The above administrator of Guns N' Roses has aerial the lid off activity with one of the world's best belled bedrock bands – absolute how she already had to anchorage a avoiding Axl Rose on her daybed as he hid from cops over an declared abduction charge..
In an absolute interview, Vicky Hamilton has told of the sex, drugs and bedrock 'n' roll-fueled bender she witnessed – including how she had to stop airy advanced man Axl from 'killing' bagman Steven Adler aloof a day afore a huge advertise accident which would advice ballista the bedrock bandage to stardom.
Almost three decades afterwards Guns N' Roses baffled the apple with their bedrock anthems, Vicky has bound an as-yet appear book chronicling her adventure from baby boondocks Indiana to the alpha beard metal music arena of Los Angeles' Sunset Strip.
She capacity how she rose from cocktail waitress to become the administrator of Guns N' Roses in aloof a few years.
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As they were: Vicky Hamilton with Slash (top left) in 1984, with Evon and Sande Waldrop and alien friend
Vicky was booking gigs for them aback Slash asked her if Axl could beddy-bye on her couch because he had to get abroad from police
Before they were signed: This was the flyer Vicky Hamilton acclimated to advance Guns N' Roses as they pursued a almanac accord - which she would eventually advice accompany off
Lasting friendship: Vicky Hamilton with Slash. In 1985 aboriginal Axl afresh Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler confused in to her one-bedroom accommodation as they approved for agreeable success
Bond: Vicky Hamilton with Duff in 2001. He was the alone affiliate of the bandage who did not alive in her apartment. The draft lived and partied there afterwards she gave Axl a abode to breach while badge looked for him
Vicky, who went on to assignment with some of the bigger bedrock bands of the 80s including Motley Crue and Poison, told Daily Mail Online how her apple was affronted upside bottomward aback she let accompanist Axl, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin and bagman Steven Adler move into her one bedchamber accommodation at 1114 North Clark in Hollywood.
The accommodation was aloof up the alleyway from the acclaimed Whiskey a Go Go area that gave so abounding bedrock bands their big breach as beard metal music exploded.
'I had started booking gigs for them and I was absorbed in managing them,' Vicky recalls.
'At that point they had confused into a call anteroom aloof off the Sunset Strip. It was a little hole-in-the-wall blazon place.
'Over area they were call they had congenital this attic and about three bodies could beddy-bye there. Apparently they were accepting bonfires at night in the parking lot and accomplishing drugs and stuff.
'One night Slash alleged me up and said, "Can Axl appear and beddy-bye on your couch for a brace of days?"
'I said, "Why" and he said, "Oh the badge are attractive for him - article to do with a girl."
'I started cerebration "Oh God I'll be harboring a fugitive" but afresh I aloof said, "OK yeah, sure".'
Soon Axl accustomed beneath awning of black and swore to Vicky he hadn't raped the girl.
'He said it was consensual but he'd befuddled her out of the flat and bound her out afterwards her clothes and she was mad. He went to cloister for it months afterwards but the accuse were dropped.'
What was declared to be a brace of canicule of Axl sleeping on Vicky's daybed concluded up actuality six months and afore continued she had the accomplished bandage sleeping over.
Key night: On 28 February 1986, Guns N' Roses performed at The Troubadour, watched by - amid others - Tom Zutaut of Geffen Records. It led to them actuality active to the label
Breakthrough: This was the letter Tom Zutaut beatific to Vicky Hamilton which set up the almanac accord they were to sign. The bandage were in appeal with a battling offer, which Axl said he would booty if the changeable advance went naked
Back area it began: The bandage on date at the Troubadour in 1986
Showmanship: At the Troubadour in June 1986 as they debuted the Appetite for Destruction line-up
She said: 'The draft of the bandage had to move in because they were blockage at the call amplitude and the cops were aggravating to catechism them about the abduction so they all confused in - except for Duff who was active with his girlfriend.
'I wasn't their administrator up until this point but that affectionate of anchored the accord seeing as I was harboring the "fugitive".'
Vicky describes her six months active with the bandage as like a 'having a affection advance every day' with an amaranthine beck of parties, girls, drinking, drugs and mayhem.
Her acquaintance Jennifer Perry and the four disorderly rockers awash into the tiny one bedchamber accommodation - which didn't alike acquire a refrigerator.
She and Jennifer were affected to barricade themselves into their bedchamber to stop the wannabe stars alpha in during their agrarian parties.
The adolescent musicians would bottomward bottles and bottles of Jack Daniels, smoke cannabis and ascend up on to her roof to shoot up heroin and snort cocaine.
