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could have made up that band.

"We knew

we had to make it on our own.

"And after our Seattle road trip,

"failure was not an option with this crew."

And we were like all really...

Became very tight, very fast.

And we were all f***ing driven and...

Set on this path together, you know?

- It's a very romantic type of story.

- Four months, five months later...

He calls me, he says,

"Come on down, we got signed!

"I just got 20,000 bucks."

And he bought me a plane ticket.

And I went down there,

because they were playing at The Whisky.

And Aerosmith's manager rolls up.

And they got this limousine.

And that's when Duff said,

"Well, you can't come."

Hell, I'm standing on Sunset Strip.

First time I've ever been to L.A.

by myself.

Aerosmith's manager, Tim Collins,

wanted to meet with us.

And I couldn't very well

bring my friend along

for this big meeting.

It's like, well, wait a f***ing minute.

What am I gonna do?

"Well, you know how to get home."

"Here's the key to the apartment.

Just go..."

To the apartment.

Wasn't like I left him in the f***ing dust.

Man, I was pissed off.

First of all,

I wanted to be in the limousine, but...

Second of all,

he f***ing abandoned me. Anyway...

I went and saw them

and I said, wow, that's the spirit.

They're playing from their heart.

We said, let's take these guys on the road.

These guys would be great.

They're just like us. They're coming up.

And let's give them a break.

Ozzy gave us a break.

That particular tour was awesome.

There was two, sort of,

hell-raising bands from Los Angeles.

One that's been successful for a while.

And one that was on the way up.

But we were from that same gritty,

street kind of environment in L.A.

And we knew each other.

So it was just cool.

But yeah, and then it was just like...

It was just like, um...

It just took off like a jet.

"In early August, 1988,

"we were sitting backstage one day

"when some people from our record label

"came in with a sheet cake

"from the local grocery store.

"'Congratulations, ' they said.

"'You're number one.'

"I remember thinking,

"Wow.

"'A f***ing sheet cake.'"

I was like, I got to find this record

by this band, Guns N' Roses.

I didn't know what they

looked like or anything.

And then I saw what they looked like

and I was like,

"Jesus Christ!

"These guys are creeps!

"Who are these f***ers?"

And yeah, the record

definitely changed my life.

I listened to the sh*t out of it.

Growing up in England in the late '80s,

you could do nothing but hear

Guns N' Roses. It was everywhere.

When Appetite came out,

I played it over and over again.

I worked at Aron's Records,

which is no longer there, on Melrose and

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