It's So Easy: And Other Lies (52 page)

They called us the Rose Bros then.
Photograph by Jack Lue.

Slash’s playing blew my mind from the first moment.
Photograph by Marc Canter.

Hair falling out and gloves on to protect my cracking hands. Puffy as fuck.

Bloated and hopeless, just before the fall.

With Cully in the hills above L.A. Riding mountain bikes was a large part of my learning how to live a new life.
Photograph by Chris Hatounian.

With Andy in 1995. I was one year sober, and he looks relieved.

In Hawaii. I think I just found out Susan was pregnant. Susan took this photo.

Susan and I with brand-newborn Grace. The beginning stages of me becoming a grown-up.

I was glad that my mom got to know Grace.

Teaching Grace to swim, under the watchful eyes of Barney and Chloe.

Susan I get married in Seattle! Grace was our flower girl.

Grace and I backstage at a Velvet Revolver gig.

Baby Mae! In every picture I own of her as an infant, I am kissing those cheeks!

Velvet Revolver at the premier of
The Hulk
. Our first ever band photo.