Eagerly anticipating the release of Guitar Hero III? Here’s another tantilizing tidbit: Slash will be a character in the game. The legendary guitarist will not, however, be easy to get to: In order to “unlock” Slash (who donned a motion-capture suit so game makers could track his every pluck), players will have to face him in a one-on-one shredding duel after completing all the songs in the game. No word on whether players are getting Appetite-era Slash, the scruffy leader of Slash’s Snakepit, Michael Jackson’s pal Slash or the Paulina Rubio-collaborating current member of Velvet Revolver.
Slash Set to Shred in Guitar Hero III
7/9/07, 3:06 pm EST
Comments
david | 7/9/2007, 6:11 pm EST
wow. I dont want to be the one in every comment dissucsion who says that somebody has sold out, so im not.
Tattoo U | 7/9/2007, 6:24 pm EST
Slash can do whatever he wants to.
matt | 7/9/2007, 6:27 pm EST
This is awesome. It is not selling out. The GH games are well done, and a real treat for music fans. I’m looking forward to this title.
Benny Boy | 7/9/2007, 6:51 pm EST
Since a couple Velvet Revolver songs will be in the game, maybe he’ll be featured as he is right now. At least one of the songs was supposed to be She Builds Quick Machines.
B. Breeg | 7/9/2007, 6:59 pm EST
Slash is the greatest guitar player in rock in roll right now, maybe ever.
Johnnie Walker Blue | 7/9/2007, 8:05 pm EST
that’s right a f*cking LEGEND!!! You bitchy little girls wish you had what it took to sell out. Haters!
man | 7/9/2007, 8:06 pm EST
slash can go ahead and bow down to frusciante
Rob | 7/9/2007, 8:13 pm EST
Since when is signing on to be in a video game selling out? Besides, it’s only pathetic when a kid sells out… Slash is a 40 year old man, he isn’t selling out, he’s wising up.
trollgoal | 7/9/2007, 8:33 pm EST
oh please say you all are not gonna fued over who the greatest player is….please everbody know it’s…..
rev maynard said it best | 7/9/2007, 8:40 pm EST
please have a listen to Hooker with a Penis. The lesson there is obvious for most of us but it would do the rest of you some good to think about the nonsense coming from your mouths.
jeff | 7/9/2007, 8:43 pm EST
This is such a cool idea. Slash Rules!
SlashMyAss | 7/9/2007, 8:43 pm EST
Frusciante could beat Slash in a guitar off blindfolded. Slash is a great guitarist don’t get me wrong, but Frusciante is a guitar GOD.
frankybm | 7/9/2007, 8:48 pm EST
yes!! frusciante could beat just about anybody he´s really underrated in the rock world
frankybm | 7/9/2007, 8:49 pm EST
yes!! frusciante could beat just about anybody he´s really underrated in the rock world, but he probably wont do something like this because he woudnt sell out
frankybm | 7/9/2007, 8:49 pm EST
yes!! frusciante could beat just about anybody he´s really underrated in the rock world, but he probably wont do something like this because he woudnt sell out
Saul Hudson | 7/9/2007, 9:02 pm EST
What is Slash selling out to? B/C Slash joined this game he is compromising his principles? I’m pretty sure he is still going to wear a top-hat and drink himself silly whenever he pleases. He isn’t changing his music because of the game. So basically he is selling out because he is making money? You don’t sell out just because you make money. If you did, Slash would have been a “sell-out” long ago.
Just enjoy the way he plays guitar and quit concerning yourself with who is a sell out and who is not. The only thing you need to ask yourself is: Does he still rock?
man | 7/9/2007, 9:23 pm EST
I myself am NOT a fan of Slash….however, I do believe this is a cool idea and as far as him selling out??? thats ridiculous. Hes just being a character in a guitar based video game you morons.
man | 7/9/2007, 9:24 pm EST
ps…… maynard is not a rev. hes pretentious
Cole | 7/9/2007, 9:36 pm EST
being in guitar hero is not selling out! Guitar Hero Rocks! I wish I could be a guitar hero character
stanley 64 | 7/9/2007, 9:42 pm EST
….Slash, just play the music baby!!!!