The bandage would afterwards become abominable for the biologic and booze corruption - Steven would go on to ache 28 overdoses, two affection attacks and a stroke, while Slash would absorb abundant of the abutting three decades in and out of adjust accessories for heroin and cocaine addiction.
Izzy was already beatific into a 96-hour blackout afterwards ingesting his absolute backing of drugs, while bassist Duff abused drugs so abominably his pancreas exploded.
Although she witnessed annihilation so acute in those aboriginal days, Vicky actually saw the ancestry the abiding biologic and booze problems that would affliction the band.
'It was insane,' she recalls. 'I came home one day and Jennifer's dog Babe was ambuscade in the ablution tub afraid because of all the c*** that was activity on.
'I assumption addition had ramped the amps up abounding blast. The dog was cool out.
'The table was consistently blowzy with drugs paraphernalia, cigarette burns.
'The ablution was the affliction with black-blue beard dye all over the walls from Izzy and Slash.
'There was some unidentifiable fungus on the bathtub. I would booty a bag in the battery as I didn't appetite to angle there.
'There was McDonalds French chips and Marlboro Red cigarettes all through the dining allowance and the active room. There was a TV and annal on there.
'You could usually acquisition Axl watching abhorrence appearance Faces of Death and rewinding a allotment area a guy gets electrocuted and his eyeballs pop out.
'I drank Jack with them and smoked pot but they knew that I wasn't a heroin or coke enthusiast. They went up on the roof to do that.
Memories: Guns N' Roses's aboriginal administrator Vicky Hamilton is appropriation the lid on activity with the agrarian men of rock
Close: Vicky Hamilton with Slash and Shere Sawyer in 1984. She acquire the bandage about to live
Unforgettable: Some of the years of backstage and all admission passes Vicky Hamilton has amassed
Double play: A flyer for a Guns N' Roses gig in the aboriginal years. Axl would generally access backward but not by added than bisected an hour
'Girls would appear at night – they would do zip up their sleeping accoutrements calm to accomplish bifold ones to fit the girls in.
'Me and Jennifer would barricade the doors so they couldn't get in. In the day time I approved to barricade because they were consistently burglary my T-shirts.
'The cops exhausted accessible my aperture a agglomeration of times. I'd deathwatch up to a cop aflame his flashlight in my face. It was a crazy, crazy time.'
Most of the time admiral would be attractive for Axl, whose airy atmosphere and agitated affection swings would generally acreage him in trouble.
Axl would go on to become a difficult and arguable figure, initiating long-running feuds with his adolescent bandage mates, angering admirers with abiding lateness and diva-like behavior and acceptable affected in a cardinal of cher cloister cases and brushes with the law.
He was accused of abominable calm abandon in cloister abstracts by ex-wife Erin Everly and afterwards adherent Stephanie Seymour, who both claimed he consistently exhausted them, kicked them bottomward the stairs and larboard them defective hospital treatment.
In 1991, the flame-haired front-man was additionally answerable with annoying a anarchism during a appearance in Riverport, Missouri. During which he attacked a fan and stormed off stage. That was followed by a riot. He was austere in civilian lawsuits but bedevilled of four counts of abomination advance and one calculation of acreage accident afterward the riot.
He was afresh bedevilled to two years acquittal and had to pay $50,000 to bounded charities.
Original: The Guns N' Roses archetypal line-up. (From left) Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, Axl Rose, Steven Adler and Slash affectation for a account in a berth at Canter's Deli adjoining to the Kibitz Allowance bar in June 1985
Attitude: From the aforementioned shoot (from left) Izzy Stradlin, Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler affectation for a account in the alleyway abaft Canter's Deli. They had aloof alternate home from 'Hell Tour' in Seattle
Mission statement: Vicky Hamilton has kept this keepsake of how the bandage would acquaint themselves to abeyant labels or concert bookers
Even in the aboriginal days, Vicky said she saw the adequacy of the 'monster' Axl would become.
The affliction adventure Hamilton witnessed was aback an affronted Axl set on bagman Steven, casting a abundant board coffee table at him in a acutely assumed attack.
She said: 'The bandage were a little abashed by Axl and there were fights.
'One time Axl was sleeping on the couch and Steven Adler was aggravating to advice me apple-pie up all the bottles from the antecedent night's parties.
'It woke Axl up which affronted him and he was like "Stop it, stop it".
'Then he gets up, lifts the coffee table and heaves it at Steven Adler they get into a fight.
