Slash To Guest On Macy Gray's New Album 'The Sellout' Due In June

[FunkyMonkey]

^^Apparently they all play on the song "Kissed It".

...the Joan Jett meets T- Rex thump and screaming Slash guitar of "Kissed It"

Track Listings
1. The Sellout
2. Lately
3. Kissed It (featuring Velvet Revolver)
4. Still Hurts (featuring Romika)
5. Beauty In The World
6. Help Me
7. Let You Win
8. That Man
9. Stalker
10. Real Love (featuring Bobby Brown)
11. On & On
12. The Comeback

[oldgunsfan]

how's this for irony; Macy Gray gets praised for admiring Axl yet Slash and Co play with her and are labeled sell-outs - maybe she asked Axl as well but he told her to go scratch herself

[sleeper]

how's this for irony; Macy Gray gets praised for admiring Axl yet Slash and Co play with her and are labeled sell-outs - maybe she asked Axl as well but he told her to go scratch herself
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[D]

hahaha Slash playing on "the Sellout"

that is pretty funny.

[jacdaniel]

how's this for irony; Macy Gray gets praised for admiring Axl yet Slash and Co play with her and are labeled sell-outs - maybe she asked Axl as well but he told her to go scratch herself

Haha!  i saw that thread the other day and i replied this same thing but my post disappeared 
She's cool for liking Axl but god forbid Slash would play with her...!

[Butch Français]

Wow, Slash playing on an album called "The Sellout", ironic ain't it.

haha, it's hilarious.
check your brain.

[faldor]

how's this for irony; Macy Gray gets praised for admiring Axl yet Slash and Co play with her and are labeled sell-outs - maybe she asked Axl as well but he told her to go scratch herself

I'm just glad I never said anything bad about Macy Gray.  Then again, I never said anything good about her either.

I'll say this, she's got a good eye for talent and a good taste in music.

[FunkyMonkey]

Former GUNS N' ROSES Members Featured On New MACY GRAY Album - May 21, 2010

Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER members Slash (guitar), Duff McKagan (bass) and Matt Sorum (drums) are among the featured collaborators on Macy Gray's new album, "The Sellout", due on June 22.

"The Sellout" is the Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter's first album in more than three years and will be released by Concord Records in the U.S., Island Records in the U.K. and Universal Music Group internationally.

"The Sellout", featuring 12 new songs, was co-written and executive-produced by Gray in Los Angeles throughout 2009. The album was mixed by four- time Grammy Award-winning mixer Manny Marroquin, whose credits include Top 10 singles for Lady Gaga, Jay Z, Rihanna, Alicia Keyes, Kanye West and John Mayer.

"The Sellout" track listing:

01. The Sellout
02. Lately
03. Kissed It (featuring Velvet Revolver)
04. Still Hurts (featuring Romika)
05. Beauty In The World
06. Help Me
07. Let You Win
08. That Man
09. Stalker
10. Real Love (featuring Bobby Brown)
11. On & On
12. The Comeback

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=140502

[IzzyDutch]

The track's not bad at all, but not really my kind of thing either. You can barely hear Slash's guitar, there's a rumbling beat throughout the song with some pounding bass lines and some synth. Slash's guitar is really just heard from the solo on to the end.

[faldor]

The track's not bad at all, but not really my kind of thing either. You can barely hear Slash's guitar, there's a rumbling beat throughout the song with some pounding bass lines and some synth. Slash's guitar is really just heard from the solo on to the end.

Haven't listened to the track, but if it is hard to hear him I don't get it.  Same thing with Rhianna.  Why bring in Slash and have him barely audible on your record?  Is it enough for them to just say he's on the track without having him stand out in any which way.  With all these hip hop artists to have songs "featuring" other singers, THEY can clearly be heard.  Are the rules different for guitarists?

[IzzyDutch]

The track's not bad at all, but not really my kind of thing either. You can barely hear Slash's guitar, there's a rumbling beat throughout the song with some pounding bass lines and some synth. Slash's guitar is really just heard from the solo on to the end.

Haven't listened to the track, but if it is hard to hear him I don't get it.  Same thing with Rhianna.  Why bring in Slash and have him barely audible on your record?  Is it enough for them to just say he's on the track without having him stand out in any which way.  With all these hip hop artists to have songs "featuring" other singers, THEY can clearly be heard.  Are the rules different for guitarists?

During the verses his guitar is heard way in the background, I think it's the same thing with the Rihanna track, there's plenty of guitar tracks recorded but the producer decided to cut it back in the mix. Same thing with this track, this could've been a rock song if mixed and treated like one but it's mixed and produced so that it doesn't really sound like a rock song.

[FunkyMonkey]

Macy Gray's song "Kissed It" with Slash, Duff and Matt is available for streaming here:

http://www.billboard.com/#/features/macy-gray-album-premiere-hear-the-sellout-1004097982.story?tag=hpflash1

[FunkyMonkey]

  @ the photo here:

http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/05/24/macy-gray-is-the-new-singer-for-velvet-revolver/

The song on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JeastZ_hGg