Hoods - Pray For Death

The execution of the contract took several weeks, and all this time the members of the group were dying of hunger and incurred serious debts to their drug suppliers. If the deal fell through, some people would have broken fingers, or worse. Then the problems with the documents began. Slash did not want his real name to appear in contracts or checks - he was afraid that David Geffen would find out who his parents were. Axl's real name was still listed as William Bruce Bailey, and the label could not make a deal using a pseudonym. So the lawyers had to officially change the name of the vocalist to “U. Axl Rose. " Then questions arose about the long-standing rape allegations in West Hollywood that Geffen’s lawyers found during a security check of their wards. (Izzy: “And we him: rape? What kind of rape?”) And finally it turned outthat William Bruce Bailey was in jail in Indiana and is still wanted in Lafayette for various crimes: theft, robbery, failure to appear in court, etc. These were serious problems, but the lawyers settled it.