SAUL HUDSON "SLASH", THE GUITARIST OF GUNS N'ROSES

Saul Hudson aka Slash

Today, The Grandma has been revising her long plays and she has found some interesting material about Guns N'Roses an amazing American rock group formed by Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and Slash.

The Grandma loves rock and she remembers Guns N' Roses concerts, especially, because of its guitarra solista, Saul Hudson, also known as Slash, who was born on a day like today in 1965.

Before revising her old things, The Grandma has studied her Ms. Excel course.

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Saul Hudson, born 23 July 1965, better known by his stage name Slash, is a British–American musician and songwriter. He is the lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Slash has received critical acclaim and is considered one of the greatest guitarists in rock history.

In 1993, Slash formed the side project Slash's Snakepit; three years later he left Guns N' Roses in 1996 and co-founded the supergroup Velvet Revolver, which re-established him as a mainstream performer in the mid to late 2000s. Slash has released four solo albums: Slash (2010), featuring an array of guest musicians, and Apocalyptic Love (2012), World on Fire (2014) and Living the Dream (2018) recorded with his band, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. He returned to Guns N' Roses in 2016.

Time magazine named him runner-up on their list of The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players in 2009, while Rolling Stone placed him at number 65 on their list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2011.

Guitar World ranked his guitar solo in November Rain number 6 on their list of The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos in 2008, and Total Guitar placed his riff in Sweet Child o' Mine at number 1 on their list of The 100 Greatest Riffs in 2004. In 2010, Gibson Guitar Corporation ranked Slash as number 34 on their Top 50 Guitarists of All Time, while their readers landed him number 9 on Gibson's Top 25 Guitarists of All Time. In 2012, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns N' Roses' classic lineup.

Saul Hudson aka Slash

Hudson was born in Hampstead, London. He was named after Saul Steinberg, an artist. His mother, Ola J. Hudson was an African-American costume designer, whose clients included David Bowie; and his father, Anthony Hudson, is an English artist who created album covers for musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

Of his mixed background, Slash later remarked, As a musician, I've always been amused that I'm both British and black; particularly because so many American musicians seem to aspire to be British while so many British musicians, in the 'Sixties in particular, went to such great pains to be black.

In 1979, Slash decided to form a band with his friend Steven Adler. The band never materialized, but it prompted Slash to take up an instrument. Since Adler had designated himself the role of guitarist, Slash decided to learn how to play bass. Equipped with a one-string flamenco guitar given to him by his grandmother, he began taking classes with Robert Wolin, a teacher at Fairfax Music School. During his first lesson, Slash decided to switch from bass to guitar after hearing Wolin play Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones. His decision to play guitar was further influenced by one of his school teachers, who would play songs by Cream and Led Zeppelin for his students.

Slash joined his first band, Tidus Sloan, in 1981. In 1983, he formed the band Road Crew -named after the Motörhead song (We Are) The Road Crew- with his childhood friend Steven Adler, who by then had learned to play drums.

In June 1985, Slash was asked by Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin to join the newly founded Guns N' Roses, along with Duff McKagan and Steven Adler, replacing founding members Tracii Guns, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner, respectively.

In 1994, Slash formed Slash's Snakepit, a side project that featured his Guns N' Roses bandmates Matt Sorum and Gilby Clarke on drums and rhythm guitar respectively, as well as Alice in Chains' Mike Inez on bass and Jellyfish's Eric Dover on vocals.

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In 2002, Slash reunited with Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum for a Randy Castillo tribute concert. Realizing that they still had the chemistry of their days in Guns N' Roses, they decided to form a new band together. Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin was initially involved, but left after the others decided to find a lead singer. Dave Kushner, who had previously played with McKagan in Loaded, then joined the band on rhythm guitar. For many months, the four searched for a lead singer by listening to offered demo tapes, a monotonous process documented by VH1. Eventually, former Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland joined the band.

In 2003, Velvet Revolver played several concerts during the summer and released their first single, Set Me Free. In June 2004, they released their debut album, Contraband, which debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. chart and sold two million copies, re-establishing Slash as a mainstream performer.

In September 2008, Slash began production on his debut solo album. On December 29, 2015, several days after a Guns N' Roses-related teaser was released to movie theaters, Billboard reported that Slash would rejoin the band to headline Coachella 2016, filling the lead guitarist spot vacated when DJ Ashba left the band.

Guns N' Roses were officially announced as headliners of Coachella on January 4, 2016, with KROQ reporting Slash and Duff McKagan would rejoin the band. Slash performed with Guns N' Roses for the first time in 23 years during the band's secret warmup gig at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on April 1, 2016.

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I had no aspirations to be a musician,

but I picked up a guitar for two seconds

and haven't put it down since.

Slash