Where is slash from

His birth name is Saul Hudson. He was later given the nickname "Slash", by a family friend, who said Slash was always in a hurry, zipping around from one thing to another. Quite apt really. His mother is a Black American, and his father is a white Englishman, both artistic and highly influential in his early years. His father, also in the music industry provided art direction for record albums. Two notable clients of his were Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

In the mids, at the age of 11, his parents separated. Slash moved from Stoke, to Los Angeles with his mother while his father remained based in England. While at junior high school, his grandmother gave him his first guitar, although it initially had one string, Slash devoted 12 hours a day to playing.

Slash lived a bohemian life style from an early age. Although an outsider at school, he was surrounded by artistic friends of his parents, getting accustomed to the moods he was to later experience. Jeff Beck is one of the most amazing guitar players the world has seen when it just comes to rock and roll guitar. He's a real organic player. For me to sound like "me" I have to have a Marshall. That's just the way it is. I just had to straighten out some shit. He's a huge hero of mine and the fact that he knew who I was was a huge compliment.

Bo Diddley created a myth that was uniquely his own. An entire rhythm is owed to just one guy and that's pretty rare. He was such a trooper and a timeless individual. I'm hoping the pioneers of rock like Bo Diddley won't be forgotten. I've always worked hard towards being able to play what I hear in my head. I don't like to over-think. If something comes into my head, I want to be able to play it instantly. That's what improvising is all about, and that's why I go and jam a lot.

Axl is like a magnet for problems. I've never met anybody like him. He's the kind of guy that would get a toothbrush stuck down his throat because that particular toothbrush happened to be defective. I don't see why the subject of kicking dope is such a big deal. It's personal, really. It's like asking how I go to the bathroom or what do I wash when I take a shower. So I have very vivid memories of the Rainbow and the Roxy, and the Whisky was a huge point of interest at that time. And we practically lived at Tower Records.

It was all so great; that's where I brought my band up. It was a such a scene. I still live close to the Strip, just up the hill, and when people are visiting from out of town, the first place I send them is the Rainbow.

I still go to the Roxy and the Viper Room every so often. The Rainbow and Viper Room are almost like in a time warp. They are cryptically unchanged. You see people you haven't seen for 20 years, and they pretty much look the same now as they did then. It's sort of a trip because I'm probably one of them. The Rainbow is like the community center of the area. It's a cool place - they've got a bar, they play rock music, it's the last vestige of cool rock 'n' roll in the city.

People go there religiously, and that's probably why I go there. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». That's not the only high-profile guitar Slash has given away, though. Ten years later, Perry got nostalgic and started looking for the guitar.

He quickly found it; Slash was playing it in a Guitar Player centerfold. Perry was one of Slash's boyhood idols, but when he called to see if Slash would sell him the guitar, Slash wouldn't budge.

Perry understood and later said in an interview, "I mean if I had a chance to get hold of the white Strat Jeff Beck played on Wired , I'd have a hard time letting go of it! You might not know it, but Slash is a huge supporter of animals and the environment. Earlier this year he got behind the cause of Billy, an endangered Asian elephant who lives at the LA Zoo. When Slash learned that funding for the zoo's Pachyderm Forest was in jeopardy, he filmed a broadcast-and-YouTube plea urging the Los Angeles City Council to complete the new habitat.

At the time, one of the zookeepers told Reuters, "I've always been impressed with Slash's knowledge of animals. In many cases, he is even able to identify the different subspecies, something that most people can't do. Read the previous installments here. BY Ethan Trex. He Grew Up With Rock.