Press Release
Source: Cornerstone Promotion
Limited-Edition, Autographed “Appetite for Destruction” Les Paul Available Now
Guitar Center, the world’s largest musical instrument retailer, along with Gibson Custom Shop guitars, today announced the new Gibson Custom “Appetite for Destruction” Les Paul
The Custom Shop Slash “Appetite for Destruction” Les Pauls come with a lined hard-shell case, a Certificate of Authenticity, an Owner’s Manual and adjustment literature, and a rare bonus of a deluxe vinyl LP edition of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction. The VOS model went on sale Friday, May 7th at 1pm EST, while the hand-aged and signed model will go on sale Friday, May 14th at 1pm EST.
“This guitar plays and sounds very unique,” said Slash. “It is a beautiful piece of work.”
Slash, as well as representatives from Guitar Center, announced the guitar’s debut at Guitar Center Hollywood. Slash and Guitar Center are also in the midst of conducting Guitar Center Presents Your Next Record with Slash, an initiative created to foster growth and success within the music community by providing emerging artists the chance to win the ultimate career-altering opportunity: record a 3-song EP with legendary producer, Mike Clink and have Slash write, record and perform on the winning artists’ single – www.YourNextRecord.com.
About Guitar Center
Guitar Center is the world’s largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, percussion instruments, keyboards and pro-audio and recording equipment. Our retail store subsidiary presently operates 214 Guitar Center stores across the U.S. We are also the largest direct response retailer of musical instruments in the United States through our wholly owned subsidiary, Musician’s Friend, Inc., and its catalog and Web site, www.musiciansfriend.com. In addition, our Music & Arts division operates more than 100 stores specializing in band instruments for sale and rental, serving teachers, band directors, college professors and students. More information on Guitar Center can be found by visiting the Company’s Web site at www.guitarcenter.com.
The Guitar Center logo is a registered trademark of Guitar Center, Inc. Other brand or product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
About Slash
Slash is widely considered one of the greatest rock guitar players of all time. He has received countless accolades and awards including a 2007 star on the Rock Walk of Fame at the Guitar Center store in Hollywood alongside his idols Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. He has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, is a Grammy Award winner, and his recent solo album Slash debuted atop the Billboard charts in more than a dozen countries. An original member of iconic rock band Guns N’ Roses, Slash helped the band create signature sounds like the guitar riff of #1 hit “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “Welcome To The Jungle.” The band dominated the 1980’s and 90’s music scene selling more than 100 million albums worldwide and ushered in a decade of hard charging rock music. After the band’s break-up, Slash went on to critical acclaim in his personal project Slash’s Snakepit, and global success with supergroup Velvet Revolver. He has been widely sought after by the biggest musicians of all time, performing with everyone from Michael Jackson to Stevie Wonder to Ray Charles. Slash is one of the marquee playable characters in Guitar Hero III, has two signature Gibson guitars in his name, and authored his own top-selling biography Slash in 2007. For more information please visit www.slashonline.com.
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