SLASH loves nudity, horror… and your questions, obviously.
…and 11 other questions the Metal Hammer readers asked living rock legend, Slash
You wouldn’t hold it against Slash if he decided to just bin it all off and retire to a beach in Hawaii after the last couple of years. Touring stadiums around the world with the all-conquering, mega-bucks Guns N’ Roses reunion could have brought an amazing career full-circle nicely – and, you’d imagine, plant him a nice retirement fund in the process. Forever looking forwards, though, Slash spent the latter half of 2018 working on his latest solo album, Living The Dream, instead, and getting back on the road. how do you find all the weird shit you post on Facebook?
Richard Wilkins (Facebook) “Ha ha! I find it on Tumblr, Pinterest or some weird site I might come across. Horror and nudity are my two favourite things. I do post some music stuff but that’s so predictable, so I post all this shit that I like that has nothing to do with anything that people necessarily know me for. I’ve been producing horror movies as of late, so it falls into that.” If you could create dinosaurs from amber like in Jurassic Park, would you do it?
Des Harris (Email) “I’d be the first guy to do it! Even though I know it would not be right and not be in the best interest of the animal – I’m very much an animal activist and conservationist – I know that if I knew how to do it, I’d be compelled to do it. I wouldn’t start with a T-Rex, I’d start small with something that could acclimate to this environment easiest, like a compy [Compsognathus, AKA the Small Green One from Jurassic World].” what is the most disgusting thing you’ve ever had caught in your hair?
Gary Clark (Facebook) “Guns N’ Roses opened for Social Distortion back in 1985 at The Street Scene, which was this big street festival all through downtown Los Angeles, and we had a spitting contest with the people in the audience and all that spit is all in your hair. That’s a good one! It was a punk thing. We were the kind of rock’n’roll band that had a punk influence but to a punk audience we were still a rock’n’roll band, so if they decide to spit on us we’re going to spit on them, and it lasted for the whole show.” how does it feel to know that the November Rain video has been viewed a billion times? Tim Roughsedge (Facebook) “It’s surreal. It’s something I don’t know how to imagine – that many people looking at one piece of film. I’ve got to give Axl a lot of credit because that epic video was something that he had this vision of doing. We were all like, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ at the time because it wasn’t just a simple ‘shoot the song in a day’-type thing – it was over a period of days and was like a mini-movie. He was really fuckin’ into it and they did a really good job with it, and for those big videos I would write my own part, and that turned out to be a major part of this whole thing. As much as I wasn’t totally into the whole thing, the fact that it’s become an iconic piece of video viewed by a billion people is pretty cool.” have you ever seen a ghost? Tess Curtis (Email) “I did when I was high, ha ha! I saw a lot of ’em. With a clear mind I don’t recall having seen anything paranormal that I could communicate with. I think a lot of it was influenced by chemical ingestion. My mom was very spiritual and I’ve adopted a lot of that openmindedness. I’m very open-minded and a lot of that stuff makes perfect sense to me.” which Guns n’ Roses solo are you most proud of?
Jacob Murphy (Facebook) “The most fun I have doing solos live is the improvised stuff, because that’s when you’re flying by the seat of your pants, spontaneously going for something, and when it works that’s