Slash Celebrates His Birthday With A Las Vegas Performance

[lynn1961]

July 23, 2008

SLASH celebrates 43rd Birthday in Vegas today at a topless joint! WORD

SLASH will celebrate his 43rd birthday today with a series of parties at the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas. He'll kick things off by performing at the resort's topless pool lounge Bare, with special guests PERRY FARRELL and pop singer FERGIE . When that winds down, he'll throw an after-party at the BEATLES-themed revolution lounge.

source abc radio network

http://93x.com/blog.asp?id=804520&SBID=4444

Well, I guess...WTF did we think the "Bare Pool Lounge" was, when you think about it?!?   

I'm getting a little concerned about the Fergie thing...not that he performs with her, but that her performs with her so much!  Hmmmm.......   

[FunkyMonkey]

Yeah, looks like he performed with Fergie again...

Bare Pool & Lounge

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&family=editorial&assetType=image&p=slash&src=standard

http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=326710&s=slash&sfld=C&vwmd=e

The Beatles Revolution Lounge

http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=326711&s=slash&sfld=C&vwmd=e

[FunkyMonkey]

Sounds like quite a party.....

More than candles blown out at Slash-A-Palooza

By John Katsilometes ? July 24, 2008

Maybe this all didn?t happen Wednesday night. Maybe, on my walk through the parking garage leading to The Mirage, someone flung a brick at my head and knocked me cold, and the whole tableau played out in my concussed consciousness.

Perhaps the great ventriloquist and soon-to-be Mirage headliner, Terry Fator, was not joined onstage on a pool deck usually reserved for seminude sunbathers by the famously long-bearded Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Maybe it was a dream that Jason Bonham, the shaved-headed percussionist son of the late John Bonham, didn?t crash through a piercing version of ?Whole Lotta Love? as onetime Jane?s Addiction and Porno For Pyros frontman Perry Farrell crawled across the stage wailing that we needed to keep the party going because, ?We don?t wanna die, do we?!? It could be that former Spacehog vocalist and deposed husband of Liv Tyler, Royston Langdon, didn?t blithely scream the lyrics of ?Stone Free? and ?Jean Genie? into a temporarily dead microphone to a throbbing audience that didn?t seem to notice, because Slash and his searing Gibson guitar were hoarding the spotlight.

Yep, it could be that Stacy Ferguson, or just ?Fergie,? didn?t really sashay onstage in skin-tight black Spandex pants and a grey T-shirt emblazoned with a gold L.A. Dodger logo for a hair-raising version of ?Sweet Child O? Mine,? fairly dry-humping the former Guns ?N Roses lead guitarist as he nimbly unleashed his signature solos. And it might be my imagination that Fergie, in the midst of covering Heart?s ?Barracuda,? might have fallen short of Ann Wilson?s vocal dexterity but executed a move Wilson could never pull off ? a trio of one-handed summersaults. And maybe the entire surreal experience didn?t close with Slash cutting into a very tall birthday cake shaped like his trusty Gibson, topped by a quite-familiar black top hat, and a wildly diverse mix-and-match group of celebs singing, ?Paradise City,? ? with Fator, Farrell, comic actor Tommy Davidson and Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains providing a glistening-with-sweat Fergie with backing harmonies.

But it all did happen. As proof, I still wear a white wristband reading ?Bare pool lounge,? and am suffering what might be a pair of perforated eardrums.

Oh, and happy birthday to Slash, who turned 43 (and should know better) yesterday and last night. Forgive those of us who did not bring gift baskets to Slash-A-Palooza. But the 600 or so revelers who paid $100 a pop surely couldn?t have anticipated the sample plate of rockers (and the odd ventriloquist) who thundered through a 2 ?-hour spectacle at The Mirage?s finest water feature. Others who ambled on and off the stage included bassist Mike Inez (also once of Alice In Chains); Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello; Will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas, Senen ?Sen-Dog? Reyes of Cypress Hill; Emma Taylor, Winston the Turtle, soul singer Julius and Dougie Scott Taylor (Fator?s handy puppets); and Perla Hudson, the mistress of ceremonies and also Mrs. Slash. That?s discounting a video montage assembled by Perla ? who seems so at home with the mic that she could emcee her own variety show -- that featured Rainn Wilson, Ellen DeGeneres, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, Sammy Hagar, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (playing trumpet to great effect) and Cheap Trick?s Rick Nielsen.

There was a tepid rumor early that the night that the event might feature a Guns ?N Roses reunion of sorts, but it never happened. It?s just as well. Who had the time?

Songs covered by some or all of this band of misfits included the G?N R classic ?It?s So Easy,? assaulted by a heaving, wild-eyed Langdon; ?Superstition? and ?Knockin? On Heaven?s Door,? by Farrell, a man who seems born to wear the bright-red pants and matching red-and-black satin jacket; ?Wish You Were Here,? by Cantrell and Inez; and ?To Kill a Man,? by Davidson, Sen-Dog, Will.i.am and pretty much everyone else on or near the stage.

No wonder the man of the moment could only mutter, ?I am completely f-ing overwhelmed.? That statement pretty much captures Slash, a man of few words but many chords who has managed to fill the guitar hero roll as well as anyone for the past 20-plus years. At one point, during ?It?s So Easy,? the cat in the hat ripped into a solo, casually tossed a spent cigarette butt into the photographer?s pit at the front of the stage, then spun around without missing a note. Niiiice.

The crew made it to the Beatles Revolution Lounge for extended play, and much of the amped-up crowd met them there. I lasted maybe an hour before the corner man in my brain threw in the towel. On my way out of the hotel a woman dressed like Sweet Loretta Modern of ?Get Back? strutted toward me and asked, ?Wanna have some fun??

