Slash "I was suicidal when I left GNR"

[GypsySoul]

Source:? blabbermouth.net

SLASH: 'I Was Suicidal When I Left GUNS N' ROSES'
 
The Irish Examiner is reporting that legendary guitarist Slash considered suicide after watching Axl Rose record his vocals at the final GUNS N' ROSES recording session.

The band recorded a cover of the ROLLING STONES' "Sympathy for the Devil" in 1994 and by that point Rose wouldn't even look at Slash.

The next day, Slash decided to leave the band.

Slash, who now plays with VELVET REVOLVER, recalls he went home to sleep, waking up two hours later.

He says: "I was suicidal. If I'd had a gun with me at that time, I probably would have done myself in.

"If I'd had a half-ounce of f**king heroin with me, I probably just would've gone. It was heavy. It was a headspace I'd never been in before.

"Somehow I managed to go back to sleep. Then, when I woke up later that morning, I made a decision. I felt the whole weight of the world drop."?
 

[Mikkamakka]

Can you link the whole story?

As far as I know 'the band' recorded Sympathy without Axl, who came to the studio a day after the others had done their parts. And he took Yoko Huge with him to record some guitars in secret...

[GypsySoul]

Can you link the whole story?

That WAS the whole thing that was posted at blabbermouth.?

Blabbermouth didn't post a link to the "Irish Examiner" either and I don't know if "Irish Examiner" is a website or maybe just a newspaper or mag.?

[Mikkamakka]

Strange. 

They'd been trying to work on songs in 1994 and in 1996, and Slash left in late 1996. Maybe he had decided to go after the Sympathy incident, but he stayed. And left two years later.

[jarmo]

Strange.?

They'd been trying to work on songs in 1994 and in 1996, and Slash left in late 1996. Maybe he had decided to go after the Sympathy incident, but he stayed. And left two years later.

However, in a fax sent to MTV News late Tuesday night, but aimed, he says, at his bandmates -- singer Axl Rose announced that guitarist Slash is out of the group -- and has been since the end of last year -- and bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum are on notice to start devoting more time and attention to the band.

MTV.com

That would be end of 1995.



/jarmo

[Tied-Up]

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/slash.%20.i%20was%20suicidal%20when%20i%20left%20gnr.

I got this link to the story.  My question is, if he was feeling suicidal in 1984, why did he wait to leave until 1996?  Apparently his suicide wasn't that immenent.

[Walapino]

Like everything in GNR world his departure got delayed a year... oh well!

[Mikkamakka]

Strange.?

They'd been trying to work on songs in 1994 and in 1996, and Slash left in late 1996. Maybe he had decided to go after the Sympathy incident, but he stayed. And left two years later.

However, in a fax sent to MTV News late Tuesday night, but aimed, he says, at his bandmates -- singer Axl Rose announced that guitarist Slash is out of the group -- and has been since the end of last year -- and bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum are on notice to start devoting more time and attention to the band.

MTV.com

That would be end of 1995.



/jarmo

That's Axl's side of the story. Slash & Co. still gave interviews in 1996 as he would have been in, remember the 'we ain't dead yet' one in Kerrang. So I think Slash left officially in late 1996, in that year they were still on sorting out the differences, but it didn't work for them, Slash got fed up and left. And when Axl sent that fax, he was a bit...erm...angry, so he said that Slash had been out for a year.

The Slash interview from Kerrang (sorry I haven't found it on your site)

http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-52838/Aritcle_wady_960921.html

[D]

Like everything in GNR world his departure got delayed a year... oh well!

 


I wish slash wouldve just went off and sit down with axl and just talked out every problem they ever had.

how come aerosmith could do it, bon jovi could do it, motley crue did it *short lived* why didnt someone in the fuckin bands management sit them down with a therapist or something and try to talk out the problems. 

[jabba2]

I wish slash wouldve just went off and sit down with axl and just talked out every problem they ever had.

?

Who knows how easy it is to talk with Axl. Those days it seemed like Axl wanted Slash out of the band, and maybe their musical differences were too far apart. I would like hearing the music Slash said the band worked on together. But i doubt it has any vocals.

[D]

its just if u are gonna quit and u have reached the end of your rope, why not just confront him, cuss him, just get off your chest everything u ever wanted to say and then quit and leave.

[GypsySoul]

I wish slash wouldve just went off and sit down with axl and just talked out every problem they ever had.

how come aerosmith could do it, bon jovi could do it, motley crue did it *short lived* why didnt someone in the fuckin bands management sit them down with a therapist or something and try to talk out the problems.?

Slash answered your question in an article in Entertainment Weekly dated Nov 26, 2004.

mag quote
When a crew guy asks if he's (he's=Slash) seen the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster, he shudders at the thought of watching musicians hash out thier issues in therapy. ?"It just sounds too f---ing personal," he says. ?"That's the thing about a rock & roll band. ?You don't want to know about all that stuff. ?You just want them to get up and play."
end mag quote

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