Slash Meets Renee Suran at a Bar in LAĭuring the making of Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion records, the band was in work mode and Slash admitted he wasn’t very social, staying mostly at home and drinking and listening to records or spending his time in the studio.īassist Duff McKagan coaxed Slash into coming with him to a bar in LA one night where the pair jammed with a blues band. During that tour, Guns N’ Roses’ guitarist Slash died for 8 minutes. Slash said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that there are some more songs coming 'soon,' but the band has no real concrete plans for a full-length album.In 1992, Guns N’ Roses were touring with Metallica, playing stadiums around North America. Guns N' Roses released two Chinese Democracy-era songs named 'Hard Skool' and 'Absurd' over the course of the past year, and according to Slash the band is working on two more. And it's exciting if you hear it on the radio or something. Yeah, you play it every night, so the material's always there. And, so, I don't really get in my car and listen to it eight million times when you're mixing and mastering.

You know what I mean? It's like you've gone through everything you need to on that material, and the only thing you have to look forward to at that point is going out and performing it.

And once that's done and it's off to be released, you've moved on.

Then you go into the studio and you record it, then go in and mix it. 'I mean, you make a record, you go through this whole process of creating the music and working on it with the guys and developing it. But I just never was one to sort of really collect records of the bands that I'm actually in. Granted, I did have a lot of records I've kept. And even if I did, I didn't live anywhere, so I wouldn't have any place to put it. I don't think I've ever owned the Appetite For Destruction record. I mean there's instruments around, but I don't have any, like, souvenirs or anything special from the releases over the years. If you were to come to my house, you'd be hard pressed to know I was in a band. 'Well, you have to understand - I mean, it's like this for all the records I do - I don't collect any of it. Which makes us wonder a conversation between Corey Taylor and Slash would be like, given Taylor's staunch opinion on artists listening to their own music.

His reasoning for not listening to his own music is that he already spent tons of time recording it and he's gonna have to play it live, so listening to it in his spare time basically feels like overkill.

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