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Re: Slash didn't perform sober before 2006
Saw this over at mygnr. Definitely shows. Especially these last few years. He's really killing it in a live setting lately.
Former Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash discussed his sobriety in a new interview with BBC Radio 6:
“Well, I wouldn’t die. I mean, there’s some truth to [what Zutaut supposedly said], where it was, like, I finally got to a point where it was, like, ‘OK, I’m not going anywhere, so I’m gonna have to sort this out.’ It wasn’t that I had any kind of a death wish, per se, but I really took everything to the extreme and didn’t care.”
He continued: “I think the only time I got a little nervous was when I was in rehab, there was a point when Velvet went out and did a real quick tour around California [in summer 2006]. And so I left rehab and went out and did this tour, and it was the first time I’d been on stage sober — ever. [laughs] That was a trip and it was a little shaky, but you get past that pretty quickly. ‘Cause you’re in the moment; you can’t just sit there and go, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do this.’ You have to do it. So I got over that pretty quickly.”
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Re: Slash didn't perform sober before 2006
It sober doesn't mean drunk. Not sober means maybe he had a couple glasses of wine or some bears. Doesn't mean he was shitfaced. So there is a huge gap from a drop of alcohol to shit faced.
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Re: Slash didn't perform sober before 2006
It sober doesn't mean drunk. Not sober means maybe he had a couple glasses of wine or some bears. Doesn't mean he was shitfaced. So there is a huge gap from a drop of alcohol to shit faced.
I think it was varying levels of being non-sober. From full blown drunk, to being tipsy.
But to Slash's credit, he can play some fucking amazing guitar when he is shitfaced... 
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Re: Slash didn't perform sober before 2006
yes... most people can barely function when drunk... That means Slash was a functioning drunk I guess... lol
