Could you imagine how different Poison would sound if Slash was their guitarist? Or how the former Guns N' Roses star would look with poofy hair and tons of makeup? Well, the top-hatted one did in fact try out for the job, and as you might expect it wasn't a perfect match.
Many therapists have gotten rich hearing stories about how their patients, at an impressionable age, caught their parents in the throes of passion. Of course, it's only natural that Slash can pretty much top everybody's own story of seeing their parents in flagrante delicto, because he's Slash. In a new interview, he reveals that he once walked in on his mother and David Bowie.
One of the toughest things a classic rock artist has to deal with is working up a new batch of songs only to have the press focus exclusively on your past. Slash has found a way to ensure that the focus is on his most recent work and not Guns N' Roses, by limiting discussion about it.
Slash remains out on tour as a solo artist, albeit with the very capable Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators serving as his band, but the questions about Velvet Revolver's future still remain.
Just when it seemed like the war of words between Slash and Axl Rose had finally died down, a third party has jumped into the fray. Yesterday (July 10) actor Charlie Sheen, a neighbor and friend of the former Guns N' Roses guitarist, took a public swipe at Rose.
Who would have thought that a guy named Saul would rock so hard? But that's the case for the musician who many have come to know as Slash. The guitar great, who turns 47 on July 23, first came to fame as a member of the recently inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act, Guns N' Roses.
After moving on to middling returns for hi
