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7/23/1965 Slash born

 

 

Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators guitarist Slash was born Saul Hudson on this day in 1965 in Hampstead, England to parents that both had careers that made them sought after by well known musicians.  His mother was a highly regarded fashion designer who had custom-made clothing for David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Ringo Starr. His father earned album cover art credits for lps put out by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
Slash set out to play bass in a band he and future bandmate Steven Adler planned on forming in 1979.  The band plan never came together and Slash decided he'd ratther play guitar than bass.  He and Adler would eventually team-up in 1983 in a band named The Road Crew, by which time Adler had switched from guitar to drums.  Duff McKagan was brought on as bassist.  Unable to find a suitable lead singer, Slash disbanded The Road Crew and he and Adler became members of Hollywood Rose, a band that included Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin.  That band folded and Rose and Stradlin formed Guns N' Roses in 1985 and invited Slash, McKagan and Adler aboard.  The group's debut album would drop in July of 1987, by which time the group had established a solid following with its relentlessly high energy live sets during club concerts in Southern Claifornia.

 

Other Noteworthy classic rock events on July 23 include...

 

1946 Milti-instrumentalist Andy MacKay of Roxy Music born.

1947 David Essex born.

1948 John Hall of Orleans born.

1971 Moody Blues release Every Good Boy Deserves Favor.

1977 Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and manager arrested and charged with assaulting a Bill Graham employee backstage at Oakland concert.

1984 Sammy Hagar releases VOA.  

1984 Billy Squire releases Signs Of Life.   

1989 Ringo Starr opens his first tour since Beatles break-up.

1990 Brent Mydland does his last performance with the Grateful Dead, Tinley Park, Illinois (dies 7/25).   

1992 Bruce Springsteen opens first tour in 4 years.   

1993 Curt Cobain OD's in New York City hotel bathroom. 

1999 The ill-fated Woodstock '99 opens in Rome, NY. 

2006 Jon Bon Jovi performs at Steelers Super Bowl XXX victory party in Pittsburgh.  

2011 Amy Winehouse joins the list of artists dead at 27 when police find her body in her London flat. 

2017 Eddie Vedder joins Roger Waters on Comfortably Numb and Us + Them during Chicago Waters concert.

2017 Peter Frampton storms off stage in Minneapolis after venue cameras projecting his set focus on fans holding up his album covers instead of him...