<link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" /> <div class="container"> <div class="jumbotron"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12"> <h2 class="text-center"><strong>A Tribute To My First Inspiration</strong></h2> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="http://bigread.mojo4music.com/2014/01/slash/img/slash-portrait.jpg"><img alt="" width="280px" src="http://bigread.mojo4music.com/2014/01/slash/img/slash-portrait.jpg" alt="Picture of Slash holding his signature orange Les Paul"></img> </a> <div class="caption text-center">Slash with his signature Les Paul Guitar.</div> </div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <h3 class="text-center" style="color: #C42353"><strong> I have had many inspirational figures and heroes over my musical career.</strong></h3> <p> However, I don't think any of them will ever take the place of my first hero, Slash. I don't know if I could find a more appropriate subject than he for my first web project. I guess there is a first for everything as I start my journey into what many call the most difficult thing they've ever learned. I'm sure that Slash might agree with that sentiment considering he had to start somewhere as well. We will get into that shortly. We will start this story from the begninning.</p></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <p>This all starts when slash was a wee little laddie. Born Saul Hudson in Hampstead, London to his mother, <a href="http://www.slashparadise.com/background/family-slash-01-mother-ola-hudson.jpg">Ola J. Hudson</a>, and African-American costume designer and his father <a href="http://www.slashparadise.com/background/family-slash-03-father-anthony-hudson.jpg">Anthony Hudson</a> an English artist who created album covers for musicians. During his early years, Slash was raised by his father and paternal grandparents in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, while his mother moved to LA for work. When Slash was around five years old, he and his father joined his mother in Los Angeles. Slash became a self-described "problem child." He was given the nickname "Slash" by actor Seymour Cassel, because he was "always in a hurry, zipping around from one thing to another." </p> </div> <div class="thumbnail col-xs-12"> <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bcg-ADbCcAE2dSM.jpg"><img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bcg-ADbCcAE2dSM.jpg"></img> </a> <div class="caption text-center">Saul Hudson aka. Slash, as child.</div> </div> <div class="well col-xs-12 smaller-text"> <blockquote> <p>"My big awakening happened when I was 14. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, and she finally let me come over to her house. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosmith">Aerosmith's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks_(Aerosmith_album)">Rocks</a>. It hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. I remember riding my bike back to my grandma's house knowing that my life had changed. Now I identified with something."</p> <footer><cite>Slash on his passions in rock music</cite></footer> </blockquote> </div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <form action="#"> <div class="col-xs-5"> <button class="btn btn-block btn-primary"><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up"></i>Like</button></form> </div> <form action="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(musician)"> <div class="text-center col-xs-2">:D</div> <div class="col-xs-5"> <button class="btn btn-block btn-info"><i class="fa fa-info-circle"></i>Info</button> </form></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="col-xs-12 text-center"> <hr> <p>Written and coded by <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.com/sgtmonkey" target="_blank">Tyler Christensen</a>.</p> </footer> </div>

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