Popular Post jdh Posted February 26, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2017 I'm sure this should go in Archive but I've been waiting for this to surface on youtube. Hilarious Velvet Revolver Stern interview from 2004. Some Slash and Duff comments on the GN'R breakup and NuGNR incarnation. RIP Scott Weiland: 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfierose Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Thanks for posting, it probably belongs in the Slash section or The Jungle but if it's previously unseen footage I'm happy to leave it here for a day or two to give everyone a chance to see it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@xlRose Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 They start talking about Axl at 14:05 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6lake sa66ath Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Love these flashbacks. Thanks for sharing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Słash Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 "I know Axl wouldn't do it, I know we wouldn't do it" HAHAHAHAHAHA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xBrownstonex Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 6 minutes ago, Słash said: "I know Axl wouldn't do it, I know we wouldn't do it" HAHAHAHAHAHA Yes, so funny that people may change their opinions after 12 years. God forbid you still do the same shit you did 12 years ago grow up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ifdworld Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 amazing interview. thank you for that. its ironic how scott said he would never touch heroin again, which he did. he said he wanted VR to be the last band he was known for and end his carrear with - almost true and how he completely changed his life for good and kicked the habit and ended up od.ing which is so sad and tragic. But yeah i guess we really cant see into the future and can only speak for today. Which makes slash and duffs comments on the gnr reunion more in context with what they were dealing with at the time. same can be said for axl's harsh words towards slash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildStar Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I remember this. Great interview, Howard always had a good relationship with Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangerInThisTown Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 (edited) I read somewhere that Duff relapsed during this time on some kind of prescription pills and was addicted and Slash was drinking a lot too for the first time since the heart defibrillator thing. Interesting era Edited February 27, 2017 by StrangerInThisTown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorderlineCrazy Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 1 minute ago, StrangerInThisTown said: I read somewhere that Duff relapsed during this time on some kind of prescription pills and was addicted and Slash was drinking a lot too for the first time since the heart defibrillator thing. Interesting era "I was so fucking stressed out with all this shit," says McKagan, 43. "I couldn't go fucking talk to my guitar player like I used to." McKagan is sitting in his guesthouse, whichis whimsically decorated with memorabilia from his Guns n' Roses career (platinum plaques, a G n' R pinball machine, a vintage Duff portrait painted by a Japanese fan), and pictures of his wife, Susan Holmes, a former swimsuit model. Outside, it's a sparkling L.A. morning in the up-scale neighborhood of Sherman Oaks, where the couple and their two preteen daughters live on the former estate of Western star Tom Mix. McKagan had suffered from a panic disorder for years, and he always carried a bottle of Xanax with him on the road, just in case. One day, he opened it. " 'I'm going to just take one of these, it's going to chill me out,' " he remembers. "Next day: 'Oh, one doesn't feel like it did yesterday, I guess I'll take two.' " Before long, he was taking twenty-two milligrams a day of the sedative —— more than three times the usual dose. He headed to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and then to a rehab facility. Kicking Xanax, it turns out, was harder than heroin. "I think I needed to go through that again," says McKagan. A martial-arts devotee since getting sober, he is fearsomely fit - still framed by long blond hair, his face looks more like the Duff skull on the cover ofAppetite for Destruction than it does the partied'out puffiness of Guns n' Roses' heyday. "I'd been sober for twelve and a half years at that point," he continues. "And I thought, 'I'm good.' I'm not good, I'm a fucking junkie, and I'm an alcoholic." Sorum, the only unmarried member of the band, was partying too hard, and ended up in the same rehab facility as McKagan. Slash was gobbling painkillers to the point where he was nodding off in rehearsals. "There was just a lot of negative shit going on," Slash says. "Some of it was band stuff, some of it was home stuff, it was a lot of shit, and I went on a little fuckin' OxyContin binge for, like, two or three months, and I had a set date to go into rehab," he adds, sipping iced tea in a Burbank Mexican restaurant. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/appetite-for-destruction-20070809 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Słash Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Great Stuff @jdh and @BoderlineCrazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jay Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 what a bunch of junkies a-holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estranged_85 Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 4:55 "we are all clean" - Scott Weiland- Yeah, right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncitingChaos Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 I always get the sense that Sorum never understood the depth of Axl's problems where as you can see Slash and Duff freeze up when Axl is brought in. Sorum is like "what's the big deal the guy is an as*hole" but you see Slash and Duff lost for words in a way that one would be when someone laughs at someone with a serious issue. It's like "yea we hate the guy for breaking the band up but I'm not going to say what I feel bc it would just be wrong..." they know him too well in a sense and they understand there's some deep personal issues that rehab can't fix. Basically saying "screw the guy but when you make fun of his voice, his hair, his new face..." you're laughing at a guy with something wrong with him and I just don't think any of it made Slash or Duff feel better about the breakup. Part of all that though was they had a new band and Sorum and the guys just wanted it to be about their new band nothing old. All in the past now. The guys couldn't be in a better place in their lives at this point. Whatever issues were there were healed by time 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLegend Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 On 2/26/2017 at 10:06 PM, xBrownstonex said: Yes, so funny that people may change their opinions after 12 years. God forbid you still do the same shit you did 12 years ago grow up. Wasn't even 12 years. Slash turned up at Axl's house the next year allegedly drunk and threw VR under the buss. Their were denials, then eventually Slash admitted that he did go to Axl's house (he denied that he called Weiland a fraud and Duff spineless though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklord Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Anyone else thinking that Duff looks and acts a lot like blonde Dave Grohl there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Kushner comes across like a member of the entourage, not the band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Dog Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 "Was it cool when your pancreas blew up?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modano09 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 On 2/28/2017 at 3:55 AM, AtariLegend said: Wasn't even 12 years. Slash turned up at Axl's house the next year allegedly drunk and threw VR under the buss. Their were denials, then eventually Slash admitted that he did go to Axl's house (he denied that he called Weiland a fraud and Duff spineless though). See, Duff seems like the kind of guy who wants to get along with everyone and tries to see everyone's point of view....which I can see as coming off as "spineless" so I believe that's something Slash would have said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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