SLASH Calls Japanese Disaster 'One Of The Most Surreal, Unnerving Events' In Recent Years

March 22, 2011

Legendary guitarist Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) spoke to U.K.'s Kerrang! magazine about the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that shook Japan on March 11 and left more than 8,000 killed and over 12,000 missing.

"It's one of the most surreal, unnerving events that has happened in recent years," he tells Kerrang! "It's displaced so many people, not to mention claiming so many lives, and it's really tragic.

"I honestly feel that the Japanese are so fucking resilient that they'll get through it," he adds. "But God, what a painful experience for everybody."

Slash, who was on tour in Japan when the tsunami struck its Pacific coast on March 11, managed to play one of his scheduled dates in Osaka last March 14.

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