ROCK legend Saul Hudson, otherwise known as Slash of Guns N'Roses, gave a private concert at the Rock Garden in Tsim Sha Tsui before jetting out of Hong Kong yesterday, Keeping Posted can reveal.
Accompanied by singer and guitarist Eric Dover, formerly of San Francisco band The Jellyfish, the multi-millionaire who hides under a battered top hat, long curly hair and sunglasses, was recording half a dozen songs for STAR TV's Channel V.
About 30 hand-picked guests were secretly ushered into a room at the Canton Road venue for the acoustic guitar session featuring such tracks as Neither Can I.
Sadly for the audience, the Hard Rock Cafe has yet to get a liquor licence. Slash solved that problem by stipulating in his contract that whenever he meets the public, there is a quart of vodka, a quart of Jack Daniels and three packets of Marlboro Lights to hand.
The performance, described by an enthusiastic STAR producer as a piece of history, will be shown on March 20.
When performing together, the duo call themselves Slash's Snakepit after the recording studio in the basement of his Los Angeles home, which also houses a collection of pet snakes. (Well, he is a rock star.) They have made an album of songs written after Guns N'Roses' two-year Use Your Illusion Tour at the end of 1993. The songs were originally intended to be on the next GNR album but one rumour has it that lead singer Axl Rose didn't like them.