SLASH On How GUNS N' ROSES Changed Fans' Lives

September 16, 2008

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.

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