Bones McCoy | 7/9/2007, 10:49 pm EST
RHCP is retarded and Frusciante is missing teeth cause he was a heroin addict.
Johnny | 7/9/2007, 11:25 pm EST
Frusciante is not better than slash. Nobody even knows who he is, Slash is known as a guitar god and Frusciante is just another everyday guitar player. Slash could kick his ass any day.
Johnny | 7/9/2007, 11:31 pm EST
OH yes and by the way if you think Frusciante is a better guitar player than slash, you have no sence of music what so ever. Frusciante is no compairison what so ever to slash.
Commando | 7/9/2007, 11:51 pm EST
No sense comparing Slash to Frusciante. Both gifted, no doubt… for my money, Billy Corgan’s the 40 year old that is shredding the most right now, though…But yeah. Slash= Guitar Legend. You don’t put the RHCP guitarrist in the pit with Slash…
Rory | 7/10/2007, 1:08 am EST
It’s like comparing apples to oranges. Slash has his niche in the rock world, and Frusciante has a different but equally impressive niche in the rock world. Slash can play some serious bluesy/hard rock guitar solos, but his songwriting chops can’t be compared with Frusciante. Look at Slash’s Snakepit when Slash didn’t have Izzy (who wrote the more memorable of G n R’s riffs) took over. Some really generic songs with some serious playing. Frusciante can solo, but it’s more atmospheric and “experimental” in nature. Less in your face, more subtle, but still a display of extreme talent, and he has crafted some of the best rock albums of the past twenty years. I just think it’s ignorant to tell other people they are wrong based on a preference. Can’t we just appreciate each guitar player for what they do? Silly, I know.
Rory | 7/10/2007, 1:16 am EST
Excuse my mistake in editing. Please omit the “took over” after the parentheses when reading, haha.
zac | 7/10/2007, 2:15 am EST
slash is a total dickhead !!
Anthony PIttarelli | 7/10/2007, 3:42 am EST
slash is cool it doesnt matter what he does
wolfxxx | 7/10/2007, 4:16 am EST
IZZY RULES!!!!!
jungleland | 7/10/2007, 7:18 am EST
this is very cool
Frusciante Rules | 7/10/2007, 10:22 am EST
I think we should be able to create our own characters, whether it be ourselves we create, or other players who aren’t in the game, I’d create Jimi Hendrix, John Frusciante, myself, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Flea(for bass). We should be able to completly create a band, create the singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer, maybe rythm guitarist, anything, that would be awesome.
Frusciante Rules | 7/10/2007, 10:27 am EST
Oh, and I think that the game should have Fender guitars in it, like the Stratocaster. I like the game as it is, but I just think it would be so much better, with some different things to do, and it would also be really cool, if we could be able to do some improv. like the real players do at concerts.
Big Nate | 7/10/2007, 10:40 am EST
Um you can’t really improv on a video game, because its a video game. Learn real guitar.
Brien Comerford | 7/10/2007, 11:10 am EST
The best thing about Slash is that he reveres Jeff Beck. The latter (Jeff Beck) is the world’s greatest living guitarist. He is also a hot-rod mechanic, a landscaper, an amimal lover and a vegetarian for over 35 years. Cheers to Slash and Jeff Beck. Steve Vai and Steve Howe are also awesome.
Bill Bones | 7/10/2007, 11:38 am EST
Richie Sambora is the bestest ever.
Killa | 7/10/2007, 12:55 pm EST
If one must go head to head with Slash to unlock his character in this video game, that sounds like an almost insurmountable challenge.
Hendrix | 7/10/2007, 2:27 pm EST
I have very mixed feelings about guitar hero. Its nothing, nothing, nothing at all like playing guitar in real life so I can’t stand it personally, but I think its really cool that the game is getting kids to listen to classic rock again, a lot of the songs have impressive guitar solos and much more talented music than a lot of the popular music that is being written today.
