2021.12.13 - Biff Bam Pop! - Slash Talks About Scoring “The Breach”, His Favourite Horror Scores & Movies, Guns N’ Roses + More

Biff Bam Pop! Exclusive: Slash Talks About Scoring “The Breach”, His Favourite Horror Scores & Movies, Guns N’ Roses + More

When Raven Banner offered BBP! the chance to talk to Slash, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and legendary guitarist for Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver about his work contributing to the score to the upcoming film The Breach, we jumped at the chance. This is Slash, after all, who along with being one of the greatest guitar players of any generation, is also a big horror fan, having produced the 2013 film Nothing Left To Fear under his Slasher Films banner.

Written by Nick Cutter and Ian Weir, based on a book by Cutter, and directed by Rue Morgue Magazine founder/publisher Rodrigo Gudiño, The Breach “follows a police chief in his last days in his role in a tiny Northern Ontario town. However, when a body with uncanny wounds washes up, the man is pulled into a horrific mystery.“

Initially, I was supposed to Slash in person, as he was in Toronto for the first screening of The Breach, but family commitments had me talking to him over FaceTime. It wasn’t a problem though; as Slash said to me off the top, he’s been doing interviews this way since the pandemic began so another FaceTime chat was easy.

In our interview, which you can hear below, we discuss how he came onboard with The Breach, and his love of Rue Morgue Magazine (I used to write for the magazine under the watchful eye of former Editor-in-Chief Dave Alexander, one of the masterminds behind Untold Horror). We also talk about our favourite horror scores, what we look for in a horror film, and much more. Oh, and for you Guns N’ Roses fans, there’s some Not In Your Lifetime tour talk, along with details on an upcoming Use Your Illusion box set. Admittedly, I wear my GnR love on my sleeve by interview’s end, so I hope you can appreciate my enthusiasm.

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The audio interview:

Excerpts from Ultimate Classic Rock:
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Slash Says ‘Use Your Illusion’ Box Is Coming This Summer

There's good news for anyone who was crestfallen when the 30th anniversary of Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion albums came and went without any announcement of a deluxe reissue: Slash says a belated box set should arrive this summer.

"It got delayed by the pandemic but it is coming out, I think this summer," Slash said during an interview with Biff Bam Pop! editor-in-chief Andy Burns. "There's a bunch of cool live stuff on it, a couple shows. The Ritz from the early ‘90s and a show that we did in Las Vegas back in 1989, I think it was. And it’s actually the show that I met my ex-wife at."

He appeared to be referencing a May 16, 1991 show at the Ritz, the third and final secret warm-up gig before Guns N' Roses embarked on their massive Use Your Illusion Tour. Axl Rose famously broke his foot after taking a flying leap off a speaker while performing "You Could Be Mine," for which the band was recording a music video.

Slash may have gotten his Vegas dates slightly mixed up, though: He met his ex-wife, Perla Ferrar, backstage after a Vegas show in 1992, not 1989.

Guns N' Roses earlier commemorated their landmark debut, Appetite for Destruction, with a massive 30th-anniversary box set that included a slew of B-sides, demos and studio outtakes. Released in tandem on Sept. 17, 1991, Use Your Illusion I and II debuted at Nos. 2 and 1 on the Billboard 200, respectively, and went on to sell a combined 14 million copies in the United States.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/guns-n-roses-your-illusion-box-set/