SLASH: The Album That Changed My Life

September 17, 2007

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash has penned a column for Harp magazine about the album that changed his life: AEROSMITH's "Rocks".

Slash wrote: "I first heard it when I was about 14 years old. I used to race BMX bikes and the older guys put it on, and it just grabbed me — 'f%@&, this is bad.' I only got to hear it for like a second the first time. The second time I heard it was — there was this girl that used to hang around a certain group of friends, and she was probably the best-looking girl in school and in the neighborhood, and she'd just broken up with her boyfriend. I tried desperately to pick this girl up for the longest time, and finally she invited me up to her house.

"I was aspiring to get in this girl's pants, more or less, so I go up to her room, and she's got tapestries on the wall and incense and pot, her stereo — a typical teenage-girl’s room at the time. She put on some records; we listened to ZEPPELIN; we listened to YES; and then finally she put this record on that I recognized immediately from like the first f%&*#n' note.

"It was 'Rocks'. I must've listened to this record in that girl's — her name was Lori — bedroom probably a half-dozen times, from front to back, over and over again, and I completely ignored her. The whole purpose of my being there completely went out the window. Finally I think she said, 'I think it's time for you to go.' And I was like, 'Okay, see ya.' I got on my bike and I took off and she never spoke to me again."

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