Slash (musician)
Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson, known professionally as Slash, is a British and American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success beginning in the late 1980s. He has received critical acclaim and is considered one of the greatest guitarists in history.
"The guitar players that inspire me today are basically all the same guitar players that inspired me when I first started. That hasnt really changed, but additionally I think that Tom Morello, Jack White & Jerry Cantrell are great and are some of the really inspiring lead guitar players that have come out in the last 20 years."
"Some people think I always wear the hat, but thats not true. Sometimes I dont wear the hat. It makes me laugh that some people think I always wear the hat, because obviously I dont wear the hat all the time. What about when I sleep or take a shower? I dont wear the hat then. Also, I dont wear the hat to go to Millets."
"It makes sense that the bands first show took place in Seattle because as much as L.A. was our address, we had as much in common with the average "L.A." band as Seattles weather has with Southern California."
"The truth is, all we ever cared to do was top the bullshit hair metal bands that enjoyed undue success for their subpar existence."
"Ive always had to do things my way; Ive gotten high my way, Ive gotten clean my way, Ive been in and out of relationships my way. Ive taken myself to the edges of life my way. And Im still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story."
"Most of the girls who dated us back then were these innocent chicks whose lives were changed forever after one of us came into it for however long it lasted. We were like a vacuum back then that sucked people up and spit them out; a ton of people around us fell by the wayside that way. Some people died, not because of anything we did, but as a side effect of being too close to the flame. People would get attracted to our fucked-up weird life and just get it wrong and drown in our riptide."