I just laughed. She had no idea.

Some photos: http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/culture/2008/jul/24/more-candles-blown-out-slash--palooza/

[chineseblues]

I'm calling it right now, slash is banging Fergie.

[don_vercetti]

what would perla say??  Wouldn't be too suprised, i don't like her music but she is hot.  And she'll sing sweet child of mine for him. 

[Ines_rocks!]

I'm calling it right now, slash is banging Fergie.

nooo! 

what would perla say??  Wouldn't be too suprised, i don't like her music but she is hot.  And she'll sing sweet child of mine for him. 

hot? her face looks like it was ran over by a truck. 

[FunkyMonkey]

 
http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrity_gallery/image_full/86527/


Wish You Were Here (Acoustic) - Jerry Cantrell and Slash Part 1 & 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKZ9uwvgql8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE8AKcI6wkc

[kobys]

what would perla say??  Wouldn't be too suprised, i don't like her music but she is hot.  And she'll sing sweet child of mine for him. 

Perla would most likely beat Fergie to a pulp. Perla always seemed pretty aggressive and no nonsense to me. Not to mention very jealous.

[Jim Bob]

i hope i'm able to get into the nightclub tonight and its not already filled up to capacity.  but im gonna try. 

[Neemo]

i hope i'm able to get into the nightclub tonight and its not already filled up to capacity.  but im gonna try. 

that would be cool if you did get in JB Good Luck!!!! 

and if you could let us know what happens,  try to be a bit objective about Slash's performance though please  

[oldgunsfan]

i hope i'm able to get into the nightclub tonight and its not already filled up to capacity.  but im gonna try. 

that would be cool if you did get in JB Good Luck!!!! 

and if you could let us know what happens,  try to be a bit objective about Slash's performance though please  

second that you hater j/k

[Jim Bob]

we were about 10 minutes late and the line was way too long and we felt underdressed.   There was a shitload of people waiting to get in..   it wasn't worth it to us to wait that long, we hate trendy nightclubs, and didn't even know if we met their dresscode so said fuck it.     I won 200 bucks at wheel of fortune. 

[w.axl.rose]

we were about 10 minutes late and the line was way too long and we felt underdressed.   There was a shitload of people waiting to get in..   it wasn't worth it to us to wait that long, we hate trendy nightclubs, and didn't even know if we met their dresscode so said fuck it.     I won 200 bucks at wheel of fortune. 

wheel of fortune rocks. put in 3 dollars and won 250 dollars on my first spin 

[Genesis]

what would perla say??  Wouldn't be too suprised, i don't like her music but she is hot.  And she'll sing sweet child of mine for him. 

hot? her face looks like it was ran over by a truck. 

Women really shouldn't comment on other women's looks. Leave it to the men. 

[D]

Damn, Why didnt VH1 or somebody tape this shit.

Id love to have seen all this go down.


Slash is lookin buff as hell.

[CheapJon]

well happy birthday

[kobys]

what would perla say??  Wouldn't be too suprised, i don't like her music but she is hot.  And she'll sing sweet child of mine for him. 

hot? her face looks like it was ran over by a truck. 

Women really shouldn't comment on other women's looks. Leave it to the men. 

Why? Us women know whether or not another woman is attractive or not. Why should only men comment? Btw, I think that Fergie is pretty. Certainly not beautiful but pretty.

[FunkyMonkey]

Some photos from Jet last night...

http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=327059&s=slash&sfld=C&vwmd=e

Some more from Bare Lounge...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2008/jul/24/slashs-birthday-bash/

[AdZ]

Damn, Why didnt VH1 or somebody tape this shit.

Uh....

Interesting.....
Former Guns N? Roses lead guitarist Slash celebrates his 43rd birthday with two nights of celebrations, starting at the Bare pool lounge at The Mirage, with Perry Farrell from Jane?s Addiction as guest DJ and Slash with surprise guests, and following that set with his own Velvet Revolver concert. The Rhapsody music service has hired Vegas HD to shoot the show for worldwide DVD release ?

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2008/jul/23/tonights-tip-slash-burns-bare-pool-lounge-mirage/

[FunkyMonkey]

July 25, 2008  ? 9:43 AM

Slash hits Jet as birthday party rolls on

By Robin Leach

Guitar great Slash continued his 43rd birthday celebration into a 2nd night of celebrating- and early this morning (Friday) he still showed no signs of slowing down.

First, he took 60 friends to see the Cirque du Soleil-Beatles show Love at The Mirage and that was followed by dinner at the Stack restaurant and bar also in the Mirage. He ordered Yellowtail Sashimi, Surf & Turf and Sea Bass for his party group.

Then at the midnight hour, the rock icon, formerly with Guns 'N Roses and now with Velvet Revolver, turned the nearby Jet nightclub into an all-star jam with Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine. Jerry, Tom and Slash teamed on the Pink Floyd classic "Wish You Were Here? as a trio, and every reveler in the nightclub joined in with a gigantic thousand-strong sing-along. As the last note played, yet another 6-foot-tall cake, complete with Slash's trademark top hat, from Jean Philippe Patisserie was carried onto the stage in a stream of sparklers.

As guest DJ Will.i.am then took over twisting the turntable and its wheels of steel for the remainder of the night and at 4 a.m. today, the party looked as if there was enough energy for a third night out on the town this evening! Luxe Life e will have the full photo wrap up of his 48-hour celebration early next week.

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2008/jul/25/slash-hits-jet-birthday-party-rolls/