Slash Lyrics

Slash Info:

Birth name:
Saul Hudson

Born:
July 23, 1965 ( age )

Born In:
Hampstead, London, England

From:
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Father:
Anthony Hudson (an English artist)
• He created album covers for musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell

Mother:
Ola Hudson ( was an African-American costume designer)
• her clients included David Bowie

Spouse:
Perla Ferrar (m. 2001)
Renee Suran (model-actress, m. 1992–1997)

Children:
London Emilio (born August 28, 2002)
Cash Anthony (born June 23, 2004)
(both with Perla Ferrar)

Genres:
Heavy metal, hard rock, blues rock, Glam rock

Occupations:
Musician, songwriter, record producer, film producer

Instruments:
Guitar, bass, talkbox, banjo, vocals

Years active:
1981–present

Name Origin:
His birth name was named after Saul Steinberg, an artist.

He explained his stage name:
"My best friend’s dad is an actor named Seymour Cassel. We used to ditch school and hang out at his house and he used to call me Slash and it was just habitual with him."

"I was on tour in Europe and I happened to run into him and we went to dinner. He told me that he called me Slash, cause I had to ask him, and he says it was always because I was in a hurry, hustling whatever it was I was hustling at the time and never had time to sit and chat. I was always sort of in passing and he just started calling me Slash."

Associated acts:
Guns N' Roses
Hollywood Rose
Michael Jackson
Slash's Blues Ball
Slash's Snakepit
Velvet Revolver

Notable Instruments:
Gibson Les Paul
Gibson EDS-1275
B.C. Rich Mockingbird

Slash Trivia:
• He originally shop lifted his signature top hat back in 1985, from a store called Retail Slut in L.A.

Slash Quotes:
"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."

"My big awakening happened when I was 14. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, a nd she finally let me come over to her house. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. It hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. I remember riding my bike back to my grandma's house knowing that my life had changed. Now I identified with something."

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