Back in 1992 Guns N’ Roses would find themselves touring with Metallica playing
stadiums around North America. It was during that tour that Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash
died for 8 minutes and today, let’s take a look at what happened.
In Slash self titled 2007 autobiography he discussed meeting his first wife Renee Suran.
She was a model who had worked campaigns all over the world for some pretty big companies
and was trying to become an actress. In his book he would describe meeting his first
wife either during 1989 or 1990 during the making the band’s Use Your Illusion Records.
By this point the band was in work mode and Slash would admit he wasn’t very social staying mostly
at home and drinking and listening to records or spending his time in the studio. It would be
bassist Duff McKagan who coaxed him into coming with him one night to a bar in the LA where the
pair jamemmed wih a blues band. It was at the same bar that Duff picked up a girl who was their with
a friend of hers named Renee. Renee didn’t appear to show any interest in Slash but he wrote in his
book and i quote “any girl that was going to make my life difficult was hard to get and that was the
girl to go for in my mind. In Lemmy’s infamous words the chase is better than the catch.”
Within a few weeks the pair were living together and Slash would admit in his book he liked hte
fact that she was independent and had her own life and really had no interest in rock music or guns
n’ roses. He would reveal that the typical day for the pair would be him get up earlier than her,
lying on the floor, drinking vodka and smoking cigareetes and until she got up.
Fast forward to the spring and summer of 1992 when Guns N’ Roses were touring Europe with
Faith o more and soundgarden and Slash would reveal that the pair had split up
because he had been unfaithful to her and she had gotten wind of it. Then while the band was
inEngland that summer he’d called up Renee feeling lonely wanting to reconcile and she would fly out
to see him. Slash had hoped she would have stayed with the band on tour for that leg,
but she basically gave Slash an ultimatum we get married or we’re not getting back together.
Slash gave in and the pair got engaged and were set to marry in october of 1992,
but ahead of their nuptuals Slash wanted to protect his assets pushed the idea of a prenup
on her. The prenup was discussed on or around the September 24, 1992 according to Slash's book when
Guns N’ Roses were scheduled to play Oakland with Metallica.Here’s what went down according to Slash
who talked about the incident to howard stern during a 2001 interview. did you lose half of
your guns n roses money from the divorce? no no no no. The prenup. The beginning of the end was when
i said sign this prenup. i remember exactly where that was. oh god. i was in san francisco, guns was
touring the stadiums with metallica and the phone call was made that there was going to be a prenup.
who makes that call? that was me. you don't have an accountant who does that.That was one
of the biggest fights in our relationship over the phone. Really? and, she's like if you really love
me. don't even get into it, you know the drill. I imagine. He doesn't know it, that's the problem.
I wish i had known that drill. It stressed me out so bad that after the show was over
i ran into the wrong people at the wrong time after the gig and i ended up in the hospital
messing around cause i was so depressed from the whole arguement that i ended up
oding that night. Why would you go through with a marriage after this. Wait a second.
You said to your girlfriend, listen i want a prenuptual agreement she got
into an argumenet with you so you went out and OD'd? Basically. Wow. I had a gig the next day.
Slash would end up collapsing in the hallway of the hotel and would be taken care of by the band’s
security team until the paramedics arrived. He would write in his book “I woke up when
the defibrillators sent an electric shock through my chest and stunned my heart into beating again.
It was like being slapped in the face hard enough to wake you up from a deep sleep”Slash
was then taken to a local hospital where he was told to stay the night for observations
admitting :after a couple of hours i signed myself out and went back to he hotel writing
I had no remorse whatsoever about my overdose, but it was pissed off at myself for having died.”
It was shortly after the incident a band meeting where Axl told him “you gave us a scare
we thought you were dead i thought i’d have to look for a new guitar player.”
Years later The BBC would publish a documentary on Guns N’ Roses called
he Most Dangerous Band in the World. And according to A&R man Tom Zutaut
who discovered Guns N’ Roses and signed the band to Geffen records,
he claimed that after the overdose Axl thought a different Slash took over his body revealing
“Axl genuinely believes the soul of Saul Hudson left his body when Slash OD’d,”
“That [was] the greatest stumbling block to getting the band back together" he would claim.
Slash for his part would end up marrying Renee a month later and it appeared the prenup was
signed as Slash would admit to Howard Stern that he had an agreement during a 1995 interview.
Slash would write in his book about getting married for the first time in “we definitely
didn’t do it small - itwas this really big productions that i had very little to do with.
My only memories of planning it involve renee showing me an endless number of books full of
gifts to pick out. I couldn’t relate to any of it and my lack of interest made her very upset."
Slash would admit in his book that Rennee wanted the pair to have a co-ed bachelorette party so
she could keep an eye on him. Slash earlier in the 1992 during a show in Vegas had met the woman who
would become his future second wife Perla Ferrar. Perla would show up to Slash’s coed bachelorette
party. Here’s what Slash had to tell Howard Stern during a 2007 interview about . Why did you have
sex with an old girffriend the night before your wedding? What happened there? Were you scared to
get married was that it and you said hey shit i got to get out of this thing. The first marriage
i got into was was an ultimatum. Right and i don't think i went in in the right. I didn't go into it
from the heart and so I had sorted of date this girl that is now my wife, not really dated but
we saw each other on occasion. and we always had a good time and she knew that. And she knew that we
had a connection. Was this the wife when you were doing my movie you were hanging out with. That's
the one i was married to then. Right, that was the firstg one. Yeah and divorced. She was hot, yeah
she was a good looking girl but anyways so what happened was was Perla heardd that i was getting
married. Actually, she came to my bachelor party, which was a coed bachelor party because oh what i
was saying. the worst kind of bachelor party. Oh so i called my girlfriend up who was going to be
my wife and i said let's get back together and she said not unless we get married and i was like oh
so you had to do it. THen we did it and Perla who had known me from my previous came around
and said haha and then somehow we ended up doing it the night before my wedding. Haha to ho
ho.The wedding was doomed from that point on. THe marriage was doomed.. You know, but i feel really
bad because i put her through something. i'm not into hurting people's feelings for being
Slash and Renee would divorce in 1997 after five years of marriage
and four years later he'd marry pearla in 2001 and the couple would divorce in 2014
just before Guns N’ Roses got back together. Some sources have claimed that Perla not being involved
with Slash anymore because she was also his manager may have led to a Guns N’ Roses reunion
or had some part to play in it. That does it for today's video guys thanks for watching. Be sure
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