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Re: SLASH On Surviving Rock And Roll Excesses, FERGIE And AXL ROSE - Dec.
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John Dingwall of California Chronicle recently conducted an interview with legendary guitarist Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
On performing while under the influence:
Slash: "I'd always been pretty good at being able to play no matter what. I managed to maintain things pretty well. I wasn't a fall-down drunk. But all things considered, I sort of burned out on that. I think I just over excessed and got to the point that I real ly wasn't enjoying it. I finally conquered that demon but it took me years. As a non-drinker and not doing drugs, I find that not being intoxicated at all lends itself to me being sharp. My reflexes are a lot better and my ability to concentrate and hit the notes on the fret board is as immediate as they come to my mind. Everything is more accurate, especially for the live performances which is when I improvise a lot. I find myspontaneity means I am able to connect faster than when I was drinking."
On surviving rock and roll excesses:
Slash: "I'm in perfect shape but it is truly amazing that I am still around. I took that as an omen and figured I'm not going anywhere so I might as well make the best of it. I don't wake up and make a cocktail first thing in the morning these days. I don't have a lot of vices I have to deal with first thing. I was a slave to my addiction, and had to take care of those first, so I don't have that any more. It leaves moretime to be productive."
On the video for his "Beautiful Dangerous" single which features BLACK EYED PEAS beauty Fergie playing a rock groupie-turned-stalker who ties Slash to a bed before deciding to live out her deranged fantasies:
Slash: "It was fun to do, you know. Fergie's great and it was probably the easiest concept shoot that I've done, at least in recent memory. It was several one-day shoots and two locations a block away from each other. I was tied up. It was one of those videos where we had a very loose treatment and idea of what the video was basically about and we just sort of made it up as we went along."
"I've had stalkers, none as crazy or as attractive as Fergie. Stalkers, real stalkers, are no joke or something to laugh at. The real ones tend to be dangerous or psychotic nuisances. This was an exaggeration on a theme. In reality, I havenever been drugged against my will. I have never been tied up against my will. It's always been consensual."
On his solo album, which features an all-star roster of guest vocalists, including Ian Astbury, Myles Kennedy and Kid Rock:
Slash: "I would just write music and put together arrangements and think in my mind's eye who would be the right vocalist for that piece of music. It was quite simple. A lot of people think there's a lot of forethought that goes into these collaborations, like some sort of dream list or something. It's more of a spontaneous sort of thing.
"I always have a guitar by my side and I'm always out in circles where musicians hang out, or I'm in situations where I'm exposed to lots of different artists.
"I jump at the chance to work with people when the opportunity arises. That's basically how these different collaborations happen. When I did the record, though, it was about trying to find the vocalist who was appropriate for each song. So those were very specific.
"It's not really about putting together fantastical partnerships that I think in my imagination would be great. I haven't really done that."
On whether he will ever step into the studio with Axl Rose again:
Slash: "It's been 14 years. I haven't spoken to him in all that time. There really is no relationship. That's why it is frustrating when people ask about band reunions and what's going on. Fourteen years is a long time to not be in a band for people to still be asking about that. Having said t hat, it's an appreciation, I guess, for the band from a lot of fans who care about it that much. It's very flattering that after all that timethat the original lineup still has that appreciation. I try not to scoff about it that much but the Axl question is redundant."
Read the entire interview from California Chronicle.
- monkeychow
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Re: SLASH On Surviving Rock And Roll Excesses, FERGIE And AXL ROSE - Dec.
The reunion thing has to be frustrating for both slash and Axl really, it's clear from interviews like this, and some of Axl's remarks in the past, that really neither of them want to work together again. Yet they get asked over and over and over again.
- metallex78
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Re: SLASH On Surviving Rock And Roll Excesses, FERGIE And AXL ROSE - Dec.
"But all things considered" is Slash's trademark line, the guy says it in nearly every interview he gives...:laugh:
Re: SLASH On Surviving Rock And Roll Excesses, FERGIE And AXL ROSE - Dec.
The reunion thing has to be frustrating for both slash and Axl really, it's clear from interviews like this, and some of Axl's remarks in the past, that really neither of them want to work together again. Yet they get asked over and over and over again.
I think Slash would be more opened to the idea of working with Axl than the other way around. BUT! I agree am kind of sick of the subject myself.
Re: SLASH On Surviving Rock And Roll Excesses, FERGIE And AXL ROSE - Dec.
Me too. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that both have completely moved on mentally from the whole thing. Maybe a one-off at a HOF induction, but it seems dead in the water, and has been for over a decade.
These interviews are all the same thing for the last several years.
- monkeychow
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Re: SLASH On Surviving Rock And Roll Excesses, FERGIE And AXL ROSE - Dec.
Yeah, it's got to a "don't ask us, we'll tell you if it changes" point IMO.
I think on one level Slash would like to work with Axl again as he's a one of a kind vocalist and slash knows that, but slash wants Axl to change how things run and that's basicly not going to happen, only way Slash gets back in is if it's 100% on Axl's terms. Problem with that is that Slash doesn't seem to want to fuck himself over quite that badly, and I suspect, Slash knows even if he did come back - Axl would have to want him back - and there's nothing that indicates that to be the case either.
Re: SLASH On Surviving Rock And Roll Excesses, FERGIE And AXL ROSE - Dec.
I think Axl would and does want him back IF he goes the reunion route. It just doesn't seem to have any interest in the reunion thing.
Even when Duff came out and performed a few songs this year with GN'R, Axl's reaction to the whole thing came across like "oh there's Duff", and he was cool with it.
The thing is I think us fans overblow the prospect of the whole thing. 6-8 years ago if you'd of told me Duff came out and performed with GN'R, I would've fuckin' freaked like "reunion is ON". But Duff came out in 2010, it was kind of like, "oh that's cool.... did Ron play Estranged?"
Even the fans I think have kind of given up on the whole thing and just moved on. A Guns N' Roses reunion is about as likely imo as Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas bringing Miami Vice back...
It's like "dude, loved it 20 years ago... still do... but i've moved on".
At this point, I just want Axl to cut fuckin' records. Don't really care who he's calling Guns N' Roses at this point. Where's the music? Talk is cheap.
