VR interview in UK mag ZOO

If I understand correctly, ZOO is a porn mag, which would sorta explain the content of the article Grin

Taken from GNR France. Thanks to Covic, Chloe and Eirian.

ZOO GOES ON THE LASH WITH SLASH

We guarantee this will be the most debauched interview you will ever read?.

When one of the wildest rock bands in history ,Velvet Revolver, asked ZOO to join them backstage on their world tour recently, we couldn?t wait. Their line-up alone is a recipe for mayhem: three parts Guns n Roses (guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum), one part Stone Temple Pilots (Scott Weiland), one part Wasted Youth (guitarist Dave Kushner) and about 43 parts cocaine. After all the drink, drugs and groupies this lot have worked their way through, it?s amazing they?ve lived to tell the tale ? and what stories they are. ZOO joined them for a few beers and stories so mad that they make Tommy Lee look like Cliff Richard?.

It seems rather a lame question, with a very obvious answer, but you must have been pretty popular with the female population in your time?

Matt: Scott once walked in on me spanking four girls. I said, ?We?re here to entertain and these girls were certainly being entertained. They had my handprint on their ass, they went away happy.? We used to have cameras on the crowd to help us pick our groupies. We?d say, ?I like the redhead and brunette. Lose the boyfriend.? I still have a guy with me on tour whose job is pussy-puller. In his heyday, Duff had so many girls. His house should have had a revolving door. And they all had huge tits. If I could meet the girls in ZOO, I?d be happy.

We?ll pass your phone number on to Lucy and Michelle then. What else did you get up to? You must have given George Best?s liver a run for its money?

Slash I still drink, but not as much as I used to. I almost died ? they gave me anywhere from three days to three months to live. I pulled through that. Sometimes I go out on a bender but it?s different to how it was when I was drinking a gallon of vodka a day. We used to mix it with cranberry, which has a lot of iron and vitamin C, so we figured we?d be ok.

All this must have taken its toll on your bodies, no?

Duff: Slash?s heart grew to twice its fucking size and now he has to have a regulator so his heart beats on time and all that shit. We damaged ourselves pretty good. Anything from 1989 to 1995 I?ve forgotten. I know some good stories, but only because Matt reminds me of them. My pancreas exploded at the age of 30, because for the 2 years before that, I?d basically given up in life.

Lovely. And we bet that Verve song title ?the drugs don?t work? isn?t one of your 10 commandments?

Duff : When I was in Guns n Roses, I needed the coke and the drink just to survive while I went on the search for the other things that would get me fucked up, like weed and pills.

Matt: Duff started to take drugs behind closed doors. He?d come off stage and say he had to take a shit. I?d follow him in there and I could get at least a gram of coke just off the floor.

Duff: When you?re doing a bunch of drugs, you?ve got to lie to everybody. If someone tells you they?re doing a quarter of a gram of heroin every day, you can basically quadruple that.

Terrifying. While in these drugged up states, how may passers-by did you hit with falling TVs from hotel windows?

Slash I trashed one room so significantly that the police came after me. I didn?t do it all by myself though, Duff was with me. We kicked through the connecting door between our rooms, and threw a big glass table through the window and the shattered glass caused me to cut my foot and bleed all over the carpet. We trashed the TV set, flipped the bed over?..it was a long party that night, I can tell you. When the cops finally caught me at a truck-stop mini-mart, my pockets were stuffed with goodies I stolen.

The women, drugs, drink, what else was mental in your lives?

Duff: Not so much mental, but it?s what I used to do to relax. I used to have the quintessential rock n? roll hot-rod: a 69 Chevelle 396 big-block. The engine just fucking bawled out and the thing was faster than shit. It was a real hearse-shifter and the thing would squeal out in first gear. I?ve still got a pretty pimped-out car. It?s a BMW 740Li and all the windows are blacked out. I?ve got low profile tyres, it?s burgundy and it fucking hauls ass.

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LIVE LIKE SLASH

How to drink
Duff: Jack Daniel?s is the rock?n?roll drink. And vodka. I used to drink vodka and cranberry: 20 parts vodka to one part cranberry.

How to rock
Slash: The Libertines were the last cool thing to come out of the UK that I?ve been able to relate to. They?re true rock?n?roll.

How to dress
Matt: When Slash gets up in the morning he?s still wearing his leather pants. It?s not bullshit, he really is like that.

How to tour
Slash: Make sure that when you get room service, you?re watching porn at full volume so the maids feel really uncomfortable.

How to look cool
Duff You gotta have a tattoo, definitely. My first was a Guns n?Roses one. Then I got a dragon, my martial arts insignia, my family crests, my wife, providence, a rose and I gotta get my two daughter?s names.