Was reading last night in FHM that Slash actually died at age 27 as well but was revived. That was the moment where he decided to clean up his act.
Hmm I thought that was Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue? I knew that Slash OD'd several times but it was Nikki Sixx who actually was nearly dead. Makes me wonder that. But I guess if its from FHM it must be true
. Im reading The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx and Slash features in it a bit and doesnt mention anything like that It mentions that "kickstart my heart" is about him dying. A bit from the book:
"Like his bandmates, Sixx took advantage of the excess that rock n' roll allowed, surpassing the level of abuse of his bandmates by binging on alcohol, cocaine, and most notably heroin. Sixx has often stated that he would use his body as a human chemistry set, mixing excessive amounts of drugs on a regular basis to search for a new "high". On the night of December 23, 1987, Sixx was declared dead after an overdose, only to be revived by paramedics with two adrenaline shots to the heart (this incident was the inspiration for the song "Kickstart my Heart"). In an interview, Sixx states that after he was declared dead, the ambulance arrived, but one of the paramedics in the ambulance was a Motley Crüe fan. Apparently, the paramedic took one look at me and said, "He's not gonna die." On an earlier trip to London, Sixx overdosed at a dealer's house and, while he wasn't declared dead, he was put into a trash bin by the dealer, He was beat with a bat by this dealer to get the life beat back into him. Here is an excerpt from The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star.
"NIKKI: I had overdosed in London exactly a year earlier: Valentine's day 1986. We had played the Hammersmith Odeon, and the second we left the stage I caught a taxi with Andy McCoy from Hanoi Rocks. He took me to a heroin apartment in a real shabby neighborhood. I was drunk and I remember I was very impressed that the dealer had clean needles. When he offered to shoot up for me, I let him. Big mistake.
The problem with street drugs is you never really know exactly how potent they are from dealer to dealer, so I OD'd on the spot. My lips turned purple: I was gone. The story I heard was that the dealer grabbed his baseball bat and tried to beat the fucking life into me. He couldn't so he flung me over his shoulder to dump me in the trash, because nobody wants a dead rock star laying around.
Then I came to...and I guess I had yet another dark secret to never tell anybody."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_SixxDid you know Nikki sixx was also asked to produce Appetite for Destruction? He didnt do it though as he was too fukd up.
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