Adler Wants Back In GN'R

Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler wants to get back with his former band after he goes to rehab again.

Adler was fired from the group in 1990 because of his drug problems. But his lawyer, Barry Gerald Sands, says Adler hopes to rejoin the band after he gets cleaned up.

"When he gets sober, they'll accept him into the band and then they'll do a comeback album and a world tour, that's the dream of Steven Adler," Sands told Reuters.

Just a note to Sands: That comeback record is called Chinese Democracy, and it's in stores on Nov. 24. Oh, and it doesn't have Adler on it.

Adler pleaded no contest to heroin possession and entered a plea to avoid jail time by going into rehab on Friday. He was arrested in Los Angeles in July and charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance and heroin possession. The kicker? He'd been a guest on the Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew television program in an attempt to cure his heroin addiction. We wonder if non-reality TV rehab will work this time...

Adler has had persistent substance abuse problems since leaving Guns N' Roses. He told Metal Sludge in 2006 that he's used up to $300 worth of drugs in a single night, and also told the website that he suffered a stroke from a speedball (a mixture of cocaine and heroin) overdose, which left him with a speech impediment.