Slash who is he

During this time Slash got interested in BMX riding, and went on to win several awards and money in competitions. When he was 15 he got his first guitar, and his schoolwork started to go downhill as he skipped class to sit playing guitar all day.

Slash eventually got so tired of school that he dropped out in 11th grade. As he lived in Los Angeles, a city flourishing with new, young rock bands, he quickly got in touch with people to jam with. After meeting Steven Adler the two of them formed a band called Road Crew.

Then he met Izzy Stradlin who played in a band with Axl Rose, and after hearing Axl sing live, he was set on getting him in his band. Soon enough, GNR were known across the globe as the new rock n' roll sensation. Album sales went sky high and the band was having a blast on their world tours, and during this time Slash worked with artists like Michael Jackson on the Dangerous album and Lenny Kravitz, just to name two.

Slash however, needed to play music and so he formed his own band Slash's Snakepit. During this time Slash and Axl were having some heated arguments about Guns N' Roses and what would happen next. Guns N' Roses as we knew them then, was terminated by the result as Slash decided to leave the band, handing all rights of the band name over to Axl. After this Slash did a few gigs here and there, formed a band called Blues Ball who played blues covers, and even brought back Slash's Snakepit as he said he would, although they didn't last very long this time either.

In , Slash met Perla Ferrar and on October 15, , married her. It's not surprising that he wore black leather pants, a white shirt and his faithful black leather jacket to the wedding! His new status as a married man didn't slow him down, though. Velvet Revolver's debut album Contraband was long-awaited and sold incredibly well.

They are now going to show up on the second Live Aid concert along with many other huge artists, which will be held in London. Velvet Revolver's plans to become a rock band of great magnitude are definitely in the works, and Slash himself has earned his title as one of the greatest rock n' roll guitar players in history. Sign In. Edit Slash. Showing all 65 items.

Always uses Gibson Les Paul guitars of various colors, with extremely few exceptions. Almost always had a cigarette hanging from his mouth in his early days but quit smoking when he mother died of cancer.

Leather pants and sunglasses. Wears a tophat every time he plays live. He became famous as the guitarist of the hard rock and heavy metal band Guns N' Roses , one of the most iconic rock groups to emerge in the s and considered by many to be one of the greatest bands of all time.

Slash lived with his father and grandparents in Stoke-on-Trent until the age of five, when he and his father joined his mother in Los Angeles. His parents divorced several years later, and Slash became a "problem child.

At 14, he began learning to play guitar, sometimes practicing for as many as 12 hours a day. In , he joined his first band, Tidus Sloan, and dropped out of high school to tour. For the next four years, Slash joined or formed a series of bands.

They began writing the songs that they would become known for, including "Sweet Child o' Mine," "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Paradise City," and were signed by Geffen Records in By the time Guns N' Roses released their debut album, Appetite for Destruction , in , Slash and other members of the band had developed a drug problem. Two years later, when the band opened for the Rolling Stones, Axl Rose made a very public announcement that he would leave the band if the other members kept using heroin.

The albums debuted at No. Izzy Stradlin left the group suddenly, and their next album, a compilation of punk and glam-rock covers titled The Spaghetti Incident , performed poorly compared to their earlier work. And he had access to a lot of good records as a kid.

I would dream of playing with Slash. They stopped making them like Slash years ago. All those guys, they were all just signing their name in melting snow. No, Slash is the last great guitar hero. He might not be a shredder, or a symphonic virtuoso, or the sort of player who flatters to deceive with a Catherine Wheel of notes, but what he does have is that most essential of qualities: feel.

Listen to the staccato opening and wailing sirens of Welcome To The Jungl e: anyone can play that, but no can play it like Slash. Your first Donington experience in was both incredible and tragic — when two fans died mid-show. What do you remember of that? So I remember not being all that into it. The reaction the second we walked out on stage was unbelievable. So we had this amazing 40 -minute set, or whatever it was, and it was really a huge high point.

I ran into our tour manager at the bar and he was crying. There was a bizarre shift from complete euphoria to going to this depressed state.

The positive memory of the gig got washed away. It was heavy. Did it take a toll on you? How do you come back from that? How do you handle it? Because it happened on our watch. It took a while to get over that. What was it like the first time you plugged a guitar into an amp? I roughly started playing when I was 14 , but I was maybe 16 when I had that amp, guitar, distortion box combo.

All of a sudden that set me off in this direction. But the thing that excited me musically at that time? That was mine.