Gunning For Glory
Slash and Duff speak to Stuart Clark and Dave Fanning about the making of Appetite For Destruction, Axl and the Guns N' Roses legacy.
Stuart Clark, 07 May 2008
You’d think that Slash would have become pretty blasé about his back catalogue being fawned over but, nope, he sounds genuinely delighted that Hot Press has adjudged Appetite For Destruction to be the finest metal album of all time.
“What are in second and third place?” he inquires.
AC/DC’s Back In Black and Motorhead’s No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith.
“Wow, that’s fucking amazing. You know, Appetite For Destruction’s a good record and all, but I sometimes wonder why it’s as massively acclaimed as it is. I guess it became the battle cry for a lot of kids who picked up on the fact that it was five guys just doing what they wanted to do. It wasn’t a music industry contrivance like a lot of stuff that was around at the time.
“Guns N’ Roses was an effort by the collective members to do something that we thought was missing at that time. We’d just gotten over the first half of the ‘80s, which was abysmal. G N’ R was one of the last really great rock bands.”
Does he have a favourite Appetite For Destruction track?
“I guess ‘Paradise City’, which we’re playing tonight at the Road Recovery gig, is pretty definitive Guns N’ Roses. I’m just really proud that we made one of those records that everybody who’s considered cool has in their collections.”
Who managed to snort the most Bolivian marching powder off porn models’ silicon breasts in the studio?
“The actual recording of it was pretty calm,” Slash insists. “As crazy as our reputation was, we tried to be as professional as possible when it came to playing. For me, it was Jack Daniel’s and coffee in the morning; work from noon ‘til ten at night; and then go fucking crazy!”
As for the band’s eventual post-Use Your Illusion implosion, he proffers: “Early on, I was really pissed off being forced to quit something I loved as much as Guns N’ Roses. Most of it had to do with Axl who was just trying to be a prat. His personality doesn’t function well in a sort of professional sense.
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