I had rented ‘Guitar Hero 3′ from Blockbuster a few months ago. In the game, as you do career mode there are “boss battles.” One of them is against former Guns N Rose guitarist Slash.

A few weeks after my son Michael got his fill of the game, we were in the car listening to Chris Daughtry’s CD. Slash played on the ‘What I Want’ track. I said, “Mike, that’s Slash playing the guitar on this song.”

My son looks at me and says, “Slash is real?”

The interesting thing is, as my son started to play guitar he really started to listen to Slash’s playing and became a fan. A poster of Slash now adorns my son’s wall.