Friday, September 5, 2008

A Historic Night for Reckless Road at Guitar Center

This is the first in a series of posts about the Slash Sessions Event and Reckless Road launch party at Guitar Center.

Real Deal Media, Gibson and Guitar Center combined forces to produce a Sessions event in Northridge, CA with Slash that was off the hook. In addition to the Q&A and performance, Gibson and Epiphone unveiled their Slash Les Paul Goldtop series and Real Deal Media kicked off the Reckless Road launch party.

Slash and Artistdirect editor Rick Florino spoke for about an hour about a range of subjects including Slash's techniques, future plans for Velvet Revolver and, of course, Reckless Road. Marc Canter got up on stage and joined Slash for a few questions about their friendship and the book. Slash played some of his most famous riffs: Sweet Child O Mine, Welcome to the Jungle and Slither.

After the Sessions part of the evening, the Reckless Road launch party kicked off and included a book signing with nearly everyone we interviewed for the book who was a major part of GNR history. Fourteen of us sat down together to sign books for anyone who got in line. We ended up signing several hundred books. It was epic. Among the guests were Steven Adler, Mike Clink, Adriana "Rocket Queen" Smith and former Geffen A&R rep Tom Zutaut.

That's all for now - we're still recovering from that night. Check back in a bit for tons more behind-the-scenes photos, video and stories. A huge "Thank You" to all of the thousands of fans who came out and rocked with us. You are reason for everything we do. Send us your stories and pictures; we'd love to hear from you.

Slash on stage at Sessions Event

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The crowd inside at the signing

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Adriana "Rocket Queen" Smith and Steven Adler

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have got my new electric guitar through Guitar Center, it's cool…

Anonymous said...

When will there be more pics up of Slash with Fans?