Talk:Slash (musician)/Archive 1

message: In this section, there's a misconception about the guitarist in the South Park episode. It says "there is a guitarist that resembles Slash, save for the hair (it was red)." However, I've checked this episode numerous times, through multiple airings of reruns on separate stations, as well as box sets both official and non. The guitarist is clearly Slash - despite being uncredited in the show. Said guitarist features Slash's trademark belted top hat on top of his lowered-head face-veiling hair, and even his (poorly shaded) Gibson Les Paul.
24.3.127.192 (talk) 05:35, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellanea error

message: In the Miscellanea section it mentions that Slash is an avid Snake collector. He *was* a Snake collector, but in the Q magazine interview (reference#1) he said he gave them all away before his son London was born.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.155.245.192 (talk) 17:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: He's no longer a Snake collector

message: Slash is mostly known for his world famous top hat. So howcome the big picture of Slash doesn't have a top hat on? Is there another FTU picture we could get WITH a top hat? Hockeyalltheway25 20:13, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't say he's mostly known for his hat. He's mostly known as a guitatist. His hat is a trademark, certainly, but he doesn't always wear it. SteveRamone 20:30, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I second that, it's a trademark, but not what he's most famous for. Tom H 00:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Top hat

message: It is well known that Slash is the son of a white father and a black mother. That's why I added "white" to the description of his father, because there is a "black" on the description of his mother. Someone reverted this edit, leaving only the "black" aspect of his mother. I think it should be equal for both, either stating that the father is white and the mother is black, or not stating colour at all, and just saying English father and American mother. So I added the "white" to the father again. If someone has another viewpoint, let's discuss it here before making more edits.--200.14.108.1 16:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Colour of parents

message: is there any verification of slash's nigerian/jewish heiritege, i've heard him mention that his mother was black on a number of occations, .....but jewish?
Changed his nationality in the introduction from British to British-American. He was born in England but has an American mother, aquired US citizenship nearly twenty years ago and has lived in the US for most of his life. 
Someone removed the fact that Slash's mother's name is Ola from the site. Why? His Mum's name is Ola. 
Hudson and Adler later met future Guns n' Roses rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin who played him a tape of Axl Rose singing. Hudson later went to a performance of Rose and they united to form Guns n' Roses.
This appears to be at odds with the history on the [Guns 'n Roses] entry that states that Guns 'n Roses were going for well over a year before Hudson and Adler joined as replacements.
--DamienG 19:00, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)
There is also a disbute over how axl and slash actually met some sources say there were introduced, some say adler and slash met izzy and some also say they jus "met" at a pub like The Rainbow or The trubador. Either way arent you happy they did meet up?
Posted by Letrell 16:52 22 Oct 2004
Slash was not the first musician to have an amp created for him by Marshall. Marshall made an amp in the
1960s called the Blues Breaker, created for Eric Clapton, who at the time the amp started production was playing with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.....
:Slash had the first signature amp.  Big difference between what you're talking about. - [[User:Defunkt|Defunkt [[User 
Slash and adler met bet in the seventh grade not after slash auditioned for poison.  
talk:Defunkt|(talk)]]]] 07:31, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Moving Discussion To Below Menu

message: The article states that he moved to the US with his mother at 11 years of age, which would be the year 1976. The article later states that his parents divorced mid 70's (1975?) and he moved in with his grandmother. I think they both refer to the same event. His parents probably divorced in England and he moved to the US with his mother, who returned back to her mother's home there (his grandmother). Can somebody with more knowledge fix this?--200.14.108.1 15:08, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Early childhood

message: This article says that Slash was infuriated when Axl replaced Gilby Clarke's guitar track with Paul Tobias's on Sympathy for the Devil. But in the Guns N' Roses article, it states that Slash was infuriated when Axl replaced Slash's track with Tobias's. Which actually happened? Gigamaligabyte 20:27, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sympathy for the Devil

message: I think the article looks a bit cluttered with both Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revovler articles on it. Do you think it would be worth just removing the Guns N' Roses one? (This would also apply to the Matt Sorum article. ( Davehard 13:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates

message: When Saul was a kid, he was a BMX racer. How come there be no mention of that?
:Because it's totally irrelevant. Saul also likes long romantic walks along the beach at sunset. IRRELEVANT. --Elysianfields 04:41, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  BMX racer 

message: I believe Slash was fired. MTV called him to ask for a comment after Axl announced he let Slash go, and Slash was like, "What? I'm fired?" That's how he found out. I'd edit the article, but I don't know where to find the source. I'll check my VH1 BTM tape again, though.
:He quit the band. He was obviously surprised by the call because he was surprised that Axl was telling the press that he fired him when Slash simply had enough and left. ( Davehard 20:02, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slash "quit"? 

