Slash
Saul Hudson born Hampstead, London, UK July 23, 1965, better known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band
Guns N' Roses with
Axl Rose, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N' Roses, Slash formed the side project
Slash's Snakepit. He then co-founded the supergroup
Velvet Revolver, which re-established him as a mainstream performer in the mid to late 2000s.