[man 1] Yeah, I mean... [continues indistinctly]
-[indistinct conversation] -So?
-Phew. -[man chuckles]
Bro.
I feel the [mimics energy]
Bro! That energy.
I feel it, in a good way.
This'll be next, so that way it's next to that one.
I think this is probably the better way to go.
Oh, my God.
Not gonna lie to you guys, I'm pretty fucking nervous.
[people laughing]
You know, I'm not known for my...
uh...
...even enunciating.
[people laughing]
Bit of a mumbler.
I don't even like doing interviews.
Now, I'm fucking interviewing one of my heroes.
-I'm like this-- -[man laughs]
I'm, like, "Acting? Sure.
I don't have to look at that fucking thing."
["Wherever I may roam" playing]
♪ And the road becomes My bride ♪
♪ I have stripped Of all but pride ♪
♪ So in her I do confide ♪
♪ Off the beaten path I reign ♪
♪ Rover, wanderer ♪
♪ Nomad, vagabond Call me what you will ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam ♪
[inaudible]
♪ Wherever I may roam, yeah ♪
Appetite. Appetite.
Firebird.
Phew. '58.
There's not one type of music I just don't like.
[Jason laughs]
To me it's the most powerful art form
that humans can create.
It sings to our souls, it talks to us,
it instantly puts us into a time and a place
and a feeling and a memory.
When you hear a legendary guitar sing,
you can hear the stories bound into the wood,
the memories that remain from years on the road.
These guitars become time capsules,
and they'll bring you back like nothing else can.
[rock music playing]
For me, nobody embodies this more than Slash
and the Gibson Les Paul.
That's my childhood.
That shape, that look,
Slash, just shirt off, leather pants,
hair everywhere,
top hat and just leaning back.
And the cigarette and just being like...
That guy's cool as hell.
-[indistinct conversation] -[Slash] What's up, bro?
I have one of the most embarrassing stories,
but-- I was-- you know--
I wasn't supposed to watch MTV and all that stuff,
but I'd go to the babysitters
and be watching, like, Paradise City
and Motley Crue and all these things
that my mom didn't want me watching.
I'm just doing circles,
and it's the part where, like,
Slash is about ready to kick off,
and it's, like, hitting the high note,
and then he's just going around,
just the whole stadium, just killing it.
["Paradise City" playing]
[Jason] And I'm jamming, I'm jamming, and all of a sudden,
my pants fall down. [laughs]
My sweatpants fall down, and I trip over them.
[chuckles] My ass is out,
and these girls are staring at me,
and I'm was, like, hitting the high note like Slash,
like, "Yeah!"
And I fucking still love this video.
♪ Oh, won't you Please take me home? ♪
This is the part that, uh...
-Okay, so... -...I've really been waiting for. Here we go.
-You good on light? You good on light? -[man] Mm-hmm.
Getting us all?
[Slash] Let's do that one first.
Okay.
Yeah, bro.
-So that's the original number 250F. -[Jason exclaims]
-So this guitar was the second-- -Oh, my God!
...second Sunburst Gibson ever made.
I mean, you know how the Sunburst is
such a popular finish
-Bro! Hold up. Hold up. -...so it's just incredible.
[Jason] One of you guys,
get in here and look at this thing.
It is so beautiful.
[Slash] That was a sticker. I have no-- It's still--
[Jason] Don't pick it.
[laughing] I was like...
You're just picking it like it's another...
So-- oh, my gosh, dude.
It is unbelievable.
[playing unplugged]
Each guitar, they all have their own magic.
They all have their own mojo.
There's, like, little odd things or hums
or different feelings to them,
and they all have their different sounds.
Like, you can play a hundred guitars,
and not one of them are alike.
So, I think when you have something
that's been on the road,
that's lived through it, that's taken the smoke
and the feeling and the energy from these rooms
and going to these shows,
they have their own soul.
It takes form with these musicians,
who puts that magic in there,
and so I want to just highlight
and celebrate the artist...
and his tool.
This is...
my main live guitar with-- Yeah.
-[Jason scoffs] Bro! -So, I've had this since--
I got it for-- It's a 1987 Les Paul Standard.
-[Jason] This is the one with the cigarette burn. -Yeah.
Her name's Jessica.
This is one of the few guitars
that actually has a name, but...
[Jason] I can't believe this is an '87.
