What Influences Slash

Read a great article on Slash in Blabbermouth.com. It listed the following on what Slash likes... A couple that i havnt heard of at any point... jimi hendrix Machine Gun... its funny you can really hear the licks that Slash uses in these...

It was good to revisit the old classics like black dog and back in the s

Songs & riffsSlash's 10 favorite songs of the 20th century (Rolling Stone magazine, 2004):

1. Back In the Saddle (Aerosmith)
2. The Ocean (Led Zeppelin)
3. Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking (The Rolling Stones)
5. Down Payment Blues (AC/DC)
6. Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)
7. Tie Your Mother Down (Queen)
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
9. Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
10. I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)

Slash's ultimate guitar compilation (Q magazine, 2004):

1. Machine Gun (Jimi Hendrix)
2. No Quarter (Led Zeppelin)
3. Nobody's Fault (Aerosmith)
4. Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
5. Cause We've Ended As Lovers (Jeff Beck)
6. Superstitious (Jeff Beck)
7. Rock My Plimsoul (Jeff Beck)
8. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
9. All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
10. Running With The Devil (Van Halen)
11. Gonna Raise Hell (Cheap Trick)
12. Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
13. Layla (Derek & The Dominoes)
14. Shapes Of Things (Gary Moore)
15. Rock Bottom (UFO)
16. Fly To The Rainbow (Scorpions)
17. The Thrill Is Gone (B.B. King)
18. Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
19. Burn (Deep Purple)
20. Wheels Within Wheels (Rory Gallagher)

Slash's 10 favorite guitar riffs (Metal Hammer magazine, 2010):

1. Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)
2. Over Under Sideways Down (The Yardbirds)
3. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
4. More Of That Jazz (Queen)
5. Life In The Fast Lane (The Eagles)
6. Disposable Heroes (Metallica)
7. Superstition (Jeff Beck)
8. Show Your Love (Van Halen)
9. Back In The Saddle (Aerosmith)
10. I Want You (The Beatles)