Slash doesn’t remember early gigs as they were a “drunken kind of thing”
nme.comSlash has revealed that he does not have any recollections of his early gigs due to his overconsumption of alcohol.Back in 1996, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist formed his blues covers band Slash’s Blues Balls with the likes of Teddy “Big Bag Zig Zag” Andreadis, Johnny Griparic, Alvino Bennet, Bobby Schneck and Dave McLaurin.Speaking about the group in a new interview with People, the rock legend opened up about how though those blues gigs served as inspiration for him, he was too drunk to remember any of it.“It was such a drunken kind of thing, and it was just for the fun of it,” he told the outlet. “I do not recall any of those gigs.”Explaining how the band came to be, Slash said: “When I first met them, a couple of the guys, they were playing in a band called The Screaming Cocktail Hour, which was a great blues band that used to play at the local Rogie’s and Baked Potato and Cozy’s and all these small little blues dives around L.A.
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