Heather! | 7/10/2007, 4:21 pm EST
I’m a big GH fan and knowing slash is gonna be on it and you have to duel him that is gonna be awesome and just because GH isnt like playing “real” guitar doesnt mean its not effin awesome or cool
Heather! | 7/10/2007, 4:21 pm EST
I’m a big GH fan and knowing slash is gonna be on it and you have to duel him that is gonna be awesome and just because GH isnt like playing “real” guitar doesnt mean its not effin awesome or cool
Dookie | 7/10/2007, 5:05 pm EST
To those below who are arguing about whether or nor frusciante is better than slash are all morons…they are two totally different types of guitar players and obviously yall dont know that…they are both great in their own right
Rachelle | 7/11/2007, 1:14 am EST
Slash is cool. Anyone else would be great too add. When does Guitar Hero III come out so that I have something to do instead of school.
Rachelle | 7/11/2007, 1:15 am EST
Slash is cool. Anyone else would be great too add. When does Guitar Hero III come out so that I have something to do instead of school.
erik | 7/11/2007, 2:19 am EST
i agree. john Frusciante is an awesome guitarest AS WELL as slash. they both have great solos, all though slash had more sucsess due to the band he was in (GNR)and the originality of his playing. Frusciante is exactly the same, but the red hot chili peppers are only slowly to get up there. they will surely go down with the stones, gnr, aerosmith…. they are both wonderful players and really when u get to a certain point in your abilities it is almost impossible to get that good. people just prefer slash to Frusciante or Frusciante to slash. they both were and still are brilliant guitar players.
erik | 7/11/2007, 2:19 am EST
i agree. john Frusciante is an awesome guitarest AS WELL as slash. they both have great solos, all though slash had more sucsess due to the band he was in (GNR)and the originality of his playing. Frusciante is exactly the same, but the red hot chili peppers are only slowly to get up there. they will surely go down with the stones, gnr, aerosmith…. they are both wonderful players and really when u get to a certain point in your abilities it is almost impossible to get that good. people just prefer slash to Frusciante or Frusciante to slash. they both were and still are brilliant guitar players.
voodoo chile | 7/11/2007, 4:37 am EST
How has a video game leak turned into a guitarist/Guitar Hero debate on the proficiency of Slash vs. John Frusciante? Both are great in their own right. Why don’t you pick up a newspaper & learn something. Less time worrying about video games & the pecking order of guitar gods
Schram | 7/11/2007, 9:09 pm EST
All I can say is about guitar playing:
CLAPTON IS GOD
I'm on Expert!!! | 7/18/2007, 12:06 pm EST
I thought Slash was with Guns & Roses?
kajic | 7/18/2007, 4:54 pm EST
all I can say about guitar players is EDDIE VAN HALEN IS GOD!!!
Kaz Kooper | 7/20/2007, 10:52 am EST
If every douche bag that played this game picked up a real guitar and worked a little at it this world would be a lot cooler
Kaz Kooper | 7/20/2007, 10:53 am EST
How about facing off against Lindsey Buckingham finger style championship style.
(Ok now someone name drop Chet or Segovia)
katt | 7/26/2007, 10:06 pm EST
slash is the best guitar player ever!!!i can’t wait for the game to come out.
blaynis | 8/2/2007, 4:56 am EST
i think slash is a better guitarist
but my favourite guitarist is John Frusciante and i think hes right up there with the gods
Shredder | 8/8/2007, 7:49 pm EST
I agree Slash is a good guitarist, but he is by far not the best. So to all of you who think he is, please learn your guitarists better.
Shredalicious | 8/24/2007, 4:49 am EST
Hmmm lets see, best guitarist ever eh? are you basing on trademark songs, playing with emotion, groundbreaking, or sheer technical skill? if so I’m gonna have to say bonn scott Eric Clapton for emotion, Michael Angelo Batio or Chris Broderick sheer technical skill, and best for last hands down noone gonna disagree who knows guitars Les Paul is the grandfather and pioneer of current music and noones yet to come EVEN CLOSE!
