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Slash - LA Guns is still out there.
Duff - They're still... they're still LA Guns with none of the original members in it. Oh, actually Tracii is in.
Slash - Tracii is the only guy. Tracii and Nicky. Oh, not even Nicky, no.
Interviewer - No. Because it... [inaudible] 'cause there was a problem on television here, recently. Guns N' Roses.
Slash - On television?
Interviewer - No, no, no. What happened is... It has a certain, you know... [inaudible] for me.
Duff - Yeah?
Interviewer - Doing the... the Vietnam demonstrations, the demonstrators, they're protected of, you know... [inaudible] off by the militaries. You know, the army. And holding... [inaudible] and all these hippies were going round and putting the flowers...
Duff - Oh yeah, right, right. It has nothing to do with that.
Interviewer - That's my mental picture.
Slash - The band is very extreme in one way and extreme in the other. Yeah, that's cool. It's not very significant, but it's cool.
Duff - [laughs]
Interviewer - A friend of mine who interviewed you yesterday said that you're very good friends of LAPD.
Slash - Yeah. Damn, I got family there. I love those guys. [laughs] Yeah...
Duff - We used to...
Slash - LAPD are really fucked up. I mean, everywhere else you go, the cops are really, really, really relaxed and cool. In LA, especially in the area that we're in...
Duff - West Hollywood.
Slash - West Hollywood, yeah.
Duff - Really tense. And...
Slash - They're like the fuckin' nazis.
Duff - Yeah.
Slash - Or like the Gestapo. You know, they're really bad. And they know...
Duff - Oh, the guy me and Stevie did the interview with. Yeah, I was telling about... We jaywalked, it was me and him, and Todd. It was you too, right? And a couple of guys. We didn't even jaywalk. It was a thing... The cops were standing across the street, they could see the fuckin' thing. It's red, we walked. We're not gonna jaywalk in front of cops. You just don't do that in West Hollywood. You don't do it anywhere. And we get across the street and they fuckin'... come up to us. We're going: "What the fuck?" We're up against the wall, got our hands behind our back. And it hurts. This is a nice little trick they got. They lace your fingers behind your back and they grab... Here, just feel it. Lace your fingers, I won't do this. And you know, they do this. Really hard, you know.
Interviewer - I can imagine.
Slash - And then they do this too. Put behind your back and then they close your... your... the handcuffs. When they close your wrist together, you know, so they get way the fuck back.
Duff - They check your eye, check your... you know, everything. Take your boots off, check your arms. We were fucking just going to a club.
Slash - I got hassled on my way just walking down the street. I was only like, say a hundred... not even a hundred yards from the apartment where I'm staying. I was walking by a club called the Whiskey. I was walking down the street and there was cops down at the end of the street, and the only thing that was wrong with me, I wasn't wearing any fuckin' shirt. And I got thrown over the top over the top of the car and whole bit. And, you know, it's just like that. You can't walk out of a fuckin' club without seeing a cop and wondering if you're gonna get... [inaudible]
Duff - Yeah, for no reason.
Slash - It's really fucked up there.
Duff - I just got a ticket the other day, or about three weeks ago, for conversing with a female motorist. I was walking to my apartment, a friend of mine came up, I was on the sidewalk, said: "Hi, how's it going? Blablablablabla". She took off, cop pulls in the alley in front of me, up against the car, the whole fuckin' thing again, you know. Got a ticket for conversing... It says right on the ticket, "conversing with a female motorist".
Slash - We got a song dedicated to the cops in LA, called "Out Ta Get Me". It's like the second song in the set.
Duff - Are you guys coming down Sunday? Are you gonna be in town still?
Interviewer - Yeah, yeah. We live here.
Duff - Oh, you live here?
Interviewer - Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that you would really like British police. They address you with "sir".
Duff - Oh, yeah, these guys are great, man! The Bobbies.
Interviewer - Yeah.
Slash - Yeah, they're cool
Duff - Yeah, they're great. You know, it's like: "guys, got a beer in your hand..." You can't drink on the street in LA.
Slash - In New York too.
Interviewer - [inaudible]... in a brown bag.
Duff - No.
Slash - In LA, no.
Interviewer - Not even?
Slash - That's the reason why they put it in a brown bag. So it doesn't look like booze.
Duff - No, you can't drink on the street.
Slash - Yeah, I mean... I've... so far... We haven't been all over, you know, but so far, LA is probably the most tense... you know.
Duff - But it's a great place for music, you know. We all moved there for that purpose, you know.
Interviewer - Yeah, I get it.
Duff - A lot of clubs and lot of girls. Lot of musicians.
Interviewer - [inaudible]... your up to continue, to Paris for example.
Duff - Yeah?
