"My dad has a cupboard full of gold and platinum records and he doesn’t have a pot to piss in": A bathroom full of snakes and Slash's road to compromise

Slash onstage, and a python on one of Slash's signature Les Paul guitars.

My name is Alan Niven. I am going to tell you some stories. Random rock’n’roll stories. Populated by an interesting cavalcade of characters. Among them are Guns N’ Roses.

I took them from the gutters of Sunset Boulevard to Wembley Stadium. I took Great White from the backwater clubs of Orange County to Wembley Arena. Along the way we all joined the parade of misfits and madmen that strut and fret their hour upon their stage.