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SLASH, JOE PERRY Featured On 'Les Paul & Friends - A Tribute To A Legend' - Sep. 24, 2008

Immergent Records will release "Les Paul & Friends - A Tribute To A Legend" on September 30. This "tribute" to the beloved living music legend Les Paul, produced by Bob Cutarella (ERIC CLAPTON, STING, JOSS STONE, ALISON KRAUSS, JEFF BECK), includes performances from Slash, Joe Bonamassa, Richie Sambora, Joe Perry, Peter Frampton, Jeff Golub, as well as vocalists Joan Osborne, Edgar Winter, Mick Hucknall from SIMPLY RED, Johnny Rzeznik, Lisa Fischer, and many others. Notably Les Paul himself plays alongside his prot?g?s on several tracks. Sadly, it was during the post-production of this CD that famed barefoot guitarist Hiram Bullock passed away, making this his last official recording.

Les Paul can still be found playing his legendary namesake guitar at his standing Monday night gig in Manhattan, a further testament (if any was needed) to the fact that he has given his life over to music. "A Tribute To A Legend" is a fitting honor to the genre-crossing icon with an eclectic collection of musicians spanning the musical spectrum. From the hard-hitting thunder of Joe Bonammassa's blues-shredding guitar, to the fluid, ethereal, quasi-blow-by-blow guitar groove provided by six-string icon Slash, this CD covers the gamut of guitar and recording techniques. Solid tributes, most of which also include the 93-year old Les Paul are turned in by Johnny Rzeznik covering U2's "All I Ever Want Is You"; Joan Osborne's smoky rendition of "I Don't Wanna Be With Anybody But You"; and even Richie Sambora's spiritual vocal on "Great Hall Of Fame". Fans of instrumental music will marvel at tracks by noted guitarist Jeff Golub, Chieli Minucci and Steve Lukather's fluid work on the Todd Rundgren classic "I Saw The Light", and much more.

Here's the complete track listing:

01. The Good Luck You're Having (featuring Joe Bonamassa & Les Paul
02. The Walls Came Tumbling Down (featuring Hiram Bullock & Les Paul
03. I Don't Wanna Be With Nobody But You (featuring Joan Osborne & Les Paul
04. All I Want Is You (featuring Johnny Rzeznik - Peter Frampton & Les Paul)
05. Slipping Into Darkness (featuring Lisa Fischer & Les Paul)
06. 69 Freedom Special (featuring Les Paul & Friends)
07. Vocalise (featuring Slash)
08. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (featuring Mick Hucknall, Joe Perry & Les Paul)
09. How Long (featuring Jeff Golub)
10. Great Hall Of Fame (featuring Richie Sambora)

Bonus tracks (offered as download at various Internet download sites):

01. Dying To Live (featuring Edgar Winter)
02. Children Of The Future (featuring C, C, & C)
03. I Saw The Light (featuring Chieli Minucci & Steve Lukather)

Check out Slash's contribution at this location: http://www.almightyjukebox.com/index.php?volume=23&song=2

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=105517

WOW

not bad for an overrated guitar player huh Jim Bob? :yes:

Awesome tune, that totally fits the mood I'm in right now :beer:

smoking... :smoking:

outstanding.

Beautiful! What a good guitarist he is!

That was Brilliant... makes me want to cry!!

This is one of Slash's greatest fucking moments ever.  Pure brilliance.  I listened to several versions of this classical song on youtube, this one can hang with all of them.  Its really, really incredible... I even hear a lil buckethead influence with the kill switch on the clean tone guitar.  I am so impressed... I hope his solo album is of this high of quality...

Myspace link to album...

http://www.myspace.com/lespaultribute

Bump... How we have bowling ball tournaments with almost as many posts when this is some of Slash's greatest stuff ever is beyond me.  I bought the song off Amazon the other day.  Just .99 and it uploads it to your itunes.  Check it out...

Here is the song again..

http://www.almightyjukebox.com/index.php?volume=23&song=2

What do u mean Kill switch?

where at in the song?

Like what buckethead does a lot.....


From 3:07-3:10 it kicks in.. Sounds similar.

This one's for you Smoking Guns...

Slash, Richie Sambora, Billy Gibbons and other guitar greats booked for Les Paul tribute concert Nov. 15 at State Theatre

by John Soeder / Plain Dealer Pop Music Critic
Thursday October 09, 2008, 10:30 AM

Slash of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top are among the musical luminaries lined up for a Les Paul tribute concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre in Cleveland.

The show is the climax of a weeklong American Music Masters salute to electric-guitar pioneer Paul, presented by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Case Western Reserve University and Gibson Guitar Corp.

"I have tremendous respect for Les Paul," Slash said. "He's such an icon in the guitar-playing world, let alone the recording world."

