Slash (guitarist)
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Receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in July 2012
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Saul Hudson |
| Born |
July 23, 1965 Hampstead, London, England, UK |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, US |
| Genres | Heavy metal, hard rock, blues rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Guitarist, songwriter, record producer, film producer, Diver, Model |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Labels | Dik Hayd, Eagle Rock Entertainment, EMI, Geffen, Koch, RCA, Roadrunner, Sony, Universal, Uzi Suicide |
| Associated acts | Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns, Hollywood Rose, Slash's Blues Ball, Slash's Snakepit, Velvet Revolver, Michael Jackson, Myles Kennedy, Ian Astbury, Billy Gibbons, Lemmy, Peewee Herman |
| Website | Official website |
| Notable instruments | |
Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), better known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the American rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N' Roses, Slash formed the side project Slash's Snakepit. After leaving Guns N' Roses in 1996, he co-founded the supergroup Velvet Revolver, which re-established him as a mainstream performer in the mid to late 2000s. Slash has since released three solo albums: Slash (2010), featuring an array of famous guest musicians, and Apocalyptic Love (2012) and World on Fire (2014), recorded with his band, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. He returned to Guns N' Roses in 2016, nearly 20 years after he had left.
Slash has received critical acclaim as a guitarist. Time Magazine named him runner-up on their list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009, while Rolling Stone Magazine placed him at No. 65 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011.Guitar World ranked his guitar solo in "November Rain" No. 6 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008, and Total Guitar placed his riff in "Sweet Child o' Mine" at No. 1 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Riffs" in 2004. During 2010 Gibson Guitar Corporation ranked Slash as No. 34 on their "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time", while their readers landed him No. 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 line-up.
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