SLASH - "Everybody Asks Questions About What Happened With Axl And I'm Forced To Come Up With Answers, But There's Really Nothing Much To Say"
November 20, 2010, 13 years ago
Shahesta Shaitly from the UK's The Observer had SLASH (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) take part in their "This Much I Know" column recently. A few excerpts follow:
- I was at my lowest from 1996 to 2001. I left Guns N' Roses and my alcoholism was at its peak. I was 35 and had to have a defibrillator fitted to my heart.- I gave up drink and drugs five years ago. I used to be a heroin guy. Up until then, if I was doing drugs then I wasn't really drinking, and if I was drinking I wasn't doing drugs – it was always one or the other.
- There is this perception that I was a drunken brute, which was probably true at some point. But even in my partying days I was just very reclusive and kept to myself. It was just me and my demons.
- Everybody asks questions about what happened with Axl [Rose] and I'm forced to come up with answers, but there's really nothing much to say.
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