Syd's right. Slash should be more selective about who who chooses to play with. Making money while you can is so lame...especially when you're a 46 year old "rocker." A 46 year old guy, still calling himself Slash and wearing a gimmicky top hat, HAS to be all about the integrity of his art and instrument.

Or, you can believe that Slash is a run of the mill guitar player and would be as popular in 2012 as the lead guitar player in Ratt (whoever that may be) if he didn't shuck and jive in his top hat and keep his name relevant. Rock stars are like pro football players: make the money while you can and whenever you can because it's usually a short career.

Fighter_McWarrior wrote:

Tell that to Paul Simon. Or Bruce Springsteen. Or Eric Clapton. Or BB King. There are some others too. There are plenty of rock artists who've been out there for a long time, who are getting old and who still keep their names relevant by making art instead of whoring themselves out to anyone who writes a check. I'm not necessarily categorizing Slash one way or the other, but that argument you just made is stupid.

Stupid? My argument was that these older musicians should make the money while they can. Incidentally, all of those dudes you mentioned as artists are as "whorey" as Syd thinks Slash is; they've all played with other shitty performers or even one-hit wonders: Paul Simon played with John Mayer, Springsteen played with the Wallflowers, Eric Clapton played with Babyface, B.B. King played with Tracy Chapman.