I finally got the book about a week ago and read the whole thing in 2 days (hey I was bored and on holidays then).

My initial reaction when I finished it was that I was a little disappointed.  As I think someone else mentioned, it seemed to lack any real depth.  Generally I didn't feel that I got any great insight into Slash personally - a lot of it seemed quite superficial.

Anthony Bozza - I'm gonna hold him responsible for some of the other shit in there like the continual "but we'll get into that later" comment, as well as the whole timeline thing was really confusing and pissed me off.  I would have though that was his job to at least make sure it was written and structured correctly.

I can't quite put my finger on what's missing with the book.  Either it's a Motely Crue - The Dirt type book, if that's the case then I think it needed a heap more anecdotes in there.  Sure Slash talks about doing drugs and banging chicks but doesn't really go into the details of many of these events much.

So if it wasn't meant to be The Dirt style of book, then perhaps it was supposed to be an outlet for Slash to vent his spleen a bit.  Clearly that didn't really happen - well at least not to the level that you would have expected, which implies to me that he didn't want to burn any bridges to a reunion one day.  I know he said he wanted to "set the record straight" - which he did a bit about how events made him think and feel and untimately lead him to make the decisions that he did.  But it still didn't do that in any real depth IMO.

So if it's not either of those two styles of book then presumably it's a book to try and give us an insight into Slash the person.  Unfortunately after reading it I didn't feel like I had some sort of deeper understanding about the guy, or about his lifes journey etc etc.  Yeah there was some new stuff, but nothing profound - at least for me anyhow.

One interesting thing I got out of it was exactly how disrespectful Axl was to the rest of the band regarding the recording sessions.  I mean, I had read articles about it but hadn't quite realised it was that bad.  That would have been fucken intolerable after a while, never knowing if he was going to rock up, and basically trying to write an album whilst playing secret squirrel communiucating through Doug Goldstein and hardly ever seeing or even speaking directly with Axl.

I was also curious as to what actually scared the crap out of Izzy to make him call his dad and go back to Indiana all of a sudden, Slash didn't really elaborate on this???  It also seemed like when he came back from Indiana and saw Axl going off his nut and throwing spaghetti out the window and trashing everything and he went straight back to Indiana - that sounded like a turning point for Izzy - a confirmation that the whole thing is out of control and he no longer wants to be a part of it?

I would also be interested to hear Axl's version of events as to why it seemed like he didn't want to be around them.  Perhaps how drug fucked they were caused him to cut himself off from them somewhat.

I've been told that Slash has said that Guitar Hero has fucked up his guitar playing - so he must have been playing it a fair bit to screw with his muscle memory like that.

Im trying to keep cool since it's 40 degrees here (about 105 farheneit), so Im sitting in front of the aircon with a beer watching the cricket!