Slash Working on Solo Album - Release Date April 6th

[Guitar1281]

Gravedancer is awsome. It has been stuck in my head daily for the past week and the last time i listened to it was months ago. I love Spay and Just Sixteen. I think the album could have had better sequencing/track listing (gas and a dollar laugh and messages should be on there) and mixing. However Contraband is awsome. That album gets me hard...

[FunkyMonkey]

Going through a bunch of rough mixes & then I've got a quick photo shoot today. #fb

about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Just got home from a long but productive day in the studio, I'm fried.

[gunner22]

You got no right is the most underrated song ever!  its far better than fall to pieces and Slash's solo is breath taking.
I wasnt mad on libertad although i still think its a cool album.

+1 to the whole post.

[D]

VR like GNR went with the wrong single.

I have been preaching it for years.

VR should've hit hard out the gates with Let It Roll followed by Messages.

If that happens, they are still a band IMO


She Builds was ok  worst video I've ever seen

Last Fight is good........ I don't know it doesn't hit me like Fall to Pieces or Messages does


See FTP hit on so many levels and was a crossover smash cause people of all walks of life, ages etc can relate to it.Also showcases one of my favorite videos of all time *minus the corny matt sorum parts*

Last Fight just doesn't have the same kick IMO video sucked as well.




VR made two horrible career decisions in my opinion

1.Not releasing YGNR. That song NEEDED to be heard. that song is so original sounding and so amazing. just makes me shake my head with wonder how the power that be couldn't see how great that would've been. I don't know anybody,e ven the biggest VR haters in the world have to give that song props.

2. Leaving Messages off Libertad.  I have preached enough about this. Just criminal this was left off.

[FunkyMonkey]

All I can say is, If the records sounds anywhere near as good as the rough mixes its going to be fuckin' bitchin.'

about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

[jacdaniel]

VR made two horrible career decisions in my opinion

1.Not releasing YGNR. That song NEEDED to be heard. that song is so original sounding and so amazing. just makes me shake my head with wonder how the power that be couldn't see how great that would've been. I don't know anybody,e ven the biggest VR haters in the world have to give that song props.

2. Leaving Messages off Libertad.  I have preached enough about this. Just criminal this was left off.

Your damn right there! 

[CheapJon]

1.Not releasing YGNR. That song NEEDED to be heard. that song is so original sounding and so amazing. just makes me shake my head with wonder how the power that be couldn't see how great that would've been. I don't know anybody,e ven the biggest VR haters in the world have to give that song props.

I think it's the most overrated song they've done, and there's doezens of thousands who dislike VR more then me, I don't even dislike them - let it roll shoulda been a single

[lostdream]

VR made two horrible career decisions in my opinion

2. Leaving Messages off Libertad.  I have preached enough about this. Just criminal this was left off.

Amen to that!!!!   

[FunkyMonkey]

Full on Percussion day tomorrow for all the songs that need it, should be cool. #fb

about 9 hours ago from TwitterBerry

[FunkyMonkey]

What an intense day, I'm going to Miss Les a lot. Lenny Castro came in & did percussion though, awesome job, great musician.

about 10 hours ago from TwitterBerry

[Jdog0830]

What an intense day, I'm going to Miss Les a lot. Lenny Castro came in & did percussion though, awesome job, great musician.

about 10 hours ago from TwitterBerry

sounds intersting

[FunkyMonkey]

Fixing a quick vocal part tomorrow & recording is done, we start mixing next. #fb

about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry

[gnrjanus]

and then the wait begins

Slash & friends STARTS NOW!

[FunkyMonkey]

This song we're tweaking the chorus on is great, it might be the 1st single, definitely the 1st song on the record. #fb

about 3 hours ago from TwitterBerry

[FunkyMonkey]

Alice Cooper Sings On Slash Solo Album

by Paul Cashmere - August 23 2009

Alice Cooper is back working with Slash. The former Guns n Roses / Velvet Revolver member is making a solo record with a whole host of special guest singers.

?I just finished writing a couple of songs for Slash?s new album that is going to be coming out,? Alice tells Undercover News. ?He is working with a bunch of lead singers. It is sort of a nice idea of Slash and Alice, Slash and Iggy, Slash and Meat Loaf or whoever is going to be on it. It is a great idea?.

http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9073_Alice_Cooper_Sings_On_Slash_Solo_Album

[Jdog0830]

Was he on the original list of people working on Slash And Friends?

[FunkyMonkey]

According to a blog on the band's website, two of the members of violin and cello metal trio Judgement Day (Judgement Day is a three piece "string metal" band) have recorded on Slash's solo album with Adam Levine from Maroon 5 on vocals...

Recording for Slash

Slash ? Former Guns n? Roses guitarist and true guitar hero.

A couple of weeks ago Lewis and I went down to LA for a recording gig with Eric Valentine, a producer who we work with often. Sessions for Eric are always great, so we didn?t even ask who the artist would be this time. When I got to the studio Lewis was already set up in the live room and Eric was hard at work getting tones. He started playing the song that we were working on. It was a pretty pop ballad and the singer kind of sounded like of Maroon 5. Was this a Maroon 5 session? As the song smoothly progressed, my eyes began to scan of the room for clues. I noticed a handful of unusual black guitar picks strewn across the desk and couch. I leaned over to pick one up. Just then, the song hit the bridge and the tone totally changed. A ripping, monster guitar entered, shredding like a demon out of hell. The logo inscribed on the guitar pick was of crossed bones and a skull wearing a top hat. This could mean only one thing?

