Slash Talks Going Solo and Working with Weiland

I needed my space. I needed to do something on my own, at first for the fun of it but also to get away from the damn politics of record companies and all the static that goes along with that. The last year of Velvet Revolver – the last record that we did with Scott Weiland – was a little bit tumultuous, so I definitely needed a personal creative outlet. It’s not a permanent thing, I don’t want to be a solo guy; I just needed to see what I was made of on my own.

I’m rehearsing some Velvet Revolver songs now – we wrote some cool songs and I’m not going to deny that – but I don’t think we necessarily got on with Scott as well as we probably should have if we were going to make the relationship work. Let’s put it this way: I love Scott to death, but I definitely love him more not being in a band with him. He was always the best in STP and I think anybody will admit that. Although he did a great job – especially on the first record – with us, I think, through good and bad, those guys belong together.