“I’m playing a Strat, too, which you never hear me use”: Slash explains why he swapped his Les Paul for a Stratocaster to cover a Peter Green track on his new blues solo album

Slash performs with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators at OVO Arena Wembley.

The words “Slash” and “Gibson Les Paul” go hand-in-hand. You can’t think of the Guns N’ Roses rocker without picturing him holding his favored single-cut. Likewise, when you see a Les Paul, Slash usually springs.

Indeed, that’s what happens when you spend an entire career largely playing one particular electric guitar – but for his new blues solo record, Orgy of the Damned, Slash did make quite a notable exception.