It's So Easy and Other Lies Page #2

"It was just a place, a bigger place.

"A place that wasn't Seattle.

"And with luck, a safer place than

the heroin-infested Pacific Northwest."

What kind of destroyed all of that...

The excitement in Seattle

was the heroin coming into that city.

It was just like this dark cloud came in

and just took all the fun away.

And it really seemed like

it came in it like a tidal wave.

Suddenly, it was there

and everybody was trying it,

because it was kind of romantic.

It was kind of punk rock. It was...

I don't know. But once you...

You know, any opiate, once you're...

Got a little bit of a habit,

you're kind of just in.

It became an epidemic.

I saw it take out these guys

who were so full of life.

Who were smart. All smart guys.

I was too young to even take it all in.

"What do you mean they're...

"Dead." We've just begun, you know.

It kind of shocked me

when he did leave to...

To L.A., and it was sort of

an end of an era in Seattle.

And the grunge thing didn't happen until

10 years later.

He was really motivated to...

Be a musician in Los Angeles.

I don't think he was motivated to be a...

Like, a well-known musician.

I just think he wanted to

be able to get into the music scene

down here and get into a band.

Slash told me what booth that he

and Steven would be sitting in, at Canters.

I knew to walk in and look to my left.

And I put an ad in The Recycler

for a bass player influenced by

Aerosmith and Alice Cooper.

I'm not sure who else in there.

And he called.

And I had him meet me at Canters Deli.

You know, I assumed,

because his name was Slash,

I thought he was probably

a punk rock guy.

An old punk rock guy like me.

And in walked this,

you know, six-foot-plus guy

in a red and black

full-length trench coat.

Hair to the ceiling.

And, like that, I said,

"That's got to be him."

He had this sort of

punk rock thing going, but then he sort of

had the anti-rocks thing going.

Sort of fusion rock-and-roll,

punk kind of deal going on.

"I walked in,

"looked at the first booth on the left

"and saw all this f***ing hair.

"Somehow...

"Somehow, I'd expected these guys

to look like Social Distortion.

"Instead,

"even though they appeared about my age,

"the dudes in Roadcrew had long hair

"and rocker chick girlfriends.

"If the sight of two long-haired rockers

from Hollywood was a shock for me,

"I could hardly imagine

having to talk to them.

"Of course,

"with my short, day-glow blue hair

"and long pimp coat,

"I must have looked like

a Martian to them, too.

"Both parties were a little surprised, and

curious, when we first met face-to-face.

"Slash's long hair, it turned out,

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