In a new Billboard interview conducted just before he returned home to Los Angeles, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash discussed the Woolsey Fire tragically hitting his hometown.
He shared he is bracing himself for what he will encounter when he returns home, saying, “It will be a shock for me to go and physically be there when I go back in December and realize that some of these places that I am so familiar with are no longer there.”
He also laments the dichotomy of emotions he’s feeling: the thrill of being on the road doing what he loves coupled with the sense of helplessness not being at home. “Watching it while it’s on the news and it being so close to home, it’s a weird kind of helpless feeling that you have while you watch this thing happening,” he says, “and then … you’ve got a gig in a couple of minutes and shift gears and you go out and play and you forget all about it and you’re out there for 3 hours … and you come back after the show, and you turn the news on, and another neighborhood just went up in flames.”
He also said about his career, “I didn’t have aspirations to get where I am at at this moment, it was just to keep playing, to keep getting better, to keep working on the next gig and … eventually the time comes when you get to make a record,” he explains, “and it was just sort of putting one foot in front of the other the whole time, and just keeping it moving and going forward, and always sort of striving to do the next best move you could possibly make and persevering. I guess ‘tenacious’ would be a good word for it. And that’s the long and short of it.”
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