Slash was a BMXer

If you've been alive at any point in the last 33 years, you've heard this song.  Yesterday someone had a post on Facebook with the Guns 'N' Roses BMX T-shirt on it.  So I commented that Slash was a BMXer.  Someone else came back with this interview (below), that I'd never seen.  I knew I had to post it, it's pretty cool.

There was a story, way back in the 80's, just after Guns 'N' Roses hit big time, that Slash an Duff met each other at a bank, while riding their BMX bikes.  No one was sure if it was true, but it was cool at the time.  GNR was as big as could be, and BMX freestyle was a tiny, weird little sport.  It was cool to think this guitar hero had been one of us at some point.

Then a year or so later, there came a rumor that Brian Blyther, and one or two other riders got back stage at a Guns 'N' Roses concert, and Slash walked up to them and said, "Hey, you're Brian Blyther."  I think I asked Brian about this once, and he confirmed it.  Brian, call me out if I'm wrong.  Anyhow, it was another cool story, tying one of the world's best known guitar players to BMX and freestyle.

Many hears later, I saw a photo or two of someone jumping, from like 1978, that was supposed to be Slash, but you couldn't tell for sure.  Then, yesterday, somebody shares this interview, and here's the man himself, talking about his days as a hardcore BMX biker in his early teens.  Pretty cool little interview.




Here's a little bonus footage of Slash goofin' around with his bike on tour, not sure if there was beer involved, or he was just rusty from years of not riding much. Thanks Jared Cyr for posting this clip on Facebook.

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