On the Roam (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

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[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.
Take it home.
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!
You get a guitar!
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]