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Did you ever notice that Slash‘s hair is straight on the cover of Guns N’ Roses‘ landmark album Appetite for Destruction? Do you know why? Designing the Album CoverThe cross depicted on the album’s cover was originally designed by an artist named Billy White Jr. (who died in July of 2023), for a tattoo for Axl Rose. White Jr. told Culture Creature in 2016 that it was the singer’s idea to have a Celtic-inspired cross (in homage to Thin Lizzy) with his then-bandmates’ faces on it as skulls. Rose then took the design to Robert Benedetti at Sunset Strip Tattoo in Los Angeles to have the cross tatt...
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Slash may has spent most of his life in the rock scene, but the guitar great says there’s another music scene that he feels is more “vibrant” than rock these days, and it just so happens his latest album celebrates that style of music. We’re talking about the blues, and Slash says that diving into his more blues-centric Orgy of the Damned album has him excited about what he’s seeing in the blues genre. He told MNPR Magazine, “I love what’s going on in the blues scene. It’s really vibrant right now. I wish the rock scene was similar. [Laughs] The blues scene’s great. I think there’s a lot of re...
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Slash is a blues guy, but in a new interview, the guitar legend named his current favorite metal bands. The rocker has a new album coming out this month, Orgy of the Damned, which is a blues covers album. It features guest vocals from AC/DC‘s Brian Johnson, The Black Crowes‘ Chris Robinson, Dorothy, country singer Chris Stapleton, pop rocker Demi Lovato and some others. Although his guitar playing has always been more blues-focused, he’s still a fan of some heavy stuff. In an interview on the YouTube channel Coffee With Ola, he said that most of what he’s been listening to lately is older band...
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Slash gave fans at Budapest’s MVM Dome a special treat on Friday, dusting off the Guns N’ Roses deep cut “Perfect Crime” for the first time with his solo band. You can watch the performance below. Bassist Todd Kerns handled lead vocals on the high-speed Use Your Illusion I rocker, approximating Axl Rose‘s alley-cat howl with ease. It’s one of several GN’R deep cuts that Slash has revived on his current tour with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, along with the Illusion tracks “Don’t Damn Me” and “Bad Apples,” both of which Kerns also sings. Guns N’ Roses themselves haven’t performed “Perfect...
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Slash has released a fiery rendition of Fleetwood Mac‘s “Oh Well” featuring country star Chris Stapleton, the second single off his upcoming blues covers album Orgy of the Damned. You can listen to the song below. Written by Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green, “Oh Well” was originally released as a single in 1969 and later appeared on the amended U.S. edition of that year’s Then Play On. Several rockers have covered it over the years, including Rick Springfield, Billy Gibbons and Deep Purple. The song has also been part of Slash’s repertoire since the ’90s, when he performed it with his touring...
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