Saikin wrote:

Smoking Guns wrote:

I think Mother Maria and the song with MShadows are both out of the Slash comfort zone.  Anyway, I am still very excited for this album, and we haven't heard any solos except for By the Sword, Sahara, and PC, and his lead playing was pretty damn good on all those, so I have high expectations for the solos!

His lead playing on PC was good in 1987 as well, where that song should have stayed.

Let me clarify a little bit more, by comfort zone I mean rock music with drums, a bass, a couple guitars and a singer.  (He may be the only guitarist on most tracks but he essentially recorded the rhythm parts and then the lead)

Correct, but even most one guitar bands do this, see Motley Crue, Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, etc...

I see there's the impression that instrumental guitar albums are only shredding, they aren't. There is more emotive playing on a handful of instrumental albums I own than the rest of my hundreds of CDs with vocalists.

Frankly, the fact he isn't interested brings me to another point of contention I have with Slash. He just won't get out of his comfort zone of singer, bass, drums guitar. It's a comfort zone I see a lot of you guys in too. Imagine a CD of stuff like Vocalise. Come on, that would be incredible. I'd much rather hear that than yet another Slash-Alice Cooper collaboration.

Slash is a team-player. I have yet to hear an instrumental guitar album that is not boring, and I play guitar.

It's funny that Slash has 13 singers on his album, yet none of them is good enough for some. Guess they can only accept Axl, although they wouldn't want a reunion, cause 'Axl doesn't need Slash'. Maybe. But as it seems for sure Slash doesn't need Axl, just somebody better than Scott Weiland to write catchy and great songs. On his album he has a lot of better singers. I would love to hear a full Slash/Stockdale, Slash/Kennedy or Slash/DeLuca album.

This album will be great.

Long live

Ehh, I think it's 50/50. I agree that the press digs it up. I mentioned Haim... did anyone pay any attention to that guy in the last 10-15 years that he had an ongoing drug addiction? Not much. The guy dies, and the press comes swarming in, and tries to create all kinds of drama.

Weiland, they do seem to only want to approach him if he's either fucked up or sober. But in his case, Weiland has always presented himself as kinda rebellious. I would think he would come in and just talk about his work, his family, and focus on that. But it's always on his addictions. I'm surprised he wants to even answer those questions anymore, especially considering the fact that he's drug-clean now. Yet, I think he knows, that if he completely abandons those questions, the interviews will all dry up.

The media is ALWAYS responsible, but I think Weiland does consciously bring it on sometimes.