New Gibson Slash Collection...

Fifty9

I wanted to be Slash in my teens. No1 guitar hero by a long way and his work on the UYI albums as well as Appetite is just sublime imho.

A decent range of guitars

hollywoodrox

Kalimna said:

I quite understand the impact of listening to music that has been 'overplayed',. However, one of my favourite pieces of guitar music remains the 'solo' from the UYI Live  where Slash and Gilby play off each other between Wild Horses and Patience. Not technically challenging, but with more 'feel' than most players manage in a lifetime.

Love Gilby , great player

Rabs

Big Slash fan here too.. One of the reasons I got in to playing in the first place...

I wouldn't buy one of those guitars, just too expensive but I did get a Slash amp  And my Classic is Slash enough for me 

https://i.imgur.com/f02wkiR.jpg

roberty

Oh, sweet child of lime

stickyfiddle

Despite my initial sarcasm, I completely understand why Slash keeps getting signature models; they clearly still sell. He's not a super technical Paul Gilbert type and he maybe doesn't quite have the feel of a Gilmour or whatever, and I don't think he's done anything particularly noteworthy since 1988, but he was responsible for Appetite for Destruction which is one of the most important rock albums of all time, and that's enough for me.  

HarrySeven

****total disinterest****

However...

Apart from that fact that I really couldn’t give a shit if Slash, Bonamassa and their ilk suddenly ceased to exist, just two things, IMHO:

*Signature guitars - I just don’t get the psychology of it. Never have, never will. For that matter, rock-star-owned “famous” guitars don’t do it either. But anyway...

*Signature guitars - obviously, many people do - whatever butters their parsnips. C’est la vie. However, what does piss me off is the OTT, cynical and relentless marketing which accompanies them (and other associated merchandise). How many models at how many price points? Etc, etc...

I’ll get me coat.

TINMAN82

Kalimna said:

thomasross20 said:

Good to see support for Slash here. He's my guitar hero.

Indeed, same here. Back in '91 he was the main reason I picked up a guitar. And despite not being the 'correct' colour, it's the reason I wanted a Cherry Sunburst LP - and why I have the memory I do of my dad saying "So, do you want it?" one day in a guitar shop, and me being speechless and having something to cherish for as long as I know what a guitar is

Adam

He’s a guitar and rock great by any reasonable standard and his body of guitar work on Appetite and UYI hit a peak very few others have or will match.

King85

roberty said:

Oh, sweet child of lime

Personally I think that's a stunner.

soma1975

fastonebaz said:

I must've heard the wrong slash songs as pretty much everything ive heard him play, I've found his playing is fairly sloppy (especially on his well publicised self confessed one take improv album solos) and repetitive with a grating tone.  Compared to the likes of Paul Gilbert,  Joe bonamassa  John petrucci, vai etc etc who's tone is musical,  pleasing, with a rich timbre and who's playing is imaginative and precise, there's no contest. 

There's no denying his swagger and rock star cool though which is what enabled the marketing machine to sell so many albums.

While I am no Slash mega fan, of the guitarists you mentioned who can come up with riffs or hooks as good as Mr Brownstone, Night Train and SCOM? None of them have the feel that Slash does. Which of them have moved as many people around the world as Slash's songs have? Biggest song from all the artists you listed is 'To be With You' from Mr Big. 

You may as well be saying Muddy Waters is shit because he can't play Racer X's Technical Difficulties. 

As an aside John Petrucci is one of the most boring guitarists I have ever heard. 

darthed1981

Cols said:

Freebird said:

Cols said:

Lovely colours, but effectively there isn’t really much else to set them apart from a stock LP. 

 Not that Is really expect a lot of customisation; Slash made his reputation on a ‘59 replica and standard guitars.  It’s basically a 30% markup for artist endorsement and pretty paint.

His '59 replica would be viewed as a counterfeit in tFB classifieds 

You’re right!

Lets ban him from the forum.

That's not how it works if anyone with the slightest bit of fame openly joins the forum.

Driven out with open hostility, thats how it works!

King85 said:

roberty said:

Oh, sweet child of lime

Personally I think that's a stunner.

Agreed was about to post the same.

chrishill901

For those interested, Thomann have made a video: 

It says that the Vermillion burst and anaconda burst are limited edition but the November and Appetite are standard models. So it looks like we're finally getting a non-limited edition Slash signature!

Rabs

HarrySeven said:

****total disinterest****

However...

Apart from that fact that I really couldn’t give a shit if Slash, Bonamassa and their ilk suddenly ceased to exist, just two things, IMHO:

*Signature guitars - I just don’t get the psychology of it. Never have, never will. For that matter, rock-star-owned “famous” guitars don’t do it either. But anyway...

*Signature guitars - obviously, many people do - whatever butters their parsnips. C’est la vie. However, what does piss me off is the OTT, cynical and relentless marketing which accompanies them (and other associated merchandise). How many models at how many price points? Etc, etc...

I’ll get me coat.

Let alone the fact that EVERY LP is a signature model.. I think people sometimes forget that Les Paul was a person .. 

sawyer

He wasn't playing Custom Shop guitars back in the day. Just off the peg Standards and I think Classics of the time with Seymour Duncan's. Just get  a Les Paul from that era and chuck appropriate pickups in and your instantly more authentic than these. Ive had a set of the non signature pups in one of my Les Paul's and neck pickup with tone down = Sweet child of mine!

abw1989

I am in no way a Slash fan and do not want one of these at all....

Here are some guitars I own that modded to look like a guitarist from GNR, maybe Gilby Clarke, can't remember?



People are fans of who they want to be.

I have no time for Steve Vai so I won't be buying one of those new PIA JEM things he is currently endorsing. However, I also get people admire that playing style and guitar style and will. I also get that he is an extremely talented individual that deserve all the success he gets. 

Just because you don't like something or someone, it doesn't make it, them, or people who do like it or them shit.