Shaking slightly, I finally asked Eric who the session was for.  ?Oh, Slash will be here in about an hour?. My heart skipped a beat. ?This session is for a Slash solo record?.

Well this was pretty friggin exciting for me. Back when I was in college, when we first started Judgement Day, I had a mission to teach my self to truely rock. Having studied classical violin my whole life, I had always looked up to great violinists like Jascha Heifetz, but now I was in dabbling in a genre in which I felt I had to find new heroes. Slash was a huge influence on me. During my descent into rock n? roll depravity, I learned his solo for ?Sweet Child o? Mine? almost note for note, as well as the opening riff, which is probably my favorite guitar riff of all time.

Waiting around, I was pretty nervous.  Having heard all of the crazy legends about this dude, I really didn?t know what he would be like. All I knew for sure was that I wanted to do a good job on this session, so I went to go warm up in the B-room. When I came out, Slash was standing in the hallway with his hair in a pony tail. ?Hi, I?m Anton?, I said offering a handshake.

?Hi. Slash.?

As it turned out, I really had nothing to be nervous about. Slash, in addition to being a legendary rock guitarist, is also a cool-ass dude. Within moments of meeting him I felt totally comfortable hanging out with him. While Lewis was recording his parts in the live room Slash and I were just chilling in the control room and he was telling stories about playing shows and having crazy parties in San Francisco in his pre-Guns n? Roses days. He seemed stoked that we were from San Francisco and even more stoked that we had a metal band.

The record sounds like it?s going to be pretty cool. It?s like a god damn Grammy party. Each song is co-written by Slash and a guest vocalist. The vocalist on our song was, in fact, Adam Levine of Maroon 5. Some of the other guests include Ozzy Osbourne, Flea, Chris Cornell, Iggy Pop, Fergie and now, Judgement Day.

Not bad for a day?s work.

-Anton

http://www.stringmetal.com/judgementday/2009/08/09/recording-for-slash/

[Smoking Guns]

According to a blog on the band's website, two of the members of violin and cello metal trio Judgement Day (Judgement Day is a three piece "string metal" band) have recorded on Slash's solo album with Adam Levine from Maroon 5 on vocals...

Recording for Slash

Slash ? Former Guns n? Roses guitarist and true guitar hero.

A couple of weeks ago Lewis and I went down to LA for a recording gig with Eric Valentine, a producer who we work with often. Sessions for Eric are always great, so we didn?t even ask who the artist would be this time. When I got to the studio Lewis was already set up in the live room and Eric was hard at work getting tones. He started playing the song that we were working on. It was a pretty pop ballad and the singer kind of sounded like of Maroon 5. Was this a Maroon 5 session? As the song smoothly progressed, my eyes began to scan of the room for clues. I noticed a handful of unusual black guitar picks strewn across the desk and couch. I leaned over to pick one up. Just then, the song hit the bridge and the tone totally changed. A ripping, monster guitar entered, shredding like a demon out of hell. The logo inscribed on the guitar pick was of crossed bones and a skull wearing a top hat. This could mean only one thing?

Shaking slightly, I finally asked Eric who the session was for.  ?Oh, Slash will be here in about an hour?. My heart skipped a beat. ?This session is for a Slash solo record?.

Well this was pretty friggin exciting for me. Back when I was in college, when we first started Judgement Day, I had a mission to teach my self to truely rock. Having studied classical violin my whole life, I had always looked up to great violinists like Jascha Heifetz, but now I was in dabbling in a genre in which I felt I had to find new heroes. Slash was a huge influence on me. During my descent into rock n? roll depravity, I learned his solo for ?Sweet Child o? Mine? almost note for note, as well as the opening riff, which is probably my favorite guitar riff of all time.

Waiting around, I was pretty nervous.  Having heard all of the crazy legends about this dude, I really didn?t know what he would be like. All I knew for sure was that I wanted to do a good job on this session, so I went to go warm up in the B-room. When I came out, Slash was standing in the hallway with his hair in a pony tail. ?Hi, I?m Anton?, I said offering a handshake.

?Hi. Slash.?

As it turned out, I really had nothing to be nervous about. Slash, in addition to being a legendary rock guitarist, is also a cool-ass dude. Within moments of meeting him I felt totally comfortable hanging out with him. While Lewis was recording his parts in the live room Slash and I were just chilling in the control room and he was telling stories about playing shows and having crazy parties in San Francisco in his pre-Guns n? Roses days. He seemed stoked that we were from San Francisco and even more stoked that we had a metal band.

The record sounds like it?s going to be pretty cool. It?s like a god damn Grammy party. Each song is co-written by Slash and a guest vocalist. The vocalist on our song was, in fact, Adam Levine of Maroon 5. Some of the other guests include Ozzy Osbourne, Flea, Chris Cornell, Iggy Pop, Fergie and now, Judgement Day.

Not bad for a day?s work.

-Anton

http://www.stringmetal.com/judgementday/2009/08/09/recording-for-slash/

What a badass story!  Even the other musicians are impressed!

[metallex78]

Fuck man, I HATE Maroon 5 with a passion. That's one track I'll be skipping on the album when it comes out

[Genesis]

Eewww, Maroon 5. This will be one 'interesting' record for sure.