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Guns N Roses first manager Vicky Hamilton reveals all. The former manager of Guns N Roses has lifted the lid off life with one of the worlds most notorious rock bands revealing how she once had to harbor a fugitive Axl Rose on her sofa as he hid from cops over an alleged rape charge. In an exclusive interview, Vicky Hamilton has told of the sex, drugs and rock n roll fueled debauchery she witnessed including how she had to stop volatile front man Axl from killing drummer Steven Adler just a day before a huge showcase event which would help catapult the rock band to stardom. Almost three decades after Guns N Roses conquered the world with their rock anthems, Vicky has penned an as yet published book chronicling her journey from small town Indiana to the burgeoning hair metal music scene of Los Angeles Sunset Strip. She details how she rose from cocktail waitress to become the manager of Guns N Roses in just a few years. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO As they were Vicky Hamilton with Slash top left in 1. Stone Roses Second Coming Zip' title='Stone Roses Second Coming Zip' />Evon and Sande Waldrop and unknown friend. Vicky was booking gigs for them when Slash asked her if Axl could sleep on her couch because he had to get away from police. First of all, enjoy your posts and decorating ideas. Thank you so much for sharing them. Love the idea of doubling the wreath. Best yet, zip tying the flowers to the. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. EXCLUSIVE Axl Rose hid from police in my onebedroom apartment then Guns N Roses joined him, took drugs on my roof, brawled in the lounge and covered bathroom in. Diamondback moths may be a mere halfinch in length, but their voracious appetite for Brussels sprouts, kale and cauliflower make them a major pain for farmers. This. Before they were signed This was the flyer Vicky Hamilton used to promote Guns N Roses as they pursued a record deal which she would eventually help bring off Lasting friendship Vicky Hamilton with Slash. In 1. 98. 5 first Axl then Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler moved in to her one bedroom apartment as they tried for musical success. Bond Vicky Hamilton with Duff in 2. He was the only member of the band who did not live in her apartment. The rest lived and partied there after she gave Axl a place to stay while police looked for him. Vicky, who went on to work with some of the biggest rock bands of the 8. Motley Crue and Poison, told Daily Mail Online how her world was turned upside down when she let singer Axl, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin and drummer Steven Adler move into her one bedroom apartment at 1. North Clark in Hollywood. The apartment was just up the road from the famous Whiskey a Go Go venue that gave so many rock bands their big break as hair metal music exploded. I had started booking gigs for them and I was interested in managing them, Vicky recalls. At that point they had moved into a rehearsal hall just off the Sunset Strip. It was a little hole in the wall type place. Over where they were rehearsing they had built this loft and about three people could sleep there. Apparently they were having bonfires at night in the parking lot and doing drugs and stuff. One night Slash called me up and said, Can Axl come and sleep on your couch for a couple of daysI said, Why and he said, Oh the police are looking for him something to do with a girl. I started thinking Oh God Ill be harboring a fugitive but then I just said, OK yeah, sure. Soon Axl arrived under cover of darkness and swore to Vicky he hadnt raped the girl. He said it was consensual but hed thrown her out of the studio and locked her out without her clothes and she was mad. Transcription Archive. Many of these transcriptions are ones that Ive done for myself as part of my own study others are transcriptions that my clients have. He went to court for it months later but the charges were dropped. What was supposed to be a couple of days of Axl sleeping on Vickys sofa ended up being six months and before long she had the whole band sleeping over. Key night On 2. 8 February 1. Guns N Roses performed at The Troubadour, watched by among others Tom Zutaut of Geffen Records. It led to them being signed to the label. Breakthrough This was the letter Tom Zutaut sent to Vicky Hamilton which set up the record deal they were to sign. The band were in demand with a rival offer, which Axl said he would take if the female scout went naked. Back where it began The band on stage at the Troubadour in 1. Showmanship At the Troubadour in June 1. Appetite for Destruction line up. She said The rest of the band had to move in because they were staying at the rehearsal space and the cops were trying to question them about the rape so they all moved in except for Duff who was living with his girlfriend. I wasnt their manager up until this point but that kind of cemented the deal seeing as I was harboring the fugitive. Vicky describes her six months living with the band as like a having a heart attack every day with an endless stream of parties, girls, drinking, drugs and mayhem. Her roommate Jennifer Perry and the four hell raising rockers crammed into the tiny one bedroom apartment which didnt even have a refrigerator. She and Jennifer were forced to barricade themselves into their bedroom to stop the wannabe stars bursting in during their wild parties. Pillar Fireproof Song. The young musicians would down bottles and bottles of Jack Daniels, smoke cannabis and climb up on to her roof to shoot up heroin and snort cocaine. The band would later become infamous for the drug and alcohol abuse Steven would go on to suffer 2. Slash would spend much of the next three decades in and out of rehab facilities for heroin and cocaine addiction. Izzy was once sent into a 9. Duff abused drugs so badly his pancreas exploded. Although she witnessed nothing so extreme in those early days, Vicky definitely saw the beginnings the chronic drug and alcohol problems that would plague the band. It was insane, she recalls. I came home one day and Jennifers dog Babe was hiding in the bath tub shaking because of all the c that was going on. I guess someone had ramped the amps up full blast. The dog was freaked out. The table was always littered with drugs paraphernalia, cigarette burns. The bathroom was the worst with black blue hair dye all over the walls from Izzy and Slash. There was some unidentifiable slime on the bathtub. I would take a bag in the shower as I didnt want to stand there. There was Mc. Donalds French fries and Marlboro Red cigarettes all through the dining room and the living room. There was a TV and records on there. You could usually find Axl watching horror show Faces of Death and rewinding a part where a guy gets electrocuted and his eyeballs pop out. I drank Jack with them and smoked pot but they knew that I wasnt a heroin or coke enthusiast. They went up on the roof to do that. Memories Guns N Rosess first manager Vicky Hamilton is lifting the lid on life with the wild men of rock. Close Vicky Hamilton with Slash and Shere Sawyer in 1. She have the band somewhere to live Unforgettable Some of the years of backstage and all access passes Vicky Hamilton has amassed. Double play A flyer for a Guns N Roses gig in the early years. Axl would often arrive late but not by more than half an hour Girls would come at night they would do zip up their sleeping bags together to make double ones to fit the girls in. Me and Jennifer would barricade the doors so they couldnt get in. In the day time I tried to barricade because they were always stealing my T shirts. The cops beat open my door a bunch of times. Id wake up to a cop flashing his flashlight in my face. It was a crazy, crazy time. Most of the time officers would be looking for Axl, whose volatile temper and violent mood swings would often land him in trouble. Axl would go on to become a difficult and controversial figure, initiating long running feuds with his fellow band mates, angering fans with chronic lateness and diva like behavior and becoming embroiled in a number of costly court cases and brushes with the law.