Interviewer - Yeah, because I mean, you can booze 24 hours a day nonstop, and nobody is bothering you.
Duff - Yeah.
Interviewer - So, what's in store for you? You're playing here. Are you going through Europe? [A phone now rings and Duff answers, therefore it's sometimes hard to hear what the others are saying]
Slash - We're coming back here with Aerosmith in September. So, we're gonna do a European tour with Aerosmith. And in between now and then, it's just gonna be... We gotta do some shows in the States. Do some festival-type of things. And then we go on the...
Duff - What magazine is this for?
Interviewer - It's for Finland and Norway.
Duff - Finland and Norway. Japan.
Interviewer - And Italy. And France as well.
Duff - And France. Finland, Norway, Japan, Italy, France.
Interviewer - We're freelances.
Slash - So, it's gonna be a trip... [inaudible] three or four times. By the time we gets to the end of the line, it's gonna be... [inaudible]
Duff - No, it's Axl, our singer. We gotta split a couple of seconds just to take a couple of pictures, all right?
Interviewer - Sure, yeah.
Duff - Ok, see you in a second.
[Now Duff's telephone conversation is over]
Duff - We got two apartments... [inaudible] What's it look like?
Interviewer - It's like a kidney pie.
Slash - It's gray.
Interviewer - [inaudible]
Slash - I'm not hungry.
Interviewer - ... open up in a minute, or find out... You was saying, you're coming back to play European tour.
Duff - September. So, we're playing all... yeah, we're playing, you know, like, Sweden and... all these places with Aerosmith.
Slash - This is like, actually the time that we're starting to like, jet off.
Duff - Yeah. We start to... We're playing the Midwest with Striper.
Interviewer - Yeah?
Duff - Yeah, in August. And Oklahoma and Texas.
Slash - And the bible belt.
Duff - Yeah. It's funny 'cause these guys are like, the nice-boy band image-wise, and our image is like, the shit-head band, you know. So, it's gonna be quite interesting.
Slash - It's gonna be hilari...
Duff - They pass out the bibles, so we're gonna pass out...
Slash - The story...
Duff - The story of hell.
[everybody laughs]
Duff - See how that goes. We'll be doing the east coast with, I think, Warrant or something. And then back here, to Sweden and all those places. Germany.
Interviewer - How many tour have you done in America?
Duff - None.
Interviewer - None?
Slash - I tell you, the band is...
Duff - Real young.
Interviewer - So you played only around LA?
Duff - Yeah.
Slash - We play in LA, we've done some good shows, but we haven't toured. Touring to me is something that's, you know, success of shows back to back... [inaudible]
[Duff starts talking in the phone for the second time]
Interviewer - [inaudible]... on a bus?
Slash - We got a bus in the contract. We got... [inaudible]
Interviewer - Like what?
Slash - A tour bus... [inaudible] to do three... [inaudible] two videos. No matter what the record sells. Umm, a certain percentage rates, you know, all that stuff. And how many albums we're gonna do, how... the term. Stuff like that. You know... [inaudible] we got our advance that way, our record budget. And we got a good lawyer, and we just sat there and... [inaudible]
Interviewer - So are you satisfied with the reception in Britain?
Slash - Yeah, it's been great. They respected us before we got here. That's why we're here. You know, we put out a single here... [inaudible] there was such a buzz happening, and we hadn't really released anything. You know, and the shows have been a really good example. The shows have been really... [inaudible] as far as the crowd response and attendance.
[Duff's telephone conversation is over]
Duff - Here? Fuck yeah, man! It's been great. Both shows sold out and the fuckin', you know, crowd was insane, you know.
Interviewer - You must be very... [inaudible] when you know that the record's are not out but people still know about you.
Duff - Fuck yeah! It's great, man.
Interviewer - What about that EP you had before?
Slash - Yeah, that came out well.
Duff - Yeah, it did real well.
Interviewer - No, no. I mean was that for indie label, or what?
Slash - What we did was... we... in between the time the record came out, the time we got signed, we had to fuckin' fill space. We got really impatient, really uneasy real quick.
Duff - So, we made our own record label.
Interviewer - Oh, I see.
Slash - And put out an EP. Just to have something out there. And we did gigs to support it.
Duff - So it turned out real good, it really got... it got us a real good back-bone on, you know, audience. 'Cause it's real raw, so all of our hardcore audience is like, real fuckin' sleaze-bags and shit.
Interviewer - Who financed it?
Slash - Umm, we did.
Duff - Yeah.
Slash - We financed it off... pretty much the bulk of money that we had, you know, accumulated there and there.
Duff - Which was really not that much.
Interviewer - [inaudible]
Duff - Enough to do that, yeah.
Slash - We did it in one day.
Interviewer - Well, I think... [inaudible] Thanks a lot.