The son of one of rock’s most legendary guitarists (who can forget Slash’s “Cold November Rain” solo?) is, perhaps surprisingly, a drummer. As he recently told Consequence of Sound (posted on YouTube), “Drumming is my main passion.” He went on to explain that not only is he not trying to get better than his dad at guitar, but also that he has never had any real interest in trying. Hudson shared that he chose the drums because they “really called me just ’cause I didn’t want to f****** live in my dad’s shadow.”

Hudson’s present band also includes some of the few people who can probably relate to having such large shoes to fill, including singer Noah Weiland, son of the late Stone Temples Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, and bassist Tye Trujillo, son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. But if the band has to answer endless questions about their parents, Hudson, at least, appears to take it in stride, describing (also at Ultimate Classic Rock) what their dads accomplished as “awesome,” before explaining that “it’s gonna be there forever, but so will we. We’re just trying to do something for the new generation.”