[Cool] – I Hadn’t Any Idea I Talked About My Guitar So Often – Letters Of Note

Today’s Letter Of Note (a site that posts interesting letters sent from one person to another, usually famous) is from a 14 year old kid named Saul to his ex-girlfriend Michelle who had just recently split up with him due to his apparently constant talk of his guitar. As Letters Of Note points out:

“The guitar obsession never ended and Saul soon became Slash, one of the world’s most admired guitarists and member of Guns N’ Roses, whilst Michelle stayed in the picture and after dating Axl Rose in the mid-80s became the subject of My Michelle, a song that frankly spoke of her drug-fuelled lifestyle, her father’s career in ‘porno’ and her mother’s death.”

Check out the transcript (transcribed by LON) below, the letter is pretty damn cool, a nice insight into Slash as kid before he hit the big time with Guns N’ Roses. Check out Letters Of Note for the actual pictures of the letter Slash wrote that include some drawings of him and a Cannabis leaf too.  Even I drew Cannabis leafs on my school books when I was at school, and I’ve only touched the shit once.  It’s the cool thing to do.

“Tuesday

Oct. 2. 79

Dear Michele,

Your letter scared me, upon first glance, I hadn’t any idea what it was about, but when you told me, it struck in a strange way, I hadn’t any idea that I talked about my guitar so often, I’m going to have to change that, no matter who I talk to.

It’s a drag that it screwed up our relationship, you should have told me sooner, but I don’t think that’s the only reason, you just don’t like me that much, and I can see why, because I’m a hard person to get along with at times.

But any I’m glad we got that straight, thank you for not lying to me. To get off the subject, you look really nice today, you get prettier & prettier every day. My weekend was pretty good. Steve came by and we went to a couple parties, and we went to the Starwood, I spent pretty much of my weekend on cloud 9 if you know what I mean.

I had never been in the Starwood before, like, we hung around outside, but I’ve never been inside. It’s not such a hot place, I mean the Bands are alright, the girls are pretty (I still think you cuter than any of the girls there) the drugs are cool but it’s not a place I would want to waste my life at. The most exciting part of the night was, a guy mouthed off to this black guy, and the black got a hundred friends and chased him around all Hollywood. It’s a pretty crazy place. I’m going there next week to see Quiet Riot, because I hear there pretty good. One of these days I’ll play there.

Love you

Saul

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HAVE A NICE DAY

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This leaf was perfect untill I put the fucking lines in it”

(via Letters Of Note)