Monsters of acoustic rock. (Photo by Denise Truscello. Additional photos by Anna Dobrijevic)

When you write guitar riffs as nasty and sleazy as “My Michelle,” you don’t spend just one day celebrating your birthday. Those are the rules. We don’t make them up. If there’s one thing Slash is all about, it’s following the rules.

Day two of his 43rd birthday extravaganza started out with dinner at Stack inside The Mirage, and then segued into a show of Love with 60 of his friends and family, including wife, Perla, sons London and Cash, comic Tommy Davidson, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Evan Seinfeld of Biohazard.

Also at Love, for non Slash-related purposes, were gajillionaire Bill Gates and actress Ali McGraw, producer Robert Evans and their son, actor Josh Evans.

Finally, the night concluded with an acoustic performance at Jet that included Morello and Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, doing Alice’s “Got Me Wrong” and Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here,” prompting a singalong in the club. Yet another guitar-and-top-hat cake followed, and will.i.am. of the Black Eyed Peas jumped on the turntables afterward.

By Jason Scavone

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