Also on the bill: the Ventures, Alannah Myles (best known for her 1990 hit "Black Velvet") and various hotshot guitarists, including former Elvis Presley sideman James Burton, Dennis Coffey of Motown's Funk Brothers, the Patti Smith Group's Lenny Kaye, Steve Lukather of Toto, Barbara Lynn and Jennifer Batten.

Paul, 93, is expected to attend, too. His name has graced a line of Gibson guitars since 1952.

"I'm looking forward to it," said Slash (real name: Saul Hudson), reached by phone Wednesday at home in Los Angeles.

Yes, he played a Les Paul guitar on Guns N' Roses' immortal "Sweet Child o' Mine" -- and on countless other songs in Slash's repertoire.

"A lot of great guitar players played a Les Paul, so I identified with the sound of it," Slash said. "It's an extension of what I'm trying to communicate as a musician."

Concert tickets -- $30, $40 and $50 -- are on sale at the PlayhouseSquare box office and at PlayhouseSquare.org, or charge by phone, 216-241-6000. VIP packages, $250 (including admission to a pre-show cocktail reception) and $500 (cocktail reception and after-party), can be purchased by calling 216-515-1207.

Paul designed and built one of the first solid-body electric guitars in the early 1940s. He also developed the first eight-track tape recorder and enjoyed success as a chart-topping recording artist.

Paul became a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in 1988, enshrined in the early influence category. He is the subject of a permanent exhibit at the museum.

http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2008/10/slash_richie_sambora_billy_gib.html

Thanks Funkey!!!! This will be awesome!!!

Slash Tips His Hat to Les Paul

Oct 27th 2008

As folks decide to dress up as Slash for Halloween this year, no doubt the two most essential accoutrements for the outfit will be a top hat and a Les Paul guitar. For the real Slash, the top hat may have come and gone but the Les Paul will never change. "I've picked up a couple stragglers over the years leading up to when I was in Guns N' Roses," Slash tells Spinner. "But I always kept gravitating to the Les Paul. If I could get one and hold onto it for any length of time, I was good."

Eventually Slash would become just as much a poster child for that Gibson-made guitar brand as his hero Jimmy Page. In fact, the guitar company has long been manufacturing Slash's own signature line of the guitar. Of course, none of it would've happened had it not been for Les Paul himself, the 93-year-old guitar wizard who not only invented the solid body electric guitar, but also much of the technology still used to record it: multi-track recording, tape-delay, reverb, etc.

"But aside from all of that, Les is just this really amazing guy with a fantastic fuckin' mind," says Slash. The two guitarists met in 1991 for a live jam session and they've jammed together many times since. "Because he plays primarily jazz and old standards and stuff, I was way out of my element," Slash recalls of their first jam. "I always use playing with him as a barometer to see where my skill set is at that point."

Don't worry, you're doing just fine, buddy. Slash performs a track on the recently released disc 'Les Paul and Friends -- A Tribute to a Legend,' in such company as Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi), Edgar Winter, Peter Frampton and others. For his track, 'Vocalize,' (an instrumental tune, obviously) Slash poses as a linear jazz fusionist. The barometer reading? High.

Complimenting this, on November 15 he'll show up in Cleveland, OH for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to Les Paul. "There's not really much I can tell you about the concert itself," Slash says, "because no one has informed me of anything that's going on. I just know that I'm going down there; I'm just going to bring a guitar. That's basically it."

http://www.spinner.com/2008/10/27/slash-tips-his-hat-to-les-paul/

I hope he plays vocalise!

damnit! i hEard this song like 3 weeks ago! why couldn't i have been the one to start a thread about it  :( i just figured everyone knew already

thread was started over a month ago : ok:

 ;)

Guitar stars pay tribute to Les Paul in Cleveland concert

Sunday November 16, 2008

Slash put on a one-man guitar clinic, coaxing ecstatic squeals and passionate wails during the moody jam "Vocalise."

http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2008/11/guitar_stars_pay_tribute_to_le.html

I found this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIrl97vaCI

And this...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KjTCOaxBA

Jaw Dropping..... WOW!

And this!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-FdfEwgnjc


Fuck Me, Slash's Chops have improved!!!

Cool! The backing rhythm is Snakepit's 'Jizz Da Pit' ending :smoking:

I noticed that.. The other two clips are vocalise... Was really cool!

This video is better...

SLASH Performs At LES PAUL Tribute Concert; Video Available - Nov. 16, 2008

According to The Plain Dealer, former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash was on hand Saturday night (November 15) at Cleveland's Playhouse Square's State Theatre for a salute to Les Paul, the original guitar hero. The guest of honor forever changed the sound of popular music when he invented a solid-body electric guitar. It came into vogue in the 1950s, along with a guitar-driven style of music called rock 'n' roll.

Slash put on a one-man guitar clinic, coaxing ecstatic squeals and passionate wails during the moody jam "Vocalise".

