Slash was asked by The Project what keeps him going and whether there’s “any other appeal” apart from doing live shows. Take a look:
The Guns N’ Roses guitarist replied:
“I mean, no. It’s all about the music. The only reason I make records is so I can go out and tour.
“Because as a guitar player, I love playing guitar – I don’t love being in the studio, I don’t love sitting around my house playing the guitar – I like playing live.
“So I dig that, but I’m sort of rare, there’s not too many people that have been doing this as long as I have, who actually enjoy it as much as I do.”
During the rest of the interview, Slash talked about the early days of his collaboration with singer Myles Kennedy, saying:
“I’d been hearing Myles‘ name. He is the one guy that when I was doing Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, and Snakepit – stuff from my whole catalog – he was the only person I could think of who had the diversity and range to do all that material.”
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!