Mark Strigl sits down with longtime Guns N’ Roses insider, tour manager, writer, journalist, and lifelong rock fan Del James for a wide-ranging conversation.

We dive deep into Del’s brand-new graphic novel Consensual Violence, available here:

https://a.co/d/08ZqCKHx

Along the way, Del shares stories and insights on:

His love of professional wrestling

His work with RIP Magazine

Interviewing Alice Cooper

His book Language of Fear

Meeting and working with Guns N’ Roses

The stories behind the iconic GN’R music videos he wrote

Ozzy Osbourne and Back to the Beginning

Axl Rose meeting Ozzy

Wes Arkeen

Attending Back to the Beginning

Reconnecting with Slash

And much more

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