How Slash REALLY felt about Axl in 1996 (Guns N' Roses interview)
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- For the first time ever, hear my 1996 Guns N' Roses interview with guitarist Slash for Kerrang! magazine, then chat in comments!
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Thanks for posting this. This period of the GN'R years intrigue me to no end.
Awesome, sounds like this was a great fit for you! :) Do feel free to share it in any online groups you're a member of. 😊🤘👊
@@PossessedByMetal666 Already shared with my GN'R podcast buddy and on my Twitter, mate 👍 Thanks again!
That is heroic behaviour! Thank you. And why does this particular period of GN'R history hold so much interest for you?
Part of the appeal of Guns N’ Roses is Dramatic intrigue for me at least
Hey there Iain! I know what you mean. Some of the best rock bands feel like they could implode at any second. 💥😀
As Slash sips a beer and has a cigarette, Axl has been up for 3 days working on the follow up to My World lol
Hehe! 😊👊🤘
Woah man... Just when I thought I'd seen it all, heard it all, looked under every rock for all the details, you drop this interview. It's been years since I kicked my GnR obsession... What are you doing to me?!
Hi James. Haha, I know! It's properly evil behaviour. And what's even more evil is the second part of the interview which I'll be digitising and uploading to my fun online metal community this Friday! 👀😲👀😲👀😆😆😊😊👊🤘 Let me know if you'd like the link. 😊👊
"Well Axle's playing guitar now so I've gotta deal with that"
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for your next video can you please do how Rock artists inspire and influence by Bob Marley.
I wonder if Keef thought the same about Mick?😅
@@fazole "Mick...you ignorant slut, you can't play the guitar for shite" - Keith Richards
That was pretty damn funny...lol.
That’s the best Slash interview I’ve ever heard and at a pivotal moment in his history with GNR. Knowing he would quit not too long after makes for very poignant listening. Hats off 🙌
Hey there - wow, thanks so much, that's very kind. 😊👊🤘 If you'd like to consider joining my Possessed By Metal community, in which I'll be sharing the second part of this interview, you can take a look here: skool.com/metal. Really appreciate the kind words! 😊👊🤘
@@PossessedByMetal666 A question for you as an interviewer. This was August 11, 1996. Slash would quit October 31st 1996. Did you get the sense when talking to him he was on his way out?
If I could meet any rockstar it would be Slash.I remember my friend brought over appetite on cassette and we played it all summer....those were the good ole days!
I remember being so surprised by how approachable and sociable he was. Really nice guy and I'm sure he still is. 😊👊🤘
Great interview man, thanks for posting.
You're so welcome! 😊👊
this is amazing Thank you.
Hey there, you're so welcome! Absolutely feel free to share the video in Facebook groups etc 😊🤘👊
Slash just always comes across as a down to earth dude with time for everyone as long as you're respectful. Friend of mine (been a band mate and heard many inside stories from him) does sound for the pretenders, who did some shows with guns recently. My buddy said he ran into Slash in one of the stadium hallways for the stage (apparently a no no in that circumstance) He politely apologised to Slash and sped up a bit to get out the way, Slash recognised him from previous encounters and stopped him, so he just ended up casually catching up with Slash for 20-30 minutes. 🤣 As a stark contrast, he said any time he ran into the other guys they were always polite, said hi etc etc, every time he saw Axl, he was yelling at someone about something/generally being a *insert word for rockstar with a gargantuan ego here* 😅 This is really cool to hear, just sounds like Slash has always been humble and real, thankfully in far better shape now too. Thanks for sharing this dude. Great snapshot ✌️👌
You're so welcome. Glad you enjoyed! And thank you for the Slash anecdote - that was fun. 😊👊🤘
Great Interview! Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome Lisa! Absolutely feel free to share the video into any Facebook groups etc who might appreciate it 😊🤘👊
@@PossessedByMetal666 I absolutely will Thank you
Thanks Lisa!
What a treat! I remember reading this Kerrang article when it came out!
