SLASH And PAUL STANLEY Didn't Speak For Years; The Reason Why
September 11, 2014, 10 years ago
In a recent interview with Jan Jaedike of Germany's Rock Hard magazine, Slash was asked if he had read Paul Stanley's book Face The Music, as he's featured in there with a rather specific quote. Slash chuckled, "Yeah I'm sure it's something very pleasant. No, I didn't read the book."
Rock Hard refreshes his memory by explaining that Slash had been making fun of Paul Stanley, then proceeded to call him and ask for advice, at which point the KISS frontman said "Go fuck yourself!"
"More or less yeah," agrees Slash (see video below). "In essence, what happened was… I don't wanna bring it all up again… But he had come around to produce Guns N' Roses way back in the day, before we actually made the first record. And at some point, we decided we didn't… We never, actually, were interested in working with him. But we sort of had him come around because he was (drummer) Steven Adler's hero. Anyway, and so, at that time, I'd done an interview for the Calendar in the LA Times, and I'd said something derogatory about him. And then, months later, realized that he had an arrangement with B.C. Rich, and I was looking to try and get a guitar to record the Appetite record, and asked him if he would hook me up with some B.C. Riches. And he said something along the lines of, 'You shouldn't air your dirty laundry in public,' having to do with him. 'So, no, I won't help you.' And I was, like, 'OK.' And we didn't speak for years after that. It was only until roughly 2006 that we got reacquainted when I was doing the KISS Rock Honors for VH1 and we sort of let bygones be bygones. And so we're more or less cool now."
