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megadeth’s dave mustaine dave lombardo unhappy on failed ‘rust in peace’. about slayer. slash says ‘never say never’ to guns n’ roses reunion.

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ozzy osbourne says black sabbath to record final robert trujillo plays record embark on final bass as if it is an extreme top 10 best hard rock sport. bands/artists. tour in 2016.

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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine on Failed ‘Rust in Peace’ uni e R up e n i L

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ometimes a door closed is an opportunity, and while some Megadeth fans may be upset by the exits of Chris Broderick and Shawn Drover and others may not be happy with the inability to reform the Rust in Peace lineup, frontman Dave Mustaine is very pleased with the additions of drummer Chris Adler and guitarist Kiko Loureiro. Mustaine opens up in a new interview with Rolling Stone about the experiences of trying to replace the exiting Broderick and Drover over the last few months and offers an update on the progress of their next album.

heavy metal As has been revealed, there was a brief moment where it looked like a Rust in Peace lineup reunion was going to happen, but Nick Menza and Marty Friedman have revealed that it didn’t come to fruition. Mustaine says, “Contrary to all the scuttlebutt that’s going around, I wish those guys the best. But their recollections of the events that led up to it and happened after are considerably different from my recollection. But here’s the thing — a lot of people, they either love or hate me. If I tell anybody what happened it’s not gonna change the way they feel about me. But it’ll probably change the way they feel about them. And I don’t want to hurt anybody. All I can say I think they’re both tremendous musicians and talented guys.” And they aren’t the only talented guys that were considered for the band’s future. Lamb of God‘s Chris Adler was ultimately selected to drum on the band’s album, although he won’t be touring with the band. Mustaine says, “The option to do a record with Chris was really exciting to me. So I thought, ‘Well, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to

*The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.* it. We’ll figure out what we’re gonna do about live shows, who’s gonna take the drum throne.’ And we’ve looked at a lot of people. I talked with my friend [exDream Theater drummer] Mike Portnoy, who I think is an amazing talent. I talked to [ex-Slayer drummer] Dave Lombardo. [Current Dream Theater drummer] Mike Mangini‘s name has come up. But there was just something telling me to

pause, saying, ‘Really think about who you’re gonna play with, Mustaine. Make sure you’re going to do something that’s really going to excite people and that is not predictable.’ But we do have some live shows coming up and we have a drummer committed to our dates so far this year.” As for the new disc, Mustaine reveals, “We have 15 tracks — 13 originals and two cover songs. We did ‘Melt the Ice Away’ by Budgie and ‘Foreign Policy’ by Fear. At this point, the drums are all done and Chris is back home. Kiko finished all his rhythms and he’s now doing solos.” Loureiro also reportedly played piano at the end of a haunting song called “Poisonous Shadows.” The vocalist also revealed the song titled “The Emperor Has No Clothes” and another called “Tyranocide,” but added that many of the tracks just have working titles at this point. As for a street date, Mustaine stated that the band is aiming for a release during the later part of the year. Read the full interview with Mustaine at Rolling Stone.

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OZZY Osbourne Says Black Sabbath To Record Final Record, Embark On Final Tour in 2016.

POSTED IN: MUSIC lack Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne told revealed to press at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Brazil that 2016 will see the final studio album and tour for the legendary English rock band, according to Billboard‘s Chris Payne. Sabbath, who were slated initially slated to perform a farewell concert

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at Osbourne’s metal concert festival Ozzfest in Japan in November, were replaced as headliners by Osbourne performing as a solo act with “friends” after a public spat between Osbourne and Sabbath drummer Bill Ward, who announced earlier this month via his Facebook page that he would not be rejoining Sabbath unless and until he received an apology from Osbour-

ne as well as a “signable” contract. In making the announcement of Sabbath’s disbanding, Osbourne cited an unwillingness from other members of the band to continue, a statement that many see as a slight toward Ward. “We all live in different countries and some of them want to work and some of them don’t want to, I believe. But we are going to do another

heavy metal Black Sabbath was formed in Birmingham, England in 1968 as a blues rock band. In 1979, Osbourne was dismissed from the band due to excessive drug and alcohol use, and was replaced by iconic metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Following decades of lineup changes and and temporary hiatuses, Osbourne rejoined Sabbath in 1997 and then again in 2010. Black Sabbath was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and remains one of the most influential acts in the rock and heavy metal genres.

