Editing Slash's Snakepit (section)

==Musical style==
Slash's Snakepit's music was often described as [[hard rock]]<ref name="Classic Rock Snakepit"/><ref name="Ain't Life Grand AMG"/><ref name="Ain't Life Grand EW"/> and [[blues rock]]<ref name="Classic Rock Snakepit"/><ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere RS"/><ref name="Ain't Life Grand AMG"/> with elements of [[southern rock]].<ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere RS"/><ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere EW"/> The band were also often described as Slash's solo or side project<ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere RS"/><ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere AMG"/><ref name="Slash Rolling Stone">{{Cite magazine | last = Uhelszki | first = Jaan | title = For Slash, Life After Guns Is Grand | magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] | date = October 10, 2000 | access-date = 2011-03-14 | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/aint-life-grand-20001012}}</ref> though Slash maintained that they were a band, stating "everybody wrote, everybody had equal input even though I had my name on it."<ref>{{Cite web | last = Rosen | first = Steven | title = Slash: 'I Needed To Do Something Where I Was A Captain Of My Own Ship' | publisher = [[Ultimate Guitar Archive]] | date = March 20, 2010 | access-date = 2011-03-14 | url = http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/slash_i_needed_to_do_something_where_i_was_a_captain_of_my_own_ship.html | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121006103622/http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/slash_i_needed_to_do_something_where_i_was_a_captain_of_my_own_ship.html | archive-date = October 6, 2012 }}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' reviewer [[J.D. Considine]] noted the differences between [[Guns N' Roses]] and Slash's Snakepit on their first album, stating that "Guns [N]' Roses typically treat the melody as the most important part of the song, most of what slithers out of the Snakepit emphasizes the playing."<ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere RS"/> He noted that singer Eric Dover "conveys the raw-throated intensity of a hard-rock frontman" and "he avoids the genre's most obvious excesses."<ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere RS"/> The riff to "Good to Be Alive" drew a comparison to [[Chuck Berry]] while the musicianship on the album was praised.<ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere RS"/> [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of Allmusic stated that "there's little argument that Slash is a great guitarist" who is "capable of making rock and blues clichés sound fresh".<ref name="It's Five O'Clock Somewhere AMG"/> Reviewing ''Ain't Life Grand'' for Allmusic, Steve Huey described second singer Rod Jackson as "a combination of '80s pop-metal bluster and [[Faces (band)|Faces]]-era [[Rod Stewart]]" with a "touch of [[Aerosmith]]", a description that he felt also fitted the band as a whole.<ref name="Ain't Life Grand AMG"/> He noted, though, that Slash's guitar playing was "tame" and stated that the main problem of the album was the songwriting, though it was "still a passable, workmanlike record that will definitely appeal to fans of grimy, old-school hard rock."<ref name="Ain't Life Grand AMG"/> Malcolm Dome of ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'' stated that "from the moment that "Been There Lately" opens, there's a vibe here that was missing before" and that ''Ain't Life Grand'' showed "purpose, direction and individuality."<ref name="Classic Rock Snakepit"/>