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 New Zealand's 3 News reports that 23 years ago a rock band called Guns N' Roses formed in Los Angeles.
Now guitarist Slash has moved on - but he still has fond memories of his musical achievements.
Starting out together in 1985, Slash says they were playing for the love of it, certainly not for the money:
"Actually the gigs never did pay that well but somehow they managed
to... yeah they paid the rent in one place that we used to squat in. We
actually looked forward to getting paid after a gig, but it was usually
for the beer, you know."
In fact, in order to cover the bills Slash turned his hand to a few
dodgy past-times, just for the pay-check, before he turned pro.
"I'd a lot of jobs, at some point there was a little hustling
involved as far as like, a little bit of drugs, a little bit of this
and that, but prior to that it was just, you know, I kept a straight
job for a while."
Slash left Guns N Roses in 1996 after creative differences with lead
singer Axl Rose - but he still feels proud that whatever they did, they
did it their way.
"Everybody else is making compromises and concessions so that they
can make it big and get their, you know, their picture on the cover of
Teen Beat or Us Weekly or whatever you know, so, so...There's a sort
of, kind of, selling out to that. But I think what was great about Guns
N' Roses is that we made it on our own integrity and we didn't give up
anything to anybody and made it on our own merit."
Read the full story here.
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