Basically saying how crap MTV was and he would sit and watch it for hours waiting for something decent to come on which would either be Prince or Van Halen.

So far thats the only Prince mention and im roughly halfway.
Im wondering if he'll talk about the reception GNR fans gave Prince at Rock in Rio

Hes right, mtv sucks

muirdo said:

Two of my favorites!!!!

muirdo said:

Is the book worth a read so far? Amazon recently sent me a recommendation on it since I like dirty rock star autobiographies but I wasn't sure if I should shell out the cash for it.

I don't remember the magazine article but Slash was a bit critical of Prince after he accepted his lifetime achievement award at one of the AMAs.


He had just finished BATMAN and had long hair, a beard, etc. etc. He came out dressed sort of like something you'd see in the movie, Amedeaus, and accepted his award, made a short speach and walked off stage to standing applause.

Apparently Lenny Kravitz was back staged and talking to Slash and Slash metioned in the article that Prince completely blew him off along with everyone from GNR

He said something like "He looked like a fag anyways..."

Imago said:

I remember reading something like that! Still Duff always credited Prince as being one of his influences early on in GnR interviews.

I know this will turn into a whole Axl hates fags one in a million fucking thread. But Hey! One of Axl's favorite artists is the freaking Pet Shop Boys. Flame on Cunts!!!!

I believe Slash was at one of the Vegas shows in May '06.

its true, because of the fag statement, I figured Slash hated Prince. I know Marky Mark does based on his comments on Friday night Videos...

ufoclub said:

Marky Mark hates Prince?

Why?




I'm no fan of Prince the man, but to have a non-musician of Marky Mark's low stature say anything negative about Prince is hilarious. I don't think Prince sweated too much about that.

JuliePurplehead said:

I have really enjoyed it so far...if your into dirty rock star biographies you wont be disapointed.

Imago said:

They showed the My Name is Prince video and when they came back he was just like "what was that?" "What was that stuff (the chains)?", he was very antagonized by the video apparently.. the regular hosts around him were just nervously smiling and nodding...

Marky Mark is not low status now as acclaimed A-list hollywood actor Mark Walberg... that the public generally loves at this point as a badass...

ufoclub said:

He aint half bad at acting, but I like his brother a bit better.

They both PWN Prince in that department. But to have Marky Mark make a comment about Prince's videos cracks me up for some reason. I mean, the 'good vibrations' Marky Mark?

Imago said:

I think a Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch reunion is in order....they should remake 3 Chains o' Gold...


give back the chains...

c'mon, c'mon...

if u dont u will die...

feel it, feel it...

roodboi said:

I'm going to bed before I lose my voice.

Imago said:

sometimes my imaginative genius even astounds me...

muirdo said:

How was the reception?

I'm about halfway through Slash's autobiography as well! Great read.

Nice one Muirdo
Slash's mum (Ola Hudson) made db's costumes for, amongst other things, his Man Who To Fell Earth film (1976) and db was somethng of a father figuire to young Slash - used to pop round to their family home quite regularly if you catch my drift

"Fast forward to the time in between Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion, when a now rich, famous, and drug-addled Slash is speedballing so much that his hallucinations are freaking out everyone around him, so much so that his family insists on setting up a phoner-intervention-reunion:"

Quote:
David was engaging, and wise in the ways of chemical abuse. He asked me about what I was doing drug-wise and what I was going through emotionally, psychically, and with the band. I rambled on for a while, but once I started talking about my little translucent friends, David interrupted me. The conversation as a whole was way too involved to have with someone that he hadn’t seen since they were eight years old, but he’d heard enough.

‘Listen to me,’ he said. ‘You are not in a good way. If you are seeing things every day, what you are doing to yourself is not good at all. You are at a very spiritual low point when that begins to happen.’ He paused for a moment. ‘You are exposing yourself to the darker realms of your subconscious being. You are making yourself vulnerable to all kinds of negative energy.’

I was so far gone that I didn’t agree. I thought of my hallucinations as my good-time entertainment.

‘OK, that’s cool.’ I said. ‘Yeah, I suppose that’s bad. Duly noted.’

TheLodger said:

How cool is that? To call in Uncle Bowie.

Militant said:

dull

Slash is cool

Slash is kickass. Been meaning to pick up this book.


lol @ "Uncle Bowie"

Cataclizm1 said:

drunken rock fans vs Prince circa Nude era....not a good combination...i hope he didnt take the Game Boyz with him.

He did mention that Prince was at Rock In Rio amongst a whole lot of other artists that he also names.

ufoclub said:

Mark Walberg is a STONE racist. So that's not surprising. He's made various comments refering to blacks as niggers in the past. He's talked about how when he was growing up in Boston, that he and his white friends used to ride by on bikes, throwing rocks at blacks. He said this shit in some interview. Him and Kravitz almost came to blows at a party because Lenny was dating a white girl that he used to date but she left his ugly ass. He was not only pissed cuz she was seeing someone else, BUT she was dating a black dude; i.e. Lenny Kravitz. I heard that Mark was overheard at the party saying to the girl "Why are you sleeping with that nigger for?"

blackguitaristz said:

yeah, he may have shared what he did as a kid, but he does movies with black folks.. maybe by now his viewpoint changed. He played Thandie Newton's lover (whose black)in a film.. would a racist do that? maybe he still cared about the girl (that Lenny dated) and he was venting out..

I think stories of certain artists being "blown off" by Prince can be attributed more to Prince's shyness offstage than intentional rudeness.

That being said, remember that GNR were the typical drinkin' and partyin' type rock stars and maybe Prince just didn't want to get involved in that mess, even so much as to stop and chat.

I still have that AMA show on VHS somewhere, and I remember members of GNR being sloshed when they were accepting their award: so much so that producers had to cut to a commercial to cut the acceptance speech short.

ufoclub said:

I can understand Marky Mark dissing the "My Name Is Prince" video. Hell, even as a die-hard fan, I was a bit embarrased by that song and video.

But as someone else pointed out, Marky Mark gave us the hip-hop turd that is "Good Vibrations", so he has no room to talk shit.

Slash does not strike me as a Prince fan. He probably likes his guitar playing.

Flowerz said:

Yeah, I know he's done work with black folks. So what? That's not real. That's acting. He's an actor. He's gotta get paid so he takes the best scripts that comes his way. Doesn't have anything to do wih his personal thoughts. And him "venting out" as u put it. Yeah sure. He was venting out. Michael Richards was venting out too.