“My wife spends all my money, so I can’t stop. I’ve just got to give it my best shot every night and hope that they like it. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t.”

tour together, then at the beginning of next year, I’m going out with Sabbath. The Sabbath thing is folding up after the next tour…our last hurrah. Then it’s no more Sabbath at all. We’re disbanding the name and everything. They don’t want to tour anymore. I get it. But I love it.” Dana Rose Falcone of Entertainment Weekly reports that, following Sa-

bbath’s end, Osbourne will continue to tour as a solo act and is already cultivating material for a solo album. Already announced to be joining Osbourne and Friends on the Ozzfest Japan lineup are California nu metal pioneers Korn, who will be supporting the 20th anniversary of the band, as well as a rare appearance by goth metal band Evanescence, according to Chad Childers of Loudwire.

ixing bone-crushing volume with Ozzy Osbourne’s keening, ominous pronouncements of gloom and doom, Black Sabbath were the heavy-metal kings of the 1970s. Often reviled by mainstream rock critics and ignored by radio programmers, the group still managed to sell over 8 million albums before Osbourne departed for a solo career in 1979.

The four original members, schoolmates from a working-class district of industrial Birmingham, England, first joined forces as the Polka Tulk Blues Company. They quickly changed their name to Earth, then, in 1969, to Black Sabbath; the name came from the title of a song written by bassist Geezer Butler, a fan of occult novelist Dennis Wheatley. It may also have been an homage to a Boris Karloff film. The quartet’s eponymous 1970 debut, recorded in two days, went to Number Eight in England and Number 23 in the U.S. A single, “Paranoid,” released in advance of the album of the same name, reached

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Number Four in the U.K. later that year; it was the group’s only Top Twenty hit. The single didn’t make the U.S. Top Forty, but Paranoid, issued in early 1971, sold four million copies with virtually no radio airplay. Beginning in December 1970 Sabbath toured the States relentlessly. Despite the band members’ intense drug and alcohol abuse, the constant road work paid off, and by 1974 Black Sabbath was considered peerless among heavy-metal acts, its first five LPs all having sold at least a million copies apiece in America alone. In spite of their name, the crosses erected onstage, and songs dealing with apocalypse, death, and destruction, the band members insisted their interest in the black arts was nothing more than innocuous curiosity, and in time, Black Sabbath’s princes-of-darkness image faded. Eventually, so did its record sales. Aside from a platinum best-of, We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll (1976), not one of three LPs from 1975 to 1978 went gold. Osbourne, reeling from drug use and excessive drinking, quit the band briefly in late 1977

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* I’m about caring, I’m about people, and I’m about entertaining people. I’m a family man. A husband. A father. I’ve been a lot of other things over the years, which we don’t really want to talk about.*

(ex–Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Dave Walker filled his shoes for some live dates). In January 1979 he was fired. Ronnie James Dio, formerly of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, replaced Osbourne. Although Dio could belt with the best of them, Sabbath would never be the same. Its first album with Dio, Heaven and Hell (1980), went platinum; its second, Mob Rules (1981), gold. But thereafter, the group’s LPs sold fewer and fewer copies, as Black Sabbath went through one personnel change after another. Ill health forced Bill Ward out of the band in 1980; Carmine Appice’s brother Vinnie took his place. Friction between Iommi and Dio led the singer to quit angrily in 1982; he took Appice with him to start his own band, Dio. Vocalists over the years have included Dave Donato, Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, another ex-member of Deep Purple Glenn Hughes, Tony Martin, and Dio again. By 1986’s Seventh Star, only Iommi remained from the original lineup. He had to wince when Geezer