This is an intriguing time in the band's history - thanks for sharing this
How cool - so glad you got a kick out of this! It's fun, unveiling things that people never even thought they'd ever hear. 😊👊
By the way - you seem like the kind of old school metaller who would get a lot out of my online metal community. I'll be uploading the second half of the Slash interview on Tuesday. And we're currently voting to decide which was the best metal album of 1988. 😆 Maybe take a look and consider joining us? Skool.com/metal 😊👊🤘
Best interview ive ever heard with slash, which says a lot since i was an obssessed fan in my teen and basically ”heard it all”… but i missed this one!
Hey there Stefan, thanks so much for the VERY kind words. I remember really enjoying interviewing Slash and it's been really nice to revisit this tape. I uploaded the second part to my private metal community this week and it turns out that this second segment (recorded on a different tape) is 26 minutes long. Also in the community this week, we've been discussing what would be the ideal tracklisting if the Use Your Illusion albums were squashed into one album! 😄 What's your fave Guns N' Roses song?
@@PossessedByMetal666 i still think way to little focus is put on snakepit, both albums/bands are grea, and its where id like to see slash go back too when it comes to writing music 🙂
Listening to this interview, it takes me back to a time where I bought these picture discs that would have that one interview. First time I bought one, it had a photo of the frontman, thought it was official only to find there was no music. Oh well, but they were a novelty.
Ah yes, I remember those picture discs well! Was Chris Tetley involved with some of those? Amazing, the things you remember.
@@PossessedByMetal666 Chris was on many of them, but my introduction to these had no brand/label on them, though I might be wrong, as it was a long time ago.
@@MosherBear I think there were a LOT of these things around back then. :)
Amazing interview thanks. I remember reading these issues in 1996, getting my hopes up that AxN’Slash would bury the hatchet. Ryan Roxie is an interesting dimension to the feud, that I didn’t know. Wow. Look forward to the 2nd part.
Thank you Mark! And thanks even more for joining my Possessed By Metal community at Skool. 😊👊🤘
Slash was really cool.A friend o mine met him in Rio in a hotel in Brazil.He said he asked slash for a picture while he was smoking and chiiling but Slash smilling told him to get closer to take the picture.He still has this pic and always tells us how cool he was that day.I just think dont know why that Slash's been a bit away from the fans and interviews,but he is a real guitar hero!
That's lovely. And after meeting Slash, I would expect nothing less from the great man! What's your fave GN'R song?
@@PossessedByMetal666 Estranged
@@tudotraduzido4570 Nice choice, cheers! Mine is Nightrain. :)
@@PossessedByMetal666 oh that kinda drunk stuttering like solo at the end
Slash is cool.
He so is! :)
Great to hear! Used to read your articles all the time back in the day. Think I'd just got a bit bored of the scene by this point and stopped buying Kerrang so missed this if it was in the magazine.
Aww, thank you! It's nice to be remembered. I'm revisiting my old days of rock via this channel and also my online community, which has started up really well. If you'd like to take a look, I'll be happy to send you the link. We need more people like you, who remember those golden years. 😊👊🤘
@@PossessedByMetal666 sounds great. Yes, if you could send me the link that would be great. Thanks for uploading everything!
I got you a coffee btw!
Also, is From the Frontlines of Rock available in paperback or is it just on Kindle?
@@mrsoikawa Awww, thanks so much for the coffee - that was a lovely surprise when the notification popped up.
Here is the link to my Possessed By Metal community. I think I need to change the name, because just calling it "Possessed By Metal" community" can seem confusing. 😊🤔 www.skool.com/metal
Front Lines is currently ebook only. Members of the above community do, however, get the ebook for free when they reach a certain level of achievement within the community. :) If enough people keep asking me about a print version, I really should get it done!😊👊🤘
@@PossessedByMetal666 Cheers Jason, yes I did it!
Uhh...yeah upload part 2!
Awesome interview thanks for this.
My thoughts at this point on this period of gnr are if only axl could of got things together the way he seems to have over the last few years on the not in this lifetime tour imagine what incredible things they could have done.
You're welcome Tim - and a valid point, I'd say. 😊👊 What's your fave GN'R song?
Why only Axl? I have some where in a Vhs from 94 where Slash and Gilby were telling how they wanted to do "their own thing" for some time and have a solo record...if you were Axl, i wonder how that would feel?