[Slash] Yeah. Well, it's just seen a lot of travel.
-This-- -I don't even know the story
about the cigarette burn.
My guitar tech could tell you. He knows exactly.
I asked him. I said, "How did that happen?"
I was playing with Alice Cooper, apparently,
when that happened.
And I guess the cherry just--
or the cigarette fell.
And I guess I was so toxic at that point,
it just stuck to the fucking... guitar. [chuckles]
-It just burned. -[both chuckle]
[Jason] That's amazing.
[Slash] Yeah.
[Jason narrating] When I get to see these guitars,
it's so very special.
And I didn't think they were going to be
that impactful on me.
But it is.
All right.
These are literally the guitars
that created the sound of my childhood.
I cannot believe that I get to see them,
much less hold them.
-[Slash] So, this is the actual original AFD. -[gasps]
[Slash] It's still got a pick in it 'cause I was just in the studio.
So, funny story about this guitar.
When Guns first started out,
I went through a lot of different guitars.
But there--
from 1985 through '86,
I had a really cool Steve Hunter--
pre-owned Steve Hunter Les Paul.
-[Jason] Yeah. -And then during a sort of...
bad period of mine, I sold it.
And I didn't really have any guitars.
So when we were doing the Appetite for Destruction record,
um, I was using a couple of guitars
that I had that didn't sound very good.
So I was sort of freaking out
'cause we were doing basic tracks
and I was like, "These guitars sound like shit."
And our manager at the time
came up when I was going in to do the guitar overdubs
and showed up at the studio with this particular guitar.
So this was, you know, my main recording guitar, obviously,
and then I took it on the road for a while
and I thought I should retire this from touring.
So, it's still pretty beat up
just from that, and--
But you keep it in the studio. That's what you--
So I still use this in the studio.
It sounds great. It's got a really raw--
Proud, look at you. That thing is...
-...unique sound to this. -Jeez!
I mean, I had it in the studio a couple of days ago
and I've got a bunch of guitars in there,
they're all Les Pauls,
but this one just has this unique thing to it.
Wow.
So you've just been in the studio,
-and so, this is definitely-- -Yeah. That's why it's in tune.
-That's why-- You definitely-- -The other ones have been sitting around.
And it's funny 'cause you said
you retired this one too, right?
Well, I mean, I just don't take it on the road anymore.
Yeah. I mean, that's just from 1987 to 1988.
That's just a year on the road.
-So-- -That's just a year.
I mean, it was brand new when I got it.
So that's why I just said, "You know what?
I'm going to put this one away
and just get something." And I still do that.
I like to work with new guitars on the road.
I don't like to take vintage guitars out
'cause they just kept banged--
I'm really rough on them.
So...
So you've seen the gigs, you know.
-Yeah, bro. -[Slash chuckles]
I mean, just to think about going to your childhood hero--
Like, I mean, I love Slash.
Like his music, like, it blew my mind.
It just changed everything for me. So to be able to...
...first off, meet him,
and then I was just like, "I have this idea."
You know, he was just talking about his guitar.
He has the Appetite for Destruction guitar,
but he's only got one of them. He gave one to Axl.
So, he doesn't like to take that one on the road
'cause they love them and then they retire them.
But he still wants to have that feeling and that look.
And... I was like,
"Oh, my God, let's duplicate it."
What is your guitar that you that you have
that would you like to have
a... replica so you had another one?
So I think Jessica would be the one.
-You said that. -Yeah.
That would be the coolest one to make it of.
-Jessica would be the coolest one to make. -Yeah.
'Cause it's got so much detail.
Yeah! I'll see Cesar next week.
I'll tell him. We'll show him this footage.
[Jason] That's a wrap, guys.
Woohoo!
[Jason exclaims]
[train horn blaring]
[Jason] Mike Hayes is
possibly the greatest musician
that nobody's heard of.
He is my dear, dear friend
and... my guitar coach.
-[Jason] Let me just... -[man 2] He's here?
He's coming.
All right. So...
It's been...
How long has it been since you've seen him?
-At my wedding? -Yeah-- No.
Yeah-- Uh, yeah.
There he is.
-[Jason exclaims] -[Mike screams]
[all laughing]
[Jason grunts]
[Jason] You are still dick and ribs. Look at you.
-Huh, baby! -How you doing, brother?
