Slash's Solo Album

I have to agree with MG, some of the line up sounds interesting, and Fergie is a beautiful woman, I am sure she can sing but a remake of a G n R classic?

The first taste of Slash’s solo project has some fans losing their appetite for destruction. Yesterday the Velvet Revolver guitarist released a Japan-only two-song single featuring Cypress Hill and the Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie on a WTF version of the Guns n’ Roses classic “Paradise City.” That bizarre (albeit rocking) song and the single’s A side, “Sahara” — a collaboration with Koshi Inaba — quickly appeared on YouTube by day’s end.
“Until now, not too many people have heard Fergie sing rock & roll but she sings it better than most dudes I know. She’s a screamer at heart,” Slash wrote on his Twitter yesterday. This isn’t the first time the Duchess has attempted to out-Axl Axl Rose. Back in July 2008, Fergie and Slash performed “Sweet Child o’ Mine” together on several occasions. Fans turned off by the “Paradise City” remake needn’t worry: “This Japanese release will not be on my record in the West, which is all new original material,” Slash tweeted.

this should make Metal Rob a happy man:

Slash has announced that Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy will front his band on the upcoming solo tour.
Says the guitarist of the choice: “I want to announce that Myles Kennedy is going to be fronting the band for the upcoming tour. Something I’m really stoked about.
“Myles sang a killer track [called Starlight] on the record and I think he is by far one of the best rock and roll singers out there today. I’m really honored and proud to be working with him.
“I will announce the other band members shortly.”

The more I hear about this solo album, the less enthusiastic I am about actually hearing it.

manny wrote:

this should make Metal Rob a happy man:

Slash has announced that Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy will front his band on the upcoming solo tour.
Says the guitarist of the choice: “I want to announce that Myles Kennedy is going to be fronting the band for the upcoming tour. Something I’m really stoked about.
“Myles sang a killer track [called Starlight] on the record and I think he is by far one of the best rock and roll singers out there today. I’m really honored and proud to be working with him.
“I will announce the other band members shortly.”

You are right and I do think Myles is the best rock singer out there. But, I wish he was working with Mark and the boys on the new Alter Bridge album. I am getting this album on Myles being on it alone.

01. Ghost (Ian Astbury, feat. Izzy Stradlin) (3:34)
02. Crucify The Dead (Ozzy Osbourne) (4:04)
03. Beautiful Dangerous (Fergie) (4:35)
04. Promise (Chris Cornell) (4:41)
05. By The Sword (Andrew Stockdale) (4:50)
06. Gotten (Adam Levine) (5:05)
07. Doctor Alibi (Lemmy) (3:07)
08. Watch This Dave (Dave Grohl, Duff McKagan) (3:46)
09. I Hold On (Kid Rock) (4:10)
10. Nothing To Say (M. Shadows) (5:27)
11. Starlight (Myles Kennedy) (5:35)
12. Saint Is A Sinner Too (Rocco De Luca) (3:28)
13. We're All Gonna Die (Iggy Pop) (4:30)

Bonus UK tracks:

14. Baby Can't Drive (Alice Cooper, Nicole Scherzinger)
15. Paradise City (Fergie, Cypress Hill)

"By The Sword", the first single from Slash's first true solo album, simply entitled "Slash", will go for radio adds on March 1. The track was co-written by and features a guest appearance by Andrew Stockdale of the Australian retro-rock combo WOLFMOTHER.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

The more I hear about this solo album, the less enthusiastic I am about actually hearing it.

Well, I take that back. Seeing the line-up now has me a little more excited about this album. Aside from a few names I don't know or care about, I like the guest-list. Time will tell if it's a hit or a disaster I suppose.

Id like to get it

I'm interested in what he came up with musically but i'm not a fan of every guest vocalist on the album.

Too bad the entire album won't sound like this.

Quote :

"By The Sword" is now available for streaming at AOL's Spinner. It can also be heard below.

"'By The Sword' is a favorite of mine off the album," Slash tells Spinner. "I really enjoyed meeting and working with Andrew Stockdale. It was a solid collaborative effort and his voice is fantastic."

Fan-filmed video footage of Slash performing "By The Sword" with WOLFMOTHER on November 24, 2009 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles can be viewed below.

Eyesore wrote:

Too bad the entire album won't sound like this.

Quote :

"By The Sword" is now available for streaming at AOL's Spinner. It can also be heard below.

"'By The Sword' is a favorite of mine off the album," Slash tells Spinner. "I really enjoyed meeting and working with Andrew Stockdale. It was a solid collaborative effort and his voice is fantastic."

Fan-filmed video footage of Slash performing "By The Sword" with WOLFMOTHER on November 24, 2009 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles can be viewed below.

Not a bad song but man his voice sometimes irritates me. Slash shines on this song though especially the solo part.

Eyesore wrote:

Too bad the entire album won't sound like this.

Quote :

"By The Sword" is now available for streaming at AOL's Spinner. It can also be heard below.

"'By The Sword' is a favorite of mine off the album," Slash tells Spinner. "I really enjoyed meeting and working with Andrew Stockdale. It was a solid collaborative effort and his voice is fantastic."







Fan-filmed video footage of Slash performing "By The Sword" with WOLFMOTHER on November 24, 2009 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles can be viewed below.

Sounds pretty cool, but you're probably right.

Listening to samples on Amazon, some decent stuff but Fergie? WTH? And going from Adam Lambert to Lemmy is weird. The song with M. Shadows is what surprised me, I really like it and David B.... I mean Iggy sounds good here.

Man, is there some emotion laced in that solo or what?

When will the album be released?

Album comes out next month

I'll be getting this one...

MetalH wrote:

I'll be getting this one...

Me too; I've liked everything I've heard from it.

Here is a little news from the people on the other side of Myles touring with Slash...

We would also like to remind you that Myles will be touring with Slash this summer while the rest of us are touring with Creed. We have also been told that, on the Slash tour, Myles will be singing old GNR songs that Slash has not performed since that band broke up. We think that will be worth the price of admission alone. Along with Slash's new material, we are also told Myles may sing an AB song or two.

Slash told The Pulse of Radio that he's really pleased to have Myles Kennedy singing on the tour. "He was one of these sort of youngish rock singers that I wasn't real familiar with, who is probably one of the best, you know, young new rock singers around," he said. "There's actually two songs on the record that he did, and he can basically perform any other songs on the record, plus he knows how to do all the Guns N' Roses stuff. So it's worked out nicely."

So there you have it. Slash knows what we in AB have known for a while. Myles is simply one of the best, if not the best, rock singers around today. And this summer, Slash will also find out what an incredible musician he is as well. That tour will be a sight to behold.


Sounds like it might be a show to see....

I just checked out a lot of the clips from this album and I must say that Starlight and Beautiful Dangerous sound amazing. Fergie slays on that clip and Starlight sounds so emotional and deep.