Slash on SKY NEWS...... Cool interview stream. GNR Mentioned

[SpiritDave]

That was clearly a promo for Gibson. Shame on you Sky 'News'.

Well, I regard this as way more interesting than Gordon Brown's latest shit... so hardly shame on Sky

[1987]

There is nikki Sixx, Anthony Kiedis, Slash type addiction and then u got your smaller scale type stuff. There is definitely a difference.

basically you have people that make the jump to heroin.. then everyone else.. i think it pretty common for people to smoke weed or bump a little coke every once in while at some point in there life.. but heroin just isn't normal.. i don't know anyone personally.. but i've never heard of anyone that got into that and it didn't royally mess them up. 

[kobys]

There is nikki Sixx, Anthony Kiedis, Slash type addiction and then u got your smaller scale type stuff. There is definitely a difference.

basically you have people that make the jump to heroin.. then everyone else.. i think it pretty common for people to smoke weed or bump a little coke every once in while at some point in there life.. but heroin just isn't normal.. i don't know anyone personally.. but i've never heard of anyone that got into that and it didn't royally mess them up. 

My late uncle was a heroin addict from the age of 14. Towards the end he started getting bad stuff. He would punch himself in the face until he was bloody. He would scream himself hoarse. He would go outside and run in circles and turn somersaults. Anyway, I hope Slash and Co. can keep themselves clean. Drug addiction's no good for anyone.

[FunkyMonkey]

^^From an US Magazine interview with Scott Weiland in 1998...his take on heroin:

You compare heroin addiction to being a vampire. How so?

When it starts out, you go to these great places at night. And you become part of your own secret group. But after awhile it stops being like that. Because you're like, 'I gave this up for my real life and for my soul.' And it becomes something you need just to stay well. If you don't have it, you're sick, and you long for the life you had before. You stop going out... stop wearing flashy clothes... and you stop caring. [Starts eating roasted vegetables from a silver tray with his Vamped fingers, which become very shiny with oil] I don't eat very much, you know. I eat, like, salad.

Do you remember how it felt when you first tried heroin?

I fell in love with it right away. It scared me for a long time. But, um... [Pauses] It ruined the relationship with my wife. I turned my brother on to it and cursed him. I turned him into one of the undead.

How long was it a good experience?

It was fun for about two years. With brief periods of pain and misery. But I bought into the myth. After about three months I didn't even care about having sex. I didn't have sex for six months with my wife. [Pauses] You don't age. You don't age until you stop doing it. Keith Richards looked great until 1981. Um, but...um. I love to do it. I'd love to do it right now.

Oh?

If I had some of it on me right now, I guarantee I could get you to do it in a second.

How would you do that?

I have some dope. Do you want to do that?

Then I would say, "Nah, I'm too afraid."

And I'd say, "Afraid? That's OK. I'll show you how. I've got two clean needles in my pocket. If you don't want to shoot up, you can snort it, or smoke it. It'll give you the best high you'll ever get. It's like you're being embraced and called by God." [Leans Forward] The first time I ever did it, I felt like I found the keys to unlock the doors to all the secrets. It's like... it goes right to the pit of your stomach, then it crawls up to your lungs, then it rushes to your head. And it's warm; you just close your eyes and smile. And... it's hard talking about it. [Looks around the room] I wanna smoke a cigarette or something.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/7587/usmag.html

[lynn1961]

Thanks for finding and posting that!  Enjoyed listening to it! 

[CheapJon]

damn shame he turned his brother into it.. didn't his brother die of an overdose last year?

[FunkyMonkey]

damn shame he turned his brother into it.. didn't his brother die of an overdose last year?

From an interview with Scott in Blender August 2007...

What was the single worst day of your life?
walter.pk, Benton City, WA
I have two. When I got arrested for possession for the fourth time, I felt beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would lose my wife and kids. I was either gonna get clean or hang myself. The other was the day my brother died, earlier this year. It was an overdose, but it was horrible not knowing whether it was suicide or not ? we just assumed it was due to the state he?d been in. The coroner?s report finally came back, and it was cardiomyopathy, the same thing that killed Jim Morrison. He was four and a half years younger than me. We were always really close as kids. We?d get kicked out of the house and hole up together. But then we hit this stretch where I?d get clean and he?d be using, then he?d get clean and I?d be using, and that sort of made the distance grow between us. Finally, three and a half years ago, I got clean, and we pretty much stopped talking. I said I?d never be judgmental toward anybody, but I started to be toward him ?cause it pissed me off so much. He was losing his family right in front of his eyes. The police found a message he?d scribbled across his fridge, telling himself to stay alive for his daughters.