message: On the article is states that Slash has "an English father and a black mother".
What does this mean, is his mother English?, is his father black?......
What nationality is his mother?
Don't quote me on this, but I have reason to believe there is Irish in there somewhere...
I read Slash's autobiography recently.  With regards to his racial/ethnic background, Slash says that his father is English and that his mother is African-American.  Slash never says that his father is Jewish, or that his mother is Nigerian like it says in his Wikipedia article.  Hopefully someone will find a source and change the article. Aoa8212 (talk) 13:04, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality of Parents 

message: Article says Slash learned to play on a one string acoustic--an allegation I just read on the Hendrix page. Is there some confusing between the two? I think the Hendrix page might be wrong, but I don't know about either of them enough to make an edit...can someone with more definitive knowledge of the beginnings of these two guitar gods look into this? --Petey
:Yeah I think the Hendrix page is wrong because I think I heard a mate (who has read the Hendrix bio) saying something about what guitar Hendrix played when he first started (coming to think of it I remember reading something about it aswell). I'm pretty certain it was Slash who first learnt on a one-stringed guitar, I'm sure enough to advise not to change the article until something solid comes up. ( Davehard 17:31, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He mentioned that he started fooling around on an acoustic with one string in a very recent issue of Guitar World magazine. Can't remember off the top of my head which issue it was, but I can confirm the existence of the factoid as well. -- Cjmarsicano 17:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  One string acoustic guitar

message: how can slash's mother be african-american when she's british?  pc at it's worst...
::Easy one to answer; she isn't British, she's African-American (I believe).  That's why he moved to LA with her.--Zoso Jade 15:06, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  african american to black 

message: How can this possibly be on Slash's discography?
:It appears that that is the GN'R discography rather than Slash's.--Zoso Jade 19:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese Democracy 

message: where Slash continued to amaze crowds with his exceptional skill ... ehh
Come on, this editorializing is blatant.  Can we strip out the ridiculous comments such as these?
I am removing the "ever-present" thing about the cigarette because he pretty clearly doesn't have one in the picture, I'm nitpicky, and I feel like it's giving atmosphere to an encyclopedia article, something with which I am not comfortable.
Along these same lines, I edited out the "less skilled" bit about Lenny Kravitz. While it's an opinion I agree with, it's an opinion none-the-less. 68.121.21.223 01:40, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exceptional Skill? 

message: Article currently states he lives with his wife ... and he's filed for divorce.
The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but are unusual.
Is he still living with his wife? Dweller 12:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slash's living arrangements 

message: My research has Saul Hudson's place of birth as Hampstead, London. The main article states the County of Hampshire, England.  Similar in spelling (ish), but two completely different locations. Can anyone throw more light on this one ?  Thanks.
Derek R Bullamore 23:33, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have Slash's AUTOBIOGRAPHY and the first line states, 'I was born July 23, 1965, in Stoke-on-Trent, England...' Slash has written himself he wasn't born in Hampstead, but in Stoke on Trent. I think an autobiography is the most reliable source for these sort of things.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.247.189.29 (talk) 19:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Slash's autobiography does have some errors, though (most autobiographies do) and this is one of them. There's a list of them on a GN'R fansite:  Funeral 19:53, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of Birth 

message: "...One that he made out of a Kleenex box and some elastic bands..." Seriously, WTF? This can't be true. It's either vandalism or BJAODN, cause this seriously can't be true. --S-man
:It's removed now. --Snkcube 08:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Homemade Guitar

message: "....Guitars
Slash owns over 80 guitars. Among them are the following:
    * Gibson
          o 1958 Les Paul Replica Built By: Chris Derrig (Slash's Main Guitar On Most Recordings)
          o Standard and Custom Les Pauls
                + A Squier...."
                
