Slash honoured in Los Angeles
August 31st, 2010 - 5:24 am ICT by IANSLondon, Aug 31 (IANS) Former Guns N’ Roses rocker Slash has been honoured at the Sunset Strip Music Festival in Los Angeles for his contribution to music.
The rocker moved from his native Britain to the US when he was 11 years old and settled with his family in Los Angeles and now he was paid tribute as the city’s annual music event when it kicked off Aug 26, reports contactmusic.com.
The guitarist admits he was deeply moved by the Sunset Strip honour, as he has spent so much of his life in the West Hollywood area.
“Picking up the guitar for the first time in West Hollywood, then learning how to play in West Hollywood, starting a band in West Hollywood, and making it in West Hollywood⦠getting a record deal at Geffen on Sunset which was the same place my dad used to work at when I was a kid. So I never left here,” he said.
“Everything in my life that is of any importance started in West Hollywood. And the Sunset Strip is like… such a part of me. So to be honoured by the Sunset Strip is just a major, major thing for me,” he added.
Previous festival honorees include Lou Adler and Ozzy Osbourne, who made his US debut with Black Sabbath at the famous Whisky A Go-Go venue on Sunset Strip.
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