![]() ![]() He lives in LA with his wife and two sons. He left in 1996 to form Slash’s Snakepit and later Velvet Revolver. Given his first guitar by his grandmother when he was 15, Slash went on to play in various local bands before teaming up with Izzy Stradlin and Axl Rose to form Guns N’ Roses in 1985. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Wood and Iggy Pop. He was raised in Stoke until he was 11, when he and his mother moved to LA. He moved with his family to Stoke before emigrating with his mother to LA when he was 11. Saul Slash Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father and a black American mother who created David Bowie’s look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. Saul “Slash” Hudson was born in Hampstead in 1965. ‘Slash’s story is harrowingly compulsive reading, presenting the most graphically spot-on account of hardcore drug addiction since William Burroughs’ The Record Collector ‘A fitting monument… Slash’s memoirs are an unexpectedly intoxicating cocktail of irresponsibility and dedication.’ Independent on Sunday ‘A raucous rock yarn’, (Top 10 Rock Books) The Independent ‘The most insane rock n’ roll autobiography you’ll ever read.’ Observer As raucous and edgy as his music, Slash sets the record straight and tells the real story as only Slash can. But with a new wife, kids and new band Velvet Revolver, Slash is back on track. Guns N’ Roses spent two years builiding their reputation before Appetite for Destruction was unleashed on an unsuspecting world.Ĭhart success and global domination followed but with it came the inevitable fall – addicted to heroin, booze and cigarettes the band imploded in a rift between Axl and Slash that is as deep today as ever. Sessions with numerous local LA rock bands followed until a fateful meeting with singer W Axl Rose…and the rest was rock history. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Wood and Iggy Pop.Īt this time Slash got into BMX bikes and would eventually turn professional, winning major awards and money, but at 15 his grandmother gave him his first guitar. Saul “Slash” Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father and a black American mother who created David Bowie’s look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. Karpa published in 2015 (Karpa 8) an article by Cynthia Reilfer Flores on Las Generalas, Maria Elena Muoz (founder and vihuelist) and, Adela Valdez (guitarist). These are the trademarks of one of the world’s greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. It seems excessive…but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. ![]()
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