Probably for many the name of Saul Hudson has no special connotation in the world of music, however this perception changes radically when we say that we are talking about Slash. Without a doubt, a man who has left and will continue to leave an indelible mark on Hard Rock, someone who to this day continues to be the influence of thousands of people and there is no one who can question the virtuosity of this great guitarist. whose talent and trajectory has been stained and plagued by excesses and controversy where it stands out for the consumption of drugs and alcohol, problems with the law and also shameful public episodes; The truth is that regardless of the extractions he has had to face throughout his troubled career, he has always known how to stay active from a creative and musical point of view.
Next we are going to know perhaps a dark side that very few knew or that was not known in great detail of the famous guitarist Slash.
The little one is Layyah; Little Saul Hopson who was born in London had a very feisty mother named Silvina Doret, she was a humble African-American designer and her father was also a designer, but he was a designer of covers or of the material with which the album covers are created. Slash was a child who lived between one city and another sadly changing schools and friends constantly, this because his parents were separated and he had to spend a few months with his mother and others with his father until at the age of five he decided to live permanently with his mother due to the bad relationship he developed with his father; When everything seemed to be ordering in the difficult life of little Slash, his mother decides to abandon him in search of a better career, thus opening the doors for little Slash to an even more difficult adolescence and that is when drugs, alcohol and music become they would become the new family of the very shy and adolescent.
In different interviews, he has confessed that from a very early age he found in drugs and alcohol an escape mechanism which helped him overcome shyness and fear of a reality that was overwhelming, then he progressed with even stronger substances In an interview he commented the following: “My first time with heroin I remember everything very clearly, we were in a friend's rehearsal studio and he took me aside and told me; Come look, and suddenly I see that he enters the bathroom and well I followed him, I remember that I was already needing something even more durable and it was when he presented this drug to me, once when I felt it I knew that there was no turning back it was what my reality I needed but at the same time it made the world fall on me, if I could take the time back I would never have tried it"
These excesses in Slash generated a secondary effect that developed in him a growing paranoia, a pathology that reached its peak in the late 80s when he claimed that he heard voices and that on different occasions he saw a disgusting and aggressive being who perceived him, The paranoia was so great that on one of these occasions he decided to go naked through a tourist complex where he was staying, all for the simple fact that he felt persecuted by that stranger. The abuse of drugs and alcohol has also meant an extensive list of painful incidents, highlighting his appearance completely drunk at the Mtv awards in 1990, where after receiving one of the awards he tried for 20 seconds to deliver his speech, which was diluted Between babbling and insults towards the public, the transmission was interrupted and the musician was taken off the stage, an episode that was also quite excessive in Slash's life took place on September 24, 1992 when after a concert he decided to have an intimate party with some 10 friends and her boyfriend, as he tells it himself in his autobiography “we got on with it and we gave it to it until we were lost, I remember that when I got up my knees were shaking my head was spinning I suddenly left the room and I see that I am dragging my feet instead of walking, at the same time realizing that I am dizzy and cannot speak, I opened the door I did not control anything, I see a cleaning lady Za and I ask him about the elevator but he heard my voice very far away and I fell to the floor of the corridor like a doll, I lost consciousness and my heart stopped for eight minutes, I woke up after they gave me several electric shocks so that my heart could beat again, I remember the intense light in my eyes and a circle of people around me and I thought that this had to happen to me to quit the addiction "
So the years passed and the controversy was another, it was officially known that the Guns and Roses had already separated and the fight between Slash and Axl Rose was growing, it was on everyone's lips but despite this the guitarist went ahead and left that music was his, after other not so shameful episodes Slash, controls these addictions according to a very sensitive statement the guitarist confesses with a couple of tears in 2006, which was the first time he was sober on stage, it was the the first time where he could play without being lost and with his head elsewhere; He assures that that moment was beautiful, it was like playing again for the first time and at that moment he assured that he would not change it for anything.
Guns N 'Roses en 2017. De izquierda a derecha, Dizzy Reed, Richard Fortus, Duff McKagan, Axl Rose, Slash, Melissa Reese & Frank Ferrer
At last he was able to control that demon of vices that dominated his life in this way, showing an addiction that was in him for more than 25 years, a habit that he began to experience from the age of 12 and that has largely forged a career that has not been exempt from scandals and regrets.
The musician has certainly been lucky, in 1991 he was dead for eight minutes and on another occasion he was dead for six seconds and all this because of a heroin overdose. Slash has suffered three cardiac arrests, which suggests that the fact that he is over 50 years old today is almost a miracle. Today the famous guitarist assures that he is being reborn again on his return to the Guns and Roses in a way that has sober and changed the perspective of life, showing that no matter how low and dark you have fallen, life will always give you a second chance. to try again.