Read the entire report from The Plain Dealer.

Fan-filmed video footage of Slash's performance at the event can be viewed below (courtesy of "BigMac2395").

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=109021

Pretty Damn awesome!!!

Slash, Billy Gibbons Jam for Les Paul at Rock Hall?s American Music Masters Concert

11/17/08, 2:36 pm EST

Six decades of six-string greats gathered for the American Music Masters Tribute Concert honoring Les Paul at Cleveland?s State Theater on Saturday. The sold-out show was the climax of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum?s week-long tribute to one of the top guitar performers and innovators. Even Guitar Hero poster-boy Slash was wide-eyed and humble like a freshman glad to be at a seniors? party.

(Click below to watch Slash open up about his four Les Pauls ? including the one he used on ?Sweet Child O? Mine? ? plus interviews with Billy Gibbons and Richie Sambora.)

Backstage before the show, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye neatly summarized Paul?s contributions: ?Before Les, guitars were only amplified. Les made them truly electric.? Born in 1915, Paul had a string of hit singles from the 1940s through the ?60s. As an engineer, player and technician, he pioneered solid-body guitar construction, the lead guitar position, multitrack recording and effects from delay to phasing. He designed a family of heavy guitars for Gibson, the most famous of which might be the 1988 Les Paul standard from Guns n? Roses? ?Sweet Child? video. Said Paul during his acceptance speech, ?Everybody thought I was a guitar until I played here tonight.?

The concert was chummy gathering of peers, many with a similar story about seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, buying a fake Les Paul replica, getting a real one, achieving fame, meeting Paul, and finding him to be a funny, likeable guy who?s still hard to keep up with onstage.

Paul capped the three-and-a-half hour tribute by accepting an American Music Masters award statue and playing a set with the Les Paul Trio, which backed him for a tear-jerking rendition of ?Somewhere Over the Rainbow.? The marathon concert kicked off with renditions of Paul?s material, including a lighter-than-air ?Lover (When You?re Near Me)? by Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson, Jeff Beck) and a deft take on ?Vaya Con Dios? by Alannah Myles and Kaye.

The show transitioned with songs from the new Les Paul and Friends: Tribute to a Legend album, with highlights like Slash?s airy ?Vocalise? and Richie Sambora?s ?Great Hall of Fame,? a tribute to bar-band lifers. The diamond-selling artists kept the crowd happy with tunes they said Paul made possible. Sambora sang Bon Jovi?s ?Wanted Dead or Alive,? and the night ended with an all-star jam.

Backstage before the show, Slash said, ?Les Paul guitars have a certain tonal characteristic that is really meaningful to me. It?s a big rock & roll sound.? ZZ Top?s Billy Gibbons said Paul didn?t so much hotwire the guitar as weaponize it. ?He had the rather unusual idea to bring out this war club and electrify it ? something [that seemed] unnecessary or frivolous, but turned out to be a cornerstone of popular culture.?

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/11/17/slash-billy-gibbons-jam-for-les-paul-at-rock-halls-american-music-masters-concert/#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuVETrOqsD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHEcfwhR58

Slash, Richie Sambora and Billy Gibbons Talk First Guitars, Famous Riffs

12/12/08, 12:23 pm EST

When Rock Daily caught up with Slash, Richie Sambora and ZZ Top?s Billy Gibbons at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?s tribute to Les Paul last November, the trio of guitarists chatted about the influence the legendary guitarist had on their work.

Slash

On his first Les Paul:
?The first guitar I ever got was a Les Paul copy. Guitar players I liked played it, and I liked the way it looked. And I figured if that guy sounds like that, and that?s the guitar he used, it?s common sense. The Les Paul is really an extension of me.?

On the ?Sweet Child O? Mine? riff:
?There was not a lot of forethought to ?Sweet Child O? Mine, that riff. It was just something I was messing around, and stumbled across this interesting pattern. I?ve got to give credit to Axl and the other guys in the band for really turning it into a song.?

On the Les Paul in the ?Sweet Child? video:
?I?m pretty sure that?s the ?88 Les Paul, the first Les Paul I ever got from Gibson. They charged me like $500 bucks for it ? cost. I had that guitar for years and years. The Gold Top came later.?

How Les Paul influenced Slash:
?The style that Les Paul plays is not something you hear a lot around rock and roll? It?s probably what makes my playing a little jazzier than a lot of rock players. Also, I was really influenced by his use of delay, this really great slap-back echo ? I used that a lot. It?s become a mainstay for a lot of rock guitar players. Also, he?s got a great sense of melody. That was a big influence on me, trying to introduce a melody that?s actually saying something.?

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/12/12/slash-richie-sambora-and-billy-gibbons-talk-first-guitars-famous-riffs/

Rock and Roll Sound Check: Slash

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7J9u7hy3o

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=108408