Slash pens autobiography

Velvet Revolver and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash told Glam-Metal.com that he recently finished most of the work on his autobiography. When asked if he ever thought of doing such a project, Slash replied, "It's almost done! I thought about doing it forever, but I didn't want to look like I was getting bored from what I was doing. Then Velvet Revolver happened and some people thought if I was going to do it, it's a good time to do it because you have another career started. Then I started realizing the amount of rumors and s*** that Guns N' Roses has generated in all the books that are unauthorized. I hooked up with this guy and I started to do an autobiography and so it's coming out."

Slash added that the book is now being edited and will hopefully be out before the end of the year. He said that the book has "some funny s*** in it. It's not really a book that I'm out attacking anybody or venting all my grievances."

Slash told us that for him and the other members of Velvet Revolver, making music has always been a central focus of their lives: "I think the most important thing is, from wherever it is that we come from back when we were kids, when we first got inspired to be musicians and we were huge rock fans, and the whole nine yards, that's never left us. So we never got jaded in the sense that -- the business might have had some certain effect on us over the years, but as far as where our roots are, and what drives us to stay in and keep doing what we're doing, that's never changed."

Velvet Revolver is currently on tour with Alice In Chains opening. The trek stops on Thursday night (August 23rd) in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Velvet Revolver released its second album, Libertad, on July 3rd. The latest single from the set is called "The Last Fight."
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