Butler teamed up with Osbourne, who had since launched a he phenomenally successful solo career, in 1988, though the bassist did return to the fold three years later. Despite bitterness expressed in the press between Osbourne and Iommi, the original foursome reunited in 1985 at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, and again in 1992, at the end of what was supposedly Osbourne’s last tour. Throughout 1993 word had it that Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, and Ward would tour, but by year’s end Osbourne ded Dave Donato, Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, another ex-member of Deep Purple Glenn Hughes, Tony Martin, and Dio again. By 1986’s Seventh Star, only Iommi remained from the original lineup. He had to wince when Geezer Butler teamed up with Osbourne, who had since launched a he phenomenally successful solo career, in 1988, though the bassist did return to the fold three years later. Despite bitterness expressed in the press between Osbourne and Iommi, the original foursome reunited in 1985 at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, and again in 1992, at the end of what was supposedly Osbourne’s last tour. Throughout 1993 word had it that Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, and Ward would tour, but by year’s end Osbourne had backed out, allegedly over money. The indefatigable Tony Iommi went right back to work with Butler, rehiring vocalist Tony Martin and adding former Rainbow drummer Rob Rondinelli. That lineup proved as unstable as the previous one, with drummers coming, going, and returning over the following years. Despite hiring Body Count’s Er-

* You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.*

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heavy metal nie C to produce 1995’s Forbidden (and inviting guest vocalist Ice-T to sing on a track), Black Sabbath seemed increasingly out of touch with the times, and at the end of the Forbidden Tour, the band unofficially went on hiatus. But not for long, as Iommi, Butler, and Osbourne reunited to headline 1997’s Ozzfest. Ward was not invited (he was replaced by Faith No More’s Mike Bordin), but he did participate in two shows in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, England, in December 1997. The resulting live album, Reunion (Number 11, 1998), also featured two new studio tracks, including the single “Psycho Man.” The album went platinum in the U.S., and the live version of “Iron Man” earned the band its first Grammy for Best Metal Performance — nearly 30 years after the song was originally released. The ensuing tour lasted two years and ended in December 1999. Tony Iommi released his first solo album in 2000; a prestigious roster of guest singers (Osbourne, Billy Corgan, Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl) handled the vocals. Among metalheads, Iommi is something of a guitar god, due in part to the fact that he plays spectacularly despite having lost the tips of two right fin-

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gers in a welding accident at age 17. His hero was the great jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, who also lost two fingers and yet continued to play. In mid-2001 it was announced that all four original members were writing material for a new Black Sabbath album to be produced by Rick Rubin. The band scrapped all the material and the album never materialized, although Sabbath performed one new song, “Scary Dreams,” on that year’s Ozzfest. The band was put on hold throughout 2002 as Osbourne refocused on his solo music and new MTV reality show, The Osbournes, in which his family was portrayed as a sort of real-life Munsters. The band came back together for the 2004 and 2005 Ozzfest tours. In 2005, Black Sabbath was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, and the following year, after many years of eligibility, the band made it into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In

* I’m about caring, I’m about people, and I’m about entertaining people. I’m a family man. 2007, Iommi and Butler reunited with Appice and Dio to record new material for the compilation Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (Number 54); that configuration of the group toured as Heaven and Hell (to avoid being confused with the Osbourne-fronted Black Sabbath) into the year 2008. On April 28, 2009, Heaven and Hell released its debut album, The Devil You Know.

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Dave Lombardo: U N H A P PY A B O U T

*I want you to know something. I was honoured by the gesture of replacing me with Terry Bozzio. That, to me, was respect. Instead of replacing me with a guy that hasNOt done anything in 10 years, waiting on the couch, fiddling his thumbs, *Oh my god, when is Slayer going to get rid of Dave?*

*REPLACING ME WITH A GUY THAT HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING IN 10 YEARS*

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ombardo is known for his fast, aggressive style of play utilizing the double bass technique which has earned him the title “the godfather of double bass” by Drummerworld. Lombardo was born in Havana, Cuba on February 16, 1965. When he was two years old, his family moved to South Gate, California. During the third grade at the age of eight, Lombardo brought in a set of bongos with a Santana record for show and tell at school and played along with the rhythm. This inspired his musical interest in drums and he joined the school band where he played the marching drum, although eventually he viewed the marching drum as “not for him.” Lombar

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do’s father saw his persistent interest in music at age ten and bought him a five-piece Maxwin drum set for $350. As Lombardo now had a drumkit, he purchased his first record, Alive! by Kiss to play along to. He taught himself the song cc by listening to the record repeatedly. Able to perform the drum solo on the song, word of Lombardo’s ability spread. In 1978, Lombardo returned to playing rock music and would talk with several musicians around South Gate. They would travel to Lombardo’s house to play renditions of songs by Jimi Hendrix, such as “Purple Haze,” “Foxy Lady”, and “Fire.” Graduating from private school in eighth grade, Lombardo moved to Pius X High School, which had more musicians than his previous school. He signed up to the school talent show and performed “Johnny B. Goode” by Chuck Berry with a guitarist named Peter Fashing. “I’ll never forget the roar of the crowd during the drum solo. We brou-

