Slash shares his thoughts on what makes “a good guitar,” and digs into the blues influence on his 2024 album, Orgy of the Damned. Order Slash's new album and more at: shorturl.at/KZVr3
I know he was talking about expensive vintage guitars but you know the Gibson marketing team was sweating when he was talking about how there’s a line where you’re just spending money for the name or the label. 😂
Probably one of my favorite interviews. Specially when he is so candid about the addiction that is for us guitar players to buy and buy and buy guitars when one or two can really do the trick and you actually form a far better connection with the instrument and the quote unquote myth that is the vintage guitar rabbit hole. Plus he’s rocking an amazing new Breitling Chronomat B01 42. Love this guy to death.
I gifted him that little wolfman bobblehead you see on top of his amp I’m the beginning and towards the end of this video! I geek out every time I see it. I’m so happy he loved it that much to continue taking it on the road with him.
How a guitar feels in your hands after a few weeks of playing is something missed in nearly all guitar reviews on YT. And yet it is what we value most and member longest about any guitar.
Just love how Slash has cleaned up (long time ago), and has become a better player, even though he already was kickass. I love seeing how awesome he is doing, this is a fantastic interview. I'd love to hang out with him for a day, sweet spirit and down to earth, awesome. Especially when he mentioned Johnny Winter, who happened to be my first guitar concert (1973), Johnny was fresh out of rehab and on fire, I'm still impacted from that. Yessir, keep on rockin' Slash, keep on rockin'
Slash is always enjoyable in a interview because he is relatable and logical in his views and experience . Always praising his influences is a sign of a genuine talent in my opinion .
I've always found Slash's soft voice, chill, gentle Good vibes to be calming, comforting somehow, he's always been my fav guitar player, but even more as we all age i get to appreciate as much his genuine and Good, mature vibes. It's hard to explain, i call it the Slash Effect: from a Spiritual/Intuitive point he's High Vibrational, there's something special about Slash, a gentle, genuine, Good soul, different from many chaotic, nasty, toxic, fake, Ego driven, self obsessed A/A+ Listers faking kindness and/or humility out of Selfinterest, greed and PR/image.. Slash's talent and Iconic Rock Legend status are one thing, the person behind the brand is another, hence heartbreaking to see him at his worst in the early 2000s, still crazy how close he really was from Death, then heartwarming to see him fight to live, get clean & sober, learn hard lessons, mature, be happy, at Peace, thriving, he's been so productive since, you can feel he's in a happy place in his life. Slash is still that kid who still loves to play and collaborate with artists, record and tour for the love & fun of playing live, who will tour for as long as his health allows him to, grateful to be alive and well, transpiring in his interviews bc it's sincere, so is his humility and laid back mindset, not afraid of showing vulnerability regarding addictions, self reflection, accountability, a true Rock Star who's NOT ruled by Ego... To guitar players out there calling him a sell out i'll say this: The man is no Gene Simmons nor Jimmy Page !!! he's not greedy, he had to learn to know his worth: it's different. After all he's been through and all the millions he was ripped off for so long he's become strategical: endorsments/partnerships then GN'R's revival bigger checks finance all his small creative projects (not just music) that make no profit or very little, including this excellent Blues album with a very small venues US tour, and even a part of his albums with Myles & Conspirators (good reviews doesn't mean high grossing sales & tours); and his divorce had cost him more than half of what he had.. Moreover, when you look into it Gibson's selling prices for his signature guitars are lower compared to other high profile household names' esp compared to Jimmy Page and Kirk Hammet's ones... Slash is a lot more known/famous than any Zakky Wilde, Jason Isbell and Bonamassa combined, yet Slash's signature models sell for the same price: 3000-3500$... Kirk Hammet's Greeny models are up to 20k in comparison, AND Jimmy Page's signatures never sold for less than 8k$ (prior to inflation), the double neck SG limited signature sold for 50k$, outrageously expensive in comparison.. +Remember Axl had "negociated" most rights to GN'R royalties in addition to the band's name, so once Slash and Duff had quit in 94/95 they stopped getting big checks from GN'R until their return in 2016...
I wasn't going to say anything, but since you decided to reupload this I just wanted to be That Guy and point out that it should either say "Slash on Choosing a Guitar That Isn't a Les Paul," or "Slash on Choosing Guitars that Aren't Les Pauls." You may all yell at me now.
Great video. The guitar maturity shows. Tonal quality is the pallete of the musician. He references this in this short interview. Plus for a fellow that can have any guitar (and does in his collection) it is about functionallity. Keep rockin' Slash! You are aging like fine wine. Love your music! Long live rock n roll!
