Slash Talks With Chicago’s Q101
Tim Virgin of Chicago’s Q101 interviewed Slash at media day ahead of the 2010 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The former Guns N’ Roses guitarist discussed being considered a “legend”, what’s been keeping him busy lately, Lemmy loving the black chicks, and more. Watch the interview via YouTube below.
Slash, Perla & Cash At Disneyland
Slash enjoyed a day out at Disneyland with his wife Perla Ferrar and 4-year-old son Cash on Thursday (June 11) in Anaheim, California.
Slash & Family Attend 2009 Kids’ Choice Awards
Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash, wife Perla Ferrar and their sons London Emilio and Cash Anthony attended the Nickelodeon 2009 Kids’ Choice Awards held at the UCLA Pauley Pavilion on Saturday (March 28) in Westwood, California.
Slash And Perla At Villa
Former Guns N’ Roses, current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash was spotted outside Villa in West Hollywood on Friday (January 11), joined by his wife Perla, who didn’t seem to happy about the club’s requirement for an ID and credit card. When leaving the club, it looked like woman accompanying the couple (who looks like she’s related to Perla), had a few too many and offered paparazzi an upskirt as she slipped off the back seat onto the floorboard. Watch footage below the fold.
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Slash Visits ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
Former Guns N’ Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash visited ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ in Hollywood on Wednesday (January 9) to promote his memoir ‘Slash’.
If he’s been asked, ‘Why did you write that about me’ or ‘why did you reveal that?’:
“There’s a story in there about James [Hetfield] from Metallica and I don’t talk to him. I took it upon myself to include the story about him in my hotel room one night. And I’m wondering – because I know he’s married with kids and all this, and I’m hoping he doesn’t come after me.”
On the medical device in his chest:
“That’s from drinking, okay. But the doctor put that in this, a safety precaution in case I ended up in the hospital for alcohol poisoning. And I had a condition called cardiomyopathy, which basically they told me you have six weeks to six months to live. That was it. I managed to get through that. This was a few years back. Rick James died from the same thing. He called me, he said, ‘You know, how do I deal with this?’ You’re going to have to stop doing what you’re doing. And he couldn’t stop. And it killed him. So I did, I stopped drinking for about a year and whatnot. But they said if – in case you go down this path again, this will be a physical warning and it will straighten you out.”
On Aerosmith’s role in nixing any potential BMX career:
“Guns N’ Roses was opening for Aerosmith, I think this was in 1988 or ‘89. I used to take my bike on the road and Aerosmith had one of the cool stages with the ramps that go up and around the back of the drums and all this kind of stuff. So I take my bike up there and I’d jump off the ramps and jump off the stage and in the seats and do – all with a bottle of vodka in one hand. Then three weeks into the tour, all of a sudden, one morning I went to get my bike off the truck and I want disappeared. It was gone. Where’d my bike go? Nobody ever told me, I figured out they took it… I think the Aerosmith people said, you know that’s a risk. If the band – because we were selling a lot of tickets for Aerosmith at that point. And if something happened, the tour would have been canceled. So they said common sense take the bike away. I was too drunk to really realize it was gone and I just moved on, you know?”
His relationship with Axl Rose:
“We have not spoke, no. You never know. I don’t have a crystal ball to foresee the future, but as fate will have it we’ll end up in the same room or maybe never. He’s not crazy. He has his own way of looking at things. That’s basically it. I have a genuine affection for the guy that will always be there. But we also hit some very rocky roads along the way and stuff. So I can’t say I necessarily miss him. But he was a really interesting, great musician. He was great to hang out with and all that kind of stuff so it’s regrettable that we ended up going off in such a negative – on such a negative note. I can’t say at, you know, I sit around going, God I miss him. I don’t think he probably would do the same for me, but we had some really cool times together, so I don’t hate him.”
Slash Goes Green
In a Q&A with LiveDaily.com, Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash discussed his move to living a greener lifestyle. “You try and do your best, especially if it’s something within your grasp,” Slash told Christina Fuoco-Karasinski. “There’s not as much information out there as there should be. Al Gore put out the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and that was a really, really good piece of information, but there’s not enough of it, for as dire straits as this planet is in. You pick up what you can, about what you should or shouldn’t be doing. It’s the most basic stuff. Everyone should look at the amount of water they use, the amount of heat and electricity they use, the amount that you drive. It’s just really basic sh**. But it has an impact. The recycling thing was around forever. No one appreciates how important it is, really, because it’s not engraved on everybody’s conscious thinking. Basically, I just try to do my part — like selling my Hummer. I don’t let the water keep running when I’m brushing my teeth. I’m a real stickler for recycling. There’s a lot of little things. I’m not waving a flag or anything. But I’m just trying to do what I can.” Read more.
Slash Visits ‘MuchOnDemand’
Slash visited ‘MuchOnDemand’ to promote his memoirs ‘Slash’ on November 19th in Toronto, Onatario. The ex Guns N’ Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist talked about why he wrote the book, his artistic upbringing, discovering the guitar, fate bringing the group together in Los Angeles, and Izzy Stradlin climaxing on his leg. Check out pictures from GettyImages. Watch the interview below the fold.
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Slash Happy To Be Part Of Guitar Hero III
Despite a late release, Guitar Hero III’s $1.4 million in sales is the leader for October, and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash tells Artisan News Service he’s happy to be integral to the game. The former Guns N’ Roses member also talked about how he signed on to the project and how he became introduced to the hit video game. Watch it at YouTube.
Slash Book Signing In London
Former Guns N’ Roses, current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash signs copies of his autobiography ‘Slash’ at Waterstone’s in Piccadilly, London, England on Wednesday (November 21). Check out pictures from Photoshot, GettyImages, and Mavrix.
Slash Visits ‘Good Day LA’
Slash dropped by ‘Good Day LA’ on November 5th at the Fox 11 studios in Los Angeles, where the guitar legend promoted his self-titled memoir and his signing later that day at Borders. Slash discussed how people were writing the history of Guns N’ Roses for them, and he felt violated and wanted to tell his side of the story. He also talked about his frustration over the band’s on-stage tardiness, how drugs thankfully were never the crutch for his creative process, and naming his two boys London and Cash. In the web extra clip, Slash talked about entering the world of book writing, never stopping to think about his experiences until he started writing about it, what he thinks his sons – now three and five – will learn from the book, and picking up a guitar for the first time at fifteen and never looking back. No mention was made of Slash’s current band Velvet Revolver in either interview. Watch the broadcast and web extra interviews via myfoxla.com below.
