Slash/Myles album update thread - Release Date May 22nd 2012

[Naupis]

I was looking around and haven't seen a thread dedicated to the new album for next year (tenatively in April), but we have gotten some tidbits of late on the project.

SLASH: New Songtitles Revealed - Oct. 19, 2011

Legendary guitarist Slash (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER) has completed the first recording session for his upcoming solo album at Barefoot Recording in Hollywood, California with producer Eric Valentine (QUEENS OF STONE AGE, THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS). Joining Slash in the studio were the members of his touring band: vocalist Myles Kennedy (ALTER BRIDGE), rhythm guitarist Bobby Schneck, bassist Todd Kerns (SIN CITY SINNERS, formerly of AGE OF ELECTRIC), and drummer Brent Fitz (formerly of THEORY OF A DEADMAN).

Slash played three of the newly recorded songs — "Halo", "Standing In The Sun" and "Bad Rain" — for VH1 Classic "That Metal Show" co-host Eddie Trunk, who tweeted yesterday, "I can tell you the three songs I heard are heavy with killer riffs and vocals. It's the same band that he has been touring with last couple years on the album, and it sounds more cohesive because of it. Really strong!"

Slash's as-yet-untitled new album is tentatively due next April.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=164869

We also know the album is going to be all recorded in Analog again like the first Slash album from a recent Myles tweet:

Just finished the first vocal. It's wild singing straight to tape again. Gotta nail each take because protools fixes are not an option.

Finally, here is what Slash has dubbed "the Slash box" a custom iso room in the studio so that Slash can record at full volume without headphones.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Naupis

[moreblack]

Most singers would poop theylself if they had to do the take with no safety net like that.

[Zint]

Great idea.

Pinned.

[sleeper]

This is a great idea thanks.

[uctalum01]

Most singers would poop theylself if they had to do the take with no safety net like that.

IMHO, one of the great things about Myles is that he's incredibly talented, and is confident in his abilities without being cocky. He's so down to earth. Just a genuinely good guy.

[jmapelian]

i'm really looking forward to this album -

[star]

I can't wait to hear the new album. The previous album contained atleast 5 / 6 great tracks. As with Slash's Snakepit, I prefer this so much more than Velvet Revolver, a band I simply did not like. There was something really missing from the VR sound.

[HowlinWolf]

good stuff, I cannot wait for this album!

[Axl_morris]

I don't understand the Eddie trunk part. Has he played 3 songs on that show, and if so, when is it aired, or did he play 3 songs for eddie off camera?

[sleeper]

I don't understand the Eddie trunk part. Has he played 3 songs on that show, and if so, when is it aired, or did he play 3 songs for eddie off camera?

Eddie said that he heard 3 tracks and they were great. Slash did not play anything when the show was taped. Slash said on twitter this week that we would hear something soon.

[HowlinWolf]

I don't understand the Eddie trunk part. Has he played 3 songs on that show, and if so, when is it aired, or did he play 3 songs for eddie off camera?

Eddie said that he heard 3 tracks and they were great. Slash did not play anything when the show was taped. Slash said on twitter this week that we would hear something soon.

When is this fucker supposed to come out?

[Naupis]

I don't understand the Eddie trunk part. Has he played 3 songs on that show, and if so, when is it aired, or did he play 3 songs for eddie off camera?

Eddie said that he heard 3 tracks and they were great. Slash did not play anything when the show was taped. Slash said on twitter this week that we would hear something soon.

When is this fucker supposed to come out?

april

[moreblack]

Interview with Brent Fitz:

http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/brent-fitz-on-recording-slashs-new-album-506020

[LA_0013]

Definitely looking forward to this album. A cohesive album with the touring band and Myles appeals much more than the previous mixed bag.

Diggin Eddie's 'heavy' comment as well. Will be interesting hearing Miles's pipes on some heavy Slash riffs, as opposed to the more radio friendly 'Back From Cali' and 'Starlight'

LA

[GivenToFly]

At pre pros end we're doing 2 live private shows in LA to stretch our legs w/the new stuff b4 we record. Details tba. RnFn'R! Iii|; )'

Looking forward to that. How many Libertad songs did VR play live before the album came out?

[moreblack]

I think they did Let It Roll and Quick Machines if I'm not mistaken...

