Guns N’ Roses: Live at Farm Aid 1990 - “Civil War“ & “Down on the Farm“ (Steven Adler Last Concert)

FLASHBACK: Guns N’ Roses perform “Civil War“ and “Down on the Farm“ live at Farm Aid 1990. Watch Steven Adler’s final concert performance with the band above. Guns N’ Roses were in full meltdown mode when they arrived at Farm Aid on April 7th, 1990. The group hadn’t played a gig since opening up a few shows for the Rolling Stones the previous October, and drummer Steven Adler’s addiction to heroin and cocaine was spiraling out of control. The band had been working on the hugely ambitious Use Your Illusion albums since January, but progress was slow and they were extremely frustrated by Adler’s diminished drum skills. G N’ R hoped playing a huge high profile gig like Farm Aid on live TV might motivate Adler to clean up, but from the moment they got onstage they realized they were in trouble. “Steven took a run up to the drum riser, which is a pretty big platform that’s hard to miss, and took flight,” Slash wrote in his memoir. “I assume he was planning on landing n