1988.04.30 - Circus - Guns N' Roses Mania (Slash, Axl, Duff)

Transcript:

Guns N' Roses Mania

Their wild roller coaster ride to triumph

"I'm sorry to say, I don't really know how to live in any kind of stable environment." - Slash

"Most bands today are concerned with getting on soundtracks, making money, being rock stars." - Axl

Izzy (r. with Duff) was still taking the bus around L.A. even after Guns' Lp hit the top 10 on the charts.

"If I really want it and I think there's some risk, it's Captain Trojan all the way." - Axl Rose on safe sex.

"If we have to desperately hold on to what we are, it's time to pack it in, quit and die." - Slash (r. with Duff)

"Izzy sits in the corner and plays his guitar. He's very sarcastic. "Slash's (not shown) description of his bandmate.

"I'm always on the edge. It's a very, very dangerous place to be." - Axl Rose on his volatile personality.

To keep Slash from getting into trouble in L.A., his management made him move to the suburbs for a while.

"There was all this hype about how we weren't gonna last. Those people are all eating crow now." - Duff

"We were sort of a sore thumb on the glam scene." - Slash on the band's early days in Hollywood.

Steve Adler and the band once lived together in an L.A. studio with no bathroom, shower or kitchen.

Axl. (l.) and Slash used to support themselves smoking cigarettes for $8 an hour for UCLA medical tests.

"A lot of people hold their anger back for a few days, but I just explode right away." - Axl on his notorious temper tantrums.