While
Slash was in Australia playing shows across the country, he dropped by the studios of Australia's long-running radio station
Triple M to share a few stories, including one that involved one of the great frontmen in rock.
The
GUNS N' ROSES legend told the station about a time when he was a kid that he walked in on his mother — a costume designer who made outfits for the likes of
David Bowie,
John Lennon and
Ringo Starr — and
Bowie stark naked.
"My mom started working professionally with
David Bowie at first. I'm pretty sure that's how it started and then it turned into some sort of mysterious romance that went on for a while after that,"
Slash laughed. "I was seven or eight years old. [
Bowie] was always over and they were always together."
He continued, "I caught them naked once. They had a lot of stuff going on, but my perspective at eight was limited. Looking back on it, I knew eaxctly what was going on."
Audio of
Slash talking to
Triple M about
David Bowie:
Slash's mother,
Ola Hudson, died on June 5, 2009 after a battle with lung cancer.
Hudson died at Saint John's Health Center in the Los Angeles municipality of Santa Monica. She was 62. In addition to
Slash — whose real name is
Saul Hudson — she is survived by another son, graphic artist
Albion "Ash" Hudson, 41, as well as her ex-husband, English artist
Anthony Hudson.
Slash's mother dated
Bowie after her marriage broke up in the mid-1970s. "I really didn't like him that much, because he was the new guy in the house,"
Slash said of
Bowie in a 1990 interview with
Rolling Stone magazine. "I was really resentful."