Shredalicious | 8/24/2007, 4:52 am EST
arggg i meant bonn scott for writing but i am tired so forgot to put it in as that R.I.P.
Slave | 9/9/2007, 2:20 pm EST
Slave………
Lovers | 9/12/2007, 5:37 am EST
Lovers kkkk
John the fisherman | 9/26/2007, 10:25 pm EST
I think the new guitar hero will be okay, but i think the 2nd on is better because it has recent music of all kind not some bogus 80’s music >:(
katt | 10/1/2007, 5:05 pm EST
k whoever shredaliciouse is, slash may not be the best guitar player in your books but he is in mine .and yes there probaly is other guitar players that are better,but slash is still my favorite.
izzy!!! | 10/9/2007, 12:36 pm EST
Slash Deserves to be on this game!!!!!!
Boy | 10/23/2007, 6:22 am EST
Good Good
Carey | 11/10/2007, 8:37 pm EST
Slash is THE BEST gutair player in history!
Zakkus | 11/13/2007, 3:52 am EST
slash may not be the BEST guitar player.
but he’s the fuckin coolest
Jonny | 11/15/2007, 5:51 am EST
Slash is the best guitar player in my book, even if zakk wylde and eddie van halen can kick his arse but thats not slashes style, i as a guitarist would be no where near as good as i am now if it wasnt for slash.
no watter what he is still a god and he could still put up a fight to eddie… slash is god….
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who cares | 1/3/2008, 8:17 pm EST
ye whatever
slash suks
luv ron
who cares | 1/3/2008, 8:19 pm EST
actually that was john
Anonymous | 2/3/2008, 6:00 pm EST
joe walsh in my book.
rm | 3/14/2008, 1:43 pm EST
slash is the best guitarist ever
ashley | 4/15/2008, 7:09 pm EST
slash rock and he is so awsome
ashley | 4/15/2008, 7:09 pm EST
slash rocks and he is so awsome
bob | 4/17/2008, 9:39 am EST
those of u yo think slash sucks fuck u
Guitar Legend | 5/7/2008, 9:30 am EST
SLASH RULES!
jake | 5/11/2008, 9:11 pm EST
why would such a great guy like slash hame some thing to do with a guy like michel jackson
van | 5/15/2008, 12:07 am EST
I don’t think Slash got where he is by being a slouch. He’s an innovative great player that (if you listen to him solo with Zac Wylde on You Tube) can play some awesome stuff. Don’t under estimate legends like Slash.
pvt | 5/19/2008, 5:44 pm EST
slash is the best guitar player
in the world
i am on expert | 5/19/2008, 5:49 pm EST
i larned every thing from
you.
and you rockthe house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bradley James | 6/9/2008, 6:19 pm EST
uhh. you cannot actually rate supreme guitarists against eachother because if they are in fact supreme then each would have a different style than the other..its like comparing a car to a motorcycle..each is great but you just cant compare them unless they actually suck like todays blues-less wannabe posers. get some roots. be original..thats all it takes
The Rocker | 6/23/2008, 1:52 pm EST
Yo Slash is awesome.if it wasn`t for him i wouldn`t even be playing guitar.He`s my inspiration for guitar.You Rock Slash.
dick | 12/12/2008, 11:54 pm EST
i love slash
dick | 12/12/2008, 11:54 pm EST
i love slash
gav | 1/18/2009, 5:35 pm EST
slash is a great player.followed him for twenty years.puts his own signature on the instrument.dont think even a player like clapton does that
Rayli | 2/18/2009, 12:41 pm EST
Slash is like my idol! He rocks and he can do whatever he wants. He’s his own person he doesn’t need people giving advice. (and personaly i think he’s pretty hott!) Rock on Slash!!!

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