Who wants to dress in Slash’s clothes, play his guitars and drive his pristine Corvette Stingray? The former Guns N’ Roses guitarist has teamed up with a Beverly Hills auction house to sell a wide range of personal property to fans and collectors next month. Buyers with a passion for skulls and dinosaurs will be in luck, along with those whose living rooms would sparkle with exotic Southeast Asian furniture. A sizable share of the proceeds from the March 26 sale will go to charity, according to Julien’s Auctions, which specializes in selling entertainment memorabilia. Auctioneer Darren Julien said he expected […]
Who wants to dress in Slash’s clothes, play his guitars and drive his pristine Corvette Stingray?
The former Guns N’ Roses guitarist has teamed up with a Beverly Hills auction house to sell a wide range of personal property to fans and collectors next month.
Buyers with a passion for skulls and dinosaurs will be in luck, along with those whose living rooms would sparkle with exotic Southeast Asian furniture.
A sizable share of the proceeds from the March 26 sale will go to charity, according to Julien’s Auctions, which specializes in selling entertainment memorabilia.
Auctioneer Darren Julien said he expected most of the items to end up overseas, particularly in Japan and other Asian markets where Guns N’ Roses are still revered.
One of the perils of being a successful rock star for more than 20 years is that money buys a lot of clutter.
“I have a bad habit of collecting stuff that I don’t necessarily use,” Slash told Reuters, calling from a tour bus en route to a show in Oklahoma.
But a recent house move provided the 45-year-old rocker and his wife, Perla, with the perfect excuse to open their storage closets to fans and to boost the coffers of a local charity for abused and homeless adolescents.
“MONSTER OF A CAR”
The crown jewel is a 1966 Corvette Stingray, estimated to sell for at least $90,000 to $100,000, and described by Slash as “a monster of a car.”
It was the toughest item to let go of, because it was the first good car he ever bought just as Guns N’ Roses were becoming big stars in the late 1980s, and it is largely in original condition. Fluffy dice are included.
But the car has been sitting in storage while Slash drives new Aston Martins and his wife ferries their two young sons in an SUV. “I know that somebody would love to have that car because muscle cars are very, very popular,” he said.
He estimates he has about 100 guitars, and will sell 14 of them at the auction. Among them is a Guild acoustic on which he recorded the band’s early ballad “Patience.” Also on the block are various custom and one-of-a-kind Telecaster, Stratocaster, Sanchez, Epiphone and B.C. Rich models.
Jackets, T-shirts and jewelry — with skull motifs in abundance — are going on sale, and two of Slash’s trademark top hats.
And then there are the model dinosaurs, which would thrill any 6-year-old boy and evidently did the same to an adult rock star.
“My house was completely immersed in prehistoric animal lore,” when he started dating his wife, Slash said. But she married him anyway.
