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
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.
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.
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.
sex rocks hands
Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.
mean gun years
What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke up. That's an interesting phenomenon. It was even interesting back in the day. I mean, [we were] this glorified garage band. It was a great band, but it was not the kind of band you expected to become what it has.
song gun thinking
The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.
gun thinking rose
As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.
music explosions stifling
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.
player
It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.
music mark majors
I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.
opposites people drunk
There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.
kids dig-deep wanted
If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.
mean simple gun
I mean, the thing about Guns N' Roses was that it wasn't trying to attach itself to the '80s, or anything that had to do with the '80s. It's just who we were at that time. We were doing what we wanted to do. That had really nothing to do with anything around us, except for the simple fact that we were rebelling against that stuff.
guitar two musician
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.