-[man 1 whoops] -[Jason] Mike Hayes in the house.
[man 1] Oh, man. [chuckles]
[man 1] He is all dick and ribs.
He's so skinny, man.
-Hey, baby. -What up, man?
-How are you? You look good! -I asked about--
I asked about the, uh...
that's gone.
-Yeah. Yeah. -It's gone. It's gone.
-Come on, now. -Oh.
[speaks indistinctly]
But I found a cool room.
Hayes had moved out to Nashville and...
I was gonna go to Gibson
and I stopped at Carter's Vintage,
which was one of my favorite guitar shops,
and so, when I was there
I learned that Hayes had sold his Les Paul
that his father gave him.
Look at this, whole room to ourself.
Oh, shut the door, man.
Whole room to ourself.
-[door closes] -[man 1] Okay.
[Mike] Oh, man.
[Jason] So...
-All right. -Get killing, buddy. Get in it.
All right. I'm glad I told the...
-called the wife [chuckles]-- -[Jason] This is the best part--
[Jason] So, we called-- So, I called him,
I'm like, "We're in town." He's like...
"Come to Carter Vintage." "I can't. My wife's pregnant."
And he's thinking...
"So I gotta go to the hospital." I'm like...
And then I got off the phone,
and she looked at me.
I was like-- And she looked at me,
and she's like, "What are you, stupid?
-Go." [chuckles] -[Jason chuckles]
Jason and I met...
I gotta think about this for a second.
We met in Guitar Center Hollywood.
I used to close a lot of deals by--
'cause they would come in
and have me play the guitar for the client.
He wanted to learn the delta blues.
He didn't want to start with, like, you know,
"Mary Had a Little Lamb."
And so he invited me up to his house.
We started playing
some basic, basic Muddy Waters songs.
And, you know, when you're into music like that
something that's so deep,
you really form a connection that is, uh,
it's not just teacher and student at that point.
You become, um...
You become like blood brothers.
It's pretty special, because Mike Hayes is
the reason why I met him just before I met my wife,
about 15 years ago.
Hayes is the reason why I picked up the guitar.
Taught him everything he knows.
He's the reason-- he taught me everything I know, um,
and I fell in love with music, with guitars.
And, so you moved out here,
and, in so doing, got a, now,
almost your third baby on the way.
-Yes. Any day now. -And--
Any day now, which I'm excited to see and your wife.
-Boy child. -Boy child.
-He's finally got a man child. -Yeah.
But, you brought your guitars here.
-And you had to-- you had to hawk 'em off-- -Oh, yeah.
I was in a tight spot when I got here after a while,
'cause things didn't work out,
but I had to sell Carter's all my guitars
at a certain point.
But I'm glad to see some of them are gone.
You know, sometimes in life, you got to...
You have to do what you have to do.
And it's not pretty sometimes.
And I had a Les Paul.
It was a '99 Standard,
which they don't make anymore.
Not like that anyways.
Yeah, my dad bought it
for me when I started to play.
So I had it everywhere
with me, my whole life.
And then at a certain point in my life,
I wasn't doing so well,
and I had to...
I had rent to pay, kids to feed.
And so, unfortunately,
I had to sell it.
It was the toughest thing I ever had to do.
Um, I can't remember anything that was tougher than that.
-[Mike] Yeah. -We got to find it, the '99,
-so they're on the lookout for it. -Hey--
Well, like all musicians,
I'm a prideful kind of guy.
So I don't ask for a lot of help, you know.
Even when I got friends that are doing very well--
very well, you know.
I never called Jay to ask for anything. [chuckling] You know?
Um,
and, uh,
I didn't. I guess I just didn't want to tell him what I did.
Or what I had to do.
[alternative rock music playing]
[Jason] I wish you would have asked me.
Well, I mean, you get a little heartbroken.
You know, I've been in this position
where I've sold some crazy things to friends
who were just-- they took pity on me.
'Cause I was like, "I just need to put food on the table."
So there was a lot of hard moments in my life,
and sometimes that's what
you got to lean on your friends for.
But this is the way it was meant to happen.
And maybe we'll find that one again, you know.
Or maybe someone has it out there in the world and they love it,
and that's something they always were looking for. So...
they've got something good out there.
[people exclaiming]
-[Jason] Mike Hayes what's happening? -What's crackin', babies?
[Jason] It's live, baby.
