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
guitar rocks together
I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.
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.
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.
player guitar half
I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.
unique ideas guitar
Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.
guitar self expression
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
guitar
Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.
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.
british consider
I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.
desire hang time
I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.
music vast
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
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.
black came cheap cool hard listening music parents rock ted though time
So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.
berry chuck four notes roll soon sort taken
And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.