I remember that edition lol
Hooray! Glad you remember this one, Mark. 👊😊🤘
Axl had a vision for GNR that wasn't what made GNR great in the 1st place. I've heard Slash say it's like a circus now. Axl took control. Also Axl may and still have may have been suffering from high iron causing chronic fatigue. For he states he only went out when he felt good. It maybe diagnosed to this day? It's only a theory for I've had it and didn't know what it was.
Interesting, Brett - thanks for sharing that idea. 😊🤘
Axl had Bipolar Disorder which makes sense nowdays as he would either be on a high or on a low there is no middle ground
the highs are extremley high and lows extremley low so must of been really hard for Axl to manage and also for the band as was not much known about it in them times like there is now
Interesting at the end, where Slash is showing a certain sympathy with Axl's role as the frontman, and the pressure that brings.
Yes! At that point, I guess Slash was keen to keep things "civil" between them. 👀 I'm looking forward myself to digitising the second part of the interview, to see how long that sympathy for the devil continued. 😆👊🤘
Very very good interview, one of the best I've heard. I still say that the GN'R (partial) reunion is all business. I'm pleased it happened, but no way did they reunite because they missed each other. I saw Slash at Wembley with SMKC and you could see he's ten times happier when playing with them. But that divorce must've hit him hard as from what I've heard, I don't think he did a prenup. So going back to GN'R was a no-brainer as that's the gig that pays the big bucks.
It isn't GNR without the main songwriter Izzy. I adore slash duff axl steven however it just isn't GN'R without Izzy. Relisten to appetite. The record is what it is due to the twin guitar atack.
I would liked to have asked Slash if he ever thought in a million yrs back in the early days that he would have get lawyers involved just to get everyone together to record an album! I never knew that Duff turned himself around so quickly either. Of, course, it was that or not make it.
Upto 23 min... Az say N Slash understood what made GNR... GNR but Axl had another vision and took it in another direction. Where I totally agree what Slash says around this point to where the band should of stayed... I view Axl like Micheal Jackson in sense of dreaming not lining with reality.
Interesting thoughts, thanks! 😊🤘👊
Totally disagree. Slash said in this interview that if he’d had his way, Snakepit would have been the next GNR record. How lame would that have been? Axl wanted to take the band forward. Now we’ve got Slash & Duff playing 2/3 of the Chinese Democracy album on tour and it sounds incredible. THAT should have been the next GNR record. Axl was right. Time has proved that he was usually always right, when everyone else thought he was just being stubborn. If it was up to Slash they never would have done November Rain or Estranged - two of the songs that established Slash as the guitar god of his generation. He should have listened to Axl more.
@@sjennerBS - took him 10yrs, milions of dollars to finish Chinese - and? Overproduced,has nothing to do with GnR and its roots, session-guitars, there is zero in it that stands time. Snakepit obviously a guitarists record, no collaboration of musicians. The fact that they play each others songs or 2/3 proves nothing,just you who tries to convince yourself with that lame argument.
G and r put the out a top 5 album of all time with there debut then it was all down hill
USE YOUR ILLUSION double album was great, and so was Chinese Democracy
I love slash :). that's an awesome artifact!
Very glad you enjoyed! 😊👊🤘
Of course it's been long time ago (bridge under the water), but he would not answer any of these questions relating to Guns today. The interview would be over, period.
Ah, interesting. I haven't read many more recent Slash interviews. Good to know! 😊👊🤘
Nice
Hey there, glad you like 😊👊🤘
580! Nice
for your next video can you please do how Rock artists inspire and influence by Bob Marley.
Axl singlehandedly tore apart one of the most exciting bands ever due to his ego and little man sensibilities. I lost all respect for him a very long time ago. Slash, and the others, have maintained the respect I once had for the band as a whole. Axl is a whining poser to me, nothing more. It's great to hear thoughts directly from the horses mouth, as it were. Slash has always been cool.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Yes indeed, Slash made a very good impression on me and I'm sure he's much the same now. 😊👊🤘
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Haha! That is a good moment. I wish I'd been sharper back then. Now, when Slash said that the story of him being handcuffed to a bed in New York wasn't true, I'd say, "So was it New Jersey instead?" 😄🤘
What movie is Slash talking about?
