Guns and other rock fans will get something out of this - it´s designed to evoke The Dirt, the Motley Crue bio, but has nothing of the freshness and punch of that. I started playing it and instantly Steve came up with a beat, Duff joined in with a bass line, and away we went. But my physical approach to an acoustic sound didn’t work on electric guitar– I hit it too hard when I’m playing acoustic stuff, so doing it on electric was not really conducive to that sort of attack. If you enjoy (old school) hard rock music or if you are a fan of Guns ‘n Roses / Slash you should really check this book out.

Kylie Peters, the lead singer, alcohol guzzling, cigarette smoking, and debauchery queen of Ashes of Angst.NOTES: You are NOT a fan of a band if you heard one song of them on Guitar Hero or Rock Band and liked it. A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies.

Across its oversized 364 pages, Slash tells the stories behind the guitars he has used throughout his legendary career, all of them accompanied by gorgeously detailed photos of the instruments themselves.

In The Collection: Slash, the guitarist draws new insights into the stories behind the music through exclusive interviews with Mark Agnesi (Director of Brand Experience at Gibson). In fact, Guns ‘n' Roses was one of the first “heavy” bands I got hooked on in my teens, because even with all the boycotts and sanctions (not to mention that the country was firmly in the grip of the Satanic Panic – in fact there is a Wikipedia page just for this phenomenon in South Africa, which was the only country with an Occult Related Crimes Unit), “Appetite for Destruction” found its way here. The guitars that you take out on tour and play the most are the ones you feel most comfortable with, the ones that give you what you want from them, the ones that are consistent,” he says. He suggested that [his girlfriend] Adrianna Smith, who was with us in the studio that day, fuck him in the live room so that we could record her vocals and layer them over the breakdown. Highly collectible, The Collection: Slash Custom edition is the only edition of the book limited to 500 copies worldwide, and hand-signed by Slash himself.