Former Guns N' Roses guitarist (um, just in case you need a qualifier) Slash has taken time out from his velvet revolving duties and from probably not washing his hair to write an autobiography. We already told you we're suckers for trashy literature by celebs who, by all accounts and purposes, shouldn't have made it to see the '90s but somehow avoided the rock reaper's scythe, so, of course, we fully can't wait to read the chronicles of Slash's enormous appetite for destruction. Thankfully we don't have to wait until the book's October 30th release date because the Guardian Unlimited published a sizable excerpt that details some of the lowest (and basically most awesome) moments Slash spent between finishing the "Appetite For Destruction" tour and beginning work on the G N' R Lies album.
In Slash's autobiography, aptly entitled Slash, the revered rock guitarist reveals the behavior and habits that basically made him a walking (though barely) prototype of a hard-living, about-to-crash-and-burn '80s rocker just gunning for a Behind the Music special.
Anyway, if you were ever looking for some additional reasons NOT to do heroin (and dude, you know it's bad when Traci Lords doesn't wanna be seen in public with you), Slash has outlined them here in painstakingly unambiguous graphic detail.
Here are a few of our favorite PG selections:
"He had been hired to turn my extra bathroom and its huge corner Jacuzzi into a massive snake terrarium that took up a quarter of the room. He was going to build glass walls from the floor to the skylight to enclose the tub, which was elevated, plus adding a set of Plexiglas stairs so that you could see my pets wherever they might be. I couldn't wait to fill it with trees and all the other s--- that snakes like."
"Some days Duff and I even went to the gym, usually just after our morning vodkas. We'd go down to one of those big public YMCAs with Earl to pump iron. We'd be down there in our jeans, doing sets between cigarette breaks -- it was invigorating."
"I just ran, fully naked and bleeding, down the fairway, away from the army of Predators I saw over my shoulder every time I turned to look."
... And our favorite:
"Some nights I'd write songs on the couch, some nights I'd just stare at the snakes."
Read the entire Guardian article (warning: lotsa dirty stuff), and celebrate Slash and Axl's glory days with the epic "Paradise City" video.
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