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ght the house down,” states Lombardo, who becavme known as “David the drummer” the following day. With his new-found popularity, Lombardo formed a band in 1979 called Escape, with two guitarists. The group performed AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath songs in Lombardo’s garage. After leaving Pius X school due to poor grades, Lombardo enrolled in South Gate High School where he found a vocalist to join the band. The band performed at parties under the name Sabotage, but were unsuccessful in making an impact. Lombardo’s parents noticed his withdrawal from everything except music, and convinced him to quit and find a job. Lombardo followed his parents’ advice and applied as a pizza delivery boy in 1981. With money earned from the job and money loaned from his father, he purchased a TAMA Swingstar drum set and Paiste Rude cymbal package for $1,100.[5] While making a delivery, Lombardo was told about a

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*The Voice of QueensrOche.*It IS possible Lombardo meant *not doing anything* in a very snobbish way * i.e., *My band played for a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium as part of the Big Four, your band did not.*

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nearby guitarist named Kerry King. He introduced himself to King, and asked if he would like to jam with him. King agreed and offered to show Lombardo his guitar collection later that night. As King was looking for a drummer for his band, Slayer, he extended an invitation to perform drumming duties which Lombardo accepted. With Slayer’s line-up now complete, the band toured extensively in the early 1980s to promote their debut album Show No Mercy, while Lombardo continued to work at K-Mart. During this period of touring, Lombardo formed a strong bond with drummer Gene Hoglan, who was the band’s roadie. Lombardo asked Hoglan to become his drum tutor; however, Hoglan was fired as a roadie because he had no idea what to do.

Lombardo felt Hoglan was a great influence to his drumming. During Slayer’s 1986 “Reign in Pain” tour to promote the album Reign in Blood, Lombardo left the band and stated “I wasn’t making any money. I figured if we were gonna be doing this professionally, on a major label, I wanted my rent and utilities paid.” The band enlisted Tony Scaglione of Whiplash as his replacement; however, Lombardo returned in 1987. Lombardo recorded drums on the Slayer albums South of Heaven (1988) and Seasons in the Abyss (1990), although in 1992, Lombardo left Slayer again due to conflicts with band members and his refusal to tour. He desired to witness the birth of his first child and gave the band members nine months notice of his wife’s pregnancy and said he would be unable to tour in September.

trash metal Ten years after departing from Slayer, Lombardo received a phone call from Slayer, who asked if he would like to perform a few shows. Dave Lombardo accepted to resume drumming duties and his first show was at The 7 Flags Event Center near Des Moines, Iowa on February 2, 2002. At the beginning of the concert, vocalist Tom Araya welcomed the return of Dave Lombardo, as well as dedicating the show to Exodus vocalist Paul Baloff, who had died earlier that day. He toured with Slayer as part of Ozzfest, H82k2, Summer Tour, and the 2004 Download Festival. While preparing for the Download Festival in England, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was hospitalized for a mysterious illness. Metallica’s vocalist James Hetfield searched for volunteers to replace Ulrich; Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison and Lombardo volunteered.

Lombardo performed the songs “Battery” and “The Four Horsemen”, whilst Jordison performed the rest of the songs. Lombardo recorded his final album to date with Grip Inc. in 2004, Incorporated. He asserts the band is on the ‘back burner,’ because of time taken up touring with Slayer. Lombardo states his reasons for using two bass drums: “when you hit the bass drum the head is still resonating. When you hit it in the same place

right after that you kinda get a ‘slapback’ from the bass drum head hitting the other pedal. You’re not letting them breathe.” When playing the double bass, Lombardo uses the ‘heel-up’ technique and places his pedals at an angle. Lombardo recorded another album with Slayer in 2009, titled World Painted Blood. On February 20, 2013, it was announced that Lombardo left from Slayer’s Australian tour due to a pay dispute.

