Slash

Now this is my idol. You probably all know him, except for those who really,  REALLY aren’t interested in the music business.

Saul Hudson, AKA Slash, was born on the 23rd of July 1965 in Hampstead, England. He was raised in Stoke-on-Trent until he was 11, when he moved to Los Angeles with his mother, where he attended to the Beverly Hills High School along with Lenny Kravitz.

When he was 15 years old, his grandmother gave him his first guitar; a few years later he dropped out of school. He joined many bands, but none of them had much succes until 1984, when he met Axl Rose, and a few months later, he was a part of Guns n’Roses.

The band struggled for 3 years playing in bars and opening shows for other bands, but in 1987, they recorded their first album “Appetite for Destruction”, that contained songs like “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Sweet child o’mine” and “Paradise City”, the band’s most famous songs. The band just kept getting bigger and bigger, hitting nº1 on Billboard charts in 1988, and the succes went on and on untill 1996, when all the G’n'R’s members said that they could no longuer work with Axl, so the band split up.

Slash worked with some artists like Michael Jackson and Lenny Kravitz after the band split up, but in 2002 he and the other ex-G’n'R’s (except Axl) decided to find another lead singer and form another band. Scott Weiland was the “chosen one”, and then Velvet Revolver started playing in 2003.

Velvet opened the show for Aerosmith last thursday here in São Paulo, and I miraculously got a ticket at the last minute. I finally got to see him play with my own eyes! It was just so weird to know that someone you worship so much is right in front of you! Unfortunatelly I was reeeeealy far away from the stage… But it was worth it! The only problem is that Aerosmith seemed really dull after I had just heard some Velvet…

 Weird photo by Samuel Kobayashi  at flickr.com, but the best I found with CC.

But anyway, I just figured that since I’ve been talking about places and teams that I like, I should also talk about Slash… And I can only hope that some day I will play as well as he does!