Hard rockin' music icon
Slash may seem an unlikely "American Idol" fan, but the Guns 'N Roses star had so much fun as a guest mentor on the show this past week - he couldn't help but
share the news with online fans.
The crazy-maned guitarist raved about this season's crop of young singers on both his Twitter and MySpace pages - and like many "Idol" fans this year - seems especially impressed with the vocal chops of glam-rocker-in-training
Adam Lambert.
Slash logged this tweet:
"Those AI kids can sing their a--es off, especially Adam." Slash has been mentoring the final four "Idol" contestants - Lambert,
Kris Allen,
Danny Gokey and
Allison Iraheta - through rock week.
His earlier tweets suggest he may have had some doubts about their capacity to pull off a hard rock show - despite several rock performances from both Lambert and Iraheta.
"I'm going to attempt to make "Rock Week" on American Idol exactly that," he Twittered on April 29.
And with apparent relief on May 1st, posted,
"The contestants from AI picked some really cool songs for next week, thank god!" On MySpace he wrote,
"I was reluctant [to mentor] at 1st, but they offered me the freedom to do it however I wanted ...The approach I'm taking is different than usual on the show, & I'm going to make this as Rock & Roll an American Idol as possible, wish me luck!"