See that pic at the top of this? It’s the only photo I’ve been able to find of founding/former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo with Jon Dette and Paul Bostaph, each of whom has replaced him in the legendary thrash band multiple times. Does Lombardo look like a happy dude in that photo? No. No he does. He looks as though he’s being made to pose for a photo with Josef Stalin, from within a cloud of cheese farts. Maybe he was just a bad mood when this pic was taken… or maybe he really, really does not like Bostaph and/or Dette. The evidence: a new interview with Music Rada. Lombardo doesn’t call out Bostaph or Dette by name, so, theoretically, he could be talking about both of them, either of them, or neither of them. It’s

worth noting that Bostaph, for his part, hasn’t exactly been “doing nothing” since his first stint with Slayer ended in 2001: he’s been recording and touring with acts like Exodus, Testament, and, er, Geoff Tate, “The Voice of Queensrÿche.” It’s possible Lombardo meant “not doing anything” in a very snobbish way — i.e., “My band played for a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium as part of the Big Four, your band did not.” Dette, on the other hand, is always kind of around, but not doing anything about which anyone seems to care… and of the three, he’s the only one who has never actually recorded with Slayer. In fact, if he did something ten years ago, I’m not sure what that was. One could argue that he’s never really done anything.

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Robert Trujillo P l ay s B a s s a s i f I t ’ s a n extreme sport.

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etallica bassist Robert Trujillo says his low-slung playing style is closely linked to his love of extreme sports. His comments come as the band confirmed they’ll appear at this year’s “X Games” in Austin, Texas, on June 6, headed up by pro skater Tony Hawk. Trujillo tells Rolling Stone (via Classic Rock): “The style and the way that I play, low center of gravity, has a lot to do with skating and surfing and even snowboarding. It’s kind of a natural thing for me.” He believes the strong links between metal an extreme sports is here to stay. “It always seemed like the skaters and the surfers were really connected to the music of Metallica,” he says. “There’s a connection to those type of people - it’s similar energy. You see at these events they’re playing a lot of hard rock, metal and punk rock. The tribe that followed that style of music is still around for the sports. These guys are listening to that music. It’s important to them. It’s a part of their lineage.”

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e’s got rhythm, and he’s most certainly got music. Now Robert Trujillo’s also got the job of being Metallica’s new bassist and family member... one that will doubtless fit this most righteous and cheerful of Southern Californians like a glove. Although he sometimes does use a pick, Trujillo is best known as a baaaad motherplucker, a finger-playin’ bass monster who’s dexterity, tones and attitude have seen him grace the bass of Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves and Ozzy Osbourne’s band since his first professional work with Suicidal in 1989. It all stems back to a childhood filled with variety and spice. Growing up in Venice Beach “Dog Town”, Trujillo heard everything, from Led Zeppelin to Motown with a chunk of funk in between. Joined with a young love of surfing, Trujillo developed a rhythm and a vibe that saw him

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*It Is like, come on. Terry Bozzio is an amazing drummer. I love his playing, I love the way he sings with his drums and creates music. I saw some video footage of him playing with FantAmas * wow. He did it his own way and I really liked it.* play with a variety of local bands through his early 20s until he met Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies via his High School buddy, Suicidal guitarist Rocky George. the two got on infamously well, and thus began a rich and fruitful

relationship which saw Rob establish himself as one of the most exciting bass talents in the rock world. In the early ‘90s, he and Muir formed the experimental funk-rockers Infectious Grooves, and then in the mid-’90s Trujillo joined up with Ozzy Osbourne. Together with drummer Mike Bordin, Trujillo formed one of rock music’s most soild and reliable rhythm units. Rob’s name first floated by the Metallicamp during Suicidal’s supporting role on the Summer Shed tour of ‘94, when all the band noted his enthusiastic style and performances. Thus when it was time to consider who could step up and take the bass full-time in Metallica, Rob’s name was an obvious choice. By all accounts, Trujillo’s audition dared the band NOT to give him the job, and even producer Bob Rock was heard saying how complete and

trash metal unequivocally whole the band sounded with Rob playing. And so it was that on Thursday, February 24th 2003, Robert Trujillo walked in to the HQ and saw Ulrich, Hammett and Hetfield immediately start applauding him. Again, Rob is the perfect fit, a calm, even-keeled man with experience and full bass props...and genuinely one of the nicest guys around. It all adds up to the 4th member, an equal part of the Metallica family and an exciting new stage in Metallihistory.

