


To tell the truth, I don’t even remember a lot of those days. I’m a demonic hat and even I have more professionalism than that. That motherfucker started a riot in Missouri, and over what? Security? Fucking amateur, man. He wanted to be called “Saul,” for God’s sake.īut even with all his bitching, he was never as bad as fucking Axl. I mean, he didn’t even want to be called Slash. So, yeah, he didn’t want to play guitar, and certainly not to perform the awe-inspiring solos that I used his bloody fingers for every night on the legendary Use Your Illusion Tour. He didn’t own a single pair of leather pants. When I met him, he didn’t wear sunglasses all the time. Look, that guy has never gotten with the program. It’s common knowledge that Slash is begging to be released from the infernal bondage of guitar badassery every moment he is on stage. I may be an accursed object possessing the body of an innocent man for nefarious purposes, but at least I didn’t write “One in a Million.” I spent a few months in the body that would come to be known as “Slash” just partying, but then I realized if I really wanted to get my brim some trim, I would need to hook up with a band, and unfortunately that also meant that asshole Axl. So you were sort of naturally drawn to the music scene? There wasn’t this pussy-ass “woke” culture that makes every time a hellbeast seizes the body of an innocent soul into a scandal. Things were a lot wilder, cocaine was basically legal, and demonic possession was a lot more acceptable. The Hard Times: So how did you get involved with Guns N’ Roses initially?ĭemon Hat: You have to remember that when I first emerged from the bowels of Hell, drawn to the cesspool ironically known as “Los Angeles,” it was the ‘80s. And we were lucky enough to interview it! There is probably nothing and no one more iconic in the history of hard rock than the demonic top hat that took control of Slash sometime around 1984 and forced him to play high-intensity lead guitar in Guns N’ Roses for years against his will. These are all potent symbols of the Sunset Strip, that famed West Hollywood gutter of excess, kickass guitar riffs and literally everyone wearing eyeshadow all of the time. “Slippery When Wet.” Drinking way too much shitty vodka in a pool.
