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
pace want vices
If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.
names stores bigs
I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.
dinner hendrix hanging-out
If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.
jeans leather-pants forgiving
That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.
destiny thinking deserve-you
You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.
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.
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.
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.