The new Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Paul

[68thinline]

Yes but you must admit Slash is still a big name. He just released a solo/collaboration project album, he's done the Velvet Revolver thing very recently, he was just on the Grammy's, and the Guitar Hero/Rock Band games have made him almost a household name even in the homes of grade school age kids. I'm willing to bet that at least 25% of the seventh graders you asked would not only know him by name, but would also recognize the AFD album.

Yes. It's just branding really - Slash is a name that sells guitars. It is not meant to be anything else.

 

[Brian blaut]

I actually just listened to Appetite on the way to school today. I had it as loud as my stereo would go (which is pretty loud) and it sounded as good as it did when I was in 5th grade.

I started playing the guitar because I wanted to play like Izzy Stradlin. He was my favorite.

Both guitars are so good together on this record, no matter what models they used.

Maybe you where more of a Slash fan, but didn't know it. I had an old stack of guitar player magazines at my parents house from high school. They had an interview with Gilby Clark, right after he took over Izzy's spot. He said at their first practice, Slash told him to stop playing all of (Slash's) parts. Gilby said he thought he was playing Izzy's parts. He and Slash then start listening to the CD and for the life of them, neither one could tell or hear what Izzy was actually playing. So Gilby got to write his own parts in the end to the classic songs, so long as they didn't step on Slash's.

 

[guitarzan13]

A copy of a Gibson copy?????

 

[Phoenix59]

I think it's safe to say that Jimi was Jimi's birth name too.

Nope. According to Wikipedia:

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)...

 

[don jon]

Yes. It's just branding really - Slash is a name that sells guitars. It is not meant to be anything else.

Well put.
I wonder how many $5,000 Lp's Saul could sell though. A stage name is just a brand name too I guess.

Oh yeah, and I meant to say Elton John, not John Lennon . Sorry. I just think its funny hearing someone use the given name of a celebrity who goes by a stage name. Not wrong, just funny. And ha-ha funny not Elton John funny.

 

[Bones]

I wonder if they made a copy of the Joe Perry ( birth name Anthony Joeseph Perry)/Slash/Joe Perry guitar that Slash returned to Joe, could they sell it for $10k because it's a facsimile of a guitar owned by two famous people?

 

[studio1087]

Joe Perry Epi........................................The new Slash guitar

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Hmmmmmmmmm. Everything old is new again.

 

[SatelliteOrders]

Joe Perry Epi........................................The new Slash guitar

Hmmmmmmmmm. Everything old is new again.

That's only fair, as Slash was pretty much the new Joe Perry.

 

[studio1087]

I saw Joe Perry a long time ago and then I saw him a couple years ago.

I always thought that the new Joe Perry was the the new Joe Perry.

I like the new or old Joe Perry better than Slash (that includes Slash 1.01 and Slash 1.02).

Yep.

John

 

[marshman]

I called him Saul to show off that I actually knew his real name, like we're old buds or somethin'. I'm not a big fan, but I do appreciate what he did for music...except for what he did to the cost of Les Pauls...and think he's got the best pseudonym in Rock-n-Roll bar none. I'm curious as to why you think I'd expect to be 'putting him down' by using his real name.

My point was simply to ask if I was the only one that thought it odd that Gibson would build a guitar with the reference to a copy guitar, irrespective of the quality of that guitar AND the connection to one of Rocks all time greatest records.

 

[tuuur]

I saw Joe Perry a long time ago abnd then I saw him a couplke years ago.

I always thought that the new Joe Perry was the the new Jow Perry.

I like the new or old Joe Perry better than Slash (that includes Slash 1.01 and Slash 1.02).

Yep.

John

Thanks for posting this clarification!

 

[studio1087]

I posted that while my wife was driving and I was sitting next to her using my cellular modem on my laptop.

We've been in the car for 11 hours...driving to Colorado to ski for spring break.

I'm loosing it. I'm sorry. It made sense before my nap. I'm really sorry.

John

 

[prawnik]

Maybe you where more of a Slash fan, but didn't know it. I had an old stack of guitar player magazines at my parents house from high school. They had an interview with Gilby Clark, right after he took over Izzy's spot. He said at their first practice, Slash told him to stop playing all of (Slash's) parts. Gilby said he thought he was playing Izzy's parts. He and Slash then start listening to the CD and for the life of them, neither one could tell or hear what Izzy was actually playing. So Gilby got to write his own parts in the end to the classic songs, so long as they didn't step on Slash's.

So does that mean that Slash actually recorded most of Izzy's parts, or that Slash and Izzy's playing were so melded together that even Slash wasn't sure who played what?

 

[tdu]

Just a note, this particular "Appetite" model is 'only' $2800. Not the $5000 some people are quoting. http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/...struction-Les-Paul-Electric-Guitar?sku=423695

The Slash sig model is around $5000 though.

Price and name aside, I think it's a nice looking design. I love the colour/flame combined with the 2 tone pickups.

 

[tdu]

So does that mean that Slash actually recorded most of Izzy's parts, or that Slash and Izzy's playing were so melded together that even Slash wasn't sure who played what?

Slash has always praised Izzy's ryhtym playing. To to the point that he says in several interviews that he couldn't even play his parts. They would just basically play off each other.

 

[Blazer]

Here's Slash playing the Les Paul that this new model is based on.

The plain top that has been mentioned in this thread was one he bought for live use since his Derrig Les Paul was almost stolen a couple of times. Slash took action and bought four Les Pauls including a goldtop and the plain top.
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The Derrig Les Paul is standing left to Slash at the bottom row.

Prior to Getting the Derrig made Les Paul Slash played BC Rich guitars and if that Derrig Les Paul would never have come in his posession he would have been the guy with the Top-hat and the Warlock.

 

[Brian blaut]

Just a note, this particular "Appetite" model is 'only' $2800. Not the $5000 some people are quoting. http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/...struction-Les-Paul-Electric-Guitar?sku=423695

The Slash sig model is around $5000 though.

Price and name aside, I think it's a nice looking design. I love the colour/flame combined with the 2 tone pickups.

I don't know what it means. Maybe Slash drank away the part of his brain that remembers what it was he played.

 

[Brian blaut]

So does that mean that Slash actually recorded most of Izzy's parts, or that Slash and Izzy's playing were so melded together that even Slash wasn't sure who played what?

I don't know what it means, I'm just read it.

 

[Agave_Blue]

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Anyone else find this curious? I've read two accounts that state Saul played a plaintop LP copy on that album.

Just sayin'...

While there seems to be uncertainty as to exactly which guitar was used, it is pretty much certain that he used a replica/copy of a Les Paul (there may have been two from what I've read).

So, Gibson, has re-issued a replica. Or, more bluntly, they're selling a copy of a copy.

Genius if you can make money at it I guess.



:shrug:

 

[crawdad]

Gee! I can't wait to fork over $4700 so I can sound just like Slash playing Guns n Roses songs. Really--what else is there to aspire to after that pinnacle of musical excellence?