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Slash from guns and roses5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() I couldn't afford good enough concert seats to pick up anything from watching guys perform. When you were coming up, did you see many hot players in L.A.? That’s been my standard until this album ![]() I think that’s when I turned into a Gibson freak – Gibson and Marshall (opens in new tab). Slash, 1983 (Image credit: Marc S Canter/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Later, I got a handmade Les Paul copy, built by a guy who makes awesome guitars, better than anything the company produces now – nothing against Gibson. ![]() But I played that while I was going through different bands. I hocked it during one of my so-called bad periods. I’m real single-minded, so once I got into guitar that's all I did. A lot of people go, “It's gonna take me 10 years to reach this place,” and it freaks them out. I didn't feel like I was trying to reach some goal. I wasn't starstruck and I wasn't so flipped out by other guitar players that they intimidated me. I picked it up really quick because I was naive in a way. At rehearsal one day, I ended up sticking it through a wall neck first because I could not keep the fucking thing in tune. My grandmother was really sweet she bought me an Explorer copy that I flipped out on. I taught myself a UFO song and “ Smoke on the Water.” My first guitar was a one-string Spanish acoustic that was lying around the house. Slash, 1982 (Image credit: Marc S Canter/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ![]()
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