When Guns ‘N’ Roses began their triumphant comeback in 2016, Matt Sorum was a living, healthy former member that could’ve made the lineup complete — but scars from the past kept him from making that leap, for fear of old patterns returning to his life, anjd him being too weak to fight them off.
“And I’ll admit it. I fell into too much drinking. And the band was pretty famous for that. So, in a way, I felt obligated to do it because we were — and I’ve explained it before, I always said that I felt like a pirate on a pirate ship. There was just this sort of gang mentality amongst us, and I wanted to be part of the gang. I didn’t have one tattoo when I joined GUNS N’ ROSES. It’s almost like when you’re a kid in school and you’re hanging with some other guys, this is how that feels. It’s, like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna go get the tattoos. I’m gonna drink.’ I always drank. But my point is things got a little bit confusing only because it was just so big. And there was a lot of kind of Hollywood sycophants around, a lot of what I call — I used to call them spot welders. And some of it I liked. And it was weird, because… I’d say to any young musician that gets successful, watch out for your ego. Just be careful, because that’s what happened. And it’s cliché — it’s very cliché.”
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