-Oh, are we live right now? -Yep.
Welcome everybody, all 15.5 million viewers.
-[all laughing] -My name is Mike Hayes.
We are down here in Carter, Houston.
-My best friend, Kenny Dale. -What's up, guys?
-[Jason] From the swamps. -What's up, baby?
And my best friend behind you, ladies and gentlemen,
-Mr. Jason Momoa. -[Jason] How are you doing?
-Yes. Blessed to be here. -[Jason] So, listen, where are we going?
-Thursday? -Thursday night on the 24th,
everyone-- we're all going
to B.B. King's, Nashville, Tennessee, about 6 p.m.
and we're gonna watch-- [speaks indistinctly]
[all laughing]
And we're gonna watch me and the Mike Hayes' band play
at B.B. King's, Nashville, Tennessee.
6 p.m. on Thursday night, ladies and gentlemen.
-Peace out, guys. -Peace and love.
We're here. Come see us.
Ah.
[man laughing]
[woman] How was your camping?
I froze.
I was so wet.
[women laughing]
It's so humid here that--
it was-- I woke up--
-[woman 1] Yeah. -...wet.
[woman 1] Yeah, not great.
Not a good morning.
[alternative rock music playing]
Hey! Yeah. [laughs]
[guitar feedback]
[Jason] Yeah, buddy.
[Cesar] What's up, man?
Cesar! Come here, man.
-So we went to this showroom in Hollywood. -Yeah, yeah, man.
Super, super nervous moment for me
'cause I'm-- you know, I know Slash,
but, like, I don't interview anyone.
-I don't even normally like interviews-- -Yeah, yeah.
...let alone, like, interviewing him.
But, because I'm super passionate about this
and, you know, I'm...
It was an honor.
Anyways, we edited this together.
-Well, this is-- I'll just play it. -Okay.
Hold on. All right.
What is your guitar that you have
that would you like to have a...
a replica so you have another one?
I think Jessica would be the one. You said that--
-[Jason] Yeah. -[Slash] That would be the coolest one to make.
You can't bring that one on the road,
but it'd be nice to take up a new one.
Yeah, well, now that-- since you put it that way,
maybe I should get another AFD.
I think you should get another AFD, too.
You know what I mean? He's only got two.
Yeah, 'cause I only have two of them,
and I could definitely use another one. So let's do that.
"Let's do that."
[conversation continues indistinctly on phone]
Okay. Okay. [chuckles]
Okay.
Okay, we have to make 'em.
[Jason laughs]
"We're gonna make 'em."
-Awesome! -If you guys say so.
I mean--
No, but it's-- What a beautiful thing.
It's like, you know, that's my childhood,
seeing Paradise City and Welcome to the Jungle.
-Yeah, yeah. -And that was the guitar.
We'll go to the custom shop and go inside the Murphy Lab
where those guitars are gonna be made.
That's just blows my mind,
-the Murphy Lab. -Yeah.
You're gonna be the first one in the Murphy Lab.
We just opened it.
First of all, no outsider will ever be able to come in
-unless it's Slash or somebody like that. -Yeah.
But you're gonna be the first one to be allowed
into the Murphy Lab other than staff.
Wow.
I'm so excited. Today's gonna be a good day.
[inaudible]
[rock music playing]
Dude!
[Cesar] Okay, where you going, bro?
[Tom speaks indistinctly]
-What's up? -Oh, man!
-Pleasure to meet you. -You too, man.
Pleasure to meet you. Holy sh--
I made it!
Oh, man.
[Tom] Don't scratch anything.
Yeah. "Don't scratch anything."
-Check it out. -[Jason] Wow!
Bro. [vocalizing] Bro.
Look at that.
[Jason] Murphy's Lab is based around Tom Murphy,
an amazing craftsman,
who has mastered the art
of basically, distressing these guitars
to make them look worn.
[Tom] The way I describe it,
the Murphy Lab is a place
where the concept of adding age to a guitar happens.
-[Jason] Bro, this is amazing. -[Tom] Yes.
So, we all know what that stands for, right?
That's a lot of rock and roll.
A lot of years of rock and roll.
[Jason] Lots of years, bro.
It's not for everybody,
but it's for somebody.
[Tom] I always just go back
to the Blue Jean analogy.
It's just, "Can I just buy blue jeans
that feel like they're broken in
and really soft?"
