It's So Easy and Other Lies Page #3

"hid a shy introvert.

"He was cool, though.

"He had a bottle of vodka

stashed under the table.

"Now, he and Steven

"weren't yet 21 either.

"And this was as close

as we could get to a bar.

"We drank vodka and ate bowls

of Canters' Barley Bean Soup.

"And Steven Adler, he was really nice.

"And expressed himself with an infectious,

almost childlike enthusiasm.

"He said,

"'Listen, we're going to be great. Gonna get

the feet stomping and the hands clapping.'

"And he still says that, to this day.

"Gonna get the feet stomping

and the hands clapping."

And then going back to

Slash's house that night,

after we talked at Canters.

And he started playing guitar.

I was like, "What is up with this guy?"

He had a snake, you know,

and then he got the snake out...

"Isn't she? She's such a sweetheart."

I'm like, "It's a snake, dude.

"I don't know about the sweetheart.

And you're playing guitar like that?"

"When I showed up at my

first GN'R rehearsal

"in late March, 1985,

"Axl and I said hi to each other

"and started joking around

about this and that.

"And I liked him right away.

"Whoever was running the sound then

asked Axl to test out the microphone.

"And Axl let out one of his screams,

and it was like nothing I'd ever heard.

"There were two voices

coming out of him at once.

"I suppose there's a name for that

in musicology.

"But all I knew in that instant

"was that this dude was different

"and f***ing powerful

"and f***ing serious.

"And as for Izzy,

"he wasn't from the school

of fancy guitar playing.

"More a Keith Richards,

than an Eddie Van Halen.

"Not only a great songwriter,

"but in my eyes,

"the baddest man walking the planet.

"One night,

"when we were talking after rehearsal,

"Izzy mentioned a band called

The Naughty Women.

"And it rang a bell.

"'I know that band, ' I said.

"Trying to place the name.

"'I think I played a gig

on the same bill with them once.

"'Wait...

"'Izzy, weren't they cross-dressers?'

"'Yep, ' Izzy said.

"'I was the drummer.'

"Finally, Slash and Steven

agreed to come to a rehearsal,

"just days before our

previously scheduled June 6th gig

"at the Troubadour

"that was supposed to serve

as a warm-up for our tour.

"We met at a space in Silverlake.

"We rented it for $6 an hour.

"And that included a drum kit.

"From the moment the five of us

laid into our first song,

"we could all hear and feel

that the fit was right.

"The chemistry was immediate,

thunderous and soulful.

"It was amazing,

and all of us recognised it instantly."

It had to have been some sort of

meant-to-be kind of thing going on.

Because Duff ended up there,

Izzy, Axl, Steven's from Cleveland.

We were the only guys that

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