Slash (Guns N' Roses)

[CrazyQ]

Well into this book and it's a top read. It's pretty ****ing interesting as well and to be honest, I knew **** all about them before reading this book besides a few of their tracks.

Anyone else read this?

 

[blackshadow]

Well into this book and it's a top read. It's pretty ****ing interesting as well and to be honest, I knew **** all about them before reading this book besides a few of their tracks.

Anyone else read this?

Not yet. I'll find a copy in a bargain book shop someday.

Gunners were a pretty decent band although no fanatic but Slash is one of my favourite guitarists - he plays with great feel and can get the fretboard smoking when he feels like it. Axl Rose - tosser of the highest order.

If you want an interesting rock n roll read Q I suggest you find a copy of The Dirt - the Motley Crue bio - it's a great read whether or not you like the band.

 

[The Other Dean]

Yeah, I've read it, Senor Qmeister. I think I'm one of only a handful of people on the planet that despise Guns N' Roses but like you say, it's a quality read.

Although tbh, I reckon the book bs mentioned - The Dirt - is better. (And I say that as no fan of Motley Crue either.) It's just a shit-hot (rock and roll) book.

Can also recommend Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries.

Just finished the biog of Michael Francis - Star Man. He was head of security for, among others, Led Zep, Bon Jovi, Cher, and Kiss. Not a bad read but I wouldn't be going out of my way to find it.

P.S. Not music-related, but if anyone wants to pick themselves up a quality book (and at the same time receive an education in what our world leader's get up to in their down-time), grab yourself a copy of Jon Ronson's Them.

P.P.S. I'll fix you up with those Hip-Hop books some time this season, Q. Promise.

 

[see see]

Yeah, I've read it, Senor Qmeister. I think I'm one of only a handful of people on the planet that despise Guns N' Roses but like you say, it's a quality read.

Although tbh, I reckon the book bs mentioned - The Dirt - is better. (And I say that as no fan of Motley Crue either.) It's just a shit-hot (rock and roll) book.

Can also recommend Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries.

Just finished the biog of Michael Francis - Star Man. He was head of security for, among others, Led Zep, Bon Jovi, Cher, and Kiss. Not a bad read but I wouldn't be going out of my way to find it.

P.S. Not music-related, but if anyone wants to pick themselves up a quality book (and at the same time receive an education in what our world leader's get up to in their down-time), grab yourself a copy of Jon Ronson's Them.

P.P.S. I'll fix you up with those Hip-Hop books some time this season, Q. Promise.

That's a great read TOD. Another good one is White Line Fever by Lemmy (or Lenny, as he was referred to as by Billy Joel when he was guest programming Rage many moons ago).

 

[Woodson]

Although tbh, I reckon the book bs mentioned - The Dirt - is better. (And I say that as no fan of Motley Crue either.) It's just a shit-hot (rock and roll) book.

'the Dirt' Movie project has been sitting on the shelf for a while. Larry Charles is believed to be working on directing / producing it..

At various times, Ashton Kutcher and Johnny Knoxville were rumored to be in talks to play Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx, respectively, and Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer were alleged to have filled the roles of Ozzy Osbourne and David Lee Roth.

Highly recommended read..

 

[blackshadow]

That's a great read TOD. Another good one is White Line Fever by Lemmy (or Lenny, as he was referred to as by Billy Joel when he was guest programming Rage many moons ago).

The Piano Man knows a thing or two about white lines...

 

[toepoker]

Guns'N'Roses are the classic example of a band who should have put the cue in the rack after one album. I will stand by Appetite for Destruction as a corker of an album but everything they did after that was rubbish.
And anyone who hasn't read "The Dirt" yet - do yourselves a favour.

 

[Urmoe]

Guns'N'Roses are the classic example of a band who should have put the cue in the rack after one album. I will stand by Appetite for Destruction as a corker of an album but everything they did after that was rubbish.
And anyone who hasn't read "The Dirt" yet - do yourselves a favour.

Technically if they stopped after their first 'album' we wouldnt have seen Appetite for Destruction.

Assuming "EP's" are albums as well?

 

[blackshadow]

I always wondered why he named himself after a term for urination...

 

[toepoker]

Yeah, I was excluding that first EP

 

[Twinkletoes]

My most vivid memory of Slash was in late '92, or whenever the Gunners held that massive gig at Calder Park, when he and his entourage were spied inside the then pumping Chevron nightclub. He said g'day to anyone who approached (including my drunken mates and I) but was otherwise distracted by the numerous babes milling around him and his pals...........including roadies, who were cashing in on the spoils of their connection magnificently!

He seemed like a decent bloke, which would qualify him for a North playing list spot. If we did draft him we'd be getting a bloke more adept at handling large numbers of defenders than The King!

 

[blackshadow]

My most vivid memory of Slash was in late '92, or whenever the Gunners held that massive gig at Calder Park, when he and his entourage were spied inside the then pumping Chevron nightclub. He said g'day to anyone who approached (including my drunken mates and I) but was otherwise distracted by the numerous babes milling around him and his pals...........including roadies, who were cashing in on the spoils of their connection magnificently!

He seemed like a decent bloke, which would qualify him for a North playing list spot. If we did draft him we'd be getting a bloke more adept at handling large numbers of defenders than The King!

The night before the Gunners show at Eastern Creek in Sydney (same tour as the Calder show) I was at an Iggy Pop gig at Selinas (supported by Beasts of Bourbon and Tumbleweed) Iggy came out for his encore and was joined by Slash and Duff (dressed only in their boxers) for a fiery rendition of Louie Louie.

What a weekend that was as I had to shake off the hangover and head off to Eastern Creek on a stinking hot day to see Gunners play.

 

[toepoker]

That was a horrendously hot day at Eastern Creek & for some reason people started lighting fires (probably boredom waiting for Gunners to hit the stage). For mine, the show at Sydney Entertainment Centre in '88 was a mile better (plus I didn't have an asthma attack at that one).