Biography from Last.fm
Saul Hudson (born 23 July 1965, Stoke, England), better known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician. He is the lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he performed and recorded between 1985 and 1996, Reuniting with the band in 2016. He later formed Slash's Snakepit and co-founded Velvet Revolver with his former bandmates Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum; and his debut solo album, Slash , was released in April 2010. Read more on Last.fm
From the KISS frontman’s personal Twitter account…
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— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) November 11, 2014
Oh Gene.
This is probably why you shouldn’t let ageing rockstars setup their own pre-dated scheduled tweets. The offending tweet has since been deleted, but hey, nothing ever really gets deleted on the internet.
UPDATED (AGAIN):
Hmmmmmmm. Riiiiight.
Slash
Apocalyptic Love
Roadrunner Records
22 May 2012
by David Keevil
Slash carries a name, and an image, that has become synonymous with rock music; from the iconic opening blast of ‘Welcome to the Jungle’, through to his bolshy groove-ridden tenure for Velvet Revolver, this is a man who’s been an ambassador for hard rock ever since the late-80s heyday of Guns N’ Roses. It’s down to being such an enduring masthead of rock music – even if his cultural zenith peaked twenty years ago – that every new Slash record must drag the weight of his much more prosperous days behind him.
Slash played ‘Sweet Child o’ Mine’ AND ‘Paradise City’ and Miles Kennedy fucking nailed the vocals on both of them. Axl who?
In the continued game of one-upmanship that Download and Sonisphere have been engaging in for no good reason, today Download decided to annouce thirty acts. How the hell are we supposed to come up with enough snide and bitchy comments about thirty bloody bands? I ask you.
This coming week sees a couple of big occasions in the life of the guitarist formerly known as Saul Hudson. Not only does Tuesday mark the 22nd anniversary of the release of Appetite For Destruction, but then on Thursday, Slash hits his 44th birthday. Holy shit! That means Slash has been carrying the millstone of his best work being behind him for exactly half his entire life. That’s just gotta sting.