When I was a kid,
your mother had to wash your Levi's many times
to even get close to feeling
like you wanted them to feel.
And, actually back then,
when they got just right
is when they blew out
and you had to get new ones.
That was my offering to the consumer
that I could take your historic instrument
and add the aging.
And of course, it caught on [chuckling] big time.
You know, I've never heard about--
where they actually, like, smoked a--
if that even works,
to, like, sit in there with the paint--
Oh, I've heard of guys who take a guitar box
upside down
and light a carton of cigarettes.
That just bakes it in nicotine.
-We don't do that. -Yeah.
We have ways to make
the lacquers turn those colors.
-But yeah, I mean-- -[Jason] It's crazy.
I've had amps that the whole grille cloth that turns brown.
Wow.
[Tom] I have aged so many guitars
based on a pattern of a celebrity guitar
or a collector's guitar.
So I've seen all sizes
of belt buckle wear on the back,
arm wear on the front,
dents, cigarette burns.
You know,
a lot of the rock stars don't
play their original guitars anymore.
I mean-- 'cause now there are so many alternatives.
We make guitars for rock stars
that they play in place of their original instrument
that they don't have to take out on the road anymore.
We, originally, sort of kept all this secret
like, you didn't want people to see how you could do it
so they wouldn't like,
-try to do it themselves. -[Jason] Yeah.
After a while-- [chuckles] I'll show them.
-Yeah. -Knock yourself out.
Yeah, that's what I love about it.
It's like showing other the artists.
Yeah. You know, knock yourself out.
Take all this stuff
and do what I do.
That's how you age a guitar right there.
Most everybody who knows me
and knows about the aging
knows that I have a big ring of car keys
to create what would appear to be natural dents
and scratches.
I used one belt buckle many, many, many years
until the actual cowboy
and the horse and the cow broke out of the buckle
from me pounding on it so much.
I'm thinking this may go on eBay at some point.
[Jason and Tom laugh]
[Tom] We have to make it look realistic
and if it has a dent or a chip,
it has to be in a place where that would happen.
You can't just take a gouge
out of the front of a guitar and make it look real.
This is a railroad spike.
Every guitar you see will have had
something done with this.
Every single one.
[Jason] Wow.
That's a hinge pin off-- out of my pickup truck,
rounded off, and that makes
the little nick down there.
Every one of those are done with this.
[Jason] Oh, bang-bang-bang-bang.
Like you hit a mic stand or something like that.
Right.
Wow.
[Tom] When people say I'm an artist
I've never considered it art.
I didn't do it for art.
I think Mother Nature is the real artist
when the combination of the finishes on guitars
and the wood and the people playing it,
that's the art.
And then recreating that is a craft.
[man 1] "Murphy."
[Tom] Hey! Murphy stain, and don't forget it.
[Jason] Just being able to sit with him
and watch him paint, he's just such a veteran.
That was beautiful. Holy crap.
[Tom] Yeah, it does.
[mouthing explosion]
[man 1] Murphy! Murphy!
[Jason] He's studied so many different types of guitars
through different players
and really gets to understand
the wear that goes into these guitars.
[Jason] There you go.
[Jason whoops]
[Jason] Hey!
I'm gonna have Jason put his initials
inside of the pickup cavities.
That way,
those initials will be there forever.
-[Tom] J. Momoa. -[Jason] Yeah.
Awesome.
[pleasant guitar music playing]
[Jason] I had one thing to do before I left Gibson.
So I introduced two of my good friends,
Mike and Cesar.
And this guy is like--
if you took Frusciante and Hendrix
and did that,
this guy is--
I'm really, really excited for you to see him.
I've always been proud of him.
And it's just been a hard ass road,
you know, in 15 years.
-This man right here. -Wow.
We want you to have this--
-No. -...1959 custom shop reissue.
Open up the case.
[Jason] Open up the case. Open up the case.
One of you guys on the face,
one of you guys on the case.
It's a beautiful guitar.
[Jason] Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
-Love you, man. Thank you. -[Jason] I love you.
Oh, that's the most beautiful Gibson I've ever seen.
I appreciate you, man. Thank you so much.
-My pleasure. -Yeah.
[Mike] He presented me with a '59 Les Paul
that was hand touched by Tom Murphy.