“I’m excited. One of the things I enjoy is hearing the music and seeing the skating - seeing the two worlds working together at the same time.”

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Slash Says ‘Never Say Never’ to Guns N’ Roses

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aul Hudson, better known as Slash, was born to an African-American mother and British father in London on July 23, 1965. A family friend gave him the nickname “Slash,” because he was constantly in motion. Slash lived with his father and grandparents in Stoke-on-Trent until the age of five, when he and his father joined his mother in Los Angeles. His parents divorced several years later, and Slash became a “problem child.” He lost interest in schoolwork and took up BMX racing. At 14, he began learning to play guitar, sometimes practicing for 12 hours a day. In 1981, he joined his first band, Tidus Sloan, and dropped out of high school to tour.

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¨I remember one time I was running from one side of the stage to the other, and I suddenly noticed Axl was running from the opposite direction and that I wasn`t going to be able to get out of his way. Immediately went into a tuck and roll, and he jumped over the top of me. And I didn`t miss a note! It was cool.¨

fter he finished touring with Guns N’ Roses, Slash formed a series of bands, including Slash’s Snakepit and a blues cover band called Slash’s Blues Ball. In 2003, he formed Velvet Revolver, which was largely praised and heralded as a successful comeback. Slash also released two solo albums, one in 2008 and one in 2012.

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lash married model-actress Renée Suran in 1992 and divorced from her in 1997. In 2001, he married Perla Ferrar, and they had two children. Although he filed for divorce in 2010, the couple reconciled two months later. At the age of 35, Slash was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, caused by years of drug and alcohol use. He was given just weeks to live, but he had a defibrillator implanted and, beating the odds, went on to survive. He has been sober since 2006, and in 2007 he published his autobiography, titled simply Slash.

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or the next four years, Slash joined or formed a series of bands. Among them was Hollywood Rose, which also included Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin. The band didn’t last, but in 1985 Rose and Stradlin asked Slash to join their new band, Guns N’ Roses. They began writing the songs that they would become known for, including “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City,” and were signed by Geffen Records in 1986.

By the time Guns N’ Roses released their debut album, Appetite for Destruction, in 1987, Slash and other members of the band had developed a drug problem. Two years later, when the band opened for the Rolling Stones, Axl Rose made a very public announcement that he would leave the band if the other members kept using heroin. In 1991, the band embarked on the two-and-a-half-year Use Your Illusion tour and released the albums Use

Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. The albums debuted at No. 2 and No. 1, respectively, on the Billboard 200 list, but the group was losing steam. Izzy Stradlin left the group suddenly, and their next album, a compilation of punk and glam-rock covers titled The Spaghetti Incident, performed poorly compared to their earlier work. Slash’s final show with the band was on July 17, 1993, and after a period of dormancy, he announced in

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hard rock 1996 that he was no longer a member of the band. Although he was widely rumored to have left the band because of artistic conflicts with Axl Rose, Slash’s 2007 autobiography claims that he quit Guns N’ Roses because Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler left, because Rose required band members to sign contracts that made them “hired hands” and because Rose made the band take the stage hours later than planned during tours.

lash appeared on CBS This Morning today to announce the new music video for his song “Beneath the Savage Sun.” The tune and video, which he created with his band Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, was written and shot to help raise awareness for endangered elephants. While on the morning show, Slash was asked the inevitable question of whether there would ever be a reunion of Guns N’ Roses‘ classic lineup. After being pressed by the show’s hosts, Slash ended up saying, “Never say never.”

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“It’s been one of those things that’s been talked about by everybody but us for over the last 18, 19 years,” stated Slash (watch below). So, does he ever talk with Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose? The guitarist revealed on the show, “Well, we haven’t really talked in a long time, but a lot of the tension that you were talking about has dissipated. We don’t have all those issues anymore. It’s not a lot of controversy. It’s something that is more perpetuated by the media, more than anything.” When asked if he personally would ever want a reunion, Slash

commented, “I got to be careful what I say there, I mean, if everybody wanted to do it and do it for the right reasons, I think the fans would love it. I think it might be fun at some point to try and do that.” However, when pressed on what those “right reasons” might be, he shied away from responding. “I mean, that’s a hard one,” he continued. “That just starts to get into a whole complex thing … it’s really between the guys in the band.” Finally, when asked if he thought a reunion was likely he said, “Never say never.”

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