The Forgotten Gear

If you thought he only played Les Pauls, check out these amazing highlights from Slash's $2 million guitar collection

- By Jenna Scaramanga. Photographs by Getty

BC RICH WARLOCK

Slash's main guitar before getting signed was this decidedly 80s beast, which appeared at 18 early GN'R club shows. It's immortalized on the live tracks from GN'R Lies, recorded in 1986. It was missing for 30 years before appearing at auction in 2016, where it fetched $96,000.

GIBSON FLYING V

In TG's interview, Slash waxes lyrical about his '67 Hendrix reissue Flying V which appears on two tracks on new album 4. Turns out he's got history with Vs, having to use a phenomenally rare 1959 Korina model for lead parts on Knockin' On Heaven's Door and Live And Let Die.

GIBSON ES-335

Appearing only with Velvet Revolver, particularly for live versions of The Last Fight, was Slash's black 335, with block inlays and Les Paul Custom-style diamond headstock inlay. Uncovered humbuckers (black, of course), completed the Slash look.

TRAVIS BEAN 1000

These rare beasts have a neck and hollow body all milled from a single piece of aluminum, with a solid wood top. Slash's heroes Keith Richards and Joe Perry have both used one live. The aluminum's stinging resonance is great for slide, which Slash exploits on Shine from the second Slash's Snakepit album, Ain't Life

Grand GUILD CROSSROADS DOUBLE-NECK

Slash owns at least four of these, but arriving in 1993 they came too late for Guns N' Roses' heyday. The Tele-inspired hollow body has an electro-acoustic upper neck and a lower neck with twin humbuckers. It's been recently seen on performances of Anastasia.

FENDER 1965 STRATOCASTER