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They are in the starting blocks in an action -packed year. With their Asia, Arabia and European tour, Guns n ‘Roses go into full again. As an additional highlight for 2025, the final farewell to Black Sabbath is due. In the Villa Park Stadium in Birmingham, the Gunners meet the hard -boiled colleagues from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera and Lamb of God.
Before the entourage moves back into the world (start on May 1st in Incheon/South Korea), manager Alan Niven reviews the hard years.
It works, you already suspect, about drugs. In an interview with the UK edition of “Classic Rock”, Niven remembered a grotesque incident at the International Airport of Los Angeles (Lax), who is reminiscent of the novel by Hunter S. Thompson “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.
Drugs wrapped in foil, hidden in the box
The band stood for the first tour of Japan before departure; At the end of the 1980s that was. Niven claims that Slash and Izzy Stradlin would have pulled their entire supply of drugs away in the LAX entrance area. To be arrested at check-in for fear.
Actually, everyone was clear to take off when Izzy Stradlin inquired with Niven, where Axl was actually rose. Stradlin kept up a small boom box, with the words: “I don’t care. I am ready and have my hiding place”. Niven also hoped that Stradlin’s remark referred to his music supply to music. But far from it.
But it was a special fabric: drugs wrapped in foil, hidden in the box. This is how the comfortable smuggling should chip on the plane.
“Are you the devil? You have dogs and all sorts of electronic sniffing devices. Forget it! You will definitely put you off. pushed niven. “What a damn waste of good heroin,” Stradlin murmured.
Slash eyed the entertainment without a word and also booted the toilet.
“Why throw away if you can’t bite it directly.”
Stradlin finally came back, Niven recalled. “For the moment he stood slightly fluctuating, then his knees gave in.” Stradlin had not washed away his stock, but pulled it through.
“Slash also made it to his seat in the 747, but barely on his own feet. The motto also applied to him: Why throw it away if you can’t bump it directly.”
Slash and Stradlin finally landed in Japan as if through a miracle.
For the ultra-late Axl Rose, Niven still had to fry an extra sausage. “I booked a solo flight the next day. With another airline.”
Slash has been Clean since 2006