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How to Destroy Angels: "A Drowning"

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CD REVIEW: Slash'™s appetite for diversity
by Kevin Krieger
Weekender Correspondent

http://www.theweekender.com/music/Slash … -2010.html

By using different vocalists for each track on his first solo album, former Guns N'™ Roses guitarist Slash could have ended up with a scattered, directionless mess. But the result on the new CD that bears his name is a diverse, sometimes brilliant collection that debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200.

After assembling an eclectic cast of characters to support his instantly recognizable killer tone, Slash (real name Saul Hudson) shows a musical range that'™s surprising and satisfying at the same time. The guy in the top hat may have taken a huge gamble by allowing each vocalist to write their own melodies and lyrics, but it appears to have paid off. 'Doctor Alibi��  is the ideal vehicle for Motorhead'™s Lemmy Kilmeister, while Black Eyed Pea Fergie proves she can hang with the rock chicks on 'Beautiful Dangerous.��  Even Ozzy Osbourne finds the perfect home on 'Crucify The Dead.��

With The Cult'™s Ian Astbury handling vocals on 'Ghost,��  the song is easily the most GNR-like track on the CD. It'™s also the only song that features another guitarist '” who else but former Guns bandmate Izzy Stradlin. From Chris Cornell ('Promise�� ), to Kid Rock ('I Hold On�� ) to upstart Rocco DeLuca ('Saint Is A Sinner, Too,��  the album'™s only pure ballad), the CD successfully switches gears on every track. Punk godfather Iggy Pop gets the last word on 'We'™re All Gonna Die,��  with lyrics that stretch between two generations of rule-breakers: 'We'™re all gonna die/ So let'™s get high/ I'™m in the mood/ So let'™s interlude/ Pee on the ground and jump around.��

But with all the high-octane talent on 'Slash,��  only one vocalist survived the cut to be part of the touring unit that will take the album out on the road this summer. Alter Bridge'™s Myles Kennedy turns in a stellar performance on the slow-building 'Starlight,��  proving how he earned the opportunity to work with Jimmy Page after Led Zeppelin'™s 2007 reunion.

There'™s little room for improvement on a CD that the usually hard-to-please U.K. magazine Classic Rock calls 'the first great hard rock album of the decade.��  By viewing the world through newly sober eyes (sober by his definition), Slash has apparently turned a career that started out as an 'Appetite For Destruction��  into an appetite for diversity.

Rating: W W W W 1/2

Can't wait for the first Twoflower and Mustrum Ridcully to be born.

I don't blame BH for the sloppines, although he didn't show too much interest in playing the (old) songs, when it wasn't about the solos. Paul Tobias was tragedy, and it took some time for Richard to learn the songs right. Everybody knows my opinion about Robin's playing, but he improved a lot by 2006. Brain often fucked up the songs in 2001-2002, the YCBM disaster is the prime example.

The 2001-2002 line-up wrote CD and recorded the majority of it, nobody questions that, but they were the worst live line-up ever in the band's history.

BTW it isn't easy to replicate Slash's parts. The notes can be played, but nobody can play it as soulful or energetic, not to mention that _Slash_wrote_those_songs. It's not the hat that wins those best guitarist of all time votes, it's the guitar player.