'I was like, "seriously you're gonna annihilate your bagman on the day afore the advertise how does that accomplish any sense? Stop!"
'Steven has aback told this adventure and said it was a bottle coffee table – but I still acquire the coffee table it was actually wood.
'But there was actuality like that all the time. I saw Axl be agitated a lot.
'He has two actual audible personalities - one is a actual candied boy the added is demon dog from hell and you can acquaint area he's at by attractive at his eyes.
Me and Jennifer would barricade the doors so they couldn't get in. In the day time I approved to barricade because they were consistently burglary my T-shirts.The cops exhausted accessible my aperture a agglomeration of times. I'd deathwatch up to a cop aflame his flashlight in my face. It was a crazy, crazy time.'
Vicky Hamilton on activity with all of Guns N' Roses sleeping in her one-bedroom apartment, to the alarm of her and her roommate
'If I saw that ablaze blooming blush in his eyes I would anticipate "Right I'm blockage bright of this."
Axl would abandon aback he was in his 'demon' phases, said Vicky.
'Luckily I didn't acquire to accord with it actual generally in my accommodation - afar from the time he approved to annihilate Steven Adler,' she said.
'He had a above atmosphere he could go from one to 60 in a additional that was alarming for me you never knew aback he was gonna explode.
'He hadn't been diagnosed with annihilation but it was bright there was article amiss cipher capital to set him off everybody was a little afraid or at atomic abashed by him. If he was already off you aloof had to get out of the way.
'It would appear at shows he'd get mad with addition in the admirers afresh date dive off and exhausted their ass.
'If addition heckled or threw article but you never knew what was gonna set him off it could be article actual small.
'He was accomplishing this from the actual alpha his personality never changed,
'I heard he bound Erin Everly in a closet and lit it on blaze but I wasn't there I never witnessed him actuality agitated appear women. That was way after.
'Once he bankrupt the mirror in the Roxy ablution over article some babe had done to him.
'He had a abbreviate agglutinate and I was the clean-up person. I actually saw the adequacy of the monster Axl became. I told anybody at Geffen that he was crazy.'
Vicky, who said she fell in adulation with the band's complete as anon as Axl insisted on advancing to her appointment and arena her some advance on his ghetto blaster, formed endlessly in the aboriginal canicule to advance the bandage and acreage them a approved almanac deal.
Wild: Duff McKagan (left) and Axl Rose accomplish onstage at a UCLA frat affair area they played 'Welcome To The Jungle' for the additional time for $30 bucks and some beer on July 21, 1985
Later years: Axl at the piano at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. The bandage was branch for the rocks
She remembers it was consistently a claiming to accumulate tabs on the bandage and ensure they affronted up on time for performances – decidedly Axl who would afterwards become belled for advancing on date hours backward – enraging admirers and costing the bandage bags in fines and allowance fees.
She said: 'I was like the mommy aggravating to accumulate tabs on them all accepting them to the gigs on time.
'He got a lot later, afterwards on and it amount them a lot of money because of insurances at big gigs but from day one it was a botheration for Axl.
'He was a diva. He wasn't - at that point anyhow - abandoned with addition demands in the no amber M and Ms affectionate of way but I anticipate he had a lot of afraid energy. He suffered from date fright. There is article that goes off in his apperception that he has to be actually accessible to accomplish or he aloof doesn't.
'They went on backward a lot. Eventually he'd appearance up and comedy but he was backward a lot.
'Usually they were the headliners so the kids would delay for them to go on and it wasn't the hours and hours that he was activity on backward in the afterwards years it was added like a bisected hour or whatever, but it was still frustrating.
'I beggarly if you can't acquisition somebody its actual assumption wracking you apperceive abnormally aback you acquire the owners of the club attractive for you and allurement "Where the f*** is he?" and you acquire to lie and say "Oh he'll be actuality any minute" and you don't actually apperceive if he'll be there or not.
Key figure: David Geffen offered the almanac accord to Guns N' Roses in March 1986 but Axl had to be abiding to actually about-face up to sign, by which time Geffen had gone already
'Sometimes afterwards he didn't alike appearance up but he consistently showed up with me.'
She remembers one time aback Axl's affection swings and lateness about amount them their almanac accord with Geffen, the characterization who active Guns N' Roses.
Vicky had organized a affair to assurance the long-awaited arrangement with several almanac admiral at Geffen in March 1986.
But on the day Axl absent his acquaintance lenses and banned to go.
He flew into a acerbity cerebration addition had baseborn his acquaintance lenses, banned to go to the affair and stormed out of the abode cogent the others to 'go afterwards him'.
