If Slash’s upcoming Slash: The Autobiography lives up to even half the potential of this excerpt, the former Guns N’ Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist may have penned the most lurid, filthiest rock memoir ever. We feel like we should go to rehab just from reading about Slash’s drug-stained memories of Guns N’ Roses as they prepared to journey into the dark abyss that resulted in Use Your Illusion I & II. It’s not all about drugs and Axl Rose’s unpredictable mood swings: Slash infuses this excerpt with hysterical vignettes about his life as a rocker in late-Eighties LA. For example, Slash secretly dated but was unable to bed famed porn star Traci Lords; ultimately, that relationship ended after Slash failed to come down from a two-day crack binge in time for a date with Lords.
And that’s just one anecdote in a chapter chock full of every possible rock cliché you can think of. Groupies offering the entire band sexual favors? Got it. Slash asking the contractor who was working on his bathroom if he wants cocaine? Yep. Drummer Steven Adler secretly using the recording studio’s butter tray to disguise his vices? That’s there. This lone excerpt has it all, including Slash’s drug-fueled paranoid dash when he thought he was being chased by the Predator from the Schwarzenegger movie, which forced him to purchase an arsenal of weapons that even T.I. would deem excessive. One thing’s for certain: This autobiography will probably rock a whole lot louder than Chinese Democracy.
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