VELVET REVOLVER / ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash recently spoke to Billboard about his forthcoming biography, simply entitled Slash, due out on October 30th. The following is an excerpt from the story:

Billboard: In the book you mention that you felt rock biographies were "innacurate and full of s___." How did you go about setting the tone to avoid this?

Slash: "I've been approached about doing a book for probably all the wrong reasons so many times, I couldn't validate it in my own mind. For one, it seemed very self-indulgent, very self-centered and very final -- and I have no plans of retiring. Finally, I started to realize all this Guns hype that goes on, all this bull--- that surrounds that band, it's inaccurate, and most isn't even inaccurate, it's just made up. I got fed up with it. (The book will) answer a lot of these questions. I just figured, 'Be as honest as possible.'"

Billboard: A huge part of the book is Guns as you're touring and the tardiness of Axl Rose. Was there ever any explanation of what was behind that?

Slash: "There's no mention of that in the book at all because it's not my place. In other words, if there was some sort of history that was common knowledge, it would be different. Because there was no real logic behind any of it, the only thing I could do was sort of put the facts there the way I saw it. There could be a lot of stuff that I don't know about that goes on even behind the scenes, behind the scenes, behind the scenes."

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