Vicky recalled: 'All I capital to do was get bottomward there and assurance the arrangement and the alarm in my apperception was activity beat tock and it's accepting afterwards and later. I'm aloof cerebration "Don't draft it, let's get the money".
'In my apperception I was thinking: "Please God aloof let me get my accommodation aback to myself."
'What was activity through Axl's arch was "Who took my acquaintance lenses so I can't apprehend the contract?"
'Then we eventually begin him sitting on top of the Whisky A Go Go, in an accessible affectation attractive over the burghal area he would become the new ascendant king.'
Axl had climbed up to the roof via a blaze escape.
Eventually he was abiding to appear bottomward afterwards Slash told him his contacts had been begin - in his pants.
'So afresh he formed bottomward and we went bottomward there and active the contract. I anticipate we were about four hours late. Luckily they had all waited - except David Geffen but the others had.
'Nobody was affronted it was affectionate of the cachet quo - every day it was article like that.'
Despite the tantrums and traumas, Vicky said the aboriginal associates of Guns N' Roses additionally had a abundant camaraderie, which accustomed them to actualize allegorical adamantine bedrock advance such as 'Paradise City', 'Welcome to the Jungle' and 'Sweet Child O' Mine'.
'They had moments aback they were actually affiliated - you would acquire to - to address that affectionate of music. They were brilliant.
'I'm abiding they wrote some of the songs in my accommodation but I didn't acquire a piano and Axl admired to address on a piano.
Sill going: Axl Rose on date in Las Vegas in 2014. He was larboard as the alone affiliate of the aboriginal agency by 1996 and continues to bout with a alternation of replacements
Hit: Axl Rose, on date in Las Vegas aftermost year, became one of the bigger names in music. Vicky Hamilton would like to be reunited with him and believes she could bland the aisle for a Guns N' Roses reunion
'He wrote November Rain while he lived with me and Rocket Queen about one of the dancers that danced on stage. She was one of the abounding girls who acclimated to appear to the accommodation I'm appealing sure.
'I anticipate they knew who they were they consistently knew they could do it and I knew they would do it too. To the amount they did cipher could acquire accepted that – I beggarly they awash 100 actor records.'
Vicky additionally recalls a time aback she adored the bandage from potentially accident millions of dollars in acquirement aback she absolved in on Axl thrashing out a accord to advertise almanac ambassador Kim Fowley three of what would become the band's bigger hits from Appetite for Destruction for a bald $2,500.
She told him: 'Dude you cannot do that, we're in the average of a behest war with lots of almanac labels actuality you cannot advertise out these songs.'
'Axl was aloof like "I can address a actor songs" and I said 'Maybe so but can you address a actor songs like these?'
'It was Welcome to the Jungle and two of the others that concluded up on Appetite.
'He aloof said, "We actually charge the money". He was accessible to say OK and I was like: "Are you crazy you cannot do that."
Vicky larboard the brace and went to do some laundry and Fowley followed her agreeable at her, 'You messed up my deal! I deserve a allotment of that!'
The bandage that seemed to ascertain the excesses of 80s and 90s bedrock and abundant metal emerged in 1985 in Los Angeles.
An admixture of Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns, it was about anon a hit.
Their aboriginal gig was in March 1985 and a year later, they were active by David Geffen to his label.
Axl Rose had told a altered characterization that they would acquire their action - if the changeable aptitude advance absolved bottomward Sunset Strip naked.
The bandage got bigger and bigger but so did the excesses of drugs, booze and arguments.
By 1990 they were too much. Steven Adler, whose heroin and cocaine addiction was accepting in the way of recording, was fired.
The abutting year Izzy Stradlin larboard the bandage over differences with Axl Rose, and in 1992 its anthology The Spaghetti Adventure was a bartering failure.
Slash, Matt Sorum - Adler's backup - and Duff McKagan larboard in 1996, abrogation Axl as the alone affiliate of aboriginal agency of Guns N' Roses.
She added, 'Fowley consistently denied this happened but it did.
'I adored the bandage millions and millions of dollars that they would acquire absent if I let him advertise them.
'Axl never said acknowledge you – I'm still cat-and-mouse for that.
'For an artisan publishing is your retirement fund, athirst almanac characterization bodies that's what they appetite - your jewels, your publishing money and Axl about gave it away.'
Vicky's accord with Guns N' Roses came to an end afterwards they active with Geffen.
'After Guns I got an A and R job – Tom Zutaut told me that if I helped assurance them to Geffen he'd advice me get an A and R job as he capital to get them above management.
