Harpmagazine.com has posted the following column by guitar legend Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) regarding an album that has changed his life:

"Alright, it was AEROSMITH’s Rocks, and I first heard it when I was about 14 years old. I used to race BMX bikes and the older guys put it on, and it just grabbed me - Fuck, this is bad. I only got to hear it for like a second the first time. The second time I heard it was - there was this girl that used to hang around a certain group of friends, and she was probably the best-looking girl in school and in the neighborhood, and she’d just broken up with her boyfriend. I tried desperately to pick this girl up for the longest time, and finally she invited me up to her house.

I was aspiring to get in this girl’s pants, more or less, so I go up to her room, and she’s got tapestries on the wall and incense and pot, her stereo—a typical teenage-girl’s room at the time. She put on some records; we listened to Zeppelin; we listened to Yes; and then finally she put this record on that I recognized immediately from like the first fuckin’ note.

It was Rocks. I must’ve listened to this record in that girl’s—her name was Lori—bedroom probably a half-dozen times, from front to back, over and over again, and I completely ignored her. The whole purpose of my being there completely went out the window. Finally I think she said, 'I think it’s time for you to go.' And I was like, 'Okay, see ya.' I got on my bike and I took off and she never spoke to me again.

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