According to the article.. squier is a Gibson brand, it isn't it is a Fender brand, correcting it.
Saurabh Rahurkar 21:31, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah, I've got the latest edition of Guitarist magazine and it also says Slash has over 80 guitars. Also it is quite strange that Gibson's Slash signature model is not mentioned on the article... --88.106.39.115 02:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slash's Guitars..Squier under Gibson ?? 

message: Is it true that Slash got a belly ring? I remember I saw him on Howard Steirn(TV showon E!) show during 90's and Slash show HS that he got a ring. I saw the show on TV not the radio version and I really saw the ring. HS even made a comment that it's that kind of a girl thing? Slash just laugh. So is it really true. Can Slash be that stupid to get a Belly ring because he thought it was cool in the early 90's for girls. . . . HELLO only for girls not guys. Nipple ring is cool for guys but not belly ring. Anyway can sombody check this out? I know I saw the show but it could have been a joke on Slash part and I don't remember any follow up story. Laserboy —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.10.167.117 (talk) 07:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Belly Ring

message: This page says they found Slash dead in an elevator - and then they revived him. He wouldn't have been dead if they revived him - just knocked out. The sentence doesn't have proper capitalisation either which leads me to think it may be wrong
```` —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ThumbFinger (talk • contribs) 07:13, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slash dead in elevator? 

message: I'm sure everyone's noticed that various IPs (probably the same person) keep adding in that Slash was born to a Jewish-English father with no explanation or source. Even if a source is found, how is the religion of his father notable and what does it add to the article? ĤĶ51→Łalk 16:14, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, 209.121.41.112 keeps adding Trivia, its unreferenced but I've given them the benifit of the daubt for the time being, can someone who knows a little more about Slash then me check it out? Cheers.  Ferdia O'Brien The Archiver And The  Vandal Watchman 11:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Slash's offcial website says right here: http://www.snakepit.org/0103news.html that he is not Jewish. Look under News Reported: 01/15/03. The rumor got started because he is listed in the book 100 Jews Who Rock because he has an Old Testament first name, but he isn't. I hope that settles this once and for all. Asarelah 01:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish

message: The whole article is full of slangs and American cliché. Consider this sample:
"When Road Crew called it quits, ...". "calls it quits"? WTF is that?
"The rock scene in LA at that time was hugely incestuous, so it was no surprise that the five like-minded souls would eventually gravitate together." Uh-oh!
"As his skills improved, Slash became enamored by the hard rock scene on the infamous Sunset Strip." May be it is because I am not a native speaker, but what does improvement in skill has to do with "enamored by scene on infamous"?
Eh... I am going to rewrite this article to look a little more professional after which I will add a copy-edit tag. If people have problem please specify.--Jahilia 20:47, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What is wrong with this article?

message: I don't think Slash should be referred to as an 'English' guitarist. I know that he was born in England but he has lived the majority of his life in the USA. Also, he is half Nigerian (or so it says) so he isn't completely English. If someone who didn't know who Slash was visited the article, they would probably get the wrong first impression. I am changing it to say that he is just a "Guitarist"
:And I'm changing it back, a person's nationality is something which has to be in the article's lead-in. Bucketheader 13:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not sure if I have overlooked something but talking of his nationality and his birthplace the citation that is given as evidence just seems to have him quote he is British, but doesn't mention where he is born, so how is it relevant? Renegade MUFC (talk) 19:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality 

message: Does anyone else notice that this section is completely redundant? The same information can be found earlier in the article in the section "Velvet Revolver and future endeavors". I think the "In Video Games" section should simply be removed. Anyone else? -Ronark 16:26, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This section has been removed, so my question no longer applies. -Ronark 18:28, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: In Video Games

message: He has never said that his dad was jewish or that his mother was nigerian. His mother is African American and his dad is English.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.229.232.194 (talk) 21:35, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnicity needs to be changed 

message: Known for wearing an accentuated top hat, he is regarded by some as one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time.
Uhm, it's great that you mention his top hat and that he's a great rock guitarist, but what the hell does one have to do with the other?  春・Harukaze・風 15:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The greatest top-hat wearing guitarist ever