NET WORTH – $32 million

PROFESSION: Singer, Song Writer and Guitarist

Saul Hudson, who is best known by his nick  name Slash, is a British Musician and Song writer and former lead guitarist of American hard rock Band Guns N Roses, with whom Slash became popular in the late 1980′s and early 1990s.

EARLY LIFE & CHILDHOOD

Saul Hudson was born on July 23^rd 1965 in Hampstead, London. His mother, Ola Hudson was a costume designer and father, Anthony Hudson an artist who used to design album covers for the artists like Neil young and Joni Mitchell. Because of the issues between slash’s father and mother, Slash was raised b his father until age 5. Later his mom and dad got separated, due to lots of issues between his father ad mother slash’s childhood life was little problematic. But Slash decided to stay with his mother, and stayed with his lovingly maternal grandmother whenever his mom has travel out for a job. He was given nickname Slash by his family friend Seymour Cassel as he was always in hurry zipping around from one place to another.

At age of 14 Slash decided to form a band with his childhood friend Steven Adler, who is now the lead drummer of Guns N Roses band. So Steven Adler and Slash decided to learn bass as Steven took the role of guitarist. Later Slash decided to shift from learning Bass to playing guitar after getting influenced by the song ‘Brown Sugar’ from the ‘Rolling Stones ‘band. Slash was a very hard working person he used to practice guitar 12 hours a day.

MUSIC CAREER

Slash joined his first band Tidus Sloan in 1981. Later Slash formed Road Crew band with his friend Steven Adler and Duff McKagan. After few days Slash Disband the group as they didn’t find any singer. Later he along with Steven Adler joined Hollywood Rose band where Axl Rose was the singer.

In 1985 Axl Rose, Slash and Steven Adler along with the drummer Duff McKagan together formed Guns N Roses band. There after the band achieved success and in 1986, Guns N Roses band was signed with Geffen Records. The band released their debut album named “Appetite for Destruction” in 1987, which has sold over 28 million copies world wide. In 1989 this was the only band which stood among US no.1 Hit which has a song “Sweet Child O Mine” super headed by slash’s guitar riff and solo. In 1996 Slash left the band Guns N Roses and in 1994 formed a side project named Slash Snakepit which involved his guns N Roses band mates and other band members also. He later released his first Snakepit Album named “Ain’t Life Grand” in October 2000. In 2002 Slash formed anther band named velvet Revolver along with Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum and found success after releasing many albums and songs .Slash from 2008 started focusing on his solo career by performing his solo albums and also featuring with other artists.

In 1991 slash performed with Michael Jackson’s single “Given to Me” and “Black and White “songs. He also collaborated with many artists. He became famous for his dedication and performance and became one of the lead guitarists. He was also listed as one of the top 10 guitarist in the world.

He was also credited for having done some art work for Aerosmith’s 2012 band.

Slash is the great fan of Angry Birds game and he himself created a hard rock version song named as Angry Bird Space theme song. And also there is a bird’s avatar of slash included in the game.

Slash is also a playable character in a video game Guitar Hero III Legend of Rock released in2007.

Guns N Roses

Albums:

Appetite for Destruction (1987)

G NR Lies (1988)

Use Your Illusion I (1991)

Use Your Illusion II (1991)

The Spaghetti Incident (1993)

Slash’s Snake pit

Albums:

It’s Five’s clock somewhere (1995)

Ain’t Life Grand (2000)

Velvet Revolver

Albums:

Contraband (2004)

Libertad (2007)

Solo albums by Slash

Slash (2010)

Apocalyptic love (2012)

TBA (2014)

PERSONAL LIFE

In 1992 Slash got married to a model-actress Renee Suran in Marina Del Rye, California and after 5 years they divorced in 1997.He later got married to Perla Ferrar on October 2001 in Hawaii. This couple is gifted with two sons London Emilio and Cash Anthony .In 2010 Slash filed divorce from Ferrar but later they reconciled and started living happily.

NET WORTH AND ASSETS

Slash’s net worth is $32 million. Slash owns more than 100 guitars among them he prefers Gibson Les Paul guitars. This shows that his assets were his music and love for music only. Slash owns 6 old classic cars among them 66 Chevrolet Corvette, 1936 black Forde Coupe and 1967 Black Lincoln Convertible. He also owns a house worth 10.2 billion which is situated at Los Angeles.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS:

Slash received was named as Best Guitarist by Esquire. Slash was awarded a title as Riff Lord during Metal Hammers 4^th annual golden god’s award in 2007.In 2008 he was ranked no.21 on Gegwise’s list of the best 50 Greatest Guitarists ever. He was named in the list of Top 10 Electric guitar players in Time Magazine. In 2007 He was honored with a star on the Rock walk of fame, his name was placed along side Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, and Jimmy Hendrix. In 2012 Slash was inducted into Rock N Roll Hal of fame as a member of the classic line up of guns n roses.

