SLASH & Friends will take over the Avalon in Hollywood for a one-time rock concert beneftting the Los Angeles Youth Network on November 22nd.

In this exclusive interview, guitar hero Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) talks to ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino about LAYN Rocks this Sunday, his upcoming solo record and Marty Scorsese. The following is an excerpt:

Q: How did LAYN Rocks come together?

A: "My wife, Perla, and I support LAYN. She's actually on the board. We're trying to raise money to keep it going, and we've been doing these Slash & Friends gigs recently. Basically, we get a bunch of people together and put on a concert. Perla had asked me if I'd be interested in doing it to support LAYN, and I was fully into it! This will actually be the first Slash & Friends gig I've done in Los Angeles. Basically, I wanted to put together something that would be a really big blowout, and that's what we've done! We've got all these different artists, and it should be an amazing event."

Q: Does performing on stage with other musicians tend to breed studio collaborations later on for something like your solo record?

A: "No, this show actually has nothing to do with my solo album. One doesn't feed the other. However, having done a couple gigs with Chester Bennington makes me think about him if I'm writing a song. If there's a song that's right for Chester, I'll be like, 'I've jammed with him, he would be perfect for this!' Performing together on stage inadvertently fuels future collaborations. The correlation isn't totally direct though. But, if there was an idea, we may come back to it. The more people you know that are singers and musicians, the bigger pool you have to pull from when you want to do some sort of collaboration."

Read the full interview at this location.