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Slash<\/a> has learned about the ins and outs of being in a rock and roll band the hard way whenever he joined a band. <\/p>\n Guns N\u2019 Roses may have been the biggest bunch of misfits that the world had ever seen, but from the moment they started playing together, songs like \u2018Welcome to the Jungle\u2019 and \u2018Paradise City\u2019 were bound to take over the world once they eventually reached the airwaves. That kind of chemistry can carry any band a long way, but the guitarist felt that some great combinations weren\u2019t worth coming back to.<\/p>\n But for a while, Slash\u2019s biggest enemy seemed to be Axl Rose. The frontman was not willing to compromise for a second whenever working on Use Your Illusion, and given all of the pirates happening on tour, Slash was already halfway out the door by the time they started working on \u201cThe Spaghetti Incident?\u201d when they finally got home. He didn\u2019t want to answer to Rose\u2019s demands anymore, but it took him a few more years before he found his feet again as well.<\/p>\n Slash\u2019s Snakepit did have some fantastic guitar work and felt a lot more in line with what Guns was supposed to be after Appetite for Destruction, but they simply didn\u2019t have the same kind of star power that the old lineup did. And while Slash\u2019s Blues Ball did make for a pretty interesting covers act on the club scene, Slash was dangerously close to turning into another rock and roll casualty like the millions of others on Sunset Boulevard.<\/p>\n But then something funny happened when Scott Weiland was brought into the picture. Stone Temple Pilots had been on the rocks for a few years, but after going on hiatus after No. 4, Slash figured that Weiland might be a good collaborator when working with Velvet Revolver. Grunge and Guns N\u2019 Roses didn\u2019t necessarily go hand-in-hand, but when every other GNR member not named \u2018Axl Rose\u2019 joined, Weiland didn\u2019t waste any time in embracing his inner rock star on tunes like \u2018Slither\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n This was where the frontman was always meant to be, but getting back on the rock and roll merry-go-round didn\u2019t exactly go as planned. Slash may have been back in the public eye all over again, but after going through a few relapses on tour and watching Weiland become as destructive as Rose was on the final few tours they played, it was only a matter of time before they decided to go their separate ways.<\/p>\n