Slash
Slash
Rose to fame as the lead guitarist of the Los Angeles-based hard rock band Guns N' Roses. His guitar prowess is best exemplified on such tracks as "Sweet Child o' Mine," "Paradise City" and "November Rain."
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth23 July 1965
CityHampstead, England
music explosions stifling
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.
dad kids thinking
I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.
music people bars
... that's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..
taken guitar play
I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.
wealthy
I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.
rock-and-roll rocks dixie
I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.
toilets interviews
I do all my interviews on the toilet.
dad guitar rock-and-roll
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
poison eras saws
The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.
sunset gun rose
I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.
night bullshit house
The last time I talked to Axl was in 1996. That was the last time we exchanged any sort of words. There was a rumor that I talked to him a while back [and asked to rejoin the band]. I did go to his house one night, and I talked to his assistant about something that had to do with this lawsuit that we were involved in. But it got turned into something else. He went out and made a press release that said I actually spoke to him, which was all bullshit. I was really shocked.
dad huge lead roll
My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.
musically record
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
music vast
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.