Slash talks sobriety and jamming with Rory Gallagher
WHERE do you start with Saul Hudson, the guitar-slinging hard-rock anti-hero known to the world as Slash? He’s lived the clichés of rock and roll with zealous abandon — thrashing hotel rooms, dallying with groupies by the dozen, overdosing on a heroin and cocaine speedball that plunged him into cardiac arrest for eight minutes. That he is still around to marvel at the ridiculousness of it all rates as a fair-sized miracle — a fact he is entirely cognisant of.
“Trust me, I have absolutely no interest going down that road any more,” he says in an exclusive interview with the Irish Examiner to promote his excellent new record, World On Fire. “I wore out on it. I burned through the whole thing. The prospect of going back in that direction — [if tempted] I instantly think about the low points, think back to where I was at before I cleaned my act up. It doesn’t interest me.”
