Spudman
May 1st, 2012, 05:43 PM
Whole article here
http://community.musiciansfriend.com/community/slash/article
Can you recall the most moving live experience from your career? —Steve Sullivan – Pocatello, Idaho
Slash: There’s no one experience, thank God, that’s the ultimate live experience. What keeps me going is chasing that high of having great live experiences all the time. That’s what keeps me doing it. Kinda like being a drug addict…you’re constantly trying to recreate that buzz you had early on. Fortunately with music, you can do that all the time. That’s something that is reoccurring as humanly possible. You don’t have that much control over it, but it’s one of the ultimate feelings for a musician when it happens.What really sticks out in my head as being one of the most memorable live experiences in front of a big audience, where you were just overwhelmed with the beauty of everything, was the Monsters of Rock Festival in Castle Donnington in 1988. It was the first time we played to an audience of that magnitude. It was a huge career high for the band, and at the same time we found out that kids had died attending that concert while we were playing, which we found out about later. It was a good example of the ultimate high point going to the ultimate low.
http://community.musiciansfriend.com/community/slash/article
Can you recall the most moving live experience from your career? —Steve Sullivan – Pocatello, Idaho
Slash: There’s no one experience, thank God, that’s the ultimate live experience. What keeps me going is chasing that high of having great live experiences all the time. That’s what keeps me doing it. Kinda like being a drug addict…you’re constantly trying to recreate that buzz you had early on. Fortunately with music, you can do that all the time. That’s something that is reoccurring as humanly possible. You don’t have that much control over it, but it’s one of the ultimate feelings for a musician when it happens.What really sticks out in my head as being one of the most memorable live experiences in front of a big audience, where you were just overwhelmed with the beauty of everything, was the Monsters of Rock Festival in Castle Donnington in 1988. It was the first time we played to an audience of that magnitude. It was a huge career high for the band, and at the same time we found out that kids had died attending that concert while we were playing, which we found out about later. It was a good example of the ultimate high point going to the ultimate low.