Slash by Anthony Bozza

The book is about Saul Hudson who is better known as Slash and was the original member of Guns N 'Roses during the second half of the 80th century. It is the former Rolling Stone journalist Anthony Bozza who wrote the biography of Slash.

The best part of the book I think is that you must follow Slash's history from birth to present day and not just when he was greatest with GNR. Slash lived the rock ‘n’ roll myth with elements of drugs, alcohol and constant partying.

Slash lived a pretty wild life, you could say, and it started when he was 12 years of driving around Los Angeles on his BMX with their friends. At age 12, he had already started drinking alcohol and smoking hashish with their friends and this continued right up until his adult life. It all went so far that he was dying, but managed to survive.

The thing to reflect on is that drugs and alcohol can really destroy a person in a very brutal way but even in this case successfully stopped that and come back to life without it. Because in the book it is told how he came back to normal life.

The question one can ask is what makes a person to try drugs and alcohol abuse? There are of course many answers to that question from the misery of depression to loneliness. Why produced hard drugs anyway? Is it just because criminals want to earn as much money as possible as it apparently is a big market for it.

For alcohol and drug abuse is a form of the disease and can be many abusers may be difficult to get rid of. How do we get rid of the drug trade and reducing alcohol abuse? For many states have engaged in a war against drugs, which in itself has claimed many lives and the approach has been severely criticized by many. Sweden has a rather unique system for trading in alcohol where the state has a monopoly over the sale and control it. This means that alcohol is not available everywhere without the state's specialty stores for alcohol. I believe in the Swedish system, and it is good that the sale of alcohol has limited availability.

The book is worth reading if you are interested in hard rock or generally interested in how Slash lived during the heyday of the GNR and how he lives today.