Slash 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. And I would go and hang out with them and get there 10 or 11pm and jam until two o’clock in the morning.”
He continued: “I got a couple of other guys and so we started doing the same circuit, but then that turned into an actual tour, and we did it on and off for a couple of years, even managed to make it to Europe.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, the guitarist went on to share that the setlist from those shows served as inspiration for his recently released blues covers album ‘Orgy Of The Damned‘.
In other news, Slash recently shared that 2025 will be all about Guns N’ Roses.
“I’m going into the studio with the Conspirators [his project with Myles Kennedy], getting a new record done and then after that, 2025 is all about Guns N’ Roses,” he told Loudwire Nights.
“We’re trying to get some things going with that. I think there’s a small tour in the summertime next year. I heard a rumor about that anyway, so that’s going to be focused on that. But prior to that, it’s the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour, and then the Conspirators.”