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Slash Was Lucky to Survive This Airport Incident (And That His Manager Was There to Help)

Former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven once recalled Slash heading overseas after having taken a bunch of drugs.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Rock stars get themselves into all kinds of wild situations. Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, though, once got find himelf lucky to survive an insane incident at an airport. Thankfully, his manager, Alan Niven, was there to help him.

In his book, Sound N’ Fury, Niven shared stories from his time working with the GnR fellas, whom he says he took from “the gutters of Sunset Boulevard to Wembley Stadium”. In an excerpt from the book shared by Classic Rock, Niven recalled stopping Slash from taking to the sky with a whole bunch of drugs on his person.

The incident happened at Los Angeles International Airport, where Niven said, “You used to be able to stand on a glass VIP mezzanine and........

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