Name: Slash
Rating: 3.966666666666667 (15 reviews)

Slash

Anthony Bozza

A no-holds-barred memoir by the Guns N' Roses guitarist documents his childhood as a biracial son of divorced artist parents; his relationships with such figures as David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, and Seymour Cassel; and his observations about the 1980s music scene.

Midveil

The Slash autobiography was comprehensive… too comprehensive for the casual GNR fan. Slash chronicles every couch he ever slept on, every girlfriend he ever had, and most of the wild and crazy parties he ever attended. Despite this, owing to Slash’s ineffectual use of details, one does not come away with a sense of what it was really like. Here is a typical passage:<br /><br />"We were in no condition to perform, let along even drive ourselves to the gig. In desperation, [Izzy's girlfriend:] Dezi called her friend Melissa, who lived up in Hollywood, in Izzy’s old apartment. She had heard from Sammy and was going to meet him shortly. That was enough to motivate us: we drove over there somehow and hung out waiting for Melissa to return with out drugs. It looked like we might have taken care of one problem, but at the same time, it was around five pm, and we were about an hour from the gig. Finally she returned, Izzy and I got our shit, we did all that, and what a relief that was. Fuck! We were once again functional. We had barely enough time to join our band, who were waiting for us so that we could play our first arena, to a sold-out crowd of three thousand."<br /><br />Sprinkled in between all this meandering prose is an actual story with fascinating tidbits about the band, like how “Paradise City” was composed and written as the band jammed during a drive from San Francisco back to LA. There’s also some interesting insight into the mind of a rock star, like when Slash had an AIDS scare after waking up with a lesion: “Everyone was alarmed [about AIDS:] but most of us still felt immune to the whole thing. We figured that no one needed to worry about it until David Lee Roth got it.”

how can someone put up with up Axl for that much time? Geez.. Slash opens up so deeply about his addictions, gives incredibly thorough details on the tours, the song writing, the pre-during-post GN’R, it’s a delight to read those 600+ pages!

Denis Crepaldi

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. For the first time ever, Slash tells the tale that has yet to be told from the inside: how the legendary band Guns N' Roses came together, how they wrote the music that defined an era, how they survived insane, never-ending tours, how they survived themselves, and, ultimately, how it all fell apart. Slash is a window into the world of the notoriously private guitarist and a front seat on the roller-coaster ride that was one of history's greatest rock 'n' roll machines, always on the edge of self-destruction, even at the pinnacle of its success. Slash is everything Slash is: funny, honest, ingenious, inspiring, jaw-dropping . . . and, in a word, excessive.

Elizabeth Raines

Like any other memoir, Slash's tells the story of his life from childhood till 2007 when this book was published. This man has lived a wild life, what else would you expect from the guitarist of Guns N' Roses (my favorite band)? 
This book was very descriptive and could paint a picture in my head. I enjoyed that there were pictures throughout the chapters instead of just having them in the middle. My one complaint is the set up, some chapters were 50+ pages long, and it seemed to be very tedious. Four out of five stars for me!

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