) back then, known as "Hollywood Rose" which later became "Guns And Roses"

How It Started:
It all started back in the days when I played drums for a European Style Metal Band by the name of Shire based in
Hollywood and Axel Rose (William Bailey) and one of his childhood freinds had just arrived from back east somewhere
and wanted to start his career in rock music, (little did he know that he would become a rockstar) and he temporarily
stayed in the garage, where Shire practiced,........but it didn't take him long to recruit members and start writing
songs, so here's where I came in, Axl and Izzy approached me one day and asked me if I would laydown some drum tracks for their demo,.....at the time, Izzy also played with Shire, but wanted to do his thing and co-wrote some songs with Axl,...So I said Ya!.....Sorta Moonlighting on Shire but then, in the music biz you never know what came next or be on MTV the next day!

The Payment:
Now get this!....A Classic Moment! but I'll never forget this method of payment (and didn't mind, cause back then, we were just kids!) for recording these tracks for them!...........A Six Pack of Bud and A Medium Pizza!
before tracking, we never practiced, so I didn't know the arraingments, cause there were none!.....Axel and Izzy would
just tell me to "Play Really Fast And Pound with A Blues Feel!...and that I did!...It went really well and I did enjoy the
pizza and beer!...Just to Remind you this was the very first demo of Hollywood Rose recorded at the Angry Samoans
Studio in Hollywood........I Still Have The Original Tape.

checkout some more back in the dayz stuff with HR..............click here

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