Slash (Musician)

James "Rooster" Olson on turning pedal board creation into art with Trailer Trash Pedalboards

After playing with Denver-based bands including G-Force and Autobahn in the '80s, James "Rooster" Olson made a name for himself with his company Trailer Trash Pedal Boards. Olson essentially revolutionized the pedal-board industry with his award-winning designs, which have been used by an array of t ... More >>

DJ Big Styles shares a few of his favorite memories from So What! The Club

Tomorrow night at Beauty Bar, So What! The Club celebrates its twentieth year of keeping Denver funky. Earlier this week, we shared some of the fliers from the early days when the night first got going at City Spirit on through its move to various other locales, including 9th Avenue West and Rock Is ... More >>

Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction turns 25

See Also: - Remembering Randy Rhodes thirty years after his tragic death -The Beatles' Sgt Pepper turns 45 -The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street turns 40 -Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced turns 45 In the early 1980s, a red-haired, Midwestern boy named William Bailey stepped off a bus in New Y ... More >>

Chartbreaker: John Mayer's new album, Born and Raised, takes the top spot this week

John Mayer knocks Adam Lambert from the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart this week as Mayer's new record, Born And Raised, lands at number one. Lambert's Trespassing, meanwhile, drops all the way to number twelve. Born And Raised is Mayer's third number-one album, joining 2003's Heavier Things ... More >>

Barry Fey on that time that he held a gun to Axl Rose's head and how the business has changed

​For years, Barry Fey says, music fans have been needling him to write a book. "You know, people have been saying 'When's the book? When's the book?' for fifteen years," Fey notes. "It was daily, wherever I would go out... 'When's the book? Come on, you've got to write a book!'" Well, he final ... More >>

Guitar Center exec Laura Taylor on the changing attitudes toward women in the music industry

Laura Taylor, the Los Angeles-based vice president of operations for Guitar Center.​For this week's print feature, we spoke with Laura Taylor, Vice President of Operations for Guitar Center regarding the company's recent initiatives to improve the treatment of female customers in the company' ... More >>

Review: Willie Nelson at Red Rocks, 6/21/2011

​WILLIE NELSON at RED ROCKS | 06.21.11"While Willie Nelson is still a solid player and performer, seeing him these days is about nostalgia for a lot of people. These aren't the best versions of songs like "Crazy" and "Aint It Funny," but seeing Nelson up on stage performing them is as heartwar ... More >>

Les Paul Google Doodle in honor of what would've been the guitar legend's 96 birthday

​No, we don't have our guitar plugged into our Smokey Amp again. Why do you ask? Oh that. Yeah, no, we're just screwing around with our Google Doodle in honor of Les Paul, who would've been 96 today. Easy, tiger. It only sounds dirty -- uh, the Google Doodle, that is, not what we're playing. W ... More >>

Hair metal fashion: The most regrettable decade celebrated last night at Steel Panther

What is this I don't even​Hate it or love it, like a cockroach covered in leopard-print spandex, '80s arena metal has crawled forth in tact after surviving grunge, boy bands, ringtone rap and now Bieber. Last night, twenty-somethings who looked like they fell out of a time-traveling telephon ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne at the Pepsi Center, 2.8.11

Aaron ThackerayHey, look: It's the Prince of Fucking Darkness, man!​ OZZY OSBOURNE With Slash 02.08.11 | Pepsi Center Ozzy Osbourne layeth the smack down last night at the Pepsi Center with Slash -- he of the shaggy mane, top hat, Velvet Revolver and, of course, Guns N' Roses -- in tow. A c ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne, Crystal Castles and Lucero shows announced

The Ozzman cometh to the Pepsi Center in February​Ozzy Osbourne, who just launched a column in Rolling Stone called Ask Dr. Ozzy, in which he offers health and diet tips (no, really), hits the Pepsi Center with Slash on Tuesday, February 8, as part of an eighteen-month long world tour, which i ... More >>

Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs, Slash, Matt & Kim shows anounced

​Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs, touring this summer and fall as "The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue," visit Red Rocks on Monday, September 27. What will they be playing, you ask? Ah, follow the jump to find out.

Cafe Society: Week in review

​ What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were buried in gravy, a slave to stuffing or checking out Sheehan's roundup of Denver's best pub grub, which is exactly what you want after too much tryptophan: Saul Hudson learned that Chipotle Mexican Grill is entering the Lond ... More >>

Good news, Woody Paige: Les Paul isn't dead yet

It's always dangerous when sportswriters include music references in their columns. Such citations are typically moldy -- as, for instance, Rocky Mountain News staffer Bernie Lincicome's dopey mention of Loggins and Messina, who hailed from an era "when music was fun," he claimed in a December 7 p ... More >>

Shred Cred

You wanted the best, you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

Q&A With Slash From Velvet Revolver/Guns N' Roses

Velvet Revolver Seek Libertad

Slash touts his new band as everyone’s celebrating the old one.

Velvet Revolver

Libertad
RCA

Velvet Revolver

Tuesday, April 26, Magness Arena, 303-830-8497.

Best Tribute Band

Rocket Queen

Retroactive

Steven Adler

Velvet Revolver

Sunday, June 20, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-TIXS

Recovered

With Drug Under, Chris Romero has found a cure for his Sickness.

Eternal Flame

After half a century, Burning Spear is still stoking the fire in reggae's soul.

Critic's Choice

Buckethead

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped, the Folksmen turn it way down from 11.

The Blasters

Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (Rhino/Warner Bros./Slash)

Heavy Mettle

Harlan Hendrickson wants to prove that '80s rock and roll is not noise pollution.

The Jeers of a Clown

A major label tried to muzzle Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse. Here's why.

It Was All Eddie's Fault

Just try to stop Sammy Hagar from telling how Van Halen did him wrong.

Dinosaur Johnson

On his own, Mike Johnson sounds nothing like his main band, Dinosaur Jr.

SOUL MEN

M. DOUGHTY'S SOUL COUGHING ISN'T CLEARING UP. AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS.

LETTERS

POWERING UP

16 HORSEPOWER FINALLY GETS THE RECORD CONTRACT IT DESERVES.

THRILLS

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