Slash

by Slash

The tension never affected our chemistry onstage or creatively,

but on a day-to-day interpersonal level, thin...

everyone was at one another...

now that it made me the pain in the ass of the band in th...

I get why I drove t...

around this time that Axl chose to send out a press release that did nothing b...

widely documented, so I won’t do it justice by going into it all, but in short, Axl released a statement clai...

extremely coherent, early one morning to ask him to please settle the lawsuit between us that had been on...

I talked for a while and that I had nothing but disparaging comments to make about Scott Weiland ...

The truth is, I haven’t spoken a word to Axl personally since I l...

It’s sad bu...

I did go by his house one night but I was drunk—Perla wasn’t ...

“Let’s work this out. Call ...

give it to Axl, I gave it to hi...

In any case, Axl released his statement, and it was a big...

the first time Axl had gone public with his o...

the lawsuit, or anything ...

this incident and the resulting negative effect it had on Velvet Revolver was very unsettling to me;

thought I was going to see everything I’d just finally gotten together fall apart.

First things first; the lawsuit was a nightmare that had...

2001 we were invo...

lawsuit over the rights and profits stemming from licensi...

typical broken-up-bands litigation where one party complains of underpay...

road of rock and roll is littered with tha...

hurt the most was that I had to defend mys...

showed up and insisted that what was alleg...

that Axl had written this thing made it sound so matter-of-fact that everyone...

The guys were very dubious about accep...

same time I was very sincere about telling ...

He attacked Axl on every level.

instinctual reaction wasn’t “you’re right,” it was “you can’t talk shit about Axl!”

I can talk shit about Axl, I can talk shit about Axl all...

because I’ve had to deal with hi...

But neither Scott nor anyone else ha...

Word on the street was that I’d quit Velvet Revolver to rejoin Guns N’ Roses.

Slash had ditched his former Guns bandmates to rejoin Axl in whatever his idea of Guns N’ Roses was going to be.

point I think Chinese Democracy was still thought to be on the way any year now.

there was no avoiding it.

was etched in stone: I’d left Velvet Revolver, I was going back to Guns.

while to get past all of that bullshit.

Matt’s house one day like nothing had ever happened.

Clearly, time had proven that I had had no reunion with Axl and that I wasn’t rejoining Guns N’ Roses—

I never felt that I’d needed to explain myself to those guys, but I had, which always pissed me off.

rotator cuff working out in the gym and went to see a doctor.

hours. It soon became two every four hours, then one every hour, then one every fifteen minutes—that’s just the way it works with me.

Not only was my band situation in jeopardy, Perla and I were at odds like never before.

heading one way with the Vicodin and she was head...

birth of our second son, Perla wanted to lose all the weight she’d ga...

got addicted to prescription diet...

basically a gourmet for...