Let the “Slash is hiring impersonators” conspiracy theories begin! Not only is he allegedly giving i-bankers guitar lessons at rock and roll fantasy camps, he’s cloaking himself in more and more hair and hats, as evidenced by this report from Velvet Revolver’s sparsely attended show in Trenton,… More »
Let the “Slash is hiring impersonators” conspiracy theories begin! Not only is he allegedly giving i-bankers guitar lessons at rock and roll fantasy camps, he’s cloaking himself in more and more hair and hats, as evidenced by this report from Velvet Revolver’s sparsely attended show in Trenton,… More »
Slash’s dinosaur-loving, butter-eating, coke-snorting personal history has barely been on bookstore shelves a month, and already he says he’s being courted by Hollywood types out to turn his autobiographical misdeeds into a major motion picture. Slash is down, too, but he’s got some ground rules.
In his storied/depraved career, Guns N Roses guitarist Slash has lived through much and felt deeply, and so you have to wonder what’s left that could make him feel “nervousness, stomach disorders, backaches, loss of appetite,” and a laundry list of other ailments.
Last night on Late Show With David Letterman, Slash stopped by to plug his new book and clear the air with Axl Rose, although maybe doing so by talking about how Axl kicked his grandma off her perch on the couch so he could crash out until mid-afternoon–and how Axl responded to being rebuked for… More »
For me, The Dirt is the type of book that all “tales of the rock lifestyle” should aspire to. Drugs, car crashes, bean burritos, drugs, Mick Mars being replaced with an animatronic replica, the occasional playing of music, more drugs: The Dirt has everything I could ask for between two covers, and since its release, I’ve been willing to fight anyone who dared to presume any autobiography could even come close to that sort of perfection. However, England’s Observer Music Monthly ran an excerpt from a forthcoming release that might knock Motley Crue off my bookshelf and out of my heart.
Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler sat down for a chat with the Latin American online radio station Rockum Radio recently, and during his long, slurry monologue he talked about how American people are pretty much bitter jerks (OK, I get that), his upcoming judging gig for the Cannabis Cup, how Matt Sorum pretty much took over his life (guess Americans are bitter!), and how he still holds the belief that the original Appetite-era lineup of Guns N’ Roses will, someday, get together. Perhaps when Chinese Democracy comes out.
In a long, rambling statement that sounds kind of like a person sorta-tipsily explaining to his friend why he just couldn’t keep leading someone on, despite a long-ago one-night stand that turned into friendship, Slash explained why he didn’t get onstage at Steven Adler’s party celebrating the 20th anniversary of Appetite For Destruction last month:
Despite naysayers’ predictions, Saturday night’s party celebrating the 20th anniversary of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction did, in fact, have Steven Adler, Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, and Slash in attendance. (Axl Rose was, perhaps unsurprisingly, nowhere to be found, although apparently someone decided to attend the show in Axl-impersonator gear.)