Good question - the Tarantino one? That would have been Jackie Brown. 😊👊🤘
@@PossessedByMetal666 I think the for the Spanish one, the song is called Obsession Confession.
@@PossessedByMetal666 I've seen Jackie Brown a few times, but never noticed any guitar score by Slash. Mostly just the soul songs from the 70s. I'll have to give it another watch. 😅
I seem to remember there was also a movie he was doing called Curdled?
Slash is a sweetheart and very much so a pacifist. The guy just wants to play without any drama associated with it. Axl at the time was a drama making machine, very angry, very sensitive and very volatile. Sympathy for the Devil was the nail in the coffin. Plus as a real horror fan I can understand him not being into the original Anne Rice Film. Axl loved the book and movie though and ultimately Axl gets the last say. The spit in the face was Axl's jerkoff guitarist friend overdubbing Slash's guitar parts. That same jerk trashed Slash during recording for Chinese Democracy and Matt went off on him, and that was his end in GNR. Duff hung around a bit more.
Thanks for your thoughts and recollections, KC! 😊👊🤘
I remember this time, I was waiting for that new album and it just never came. I finally seen them live for the first time in 2017. I'd love a new record but if it's anything like those new songs that were released I'd rather them just not do it. Hard skool, was the only good song that she like old gunners.
Man slash sounds just like my buddy Sam when he's partially drunk. They have almost the same cadence and flow when they talk, it's kinda weird.
And their names even both begin with S! Sssssuspicious. 🤔🧐😆🤘👊
Buckethead
Slash was quiet bitter at this time
Should've been done in a more Quit,r Place,,
Hi Trevor! Well, at the time, I didn't know you'd be listening to it on UA-cam 28 years later. 😆😊👊🤘
Hahahaha
I could have been the next gnr singer but i totally blew the gig being to high on cocaine. And i cant sing. But who knows if the latter wasn't true what would've happen? Thats the thing i cant sing, it has nothing to do with the cocaine. Well maybe a little bit. Even if i could sing i was too high.
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Slash announced he left in October of 96. The cassette is dated 11/8 unless this means August 11th? In the USA 11/8 means November 8th. I don't like how other countries have fucked this up.
Hehe, that's a rather USA-centric view of the world you're presenting there, given that America is the only country in the world who uses this illogical format. But let's not pull that thread too hard - especially as some say you guys originally got it from us. 👀😆😊👊 Yes, since I'm in the UK, the date on the tape does indeed mean August 11. ⏰️ 🤘
USA is the exception, most countries use an ascending order for dates ie. DD MM YYYY. That order predates the founding of the USA.
Also the score of games should have the visitor listed first. Its, Away vs Home. Team A at Team B.
@@SD-Rob Obviously 11/8/96 should be August. Why does America do it backwards?
@@SD-Rob You clowns are bass ackwards. No question about it!
Hated the alternative revolution specially since it never took off or had success like it did in the late or mid 90s. It was a waste that had everyone convinced it would be around for alot longer. But at this period of time one thing was certain - all the alternative scene bands or most of them were alot more sober and with their act together. Axl, his close associates and the record company knew there was alot of competition and that something had to be done to be a step above the game. I dont think Slash had a clue of what was going on at this point. Scott Weiland was kicking these guys asses back in the Revolver days. Theyve been catching up specially Slash and Duff but they should have done this back in the mid 90s- Im sure if that happened this interview would sound different. Its like they used to say "Slash is out of it" lmao
Absolutely love axl but what a dumb move trying to insert his old buddy Paul right into the band. And he’s not even a good guitarist lol. Slash should get the Medal of Honor for even slightly dealing with that.
He was classy not to actually name Paul, despite my evil journo best efforts! 😆👊🤘
@@PossessedByMetal666 He's referred to Paul Huge as "Idiot Paul" in interviews from that era, so I guess he just was in a good mood when you talked to him hahaha
@@Nghilifa Hahaha! Seems that way. :D
Was Slash the one trying to pull Zakk in ?
@@michaelwynne622 axl did. He wanted to push slash supposedly , but slash got along with Zakk .