Slash har uttalat sig om sin relation till den bortgångna popkungen Michael Jackson.
Slash säger, ”Michael, I only knew him, for the most part, on a professional level. I don’t even think… When he attempted to be any closer than that, I even allowed it. ’Cause it was just too crazy. There’s being famous and then there’s being that kind of famous. And that’s a crazy world to be in, because you have no sense of reality. . . I was close enough at that point, ’cause Guns N’ Roses was probably the biggest stadium rock band at the time, and then you had Michael, who was this sort of Elvis Presley of the period. That’s scary fame. And he was just dealing with it, and I felt for him, ’cause, he was, as an artist… one of the most genius artists I’ve ever really been around next to maybe Ray Charles and a couple of other guys. And [he was] sort of stuck in this world where nobody is real — nobody will talk to him in a real fashion and everybody is sort of around him so they can gain something from him and so on and so forth. It’s a really lonely situation.”
Han fortsätter ”When I was thinking about who I wanted to work with, Michael crossed my mind. I thought about doing something that would see him totally cross over into rock. But it was around this time last year and he was flat-out rehearsing for the London O2 gigs so in the back of my mind I thought, ’He’s not going to have the time.'”