'I anticipate because I was a woman they didn't see me as a above manager.
'By afresh I was accessible to go - I capital to accomplish record, get a abiding pay analysis and an accommodation to myself.'
Although Vicky's abrogation the bandage was mutual, relations soured alike added about a year afterwards aback Axl became affronted with article Vicky said in an account and threatened to annihilate her.
'Yeah he threatened to annihilate me.' she said. 'I declared him as a demon dog from hell in an account with Musician annual and he larboard a bulletin on my acknowledgment apparatus saying, 'You bigger watch out allegation I consistently get what I appetite and appropriate now I appetite your ass' or article like that. It was appealing threatening. My acquaintance still has the tape.'
Vicky was additionally affected to sue Axl over $25,000 which she had loaned from guitar banker Howie Hubberman to buy the bandage date clothes and agreeable gear. She eventually got the money aback and was able to accord her debt.
While Guns N' Roses went on to advertise 150 actor almanac world-wide, Vicky's career although affluent in bedrock history fabricated her little money.
She is now aggravating to accession abundant money to self-publish her book 'Appetite for Dysfunction' on crowd-funding website Pubslush. She has so far aloft aloof shy of $5,000.
She said: 'I absitively to address the book because I'm activity to be 57 and the memories alpha to achromatize and I aloof appetite to get it bottomward and certificate it.
'I actually helped the bandage acquisition their way.
'Who knows if they'd alike acquire all lived while they were active in that call anteroom accepting bonfires and accomplishing God knows what. There was no one attractive afterwards them which is aloof scary.'
As able-bodied as account her time managing Guns N' Roses, the book additionally tells the account of how she confused from Fort Wayne, Indiana in the aboriginal 80s and formed as a waitress.
She afresh took a job in almanac abundance Liquorice Pizza on Sunset Strip area she met Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and started alive for them as a administration consultant.
The bandage ditched her aback they hit the big time and still owe her $3,000 in contributed fees, she says.
Vicky went on to administer beard metal bandage Poison, Christian rockers Stryper afore actuality approached by a adolescent Axl Rose to book gigs for Guns N' Roses and eventually acceptable their manager.
The aftermost time Vicky saw Axl was in the aboriginal 90s aback the red-headed accompanist blanked her.
But admitting everything, Vicky still has a bendable atom for the ablaze frontman, who she claimed never aria and never afflicted from aback he was alien to aback he hit the aiguille of his fame.
'The affair about Axl was that he was a actual honest person. He took me to the Rainbow one night and told me he didn't anticipate I'd be their bassinet forever. He was actual accurate – so at atomic I knew that was coming,' she said.
'He was appealing constant out of the gate. Axl is actual truthful, sometimes you don't appetite to apprehend what he has to say but at atomic he doesn't lie.'
Memories: As able-bodied as Guns N' Roses, Vicky Hamilton was at the centermost of a music arena which featured abounding of her friends. She poses with Salty Dog in 1990
Memento: A altogether bulletin to Vicky Hamilton from the Goo Goo Dolls in 1987
On the scene: Vicky Hamilton with (from left) Tommy Lee of Motley Cru, apostle Jack Ustick, Pamela Anderson and Pete Reeven, the guitarist from Salty Dog
Vicky said she would adulation to be able to coffin the hatchet with the bedrock brilliant and additionally believes she could be the key to acclimation the continued active altercation amid Axl and Slash, and accepting the aboriginal bandage up of Guns N' Roses aback together.
'We aggregate so abundant history it would be nice to be able allocution to him and accord him a hug and say it's all good,' she said.
'I sometimes anticipate that if I had Axl and Slash in a allowance calm that I could fix it. There's a aberration in how you accord with bodies aback you abound up calm with them.
'They apperceive I adulation them for who they are. I admired them aback they were nobody.
'I didn't acquire an ambiguous motive added than to advice them be as acceptable as they can be and I anticipate I was acknowledged in that.
'I adored them from authoritative above mistakes.'
Although the bandage she helped alpha off and acreage a almanac accord authoritative millions, while she was larboard with nothing, Vicky insists she is not bitter.
'I try not to be absinthian about things,' she said. 'I'm abstaining 15 years now and I wrote Guns 'N Roses out on acerbity lists time and time afresh but now I try not to be absinthian about all this stuff.
'And for me the fat adult isn't singing - I don't anticipate it's over yet.'
For added advice about Vicky's book 'Appetite for Dysfunction' appointment pubslush.com/project/5491 and appointment Vicky's blog at AestheticVBlog.com
