You famously met Slash for the first time in 1984 at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles. What did you order?
You would think that somebody would have asked me that over all these years, but no one ever has. Sadly, I don't remember.

After nearly three months on the road behind his new album Happy in Galoshes, Scott Weiland will bring his first solo tour in a decade to a close this week.

Going once, going twice, sold! Bidding began Dec. 3 in the Guitar Center Music Foundation's auction, which features an interesting array of historic rock'n'roll pieces from both the past and the present.

The binges, the arrests, the pimp hats -- Scott Weiland has lived dangerously for much of the past two decades. But the man can safely claim to be one of the most successful artists of the past 20 years, pushing 35 million records worldwide as frontman for grunge-era scene-stealers Stone Temple Pilots and supergroup Velvet Revolver.

It's been a rough year for Velvet Revolver: After a bout of band in-fighting, singer Scott Weiland was ousted last April; Axl Rose is offering his former chums a gigantic "touché!" with the release of Chinese Democracy; and now it seems the band ha

Former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver axeman Slash is "at the very tail end of the demo phase'" for a solo project, which he could start recording in the studio early next year, Billboard.com reports.