Slash says Michael Jackson made him replay a 15-second riff eight times — stopping each take with the same note: “It’s not dangerous enough.” Only when Jackson danced beside him in the booth did the guitarist finally get it right. What happened in that eighth take turned frustration into fire — and created one of pop’s most uncopyable moments…..
Slash had been tapped to play guitar on Jackson’s 1991 album Dangerous, a project where Jackson was pushing into harder rock territory. The two men […]