Slash With His Girlfriend Melissa Fisher in 1978

A rare photo of a very young Slash with his first girlfriend, 12-year-old Melissa Fisher Fink, at Bancroft Junior High School, 1978:

The words of Slash:

“My first girlfriend was named Melissa. She was half chubby, gorgeous. She was 12 and I was 13 when we were together. Today that isn’t something so rare. Today it’s common to see guys do big things but in 1978 we were two “bold” guys, people would turn to watch us if we kissed in public.

“People looked at us closely. ‘Don’t ruin good times,’ that was our first law. We didn’t waste the relationship we had, which was good.

“The first time we were together was in her house. We started in the laundry room and ended up in the room (the apartment had a single one shared with her mother, Carolyn). Unfortunately Carolyn came home ahead of schedule so I had to slip out the window with my pants down my ankles. Luckily, I was able to hide in the bushes.

“When her mom wasn’t home, we used her bed and when she was home, we used the couch after Carolyn fell asleep due to the Valium. Eventually Melissa and Carolyn moved to the upstairs apartment that had two rooms: one for her and another for her daughter. Carolyn thought it would be better if we were in the house than anywhere else. To us, Carolyn was a divine!”