“John Lennon had his lost weekend I had a lost decade in the 90s. When Slash left Guns N’ Roses in 1996, he had his own project, Slash’s Snakepit, up and running, but was adrift in many other ways. So he just took it off.” Velvet Revolver, Slither “Bob said it sounded a little bit too much like Guns N’ Roses. I’m listening – it’s Bob Dylan, cool!” But Slash’s solo hadn’t made the cut. “A couple days later I asked Don, ‘Can you send me a rough of what it what it sounds like?’ I’d done an acoustic rhythm track through the whole song. “I go in and I did what I consider to be a really good one-off in my own style,” he says. Such as when he went to record Wiggle Wiggle with Bob Dylan in 1990. Sometimes, though, it didn’t work out as expected. The list of artists who have asked Slash to play on their records reads like an awards ceremony lineup: Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Iggy Pop, Motörhead, Carole King, Rihanna. “It was a riff that I came up with that I didn’t present it Guns N’ Roses because it didn’t seem appropriate.” The truth is that Kravitz heard Slash playing the riff while working on his second album, Mama Said, and asked if he could have it. “I don’t recall ever saying that,” Slash says with a raised eyebrow. The story goes that Slash took the riff of Always on the Run to Lenny Kravitz because Adler wasn’t a funky enough drummer to play along with it. “As streetwise as I’d like to think the guys were, no one was really prepared for the big-money music business,” admits Slash. “But it was not the the lean or trim eight-to-10-song record that would have probably been the ideal thing.” And the band was in such turmoil that good decision-making was rather beyond them, hence the 28-month tour to promote the two albums. “There was some really really cool shit on those records,” he says. And both of them were doubles: Use Your Illusion I and II. That part of it took a long time to try and sort out.” After touring Appetite to death, or at least the brink of it, they returned in 1991 with not one but two albums. That was a little bit of a shock for me and I just did drugs and drank and hid away at my house. Slash hadn’t much enjoyed the transition to stardom – “You couldn’t just hang out in the pub. Guns appeared to go straight from starving on the streets to bloated superstardom. Photograph: Marc S Canter/Getty Images Guns N’ Roses, Coma
Axl Rose and Slash onstage in LA in 1986.
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