Slash

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Til alle rockefans der ute som mangler en bok å lese. Biografien til Slash om tiden med Guns N' Roses og frem til Velvet Revolver-dagene kom for noen år siden. For å være ærlig var boken akkurat som jeg hadde håpet, og akkurat så rockestjernete man tror livet deres var. En av mine favorittpartier er hvor de, etter å ha måttet sparke trommisen sin fordi han hadde et smørbrødfat med kokain og heroin stående i kjøleskapet sitt (I'm not kidding), måtte på leting etter en ny:

"We tried on Martin Chambers from The Pretenders, who is a great guy, but we should have known that it wasn't going to work out the minute we saw that huge octopus drum kit he used with The Pretenders. It was more, for want of a better word, fantastic than your average drum kit. That thing had round poles that came over the top of it with cymbals hanging from them - it was just ridiculous.

He was setting it all up while Duff tuned up and got ready to play with him for a bit; Duff was the front line. He and the drummer had to click, first of all - if they didn't, there was no point in Izzy or me even picking up a guitar.

I was in the bathroom sitting on the toilet, reading a magazine, when Martin and Duff started playing, and as I listened through the door, I though, Oh boy. I was making something more appealing than what I was hearing at that moment..."

129,- på Ark var det i alle fall da jeg kjøpte den for ca. 2 år siden, og den heter enkelt og greit Slash.