Slash Schedules More Book Signings

Band Photo: Guns N Roses (?)

Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash has scheduled the following book-signing appearances in connection with his newly published memoir, "Slash", which comes out today (October 30) via HarperEntertainment:

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
4 Astor Place New York, NY 10003

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
7:00 PM
Book Revue
313 New York AVE Huntington, NY 11743

Thursday, November 1, 2007
7:30 PM
Bookends
232 E. Ridgewood AVE Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Monday, November 5, 2007
7:00 PM
Borders
3700 Torrance Blvd Torrance, CA 90503

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Book Soup (at The Whisky A Go Go)
8901 W Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90069

Slash — real name Saul Hudson — quit GUNS N' ROSES in 1996 after falling out with singer Axl Rose for the umpteenth time.

But the guitarist, who now plays in VELVET REVOLVER, claims he has tried to make sure his new book, "Slash", is as even-handed as possible.

He says, "This is not a vehicle for me to vent. It's not to lambast Axl or to talk shit about anybody else. It's just telling the story as I knew it."

In a recent interview with E! Online, Slash said the book will include a bunch of stuff about his years with GUNS 'N' ROSES, but not necessarily because he was feeling nostalgic on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of "Appetite for Destruction".

"I never wanted to write a book, because it would be too final," Slash explained. "The only reason I wrote it is because a lot of the stuff I was reading and seeing about the band got pretty frustrating. I just had to straighten out some shit."

"It almost reads like a journal, except for the fact that I never wrote anything down," Slash said. "It was a hard book to make, because I was pretty fucked up from 1980 to 2000-something. I really had to dig deep to try and remember a lot of shit."

Slash's co-author Anthony Bozza told BostonNow.com, "The greatest thing for me as a writer working on this book is that Slash never really gave it up in the press. He didn't talk about the stuff that went on behind the scenes with himself or with the band. To be honest, I don't think he ever really cared about that kind of stuff. But people always ask him about it and with the the 20th anniversary of 'Appetite for Destruction' this year, he just felt it was time to put all that stuff to bed and just focus on his new band, VELVET REVOLVER."

Getting the soft-spoken musician to open up for the book wasn't easy, Bozza admits. Part of the problem was that when they first met, Slash was heavily into his oxycontin, phase, "binging" on the synthetic heroin on a daily basis according to Bozza.

"So when he agreed to write the book, I wasn't sure it would really happen," he said. "But right after we met he went into rehab and was sober — or not on oxycontin, when we did the interviews."

And so began a long series of interviews between the tow, most of them taking place at Slash's home between the hours of 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. "He's an absolute night owl. It took me a month to get used to daylight again by the time it was over," Bozza said. "But it was worth it. The book is his reminiscing on one part of his life, but its very much a story that's still being written...in every way."`

Source: Blabbermouth