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#1621 Re: The Sunset Strip » Reb Beach: Kirk Hammett is one of the worst guitar players... » 865 weeks ago
That sounds exactly like Mikka talking about Robin.
Although I think Kirk is better than Robin, this is a pretty valid statement by Reb Beach. 
#1622 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH Sets Release Week Of Activities For First Solo Album » 865 weeks ago
"We would also like to inform you that Myles will be performing the song Back From Cali with Slash on Lopez Tonight which airs on TBS on Thursday night."
(Alter Bridge Blog)
#1623 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash's album sales predictions » 865 weeks ago
New Slash album debuts at #1
http://www.beatweek.com/news/3893-new-s … buts-at-1/
The new self titled solo album from former Guns '˜n Roses guitarist Slash is apparently on its way toward being a commercial success after going straight to number one across all genres in the iTunes Store after being released earlier today.
Following the Carlos Santana path of bringing in a string of famous vocalists to complement his guitar work on the album, singers on Slash'™s new record include Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas, Kid Rock, andAdam Levine from Maroon 5, Andrew Stockdale from Wolfmother, and Soundgarden'™s Chris Cornell. Also making an appearance is Slash'™s former G'™n'R (and current Velvet Revolver) bandmate Duff McKagan, now also of Jane'™s Addiction, who provides bass duties on 'Watch This.�� Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures) plays drums on the same track.
Two of the songs are fronted by Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy, who Slash has already pegged for lead singer duty on upcoming tour dates.
Slash'™s self titled album is available in iTunes or $9.99, or 99¢ per song.
The Black Eyed Peas were on the cover of Beatweek Magazine in June 2009. You can read the cover story interview here.
#1624 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash album reviews » 865 weeks ago
Slash still has it on new solo album
By Dustin Schoof
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/music/i … tar_f.html
Slash still has it.
The Velvet Revolver and former Guns N' Roses guitarist's new album, "Slash," is a hybrid of every band Saul Hudson has been a part of -- and that's a good thing.
There are traces of Guns N' Roses scattered throughout the album, most notably on the scorching "Doctor Alibi" with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmeister on vocals; a song that could have been sandwiched nicely between "Nightrain" and "Out ta Get Me" on "Appetite for Destruction."
The other Guns nod appears on "Nothing to Say" with M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold. Shadows' familiar yowl soars over a breakneck guitar riff and thundering double-bass.
Slash's collaboration with Iggy Pop on "We're All Gonna Die" is pure punk snarl, with Pop's vocals reminiscent of the stiff upper lip he sported on his 2003 solo album, "Skull Ring."
Slash's riffs compliment each singer's style nicely on most of the tracks, with Adam Levine of Maroon 5 laying down a soothing vocal melody that glides gingerly over a cascading guitar hook on "Gotten."
The song "Promise" is more Marvin Gaye than grunge. Chris Cornell's smoky vocals float along a bluesy, rustic melody that harks back to Cornell's 2007 solo album, "Carry On."
On "I Hold On," Kid Rock ditches his rap-rock shtick for the Bob Seger sort of Detroit blues that his most recent efforts have been rooted in. It's the best song Rock has done in years -- a lighter-friendly anthem of hope and determination for the downtrodden.
Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy appears twice and for good reason. Kennedy's Robert Plant-like howl soars on "Back From Cali" and reaches Freddie Mercury stratosphere status on the dynamic fist-pumper, "Starlight."
However, the album does have its share of misfires -- though few and far between.
Slash's beloved Les Paul slithers and hisses but doesn't strike with as much potency as one would expect on a Slash solo record. Granted, that might have been the point since each song is tailored more to the singer than the songwriter.
His collaborations with The Cult's Ian Astbury on "Ghost" and Ozzy Osbourne on "Crucify the Dead" are solid tunes, but by-the-numbers and don't pack the same punch as most of the other songs on the album.
The biggest weakness is the song "Beautiful Dangerous" with Fergie. The Black Eyed Peas siren proves she can wail with the best of them, but the repetitive guitar riff causes the song to come off like a Ferrari idling in the driveway but doesn't actually go anywhere.
