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Slash Commences Recording Solo Album
artist: slash    date: 03/30/2009    category: general music news
Slash Commences Recording Solo Album

Former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has commenced recording his debut solo album with Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails) on drums, Chris Chaney (Jane's Addiction) on bass, and Eric Valentine (Smash Mouth, Third Eye Blind, Good Charlotte) in the producer's chair. Slash says, "I know you're saying, 'Didn't Josh play with Axl's Guns N' Roses?!' He did in the '90s for a while but left after a couple years, so I don't know if it counts much. Besides, that doesn't undermine that he is an amazing drummer."

Regarding which singers will guest on his upcoming CD, Slash said, "Unfortunately, I can't divulge that info yet, but you'll know soon enough. I will say, however, that they are fantastically talented songwriters who it's been an honor to work and write with, to say the least."

Slash's wife Perla Hudson said in a video interview at Rockerrazzi.com that both Ozzy Osbourne and Fergie will make guest appearances on her husband's upcoming solo album. Slash himself told The Pulse of Radio that he was still working out the guest list. "I'm using different singers for each song, so we're figuring out which song goes with which person and I'm not sort of divulging the list of singers, but they're all well-known singers and...sort of, you know, like I go and play on a lot of other people's records, so I'm just making a record and gonna have people come play on this one, you know."

Slash left Guns N' Roses in the mid-'90s, forming Slash's Snakepit before later assembling Velvet Revolver with several other ex-members of Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland.

Velvet Revolver is currently searching for a replacement for Weiland, who was dismissed last April.

Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.

That's from his MySpace update:

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=52015.msg1174222#msg1174222

Cash grab anyone?


This is also the lamest thing I've read in quite some time.

so making an album is a cash grab?

I don't get it

Let me lay it out simply for you:

Making an album is not a cash grab.


Who you choose to produce it can be.

so Eric Valentine is a cash grab?

U guys really reach new lows with the Slash bashing

Who the hell is going to buy an album cause Eric Valentine produced it??


who has ever went to a music store and bought a CD because of the producer.

that is just ridiculous.

He isn't Rick Rubin, or Roy Thomas Barker or Bob Ezrin or Brendan O Brien or Timbaland or any other hall of fame producer.

who do u want Slash to get? Geez  u are acting like he got Kanye West or Dr Dre or Max Martin or  something to produce it.

least he didnt work with timbaland.

Yeah! Cause we all buy the albums cause of the person turning the knobs in the booth.

+1

and after comments like that, some people still ask to themselves why Axl called him a cancer  ::)

I'm no Slash guy by any means, but....

It can and will go lower, anything to devalue one side and elevate perception of another....

It seems both sides have that particular imprint within their fanbase DNA make up...

To be fair, the first thing I did think was "didn't he play with Gnr" so if you really think it's lame that slash simply had the foresight to see that smartasses around the world would jump on that, then your a muppet. 

you do know there are fansites dedicated to slash right?    i'm sure at those places would be more like here in regards to GnR.   

If someone doesn't like Slash, I don't give a shit. I just think it is hilarious when people find the smallest most minute things to try and get at the guy with.


Who would u prefer he get to produce it?  I Mean shit.

Cash grab? Who in the krikey fuck is Eric Valentine?

I think the point was, the guy produced Smash Mouth, Good Charlotte, and Third Eye Blind.  Not exactly the most kick ass rock bands if you ask me.  I don't think the point was that people want to buy a record because it's produced by Eric Valentine, moreso a reflection on bands he has worked with.  A less than stellar list in my opinion.

It makes no difference.

Some will find "motive" with any choice of producer, studio musician etc.

Mrlee, excellant comment ;)

so I don't know if it counts much.

What does that mean? Freese contributed to writing several songs on CD, including Chinese Democracy, so that must count for something .

What Slash is trying to say is, Just because he drummed and contributed to GNR, He's not sure it necessarily counts as he being a "Member" but he said it doesn't matter anyway cause he is a great drummer.
thats how I took it.

So when Freese talks about what a great experience it is working with Slash, will he all of a sudden seize to be a cancer?

No..

