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Interview

Slash ? "I always wanted Oliver Stone to direct the Guns N' Roses footage we have in a vault"

Wed, 07 Apr 2010

Slash sits down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about making his solo album, his favorite Iggy Pop story and what he thought of Shutter Island?

If your life story where to be made into a movie, who would you want to direct it?

That's a good question! I don't know, man. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously so it's hard for me to get a perspective of how I'd want to be portrayed. You can get really Martin Scorsese-heavy with it, but there's nothing really that warrants that. So it'd have to be somebody with a little bit more levity. I always wanted Oliver Stone to direct the Guns 'N' Roses footage we have in a vault. It's like three years of Guns 'N' Roses touring that we haven't released. That would be awesome. For me personally, it's come up because I wrote that book. People have approached me about making a movie about it, and I can't really see heads nor tails of how that would be [Laughs].

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I may be completely off, but i think i've read that there was a fire in that vault and most of the footage was destroyed?

That was my understanding as well. It was suppose to have happened during the wildfires of 1995 I believe.

FUCK!!!!!!!!!  That shit is lost forever!!!!

Where was this reported?  Aren't most vaults fire proof?

I can't remember, could just as well be false hearsay as with a lot of things when it comes to GN'R

I'm not quite sure where it was reported, possibly in a magazine article about the band, but from what I remember all the stuff was stored in a warehouse not a real vault.

does he mean the perfect crime movie?
or that tourdocumentairy that never came out from the 91-92 tour?

So I may have taken that too literally...you'd think they would have it in a safe/vault.

If the footage was destroyed in a fire, Slash doesn't seem to know about it.

I have been waiting to see that footage for almost 20 years, supposedly Axl's confrontation with Kurt Cobain at the VMA's is on there.  Who knows whats true and what isnt though?

there is thousands and thousands hours of video and audio from the whole illusion tour:
about 192 shows in Proshot backed up high quality with soundboard audio on it and endless off-stage stuff!

IMO it'd be a huge loss for Rock N Roll history to just let it rot in the vaults and not making it available to the public in any form.

It may as well have been lost in a fire, because Slash and Axl will NEVER come to any sort of agreement on releasing it or the way it would be edited if it were released.

Yes, vaults can be fire proof, but if the fire gets hot enough, then the stuff inside can still burn

Ummmm.... How would he direct 3 years of footage thats already taken place ???

Well, he would edit that material, chose what to show or not, cut in with interviews or not, etc...

Woody Allen's debut as a director (so said the credits) was with "What's up Tiger Lily?" wich actually is just and old class B japanese movie edited by him and with new dialogues (written by Allen also) over the original ones.

That's the problem I alluded to before... Axl definitely wouldn't allow someone else to come in and edit footage of him in a certain way.  Neither would Slash.  Axl and Slash would have to agree on what footage they'd allow to be shown before anyone else could come in and do jack shit with it, and like I said, that will NEVER happen.

That's why it should ALL be released, DVD box set style. I would pay a few hundred bucks at least for that. Who wouldnt pay that kind of money for the greatest tour in the history of rock n roll?

We're likely talking a few hundred hours of footage here.  It would cost a hell of a lot more than that, feasibly in the thousands.  But the same problem is presented; do you think for a second that Axl or Slash would ever allow that footage to be revealed to the public without scanning it first and being finicky about what is released?  There would be disagreements galore, and the end result is that it would (as I've said) NEVER HAPPEN!   :P

the cost of dvd's to hold the  footage would not be in the thousands.  If they were released as VHS tapes back in the early 90's then we are talking thousands.  A set in todays world woudl be no more than 500 bucks at the absolute most.  By releasing "all" of it, i mean an edited down version, not every single second, but most of it.  Im with you with the whole "it will never happen" thing, im just talking out loud here about what would be cool.