2014.04.12 - Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia

I was with actually with Richard from the band. And I went down and played some gigs with those guys in South America in 2000... I don't know when it was. '12, '13, '14, whatever it was. I forget. And we were up in, it was amazing. We're up in that... the highest city up there. La Paz, Bolivia. I mean, you land at 13,000 feet and they have oxygen in the airport because people just pass out. You can't just land at 13... [...] But we did. The hotel was kind of down at 10 and a half thousand feet. So we came down and it was an easier thing, but it took us a couple days to... there was oxygen in the room. [...] So we did yoga out in this yard. It was like 80 degrees out in this kind of a yard they had at the hotel. And somebody took a picture of me and Richard and some people in the band doing yoga. Right now, I was like leading the thing. And yeah, somebody commented, "You can't do Guns N' Roses and do yoga!" I didn't know those rules.

[Axl and I] had such a great time together. We played a show in La Paz, Bolivia, at an altitude of twelve thousand feet. I’d done mountain climbing. I said: “Ax, man, the air is thin up there.” Seriously, people pass out when they come off the plane. They have oxygen at the airport. And we gotta play a rock show there, in a soccer stadium where they don’t have games any more because no other team will go and play because it’s not fair. So I was taking Diamox, mountain climber shit, and I gave some to Axl. We go through this journey together, and to watch him sing up there… man, it was an amazing experience.