It's the greatest guitar
that I've ever owned.
as far as-- I mean, it sounds--
It's the greatest sounding guitar
I've ever played and, um,
yeah, he just gave it to me.
And it was just, uh...
it was a...
a big moment.
It was a big moment for me.
So...
Jason is so free
and having him as part of my family,
he always reminds me
that this world is not about material.
You know, everything is going to be okay
and let go.
This is-- I am not playing well at all, guys.
I'm, still-- I'm just like this. Sorry, guys.
-[man 1] I bet. I can see it in your eyeballs. -You know.
[plays clean guitar]
[plays blues guitar]
[plays distorted guitar]
I don't know
but I don't think I've ever played a Les Paul this good.
I don't know.
Lay it on in the band now.
Lay it on in...
[Jason] Look out, man!
-I love you. -I love you.
-How are you? -You're live with the world.
-Hey, brothers. -Come on down.
Come on down to BB King's, Nashville, Tennessee, see us do it.
It's our first time.
Holy shit, man, there I am!
Hey!
[speaking indistinctly]
Look at it. There it is, Hayes.
[Jason] Bro!
You've been...
Where did you get that coat, man?
[Jason exclaims in disgust]
Take a little spin, bro!
Damn!
-Fucking Hayes, ladies and gentlemen! -[Jason] Hayes, man!
[Kenny] Fucking Hayes, ladies and gentlemen!
[indistinct conversation]
[Mike] Every time we get together,
I try to get everybody to see him,
and everyone that sees him is just blown away,
'cause he's just a-- he's a powerhouse.
-...the best performance I ever had. -[Mike] Oh, yeah.
[Jason] All right, baby. Here we go.
[crowd cheering]
What's up, everybody?
[crowd cheering]
I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm nervous.
It's gonna be an amazing performance tonight.
It's a very, very, very special night for my best friend.
I haven't seen him in a long time.
He's the one that taught me how to play guitar.
Michael Hayes.
[crowd cheering]
[Mike] I just got a new guitar, folks.
How's it look, okay?
[Mike] It's something you have to feel.
You have to completely let go.
And everything that you've learned,
you have to unlearn it instantaneously.
You're trying to tap into a different kind of consciousness.
In that period of time,
it could have lasted a half an hour for you,
and it could have been in slow motion,
but it's only like, you know, a 45 second solo.
So that must be what it looks like when I'm in a trance,
because in a-- it's a form of meditation.
[man 1] Hey, Jay. What are you about to fucking do?
Something stupid. I'm gonna get on stage
and play bass.
[crowd cheering]
I'm absolutely terrified.
Thank you.
That was a very memorable experience for me,
you know, to actually...
be playing with him,
like, making music.
What's amazing with Jay is
that he's such an artist in himself.
He does that same thing. He just lets go,
and he lets go of his own ego when he is doing anything.
♪ One more time ♪
♪ When love comes over ♪
♪ You ♪
The student has passed the test.
This is the greatest guitar I've ever had in my hands, ladies and gentlemen.
All right. Home sweet home.
Let's do this.
[chuckles excitedly] Looking good.
[speaks indistinctly]
[woman plays piano]
Yes.
Oh, God!
Man, I love guitars.
Ready to have my mind blown.
[man] You ready?
Not really, but yeah.
[man laughs]
Let's do this. Hey, kids.
[Jason] Talk about a dream come true.
We're finally getting a chance to look at the guitars
that Murphy made.
Holy moly.
[woman] This is like Christmas for my dad.
[man laughs]
I don't know what's in here.
-[man] Oh! -[Jason] Oh, bro!
[chuckling] Ooh, boy!
[chuckles deliberately]
Oh, man.
Oh, my God.
Murphy!
Oh, there you go. Appetite.
Slash's Appetite.
Oh, there's Jessica.
[exclaims]
There it is, dude. That's Slash's guitar.
Oh, is that actually Slash's?
-Yep. -He actually played it?
-[Jason] This is built off of... -He actually played it?
Bro!
No, listen.
They made the exact replica...
-of... -Is, like, every dot the same?
Look at that. It says "Jessica" right there.
-Every mark? -It's the exact replica of his.
It says "Slash, Jessica." There it is.
[inaudible]
-I love you, bro. -Cheers, mate.
-Thanks. Thank you, man. -Take it easy. Be good.
Yes, we didn't get enough, but here we go.