Slash is def one of those guitarists you can hear & know pretty quickly it's him. I remember first listening to "Ordinary Man," by Ozzy off the album of the same name, when it came out, & thinking the guitar solo sounded like Slash; looked & it was him, alright!
This is exactly why I like slash, not is he a great musician, he's very knowledgeable about instruments. But he is right, as a guitar player, we only really need one good guitar, but because I play multiple different genres, I needed multiple to avoid constant tuning changes from E standard to drop A.
Nice interview, He's really honest about his guitar tone, he has always played great but his tone is always the same no matter what guitar he plays, I never really understood why he plays so many different models since it doesn't make any difference.
I’ve got a Les Paul standard 2006 1960 Les Paul reissue. Never needed another guitar but I’ve gotten more and always go back. He’s right about only needing one good one
There's a lot of truth to the old chestnut, "How many guitars does a guitarist need? Just one...........more!" I'm a keyboard player who also plays guitar, I only have 15. So far!
I really do not know how many guitars I own, I only know if I think I might like it and I can get it, I just get it. Now if it ends up on a album or not, played in the studio only or used for live gigs only or stays in the private collection/ gets modded or sold off in the catch and release program. It's all part of my rock n roll fantasy. 🎸🤠
1:27 Yui Hirasawa from K-ON! even knows that as she knows a musical instrument is meant to be played. Despite being heavy, she thought the Les Paul is cute.
fyi, he’a always played various styles of guitars but his main ones have been les pauls for quite a while. he played a slide dobro, bc rich, double neck SG, etc. on the use your illusion tours. before they were signed he had a few different ones that weren’t les pauls. there are a lot of pics and videos on line… they do look weird though, i’ll admit, lol.
@@jeremythornton433 Dust n' Bones The Ritz Theatre, he's playing a Sanchez superstrat. Also, there's a vid of him playing the Godfather theme on a white strat at the November Rain shoot.
Nothing over-the-top since that would be chasing trends. Products that stand the test of time should matter in a way as merit. Les Pauls are the best at that. They can be comforting to play. The lighter models are nice too.
@@satyanpatel6403 I used to have a reverb pedal (a Digitech, I think, with Lexicon reverb) that came with a rubber cover for the knobs, so they wouldn't shift settings by accident. I wish all pedals had one of those. It's a damn shame that they don't.
We’ll slash is very old school and traditional with his guitar stuff. Different guitars are sometimes like different instruments. Les Paul and strat is like two different instruments. It’s like banjo vs mandolin.
Slash is still my Number One favourite guitar player of all time since 2001 when I was 15 years old. The next project has to be a collaboration with his twin Brother in music: Lenny Kravitz.
I dont get my hands on the kind of guitars Slash does, but I can still relate. I once had a neck thru Washburn with single coils. Mild single coils. It played fantastic and sounded crystalline when clean, but I wanted a Les Paul/Marshall sound & really was never satisfied with it. After dumping it for a much cheaper guitar with humbuckers, I struggled with that until I could afford a decent one. 10 years Iater , after having a few guitars come & go ,I really regretted ditching a nice guitar with unique quality tone for a junky one that had none.
I think when someone finds a pristine vintage guitar in a closet, under a bed etc, it’s usually pristine because 1)the owner never got seriously into playing or 2)it plays like a dog and/or sounds like a turd
@@revtimewest There is a scientific explanation for vintage guitars. When guitars age, the moisture leaves the guitar and they become more solid and stable, often resulting in a better tone. This is especially true for spruce top acoustic/classical guitars. They simply sound better with age. Now, if you get a guitar with a roasted maple neck, like Misha Mansoor, that adds to stability as well.
If you play rock/blues/metal etc: one guitar with humbuckers, one with single coils, one superstrat for metal stuff, one 6 string acoustic and one 12 string acoustic. Sorted
Slash sounds good because he can affford to have 12 speaker cabinets with his Les Paul guitar with top of the line preamps and Gibson can sustain where as my guitar couldn’t sustain it couldn’t bend. So soloing was done without bends. And the chords sounded disgusting after a while. You really need two amps . And a good guitar.
I want to see Slash endorse Firefly or Leo Jaymz , really fuck with the overpriced name brand market who have been made obsolete by anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention over the last few years
Honestly I’ve found that Japanese guitars from the 70s mainly aria pro ii guitars are perfect they’re pretty cheap, and they all have those vintage elements as they’re blatant knockoffs of Gibson and bc Rich’s and fenders.
