Slash

by Slash

lost in my re-creation was how my parents’ positive influences taught me to be the person I am.

when I strove to find out

who I was going to be. I

I’ve never related to those people who plan their lives five years down the line.

types think they have control of their reality, I beg to disagree, because how much can anyone really “plan” what is going to happen to them beyond the next twenty-four hours?

that I don’t care what happens five years from now, its just that the next twenty-four hours is the st...

I’ve found that just being, day to day, just waiting to see what comes, and going from the...

I’ve dealt with Velvet Revolver in nothing but the best respect: we have come so...

so familiar and exciting that it seems like our first show even thoug...

I’m consumed with what we’re doing, I’m proud of the record w...

we’re in a place where we are just now capable of tapping into what this ban...

our second record is just a few weeks old, but I can’t wait to see where our next record is going to go.

we stumbled upon something that is just beginning to evolve and it’s doing so in such a positive way.

Velvet Revolver is about to embark on our first headlining tour ...

that level by the end of our two-year promotion of Contraband, bu...

we’re starting where we ended, and from there we can only bu...

I’m happier than I’ve ever bee...

This band writes creative, earnest, complex...

concerned, it sure is funny that I found my future by r...

to avoid anything that seemed like a revisitation, I ended up locking in with the guys I’d spent the better par...

And once we did, the past became an afterthought. And the present has been bette...

aside from playing in Velvet Revolver, at some point I want to do a record with all the players I’ve played w...

call it “Slash and ...

of summer 2007, Steven Adler is doing better.

been ruining his life

for the past quarter century. Counting

from before he was ousted from GN’R, this is the longest that h...

I’m happy to report that he seems gen...

supporter. It’s funny how things come full circle, even when you think your circle has expanded infinitesimally.

that almost everybody that hung around a lot with Guns N’ Roses ended up becoming a junkie at one time or another.

WHEN YOU REVIEW YOUR LIFE LIKE THIS, it’s strange; there have been parts that I’ve looked at as if I wasn’t there—

few of these stories as if for the first time.

you gain pers...

kind of exercise isn’t easy, but in the long run it’s a...

good thing to truly understand how and why I’m the same yet different ...

my personality remains but my wisd...

my bullshit recede, it’s ...

The reality that I was going to be someone’s dad didn’t kick in until I found myself staring at the ass...

There was no goi...

And as much as I freaked out at that moment, after that I did...

anything I ran toward it, not away: I let myself be consumed with baby stuff, which is ...

All things considered, it came ve...

together, I knew it ...

I knew that we were ...

That photo shoot wasn’t the cover of Creem or Rolling Stone, but I was pretty excited—we’d hit the big time on the baby circuit. And I was just as proud.

Being a parent has its moments where you find yourself doing what you are doing, but with this new little person who has integrated themselves into your life who’s just…there.

Kids become a part of your everyday existence so instinctually and so naturally that before you know it they’re there…and you can’t remembe...

realizing how fast they are changing and growing.

I wouldn’t have it any other way: Perla and I made beautiful kids, and our personalities are so strong in them that it’s entertaining to us.

are definitely a product of their parents…. In fact they’re a mirror of their parents: they are both defiant yet sweet.