I have to admit that I buy a lot of guitars Slash It was an exciting prospect, and it just started from there.” “And the way Gibson proposed putting it together, I just thought it was so cool. As for why the man himself wanted to do it? “I mean, what’s better than a book full of guitars?” Slash asks with a laugh. In any iteration, The Collection: Slash (opens in new tab) is a package unlike any seen before. The Collection: Slash (opens in new tab) (from left) Standard, Deluxe and Custom Editions. And that’s how our relationship started.” “But I called Gibson and they said, ‘Yeah, we’ll work something out.’ They sold me two Les Pauls at dealer cost. club band that had a record deal, just like all the rest of ’em,” Slash recalls. “At that point, Guns N’ Roses hadn’t quite crested that wave. So Slash retired the Les Paul copy from live work and went looking for the real thing. Not surprisingly, the axe, one of his only guitars at the time, quickly took a beating from intense onstage use. As the band hit the road in support of the record, he took the Derrig with him. Guns N’ Roses had only recently released their debut effort, Appetite for Destruction (opens in new tab), an album on which Slash, in what is now rock-guitar lore, recorded most of his parts using a 1959 Les Paul copy built by luthier Kris Derrig. Back in 1988, that was how the man born Saul Hudson first came in contact with the Gibson guitar brand.
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