Slash has revealed in an interview with People that he has no recollections of his early gigs as he was too drunk due to his overconsumption of alcohol. The Guns N’ Roses guitarist had formed his blues covers band in 1996 called Slash’s Blues Balls with Alvino Bennet, Bobby Schneck, Teddy “Big Bag Zig Zag” Andreadis, Johnny Griparic, and Dave McLaurin. Although he acknowledged that those blues gigs served as inspiration for him, he was too intoxicated to recall any of it.
Speaking about how the band came into existence, the renowned rockstar attending blues dives around Los Angeles, which had small blues circuits where he would hear the Screaming Cocktail Hour’s members playing. Slash said he would go and hang out with the band members, jam and stay until two o’clock in the morning. This way, he met a couple of guys, and together they started doing the same circuit, which then turned into an actual tour, where they even went to Europe.
Slash’s Blues Balls setlist from those shows served as inspiration for his most recent blues covers album called ‘Orgy Of The Damned’. In his words, the album is an extension of his first recorded show with Blues Ball at the House Of Blues on Sunset Strip.
On the other hand, he also shared that 2025 would be all about Guns N’ Roses. He added that he was going into the studio with the Conspirators, his project with Myles Kennedy to get a record done, after which his focus would be on Guns N’ Roses. Before that, there will be the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour and then the Conspirators, and he heard a rumor about a small tour in the summertime next year
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