Slash
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- Slash plays on first single The Hunter on Paul Rodgers' Tribute To Muddy Waters album
- His influences are Jeff Beck, AC/DC, T-Rex, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Muddy Waters and B.B. King.
- 1998: Left Guns N' Roses in 1996 after numerous failed attempts at co-existing with longtime bandmate W. Axl Rose.
- Guitarist for the heavy-metal band Guns N' Roses.
- Has recorded with British heavy metal band Motörhead, American singer and longtime friend Lenny Kravitz and Michael Jackson.
- Velvet Revolver was named after The Velvet Underground and their feelings that they were at a point where they were revolving around the world as opposed to the world revolving around them.
- Of Nigerian and English descent.
- He attended Beverly Hills High School with Lenny Kravitz in the early 1980s, but did not graduate.
- Mother is clothing designer Ola Hudson. Her work includes costumes for David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Pointer Sisters.
- His father is Anthony Hudson, album cover designer for Geffen Records, including Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark".
- His favorite book is "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson.
- His pulse once stopped after a drug overdose at a hotel. Doctors were able to revive him with a shot of adrenaline into his chest.
- On the show "Kid Notorious" (2003), he plays himself, the voice of reason, next-door neighbor and good friend of Robert Evans (Kid Notorious). In real life, he actually is the next-door neighbor and good friend of Evans (although he says he is hardly the voice of reason).
- Auditioned for the heavy metal band Poison.
- July 2001: Voted the West Midlands' best guitarist in Total Guitar Magazine's poll of the greatest British guitarists.
- Wife Perla gave birth to a 9 lbs 4 oz baby boy, London Emilio Hudson, on August 28, 2002, and to an 8 lbs 13 oz baby boy, Cash Anthony Hudson, on June 23, 2004.
- Before Guns N' Roses, was in a band called Road Crew with future GNR bandmates Duff McKagan and Steven Adler.
- Attended middle and high school with longtime Guns N' Roses bandmate Steven Adler.
- Released two albums with his new band, Slash's Snakepit.
- Has not spoken to former bandmate W. Axl Rose since 1996. They communicated their song selection for the 1999 Guns N' Roses live album "Live Era" only through intermediaries.
- 1/22/90: Created controversy after giving a profanity-laden acceptance speech at the American Music Awards.
- Left Guns N' Roses in 1996 after numerous failed attempts at co-existing with longtime bandmate W. Axl Rose.