One of Slash's stage-used Gibson Les Pauls is headed to auction this month, where it's predicted to sell for up to $400k.
It's set to be sold off at Propstore auction house in London as part of the Music Memorabilia Live Auction collection, having featured in the top-hatted one's live rig for the Not In This Lifetime tour in 2016.
That run of dates marked Slash's return to the band after a 20+-year absence, having left after 1993's Use Your Illusion tour, when he went on to form Slash's Snakepit with Gilby Clarke.
Dates included performances at Coachella and a dizzying number of stadium shows. They played 175 shows in all, making it one of the highest-grossing in music history by generating over $584 million in revenue.
The axe has an estimated value of up to £300,000 (approx. $400,000), and the limited-edition Sunburst Les Paul Custom ‘59 also bears the Guns N' Roses guitarist's signature.
“The sale spans genres, generations, and defining cultural moments,” says Propstore's Mark Hochman.
It adds that the guitar “shows light performance wear, including indentations and surface scratches above the bridge,” thanks to Slash’s jewelry choices.
Other lots include a golden microphone used by Freddie Mercury and handwritten Beatles lyrics. The 400 items could raise up to 1.5m (approx. $1.9m).
Slash's most-played LP is ‘Jessica,’ a replica of the factory second that has become his go-to stage guitar for over 30 years. That guitar, however – which he used to track Guns' historic debut album, Appetite for Destruction – wasn't actually a Gibson; it was a Kris Derrig replica. It arrived in the studio at the 11th hour, and Slash believes it might have been “a gift from on high.”
Elsewhere, Slash has revealed that a new Guns N’ Roses album is likely to happen, although there’s no indication of a deadline for getting it done.
Slash reunited with Clarke and other GNR alumni for a charity fundraiser last month, and played a belting rendition of an Appetite classic.
