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"Ex-Guns N&amp;#039; Roses guitarist Slash has claimed that he was &amp;quot;born into the drug culture&amp;quot;. The musician told The Quietus that the group&amp;#039;s seeming embrace of hedonism was not based on a conscious decision on how to present themselves. Slash said: &amp;quot;I just thought we were totally normal. Granted, we had a fair amount of attitude and a certain way of doing things, but we were basically just being ourselves. &amp;quot;I guess at that particular point in time there weren&amp;#039;t really that many people - this is in the mid to late &amp;#039;80s - who weren&amp;#039;t really conforming to the status quo. A lot of it was true, but I think they spent a lot of time focusing on that because maybe the media thought it was sellable.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s funny because I was born into the drug culture. I&amp;#039;m not gonna speak on behalf of any of the other guys - everyone has different reasons for doing what they do - but for me personally it was nothing to do with the rock stars before me. &amp;quot;I hadn&amp;#039;t read it in books. I wasn&amp;#039;t influenced by Sid Vicious, Keith Richards or Jimi Hendrix when it came to drugs and all that kind of s**t - that was just part of my natural growing up. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t find out about a lot of different musicians or entertainers&amp;#039; specific chemical habits until later on as I went down that road.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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