Izzy Stradlin/Biography

==1962-1979: Early life==
Stradlin was born Jeffrey Dean Isbell in Lafayette, Indiana. His father was an engraver, and his mother worked for the phone company; they divorced when he was eight. Of his hometown, Stradlin later said, "It was cool growing up there. There's a courthouse and a college, a river and railroad tucks. It's a small town, so there wasn't much to do. We rode bikes, smoked pot, got into trouble - it was pretty Beavis and Butt-head actually.