Guns N' Roses' Slash names Chris Buck as one of his favourite guitarists
He helped him get a gig in Los Angeles
Last updated 12th Jul 2024
Guns N’ Roses legend Slash has named Welsh blues rocker Chris Buck as one of his favourite guitarists.
No stranger to Planet Rock’s airwaves as a member of Buck & Evans and Cardinal Black, Chris Buck has also wowed our events Planet Rockstock, Blues Power Live and Winter’s End with his guitar playing prowess.
Exposing him to international audiences, Buck has a hugely popular YouTube series which has amassed tens of millions of views in recent years.
Slash, who released his blues covers album ‘Orgy of the Damned’ in May, has now heaped praise on Chris Buck in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Explaining how he finds blues guitarists exciting compared to many rockers, Slash said there’s “only a few guitar players” he likes nowadays – and one of them is Chris Buck.
In fact, Slash revealed he’s so won over by Buck’s talent, he helped him secure a visa so he could play a concert with Cardinal Black at the world-famous Los Angeles Troubadour venue on Thursday 18th July. All tickets for the show are sold out.
“There are some amazing guitar technicians out there, but it reminds me of the way that skateboarding has evolved,” Slash told the Los Angeles Times.
“Everyone’s so technical now — and there’s some really interesting and impressive stuff that’s come out of it — but there’s only a few guitar players who I really like these days.
“There’s a guy named Chris Buck, who’s a really great blues guitar player. I helped him to get a visa to come here, and then I called the Troubadour to get him a gig.
“You see all these young blues artists really going for it and getting really f— good. That’s a genre that’s really thriving and alive and fresh at the moment, whereas it’s a little bit few and far between for me to find interesting things to listen to in rock.
“I think what’s really exciting for me is when the guitar is in context as a melodic part of a song. That’s what’s always turned me on, and there’s such a lack of that going on (in rock music).
“There’s all these guitar players that sound amazing by themselves, but it doesn’t really fit inside of a composition of an exciting band.”
In 2022, Chris Buck also performed on the track ‘Landscapes’ by Planet Rock presenter Ian Danter, from his album ‘Rule of Three.’
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