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Of course, Slash is still, like all of us, a guitar lover. So I end up not buying anything too crazy.” I do have a couple guitars that are outside of my normal thing that you’re used to seeing me with, but I find that they only interest me for a second, because they sound like ‘that.’ Whatever it is they are, that’s what they sound like. It has to be something I’ll actually use. I’m still like that.”Īnd anyway, Slash continues, “I don’t buy guitars just to have guitars.
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Then I’d tinker with it for a second and put it down, because I felt very self-conscious if anybody else was there. So when I did go to a store, I was always looking for something specific. That was the first time I heard Axl.”ĭespite the fact that he regularly plays on some of the biggest stages in the world, and to tens of thousands of fans at a clip, he maintains that he’s “never liked playing in front of people in a store. And then later on we hooked up and he played me his demo. “Izzy came in one day because he had seen a drawing I had done of Aerosmith, and he was looking for the guy who made it,” Slash recalls. There’s one other piece of Slash history attached to the Hollywood Music Store – it’s where he first met Izzy Stradlin. Before that, I think I bought an Explorer for a hundred bucks and I took it back and traded it for a Les Paul. And that was my first good electric guitar, a B.C. If I remember correctly, it was the only authorized B.C. “It was owned by Hiro, a Japanese businessman who I think had a music store in Tokyo and then came over to the States. “When I was 17 or 18 I used to work in one – Hollywood Music Store, on Fairfax and Melrose,” he tells Guitar World as we walk the perimeter of Norman’s. And I still have it – the fucking tailpiece is coming out of the body, but it’s hanging on.”ĭespite Slash’s previous assertion that he’s not much of a guitar-store fan, he has a rich history with them. I said to the parents, ‘Can I play it when the kid’s asleep?’ I was still playing it when they came home, and they actually ended up giving it to me. “When I was 15 I would do some babysitting, and at this one house they had it hanging on the wall next to a mandolin. “It was a 1930s Epiphone dreadnought,” he tells us. He also highlights a prototype of Epiphone’s Joe Bonamassa 1958 “Amos” Korina Flying-V, which leads Slash to reminisce about the first Epiphone he ever owned, which he says was also his first “good” acoustic.
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live in the vicinity, and when I moved here I thought, fuck, this is dangerous…Īs Slash walks alongside the rows of premium new and vintage models, Harris points him toward a few choice items, including a rare Stromberg with a $40,000 price tag and a 1930s Larson Brothers Mauer, “one of the fanciest acoustics you’ll see,” Harris says. I’ve known Norman for a long time, and he’s got one of the most comprehensive guitar stores around. “I live in the vicinity, and when I moved here I thought, fuck, this is dangerous…” “I’ve known Norman for a long time, and he’s got one of the most comprehensive guitar stores around,” Slash says, then laughs. “It’s like going to a restaurant where the menu’s 30 pages long.” That said, he’s been friendly with Harris for decades, and when he wants to shop, Norman’s is his spot. As for Slash, he admits he’s a guitarist who doesn’t really frequent guitar stores.