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Slash Had A Trip At First Sober Gig

08/05/2014
. (TeamRock Radio) Slash recalls playing his first ever sober gig was "a trip" but insists he got over the shock pretty quickly. The guitar hero famously lived the rock lifestyle to the extreme in his Guns N' Roses days and never played a gig without a drink in him until a tour with Velvet Revolver in 2006.

And while that experience was a nervy one, he has never looked back since and has remained sober. He tells BBC 6 Music: "When I was in rehab, there was a point when Velvet went out and did a real quick tour around California. And so I left rehab and went out and did this tour, and it was the first time I'd been on stage sober - ever.

"That was a trip and it was a little shaky, but you get past that pretty quickly. Because you're in the moment - you can't just sit there and go, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.' You have to do it. So I got over that pretty quickly." More on this story.

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