Guitar World ranked his guitar solo in " November Rain" number 6 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008, and Total Guitar placed his riff in " Sweet Child o' Mine" at number 1 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Riffs" in 2004. Time magazine named him runner-up (to Jimi Hendrix) on their list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009, while Rolling Stone placed him at number 65 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. Slash has released five solo albums: Slash (2010), featuring an array of guest musicians, Apocalyptic Love (2012), World on Fire (2014), Living the Dream (2018) and 4 (2022) recorded with his band, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. In 1993, Slash formed the side project Slash's Snakepit and in 1996 he left Guns N' Roses and co-founded the supergroup Velvet Revolver, which re-established him as a mainstream performer in the mid to late 2000s. Slash has received critical acclaim and is considered one of the greatest guitarists in history.
He is best known as the lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), better known as Slash, is a British-American guitarist from Stoke-on-Trent, England.