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“It’s So Easy,”
matter; the energy level was so high that it was just in-your-face.
The chemistry of the band live was powerful stuff and as organic as it gets.
the defining moment for us: we were fi...
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worked together in every capacity except for the most essential o...
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the moment of...
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so inspired by our chemistry onstage that we didn’t know what to do—should we make a record or should...
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WE OPTED TO MAKE A RECORD BECAUSE that was the more practical thing to do.
a writing zone and new material was coming to us very quickly.
over ten months, so to say that we overloaded him with potential songs to write lyrics for is an understatement. We gave him more than an...
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“Slither,”
Pieces.” Scott let it all out in that song: it’s a more honest portrait of where he was and what he was dealing with at that particular time than anyone could ever hope to see. It really paints a picture of what was really going on with him, and consequently with us as well.
“Slither”
end result sounded too congested and too complex for what we saw as a simple song from a fairly simple rock-and-roll band.
the new Courtney Love record. We
At that point the word was out about Velvet Revolver and we were getting a lot of interest from all of the major labels, although there weren’t that many left at that particular time.
great show of integrity and solidarity considering the setting.
past the hype that now surrounded the band and see us play in our natural habitat.
“Slither”
I do this mostly because I can’t stand headphones.
they need to be big and they need to be loud. The pair in front of me weren’t going to cut it.
“I’ve never played that way and I can tell you right now that they’re not going to be loud enough.”
what my wife, Perla, had told me over and over again: I like to do things the hard way.
work on that tendency of mine, so rather than make a fuss and insist that we book a new studio and perhaps a new producer, I chose to adapt.
bigger speakers and we’ll make it work,” I said. Josh looked genuinely relieved.
all, my playing is pretty reserved on that record, which is why there aren’t as many solos as there could have been. I felt too restricted to improvise the way I usually do.
DUFF AND I WENT TO NEW YORK CITY to
then Contraband was finished. I had my first drink in over a year that night.
pretty quiet about my feelings on the GN’R/Axl situation up until Duff and I did a promo tour supporting the release of Velvet Revolver’s first CD. At that point, I hadn’t gone public about what had transpired between Axl and me, and I hadn’t planned on going there. But th...
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I had nothing pleasan...
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they had touched a raw nerve, and suddenly everything that came out of my mouth ...
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When GN’R and I parted ways, I had honestly wanted to stay low-key and never bicker in the press, mostly because so many artists before me had gone...
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corner with press in every direction, hungrily looking for controversy and prodding that raw nerve. I ...
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said about Axl was ...
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was almost em...
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pissed off Axl and was definitely the catalyst for rant against me in his 2005 press release, not to mention complicat...
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Duff and I went on a press tour to promote it in Europe and Japan for a few weeks.
state. We managed to generate enough buzz that when the album was released in June 2004, it went to number one in its second week.
in Vegas for a show when Clive called us to let us know that we’d hit the top of the charts, and I have to say that after all I’d seen and all I’d done, getting a call from the legendary Clive Davis with news like that gave me goose bumps:
arrival, in my book. That was the start of a tour that seemed to keep going and going, building momentum the longer it went on. All in all we r...
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crowds of thousands around the world and our record sold three million copies worldwide.
worked hard on that tour;
often play five nights a week, a different ci...
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three videos on that record.
pretty successful; suddenly we were once again in a major band.
once we did, we got into all kinds of shit.
were rumors that we were breaking up, there were rumors that all of us were back on drugs and on the verge of self-destruction, and too many more rumors to name.
I, FOR ONE, YET AGAIN, DID HAVE A very hard time readjusting to being home.
Contra-band,
my son London was born in A...
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