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writing, I’ve been sober ...
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ONCE I WAS BACK ON TRACK, THE BAND got back on track and we got down to recording and writing our second record, Libertad.
different experience;
were different people explorin...
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united by our cam...
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freedom to the whole thing that wa...
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truly grown, or maybe just grown comfortable with who...
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insisted that every member of the band be present for every session.
I think that is one of the best pieces of advice I could ever give to any band.
didn’t show up on time, Brendan refused to work until everyone was present, which both whipped us into shape pretty g...
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the chemistry that came out of that mutual participation surpassed the first Guns sessions.
inspired and everything we did, every experiment even, was very musical.
pair a really good rock-and-roll band who loves what they’re doing with a producer who really understands them and knows exactly what he’s doing.
Every day I’m glad I found the strength to take the high road.
PERLA AND I ARE BOTH ALL CLEANED up now and we’re really happy.
July 2007 will be my one-year anniversary,
this past year than in the two years before...
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many karmic “Get Out of Jail F...
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bound to run out ev...
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been extremely lucky, so I’m not taking an...
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junkie has only two...
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They can get clean or they can get dead, and every day I’m glad I found the streng...
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That isn’t the case for me, and even if it were, I wouldn’t have much interest in that.
natural to regard your life objectively, but once I did, I realized that my story up until now made for something pretty entertaining.
if I didn’t get it all down now, there was a very good chance tha...
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book would serve another purpose: it would put one era of my career to rest and signify t...
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why I chose not to continue on with Guns N’ Roses
the constant disrespect for all involved by going on late
for no good reason night after night after night,
2) the legal manipulation that Axl forced on us, from demanding ownership of the name to downgrading us, ...
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losing Izzy and...
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an integral part of the band’s sound an...
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without them, the band no longer had its orig...
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departure had nothing to do with artisti...
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as simple as “Axl wanted synths and Slash w...
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nothing to do with Axl wanting to go digital and Slas...
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It’s true, I am old-school,
I do like keeping it simple—
I’ve never been clos...
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anything, I was more than flexible and willing to try any kind of recording technique or explore any new sound, so long as I was doing so on an equal playing field with musi...
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would have hung in there with Axl through an industrial record or whatever else he wanted to try if the creative vibe between us was positive. My flexibility is the only thing that kept me in...
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Unfortunately, we stopped being a team somewher...
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Axl hired to “represent his interests” through all of the band’s undoing could have been a bit smarter than they were.
they cared enough about him and about Guns N’ Roses as a band to have advised him to pursue any other path than the one he did
Anyone could have foreseen the lack of positive outcome that lay ahead on the road Axl chose to go down. But then aga...
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MY BEST FRIEND MARC CANTER IS putting out a book that is the visual accompaniment to all that you read here.
once I was in Guns as he could possibly get to.
everything Guns N’ Roses did prior to 1988.
Reckless Road.
did. The negative is what explains where I turned in my youth.