We'll get it home.
Look at that.
[Jason grunts]
[engine starts]
[engine revs]
All right, man.
[Jason] The Viper Room is hallowed ground
for rock and roll.
So we figured, what better place
to show Slash his new guitars.
[guitar music playing]
[Jason exclaims]
Ta-da!
[woman] That's pretty cool.
-[Jason] Decorated it myself, bro. -[Slash] Wow, dude.
All right. This is the moment of truth, yeah?
-Moment of truth. -Okay.
Very exciting for me.
All right. [clears throat]
-[Slash chuckles] This is awesome. -So, this is...
-Here we go. -Okay.
[Jason] After you, sir.
[Slash] Drum roll, right?
[Jason mimics drum roll]
[Slash] Oh, wow.
So, there's Appetite.
And it's...
Oh, it's nice
-and rich looking, too. -It is, isn't it?
[Slash playing guitar unplugged]
[Jason chuckling] That's so rad.
[Jason] He's got everything. I mean, he's got the first--
He's got all types of guitars,
but what could I do that would just
make it really, really personal.
Something from my heart,
something that I can say thank you
for everything that you've done
for my life
and be a part of creating this,
and then also donate it to charity.
This is what I want to do,
and this is what the show's about.
We made one more,
and this one, we're going to auction off.
[Slash] Oh.
And then some lucky person out there is
-going to be able to-- Yeah. -That's rad.
Especially 'cause these are so rare.
This is really, really, really cool.
Yeah, buddy. Yeah.
-Oh. -You got a--
What's a charity that you might like to...
Well, I thought about it,
and I wanted to do it for MusiCares,
'cause it's a charity that is near and dear to my heart.
-Yeah. -Um,
they basically take a lot of--
care of a lot of people from all walks of life,
but a lot of them, mental illness,
-drug addiction-- -Yeah.
...um, poverty, um...
a lot of other different issues that befall us.
And most of them are obviously musicians,
-at MusiCares. -Yeah.
So I figured that would be a good charity to--
Perfect. MusiCares.
-Yeah. -I love it, man.
-There it is. -I'm trying not to get too attached to it.
Yeah. So...
I'm just blown away at this.
[Jason] It's not over, buddy. Ready?
[Slash] What else you got?
[Jason] All right.
[Jason mutters gibberish]
[Slash] Oh, no way! Shit.
Are you serious? You didn't mention this.
Wow.
-Fuck. -Looks good, right?
-Jessica. -Dude, this is like Christmas.
They really got the details.
It's just insane.
They couldn't get the cigarette burn quite right
'cause they didn't have the toxicity levels
-of what you were dealing with. -[Slash chuckles] Oh.
Sorry about that. It wasn't perfect, but--
[Slash] It's close enough.
[Jason] I mean, hopefully I get to see you on tour
-and watching you fucking jam on these. -Yeah, no--
[Jason] Honoring the people who have inspired me,
whether that be teacher, whether that be mentor,
idol, someone that you've always looked up to,
it's a beautiful thing to just go,
"Thank you for everything that you do."
And that's a beautiful feeling.
[Jason] Let us in, man.
[Jason] We're in England. We just landed from Mallorca,
and we're gonna go see Slash right now,
watch Guns N' Roses,
and I got a surprise for him.
[woman] ...Slash is so cool.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
-He's so cool. -Yeah. Yeah.
-[man] Yeah, yeah, we don't-- -He's the coolest.
He's the king of cool.
[Jason] My little brother, who has pretty much lived across the street,
he-- [chuckles]
he kind of ratted me out
and said that I had
some Guns N' Roses tapes and stuff like that,
and so my mom listened to them,
and she happened to put on, like,
the "Patience" album, uh, Lies, Lies, Lies,
and my mom was like,
[high-pitched] "What the hell is my son listening to?"
[in normal voice] And I was in so much trouble. She's like,
"You can't have these back till you're married
or you're bald and you got kids."
And still,
I ain't got the goddamn tapes, Ma. So what I do
is [chuckles] my kids' first clothes,
it's, like, "Forever Slash" and, like, "Guns N' Roses",
"Sweet Child of Mine."
And so, all this baby clothes,
I take pictures of for my mom.
This shit might fit.
This shit fit?
It does!
She's just like,
"Jason." And now,
Slash and I are pals.
