Axl writing autobiography; Slash working with Sebastian Bach?

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose is writing his autobiography, according to his close friend and former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach. The latter told RollingStone.com that the project came up in conversation one day, explaining, "I was saying to Axl one day, 'I'm going to write a book.' He was like, 'Cool. How many pages you got?' I go, 'I've got six pages.' He starts laughing and goes, 'Yeah, I started my book a while back. I'm up to 12,000 words at this point.'" Bach added, 'He's very prolific. He's just not motivated by fame at all. He's had enough of it."

Bach also said that he's heard "at least four albums' worth" of finished Guns n' Roses songs, presumably all recorded during the last 13 years that Rose has been working on the band's long-delayed Chinese Democracy album.

In other news, Bach says that Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has contacted him about working on a secret "mind-blowing" new project, but insisted it was not an offer to replace Scott Weiland in Velvet Revolver.

Bach said that joining Velvet Revolver, which features three former members of Guns N' Roses, would be "awkward" because of his friendship with Rose.

The project Bach mentioned could be Slash's first solo album, which the guitarist told us about a while back: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "I really want to do a solo record and play with a lot of different people that I've worked with before, maybe some people I haven't worked with, and just do something really, really sort of interesting. 'Cause I've played on so many other people's records, you know, and I want to write material for, like, different individuals to sing on and whatnot."
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