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Career/Profession: Guitarist, Songwriter

James Hetfield is an extolled American singer, songwriter and esteemed guitarist as well. He is the co-founder, lyricist and lead vocalist for the popular metal band called Metallica. He is good at rhythm playing but also used to play guitar in studios as well as in live shows. He founded Metallica band along with drummer Lars Ulrich. He is passionate about skateboarding, snowboarding, jet-skiing and various other adventure sports. He is a part of the National Rifle Association too.

His Childhood:

James was born on August 3, 1963 in California. He was the son of Christian Scientists where his father was a truck driver and mother was an opera singer. He completed his schooling from Downey High School and graduation from Orange Country’s Brea Olinda High School in 1981.

Hetfield in his early age got the feel of music. He took piano lessons at the age of nine. At the age of fourteen he started playing guitar with Robert Okner. He was the part of any bands like Leather Charm, Obsession etc. The song he used to sing in his whole career always tries to demonstrate or convey some message like ‘God That Failed’ was dedicated to his mother who died due to cancer when he was 16 years old.

Metallica Effect:

Metallica, a heavy metal band was founded by Hetfield and Lars Ulrich in 1981. It initially included several eminent faces such as David Mustaine, Ron McGovney, John Roads. Till mid 1990’s Hetfield recorded so many rhythms and harmonic tracks. In this band, he frequently used to play guitar and gave so many hits. This includes ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘My Friend of Misery’, ‘To Live is to Die’ and the list goes on. He generally preferred to write guitar harmonies, vocal melodies for the band along with Lars Ulrich. Metallica gained everlasting fame after the release of its own album named ‘Metallica’. It has added various stars to its fame with the release of ‘Sad but True’ and ‘The Unforgiven’. It topped the billboard charts for nearly nine weeks. Metallica captured a total of nine Grammy awards with few studio albums and some plays under the reign of Hetfield. The journey of the band was not so easy. It faced many difficulties in its coordination when both of them Hetfield and Ulrich were in front. They released a short documentary movie ‘Some Kind of Monsters’ which demonstrate the relationship among the band members and establishment of the band.

Hetfield’s Efforts:

After the Metallica could make up for the death of Cliff Burton, Hetfield along with Ulrich decided to take their band to the heights and didn’t want rebellious image of band to popularize more. ‘And Justice for all’, their fourth hit album was released together with the music video ‘one’ which became regular music over MTV in a small time. They both want to take Metallica a one step near to success. They hired pop rock star Bob Rock to work on their new project ‘The Black Album’ in 1991. This album shaped a new image of Metallica and fixed a rock status for it.

Difficulties within the band:

For more campaigning and promotion Metallica group used to be on tour several times and this time they went with Guns N’ Roses in 1992. But this time it was unfortunate that walked with the band in Montreal. A large flame exploded over the stage and the sound of Hetfield’s guitar disappeared. Hetfield got severe injuries and advised to take some rest.

Guest Appearance in various shows:

Hetfield also played some guest appearances on the Friend’s album. He was appreciated for some parts of it. He played guitar in the album ‘Antipop’ on ‘Electic Electric’. He gave his voice to the ‘Twist of Can’ and ‘possession’ in the album Danzig. He also made an appearance with his band members in the Discovery TV show ‘Time Warp’ and also on ‘The Mook the chef the wife and her Homer’. He was also invited for studio album ‘Systematic Chaos’ by Dream Theatre. His incredible and unbeatable skills as a lead vocalist listed him on the Billboard chart and ranked him 24^th by the ‘Hit Parader’ magazine.

Greatly Influenced:

James was always influenced by music. He was very much inspired by his brother who taught him lessons of guitar and drums. As a teenager, he was the member of Obsession and Leather Charm bands. And as he grew up, he became a substantial part of ‘Aerosmith’. In addition to this, ‘Deep Purple’ and ‘Led Zeppelin’ left a deep influence on his mind. This influence made him immobile and he remained the part of Metallica for the whole season in spite of the fact that various band members left the group in the middle when the group’s success graph faced a decreasing slope.

Performance Degraded:

Metallica’s eighth album was flopped, but later his next release ‘Death Magnetic’ put the band to more fame and made it more popular. This album enriched the fate of the band members and helped them to achieve the success and took them to the position where they needed to be. Again their new release in 2011 i.e. Lulu got flopped and got more criticism than any other album.

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