In an interview on Spotify's Rock This With Allison Hagendorf podcast, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses talked about the day he first Slash Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard also participated in the episode.
The decisive meeting took place at the famous Jewish delicatessen Canter’s , located in Los Angeles since 1931. McKagar revealed that he met guitarist and drummer Steven Adler at the same time, recounting that he read the name Slash in the advertisement and thought the musician would be a punk like him.
“I had short, blue hair. I went into Canter’s and they told me which table the two of them would be at, so I found the table and came face to face with these two guys with long hair and I was like, ‘whoa.’ It was kind of a culture shock, and I think it was for them too, but we sat down and talked about music. And that’s the thing – [music] is something universal,” McKagar recounted.
The musician continued his story, recounting that after the conversation, they went to Slash's mother's house, where he heard the guitarist playing acoustic guitar in the basement. “Stone mentioned Paul Solger – he was the guitarist [at the time]. He could carry a song and he was nimble and smooth and I thought he was the best guy on the West Coast. And then I went into this basement with Slash and I was like, 'Oh, wow.'”
After postponing the Not In This Lifetime for the second time due to the coronavirus, there are rumors that Guns N' Roses is working on a new album, which will be the band's first release since Chinese Democracy , and also the first time Slash, McKagan and Axl Rose have worked together since 1993.
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