I've been a huge Slash fan for as long as I can remember. He's the reason I started playing guitar, got a Les Paul, and joined a band. Appetite is one of my favorite rock albums of all time. The Use Your Illusions albums were not quite as straight out rock n roll, thanks to Axl and his penchant for overproduction and orchestral background music. Then Slash ventured off into Snakepit and Velvet Revolver, which both put out some good albums, but nothing like this.