The cancer will have infected Freese in such a way that the sanity he once used in the thought process of "who to work with" will have been taken over by "Slash and his supporters" inspired dementia..

Ah, someone that isn't dense..

i wonder if this album will put any influence in the new VR singer

Dr. Dre is awsome, i would have loved to hear one song he produced and slash played on.

Slash played for GNR, that doesn't undermine the fact he's a great guitar player, he would probably say the same about any of the former members from the Illusions Era, not as a rip on Guns or Axl but to deflect away an opinion of staying him only staying in the GNR family, more like him saying hes working with Freese because he is an amazing drummer, not because of the fact he was in GNR.

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Exactly! Thats just how I took it as well!

Eric Valentine redeems himself from the above bands with the fact that he also co-produced Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf.

WOW, more insults from the higher ups! how suprising!


Rick Rubin produced the Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond................... Yeah that guy can't produce rock though


The Producer thing, is just one more way of trying to hate on a guy you are conditioned to hate for whatever reasons and I find it quite sad to be honest. I think u guys are just scared it will outsell another certain CD.

why scared ? if it's the case, good for him. and I'll listen to this album anyway, good musicians on it.
and since Slash do nothing but boring music, I just hope he'll do something interesting with this one.

With all due respect D, The Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, and Neil Diamond are all legendary artists, rock or not.  The same cannot be said for Smash Mouth, Third Eye Blind, and Good Charlotte.  I'm sure there are better examples out there to prove your point.  Because that one didn't do it.

/jarmo

Rick Rubin has made many good albums.

This guy hasn't.


The last time he used someone like this we got Contraband.

Everyone knows how well that album has stood the test of time.

Hmmm...test of time...

"Slither" and "FTP" still get alot of spins here in the US 5 years later..

I'm just sayin'....

Can't say I've heard "She Builds Quick Machines" in the last 6 months though...

Im sure every producer starting out would love to produce U2 and Metallica, but u know what? u have to start somewhere. U don't judge a producer by the musicians he works with but how well the albums sound.

U may not like those artists, but the production is usually about like anybody else. It certainly won't make or break the album.

Hell, Brendan O Brien is legendary and Contraband kicks the shit out of Libertad, so that sort of kills the producer theory in my opinion.

BTW, Contraband still kicks ass all of these years later. I still regularly listen to it in the gym and for a workout CD, it is one of the best.


People just drive me crazy sometimes that are critical. And it doesn't matter if u are critical of GNR,Metallica, Slash or whoever.

I remember when Death Magnetic's tracklisting was released and people were saying it was going to be a shitty album based on the damn song titles! U cant get much more ridiculous than that.

didn't expect this.... ::)

The production won't make or break the album? Are you for real?


Or maybe that's because the songs sucked even harder on Libertad and the band wanted an easier time so ditched Rick Rubin and went with someone who was easy to work with (who incidentally also hadn't done anything good in a while.)

quite sure he is. the power of an album is in the songs, not in the production. of course it doesn't hurt that album is well produced.

As long as the dude doesn't pull a St Anger, it will be fine

Freese has been around long enough to know who to work with and who not to work with

Hahaha, by Slash' own logic then he himself would possibly be undermined from people based on his contributions to Guns N' Roses. What a fucking Vodka head.

good point.
it's still standing the test of time imo. as well as, or better, than any other rock album released the last 10 years.

Death Magnetic and it's shite production seems to have done ok.....

The songs on Death Magnetic are cool enough, but the production is simply attrocious.

Hmm interesting. Hopefully he takes that approach with slash. Cos' despite why you guys are saying producer's can and often do have a BIG, MASSIVE role in determining songs and the music itself, so a shitty producer can = shitty music; unless the musician takes the reins

death magnetic is a great album, sometimes metallica`s fans are very bitchy aboput a lot of things but the band is very bitchy too about some things.

i expected someone better than this guy to produce the album like bob rock or bob ezrin, so they can take all the good stuff from slash. sometimes the producer take the better of the player and well we know how the bandas he produce play.

but i think its goin to be a great album and if  its ok then this guy will get a lot of work in his agenda.

It's just another pay cheque for Josh dont know why the big announcement  : ok: : ok: : ok: