Duff & Slash vs. The World β a selection of quotes:
"One night Slash and I went out to the Rainbow, a restaurant next to the Roxy on Sunset that was famous as a rock-and-roll hangout. They gave us a booth. This was a new level of deference. A booth! At the Rainbow! As we proceeded to get blasted, a really big, drunk guy wandered over to our table. Though he looked like an overgrown hick, he was in fact the guitar player from a band considered quite big just then β much bigger than Guns. He addressed himself to Slash:
'N*****s shouldnβt wear tattoos,' he said.
What? Was this his idea of a joke or something?
'What the fuck did you say to my friend?'
'You heard me. N*****s shouldnβt wear tattoos.'
I slugged the guy. Then I slugged him again. And again. He reminded me of the bullies back in Seattle, the meatheads who beat up punks in packs, who called everyone f*****s. Iβm not sure how many times I hit himβI just completely lost itβbut he went down. I found out later that three of his ribs had broken."
It's So Easy: And Other Lies, by Duff McKagan (2011)
"D: [Goes into a long incoherent rant about a fight he got into at a club on New Yearβs Eve] β¦ and the guy was bigger than I was, but I just went CAH-BOOOM! Andβ¦ his eyes crossed, like you see in the cartoons, like that? And he went down. And then everybody dragged him back and dragged me back, but they were dragging him past me and I fucking biffed him three more times in the head! They said I broke his jawβ¦
S: Nasty [Suicide β former Hanoi Rocks guitarist] stuck his arm in through the crowd and got one in there too!
D: So we go through this shit all the time, people trying to fuck with us. I was telling you earlier, if anybody fucks with my homeboy here, Slash, β and itβs happened before, like if a big guy was gonna hit him β Iβve stepped right in front of him.
S: Sure, and I can hide in the crook of his kneeβ¦
D: I beat up a guy for him once. And heβd do that for me.
S: But not to sound stupid, because weβre starting to sound stupidβ¦"
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses, by Mick Wall (2016)
"Slash: [Sam Kinison and I] got into a really big fight. It was real violent, and Duff punched him out, the cops were involved, too, and it was a big deal.
Stern: Who won the fight though? Who could beat up who? I bet you could take Sam in two seconds.
Slash: Well, no. He actually β I donβt want to... Duff punched him out. He gave him a black eye. But, before that, he was sitting on me. And I had no way of getting out, because he had my elbows pinned down. I couldnβt get my arms up, you know?
Stern: How did he get you down on the floor?
Slash: He jumped me from the blue and just landed on my chest. I was gonna be dead. He was choking me. I was history. I was, like, sitting there going, 'Iβm going out this way? I can't believe Iβm gonna go out this way.'
He just showed up at my hotel room one night. I didnβt even β you know, a knock on the door and, like, itβs Sam, and Iβm like, 'Okay.'
And so he got on my case about all this stuff, and he called me a dickhead. And I got pissed off and I jumped off the bed, and I didnβt expect him to react the way he did. And I turned my back β you know, I turned around for a second β and he just jumped on me.
He got me by the throat and my arms were underneath his knees. And I was like, 'Oh, this is it. Iβm going out.'
Robin: And then Duff came to the rescue.
Slash: Then Duff woke up in the other room.
Stern: Hey, you owe Duff, man. Iβll tell you, thatβs kind of funny, too. And leave it to Sam to jump Slash from behind. I mean, that is a low blow. Thatβs not right.
Slash: I was just this little guy with no clothes on. I mean, cuz I was in bed when he came."
The Howard Stern Show (April 30, 1992) (edited)
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