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Davis’ 2008 book Watch You Bleed: The
Saga of Guns N’ Roses, he writes, “Slash
cut most of the tracks with a Les Paul copy
plugged into a Marshall amplifier.”
But in a July 2010 interview with AOL’s
Noisecreep website, Slash himself seems
to confirm, at least in part, the assertion
that the LP didn’t show up until late in the
game, as well as rumors about the disposition of his earlier instruments.
“I was really broke and I hocked all my
decent guitars before we went into the
studio to make Appetite for Destruction,”
Slash tells the website staff. “All I had left
were a B.C. Rich Warlock and two Jackson
guitars, a Firebird, and a prototype archtop Strat-style guitar. I brought them all
into the recording studio for the Appetite
session and they all sounded horrible. I
was like, ‘F---, what do I do? I have to do
the overdubs and I have no instrument.’
In this photo taken in 2001, Luthier Peter “Max” Baranet (left) stands with Slash and the Les Paul replica he built for the gunslinger. Photo courtesy of Peter Baranet
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