Anyone Picking Up The New SLASH CD?

**chefcraig** · 04-05-2010, 12:50 PM

It's pretty good. When the previews broke, I was somewhat put off by the amount of singers, but each seems to bring their own input to any given tune. My two favorites are the Lemmy track and the one featuring the guy from Avenged Sevenfold (M. Shadows).

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**binnie** · 04-05-2010, 03:23 PM

As far these Santana records go, it's pretty good. I was really, really impressed with the Fergie track, and the M Shadows collaboartion surprised me too.

Lemmy's song is cool, but I think he gets out-done by Iggy on this record.....

**DLR7884** · 04-05-2010, 06:05 PM

Nope.

DLR7884
I'll just listen to Chinese Democracy.

**kwame k** · 04-05-2010, 06:23 PM

Originally posted by binnie

As far these Santana records go, it's pretty good. I was really, really impressed with the Fergie track, and the M Shadows collaboartion surprised me too.

Lemmy's song is cool, but I think he gets out-done by Iggy on this record.....

Fergie can fucking sing. I was surprised, too.

I may pick this CD up even though I'm not a big fan of the multi-singer records.

**Baby's On Fire** · 04-05-2010, 10:05 PM

This is a sad reminder of what could have been with GNR.....Slash kicks ass on this album, and these songs could easily have been great GNR songs.

The song with Lemmy is geat, and Axl would have also sounded perfect on it.

**78/84 guy** · 04-06-2010, 08:27 PM

Just gave it a listen. It's really good. Some how all the different singers didn't drive me crazy. All the tune's sound fresh. Slash isn't missing Axhole or Scott on this one. good disc that I won't forget I bought in 2 weeks.

**Terry** · 04-06-2010, 08:39 PM

Nah. Will give it a pass.

Slash is just too much of a buffoon for my tastes: am not gonna enable his lifestyle short of a GnR reunion.

**Northern Girl** · 04-06-2010, 09:22 PM

I wonder who will be singing on tour. I suppose I could find that info somewhere if I looked.

He's in MN next month at a casino.

**Antman** · 04-06-2010, 10:02 PM

I'll check it out. I'd love to lick Fergie's brown eye.

**chefcraig** · 04-06-2010, 10:06 PM

Originally posted by Northern Girl

I wonder who will be singing on tour. I suppose I could find that info somewhere if I looked.

He's in MN next month at a casino.

It's going to be Miles Kennedy from Alter Bridge. LINK

**Top Jimmy** · 04-12-2010, 10:42 AM

My two favorite tracks are the Myles Kennedy songs,
really dig Back From Cali...
dude has one hell of a set of pipes..

Funny, they used to say that about Cornell, who has a tune on the cd,
but he gets left in the dust...

That's why he got the tour gig, Myles kicks ass...

Check him out, from the tour kickoff, surprise show at the Roxy in Hollywood:

**binnie** · 04-12-2010, 01:24 PM

Here's a review I just posted in the Album Reviews thread:

Slash - Slash

For a man whose past can only have taught him to expect trouble from singers, it might seem an odd choice to begin a solo career by working with over a dozen of them. Such is the weirdness of life that Slash insists that this is the easiest record he's ever made. It feels like it, too. The slick, light vibe which slips off this record is not what fans would customarily expect from Slash - this is a long way from the bomabastic schizo-sleaze rock of Guns 'n' Roses, or the ultra cool punk-angst of Velvet Revolver. Rather, what we have here is a polished rock record, and one in which we see Slash grow comfortably into his role as an 'elder statesmen' of the genre. That is not to say that this album sounds middle aged, but it certainly feels mature.

None of this is detrimental to the quality. Indeed, it is this record's surprises which are its strong points. Fergie seems an odd choice of partnering for a man whose has spent 25 years on the cusp of metal, but her vocal on 'Beautiful Dangerous' is outstanding, a nitro-charged wail over a dark and funky beat which is sown up in the best hook on this disc. Similarly 'Nothing To Say' - featuring M Shadows from heavy metal kings Avenged Sevenfold - is a welcome departure for the Top Hatted one. Easily the most metallic thing he's recorded to date, the track features frantic riffing and shredding solos the like of which many guitar snobs probably thought he couldn't play. Contrastingly, the record's quietest moment, 'Saint Is a Sinner Too' featuring the relative unkown Rocco DeLucca, is perhaps its strongest moment - a beautifully solomn guitar piece complimented with hushed vocals falling somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Elliot Smith. Surprised aplenty then - even Kid Rock remembers that he can sing on the southern rock flavours of 'I Hold On'. It's pretty damn good, too.

If anything, its the older guard who fall a little flat here. Ozzy Osbourne, bless him, tries his absolute damndest to steal the show, sounding as aggressive and focreful as he has in years, but also reminding this reviewer of Kermit the Frog, such is the 'studio magic' which is needed to get anything decent out of his larynx these days. Lemmy's 'Doctor ALibi' is a typical tale of rock 'n' roll excess over a hedonistic riff-fest, but it feels tired and generic by the standards of the legends playing on it. It's Page and Plant compared to the mess that is Iggy Pop's 'We're All Gonna Die', however, a lyrical performance so uninspired to be beneath a man who is - no arguments please - the most dangerous hellraiser that rock 'n' roll has ever birthed.

But such moments are overshone by the strength of the other songs here. Myles Kennedy wraps his unfeasibly talented pipes around two tunes: the blues rocker 'Back From Cali' and epic 'Starlight', and it is perhaps his vocals which match Slash's guitar tone most fittingly. Simiarly noteworthy is Ian Astbury's 'Ghost', which sees The Cult man on his finest form for quite some time. Anyone with ears could have done without Maroon 5's Adam Levine limp wristed 'Gotten', but overall you can't help but enjoy this album. There's certainly nothing classic here, but what we have is far beyond competent. These 'Santana' albums normally don't work - there usually feel smug an unfocussed. This one doesn't. What Slash has done has placed his ego to the side. He sits back, rather than dominating the songs, using his music to bring out the strenghts of each singer whilst still producing a modern rock record which feels very much like an album rather than a collection of songs. Well worth a listen.

**ELVIS** · 04-12-2010, 01:27 PM

Hmmm...

**indeedido** · 04-12-2010, 02:00 PM

Originally posted by Top Jimmy

My two favorite tracks are the Myles Kennedy songs,
really dig Back From Cali...
dude has one hell of a set of pipes..

Funny, they used to say that about Cornell, who has a tune on the cd,
but he gets left in the dust...

That's why he got the tour gig, Myles kicks ass...

Check him out, from the tour kickoff, surprise show at the Roxy in Hollywood:

That was pretty bad ass

Anyone Picking Up The New SLASH CD?

Anyone Picking Up The New SLASH CD?

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