The instrumental track "Watch This Dave" lets Slash take the lead as he gives his fretbaord a workout while Dave Grohl pounds away on the drums. Unfortunately, with two such talented musicians trading licks, the song is not nearly as impressive as one would imagine. Even the opening/main guitar riff sounds identical to the Deftones' "My Own Summer (Shove It)."
"Slash" is not "Appetite for Destruction II" by any stretch. Those looking for another "Sweet Child O' Mine" should look elsewhere.
But it is stronger and sturdier than anything he's done since.
#1625 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash album reviews » 865 weeks ago
'Slash'
Jim Farber
2,5/5
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen … s_fir.html
Slash's brilliant guitar work takes a backseat to showy collaborations on his first solo album
Slash's first official solo album has the feel of a Facebook page.
The guitarist filled it with just about every well-connected "friend" he ever met or heard of, forging a virtual who's who of heavy metal and hard rock. Turning up to squawk and preen on the CD are everyone from Ozzy and Lemmy to Kid Rock and Iggy Pop.
If Slash sent any "friend requests" to the singers most famously associated with him - Axl Rose or Scott Weiland - they went unanswered. Neither big mouth turned up.
Theoretically, Slash could have settled on a sole fresh shouter to front this project. But he already did that on his woeful band Snakepit. Instead he went this more showy and needy route.
As you'd expect from a project with so many egos in play, it isn't big on coherence. Then again, what's a guy blessed with Slash's particular talents and limitations to do?
Like Johnny Marr after the demise of The Smiths, Slash has wandered through a kind of journeyman's exile ever since the end of his one, great band - the original Guns N Roses - back in 1996.
Though his other longest lasting group, Velvet Revolver, put out two studio albums and endured six years together, they always seemed like a jerrybuilt project - like some lucrative, but tedious, time-filler.
Instead of going through that headache again, Slash choose a project that would both allow him to retain control and to reap the p.r. benefits of all the starry names involved. Hey, it worked for Santana on "Supernatural."
It hasn't worked quite that way here.
Make no mistake: Slash's driving solos dazzle throughout.
And the album does include a few collaborations that click. Lemmy attacks the guitarist's riff in "Doctor Alibi" with his delightfully satiric level of savagery. Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale conjures a convincing, "I-Am-A-Golden-God" Robert Plant impersonation on the single, "By The Sword." And Chris Cornell's erotic snarl pairs so well with the star's chunky riffs in "Promise," it suggests he might have started a worthy group with Slash had he not already agreed to reform his classic band, Soundgarden, this summer.
Most of the other collaborations seem merely hypothetical - like daydreams from metal heads better left to the realm of fantasy. Some of them prove outright laughable, including Fergie performing in guitar drag for "Beautiful Dangerous" or the cameo by Adam Levine from Maroon 5, which reeks of wimp tokenism.
Ironically, the track that works best offers no guest vocalist at all.
"Watch This: reunites Slash with GNR alum Duff, and adds Dave Grohl on drums, to create a teeth-melting instrumental. The result proves that Slash could have gone the Jeff Beck route, letting his brilliant guitar work assume the fullness of a human voice for an entire CD.
One day let's hope he works up the nerve to do so.
#1626 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chris Vrenna (brief GNR mention - 1997) » 865 weeks ago
I've never heard of this trial period. Scary.
#1627 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chris Vrenna (brief GNR mention - 1997) » 865 weeks ago
Don't trust in Axl's words, especially when it comes to his touchy subjects.
#1628 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH Sets Release Week Of Activities For First Solo Album » 865 weeks ago
Slash & Andrew Stockdale - "By The Sword" 4/6 Leno
#1629 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash's album sales predictions » 865 weeks ago
Global sales, last week
#1630 Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash's album sales predictions » 865 weeks ago
- Mikkamakka
- Replies: 27
It's just time to open a thread about it.
I refrain what I wrote to Fat-Drunk in a pm (it was before I heard more than By The Sword):
I am not sure if it'll debut at No. 1 position, although the competition isn't too strong. I don't think it'll reach the Santana territory, and it will be FAR from the Lady Gaga supersuperstar status.
It's going to be a slow burner, which sells relatively good, but not great through some months, as the singles get released. It will sell better than Libertad though, although beating Contraband is doubtful. It won't beat CD either.
