Gilby Clarke rides again
Former Guns N Roses guitarist plays first show after a serious motorcycle accident at Brixton Friday night. Photo by Sal Owens Gilby Clarke picked up the phone one day in 1991 to find Slash on the other end. Guns N’ Roses needed a guitar player. Clarke quickly auditioned – he was the only guitarist asked – and suddenly found himself joining the biggest rock n’ roll band on Earth. His first gig was in an arena in Boston. After years of club gigs, Clarke was about to plug into the massive machinery of a worldwide touring rock band. And so the night before the gig, he did what any self-respecting rocker would do. He got good and drunk. “I ran into some friends of mine and we hung out and drank Jagermeister, all night long,” Clarke recalled in an interview this week. “What was great is it took the edge off the next day. I had worse problems than remembering the songs – I had a headache that was killing me.” What struck him on stage that night was not fright. Clarke felt like he was exactly where he was supposed to be, doing exactly what he was built to do. “What was cool for me is it was reassuring,” Clarke said. “You know, there are a lot of people in life, they have these dreams…
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