RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with former
GUNS N' ROSES and current
VELVET REVOLVER guitarist
Slash. An excerpt from the chat follows below.
RollingStone.com: You've spoken about how much
AEROSMITH's
"Rocks" influenced you and it was weird to think that
"Appetite for Destruction" was now having that same effect on other people.
Slash: I think the first time I ever really saw how that clicked was when the
"Paradise City" video came out. There's this couple in
GUNS N' ROSES T-shirts somewhere in the first 10 rows. There's a closeup of them making out, just a quick shot, and that hit a nerve with me 'cause that took me back to when I used to be putting my hand up some girl's shirt in the heat of the rock concert. I met that chick by the way, years later. But lately it's just been a lot of people talking about certain moments that they've had listening to a particular song or whatever. But I can relate to it, I know exactly what they're talking about because all those things you go through in life as a teenager, usually to the background music of some great band that you're into. It's very important, the rock & roll colorizing of the whole thing; you start looking at people's experiences like that.
Read the entire interview at
RollingStone.com.