[instrumental music playing]
[Jason] Just being able to go
to the show and then watch him play
one of the guitars that we made
and see him up on stage,
you're just like, "He loved them."
You know? And that's huge love and respect
to all the artisans who made it,
who were a part of making Slash's guitar.
Like, really the hand quality and the craftsmanship
for him to be like, "This is it.
This is going on the road with me.
This is gonna go on my album."
Like...
Done. Job done.
Such a full circle moment for me and my kids.
Music means so much to me.
It's history.
It's human experience.
It's something that connects each and every one of us.
It is everything.
[indistinct conversation]
-[woman] Look at how tall they are. -[man] I know, right?
-Yeah. 'Cause-- -[Slash] Let's put it there.
[Jason] Lola. Lola and Wolf.
And they'll be stoked.
For the baby somewhere.
[Slash] Aww, you're a sweetheart.
Yeah that's... I mean, I don't have any guitars
that I dedicated... to my kids beforehand.
Look, "Lola and Wolf."
Oh, cool.
Now, another thing for you guys to fight over.
Oh, my God.
[indistinct conversation]
One of you... one of you does the fingering
and the other one does the strumming.
[Wolf] You kiddin' me?
[inaudible]
-[guitar sustaining] -[indistinct chatter]
[Mike] Thank you very much, we love you.
We love...
[continues indistinctly]
[speaking indistinctly]
That was amazing!
So, he asked me how he was, bro.
Just ask the CEO of Gibson.
How was he?
It was all on stage.
Yeah, I tried to.
It was all on stage.
You were all in.
-You left it all there. -Yeah.
Fuck it. That was amazing.
Thank you.
[Mike] He made me basically weep
at the custom shop.
So I was thinking to myself,
"You know, I'm gonna get him back."
You know.
You know, we've been doing-- talking about all the past
and all that kind of stuff, bringing up stuff
and getting stuff together and life's about letting go.
And you're one of the people in my life
that has helped me let go
of a lot of stuff that I needed to let go.
And so-- and you've given me so much.
And I want to give something back to you.
And I don't really have anything I could think of,
but there's something I really want you to have.
[Jason] Jesus, dude. All right.
That's for you now, all right?
For you. I love you.
I love you.
Take it home.
-I love you. -I love you.
Bro.
[Mike] And I told my wife I was gonna make him cry.
Oh, man. Dude.
This is, uh,
that's a holy grail piece.
And you're my teacher.
[grunts] What a night.
What a night, huh? What a night.
[Mike] I used this guitar all around the world.
The neck was from my first guitar.
That's when I got it, I was about 13 years old.
And it had a Mexican body.
And I had these pickups from the '60s,
and it had magic to it.
It was beautiful when I got it,
but it has been through everything with me,
so it go so torn up,
it was almost to the point of unplayable.
But it was time, you know.
And Jay, that whole experience with him
coming down and...
making me feel so good,
he's like, you know, part of my family,
reminded me that it's all right to let it go.
And I said, "I want you to have this,
because this is everything
that, you know,
to me."
And I got him to cry.
Just a little bit.
-You made me cry too, man. -[man speaking indistinctly]
You get a guitar!
-[Mike speaks indistinctly] -[Jason] Oh, man.
[man] Wow.
I mean, that's-- you guys saw it.
That's the real deal.
I mean, I know the story of this guitar.
I know everything about it.
I know everything he went through.
I was there through all the tough times,
all the good-- I mean, for all of it, man.
I left...
I left his concert
a month before my son was born.
My wife's-- a day before my wife's birthday.
And I left his--
to go see him in Hollywood.
And I went to a bar to celebrate.
And this smash happened to my face.
And I took a pint glass to the face.
You know, he-- I called him to the hospital,
"I split my face open, 140 stitches."
Changed my world.
Like, I'll be that famous one-eyed actor.
[Mike] Oh, yeah.
'Cause like, it was a millimeter away from my eyeball.
Split my whole face open.
And, uh...
first audition back was Game of Thrones.
And, uh... I had a good scar going through my face.
-Thanks, Mike Hayes. -You got it, brother. Anytime.
And then everything changed.
but, man, we've been through the highs and lows, man.
And we get Kenny together
-and all of us together, I mean-- -[Mike] Yeah.
-Fuckin' love you. -I love you, brother.
Doesn't get any better than that.
[violin music playing]