Snakepit - N.I.R.

Slash - Guitars
Keri Kelli - Guitars
Rod Jackson - Vocals
Matt Laug - Drums
Johnny Blackout - Bass

Former members:
Matt Sorum - Drums
Gilby Clarke - Guitars
Mike Inez - Bass
Eric Dover - Vocals
Brian Tichy - Drums
James Lomenzo - Bass
Ryan Roxie - Guitars

HISTORY / DISCOGRAPHY / TOUR DATES
PHOTOS / LYRICS / LINKS

Slash has never been one to sit around doing nothing, so when Guns got off the Use Your Illusion tour and "The Spaghetti Incident?" was finished, Slash started working on new material. This turned out to be not what Axl had in mind for the next Guns N' Roses album, so Slash took the material back and started working on it with Matt Sorum and Gilby Clarke throughout 1994. Eventually Alice In Chains bassist Mike Inez got involved and the project got a little more serious. A singer was found in Eric Dover, and Slash's Snakepit's (as the band's name became) album "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" was released by Geffen Records in February of 1995.
After that they went on a world tour that would last till August. Matt and Mike had to leave due to commitments to their original bands. Matt felt he didn't want to further divide GN'R, so he stayed home. They were replaced with Brian Tichy and James Lomenzo (both of Pride & Glory). After the tour Slash returned to GN'R to try and work again.

After leaving GN'R in October 1996, Slash spent 1997 playing with his cover band Slash's Blues Ball, mostly at small clubs around the US. However, he had no intention of making this a permanent band, and in 1998 it gradually evolved into the second Snakepit band. "You know what? We've been doing this to kill time. I need to do Snakepit now. I have to start getting this rolling."¹
In the summer of 1999 the band was ready, and they went into the studio starting the recordings of an album. Johnny G on bass had played in Blues Ball, and Rod Jackson, Ryan Roxie and Matt Laug came into the band one after another. After different problems surrounding the big record company merger in the beginning of 2000, Slash left Geffen and signed to Koch after a while. Snakepit also got an opening slot they could only dream about. Throughout August and September they toured with AC/DC. Then the album, "Ain't Life Grand" was released. Although it neither was very well received nor sold much, they still toured for almost a year (including stints in Europe and Asia. After the tour it was mostly silent around them until an interview in the January 2002 issue of Classic Rock when Slash said the band had split up.²

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