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Also, why’s Axl usually the only one portrayed as the chaotic, destructive type in GN’R, when we had Izzy chucking bottles at walls, Slash smashing a pub’s window because they wouldn’t let him in, and not to mention Duff’s attempt at arson with Axl during the Hell tour. Their debut album isn’t called Appetite for Destruction for nothing.
Slash telling Poison’s CC DeVille he’s gonna shoot him if he ever sees him wearing a top hat on stage again is the funniest thing ever.
Axl, it is said, is a notoriously difficult character to deal with. How do the two of you get along as people, outside the band?
Slash: "We love each other."
[The Most Dangerous Band in the World by Mick Wall.]
The many times Slash and Axl referred to their relationship as a marriage:
"If there ever was a combination of fucking opposites, like me and Axl or whoever else in the past, that one is crystal clear. Me and Axl are so unalike that we attract each other. The relationship between most lead singers and most lead guitar players is very sensitive, very volatile—I could go on listing these things for hours. It's just very intense. It has major ups and major downs. But somewhere between all this intensity and this friction there's a chemistry. And if the chemistry's right, like me and Axl are really tight, then there's something—a spark or, you know, a need, that holds it together. You fight too. The biggest fights are between me and Axl. But that's also what makes it happen…Like a marriage…When we talk, we're not band members. We talk about ideas that we have, or remember seeing this or hearing that? We'll just sit up all night and talk, and it's me and Axl talking. It goes beyond anything you could write down.” Q-magazine, 1991.
Interview Magazine, 1992: Do you think that having a relationship with a band has to do with the same things as having a relationship with a person? Axl: "Yes, l think so. Especially with Slash and it's definitely a marriage.”
“Slash's name pops up repeatedly, invoked in a way that suggests a shell shocked husband speaking of an ex-wife after a particularly horrific divorce. ‘It is a divorce,’ Rose says with a sad stare.” Rolling Stone, 2000.
"In retrospect, it’s kind of interesting that I suddenly had disconnected with the two most long-term, closest relationships I had had up to that point, just a matter of months apart," Slash in his book about his divorce and leaving GN'R and thus Axl.
“There was a lot of bad feelings from the breakup all throughout that twenty years, whatever it was. But there’s also a part of you that’s, like, in a marriage, where you love somebody; so there’s always that feeling, but then there’s all this negative stuff…It was very cathartic to physically talk. 'Cause there's a bond that you have that's never [broken]. And then what happens is the bond makes the negative side of it that much worse, because you're forced out of it." Slash on Sixx Sense, 2018.
Slash on Axl: “He’s flighty [laughs]…But he’s a sweetheart, you know?”
In the Howard Stern Show (1995) with Slash, they were talking about how painful nipple piercings are, and Slash added, chuckling, “You know what, there was a point there where Axl was pretty volatile around that time when he got his done.”
Thinking about how Izzy was the one to hand Axl his famous kilt, and it’s one of Axl’s outfits Slash has always liked. The kilt is special.
Reading Slash’s “but I love the guy. I mean he’s a real sweetheart” comment about Axl in their Rolling Stones’ article from ‘88, reminds me that Axl often gets called a sweetheart in particular by the people who know him personally. So, his personality really does exist in extremes, or as Vicky Hamilton affectionately put it, “Axl’s personality is sort of a two-parter: there’s a very sweet little boy personality, and when he’s on edge, there’s sort of the demon dog from hell personality.”
“He does a lot of weird shit no one understands but I love the guy. I mean he’s a real sweetheart.”
-Slash about Axl
Rolling Stone Magazine - November 17, 1988
Both of them look like middle aged dads about to say “I was your age once too”.
Just a couple more bc I love this man.
• (Izzy Stradlin) Live at the Ritz, 1991.
• (Axl Rose) Live at the Ritz, 1991.
A spiral bound notebook containing handwritten lyrics and other personal notes by Axl Rose displayed at a media preview of the upcoming “Music Icons” auction. (May 20-22, 2022)
Current Izzy makes my heart so happy 😌🥰
He bought a motorbike! 🥺
GIRL💀🤚 runnnnn lmaooo
his smilllleeeee 🥺😩