[uctalum01]

“@todddammitkerns: just had my ears assaulted by final mixes of the first 3 new Slash songs  These songs will make your ears their bitch!”

Do want!!! Is it April yet?!

[HowlinWolf]

I think they did Let It Roll and Quick Machines if I'm not mistaken...

Who did? When?

[The Matinator]

I think they did Let It Roll and Quick Machines if I'm not mistaken...

Who did? When?

VR, before libertad came out.

[HowlinWolf]

footage from the studio

http://www.monsterenergy.com/us/en/bands/slash:videos/

[droezle]

footage from the studio

http://www.monsterenergy.com/us/en/bands/slash:videos/

Seems like Slash and G N' R at least have 1 thing in common. Monster energy.

[Powerage5]

At pre pros end we're doing 2 live private shows in LA to stretch our legs w/the new stuff b4 we record. Details tba. RnFn'R! Iii|; )'

Looking forward to that. How many Libertad songs did VR play live before the album came out?

I think they did Let It Roll and Quick Machines if I'm not mistaken...

I think they did Let It Roll and Quick Machines if I'm not mistaken...

Who did? When?

VR, before libertad came out.

VR played 6 songs off Libertad before it was released:

Let It Roll

She Mine

Get Out The Door

She Builds Quick Machines

The Last Fight

Just Sixteen

[jmapelian]

Apparantly he's got 13 songs written, 3 almost finished and 3 are recorded and they are recording 20 overall

[jmapelian]

Thus far they've recorded three tracks, with 14 more to come in December and January when Kennedy gets off the road with Alter Bridge. Slash is pumped up about what they've done so far, calling it "fucking rad." "On the last record, creatively it was pretty open-ended. This one is very diverse, but it’s one band," he says. "It’s really cool. It rocks really hard. There are some cool epic songs and a couple of really cool ballads. I hate calling them ballads – more bluesy tunes. It just covers a lot."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/full-album-stream-slash-made-in-stoke-24-7-11-20111110#ixzz1eXnusp3B

[Naupis]

Courtesy of FunkyMonkey from HTGTH.

SLASH – As Live As It Gets

November 16, 2011

The 21-song set – featuring songs spanning Slash’s entire catalogue: GUNS N’ ROSES, SLASH’S SNAKEPIT, VELVET REVOLVER, and his new solo material – was recorded and is now available as Slash’s first live solo album, appropriately titled Made In Stoke.

Somewhat surprisingly, Slash admits, “I actually haven’t listened to it since I mixed it.” 10 to 15 years ago, a live album was dubious at best as listeners never knew how much was actually recorded live and how much was over-dubbed in the studio. Made In Stoke sounds 110% authentic, as those in attendance that night witnessed it. “Yeah, you definitely can’t mistake it for an overly produced record.”

On Made In Stoke, Myles belts out his own renditions of songs originally sung by: Axl Rose, Scott Weiland, Ian Astbury, Rod Jackson, and Eric Dover – that’s a lot of vocalists to fit in your back pocket; “I know,” concurs Slash. “When I did the last solo record and I had all the different guest singers on it, I definitely intended to tour on it, but I didn’t really know who was going to be able to sing that diverse a set. I met Myles when I was doing the very last couple of songs on the record; I didn’t have any idea who was going to sing them? I’d done the rest of the album and I’d heard about Myles, I’d never met him, wasn’t totally familiar with his voice even because I didn’t know who Alter Bridge was then. Then he got asked to do the LED ZEPPELIN tour when they were talking about doing it without Robert (Plant), so I was interested in him, and I had these two songs (‘Back From Cali’ and ‘Starlight’); I couldn’t think of anybody to sing these tracks… and Myles popped into my head. I thought, I’ll just take a chance on it and send him the material. And he sent the songs back with these amazing vocals on them. When I was in the studio with him, and meeting him for the first time as a person, I really liked him and his work ethic. We got along really well, but something about his voice told me he could do a wide range of vocal styles. So I asked him if he wanted to do the tour, and it just so happened that Alter Bridge was on a break. So we rehearsed for a week and went out and did our first show, and the tour started from there. We had a certain kind of spontaneity and magic in that first week of rehearsal that I just felt comfortable with him doing all this material.”

It’s rather ironic that Myles was asked not once, but twice to audition for Velvet Revolver (before Scott Weiland was initially hired and again after Weiland left the band), yet he never did. Furthermore, Slash’s bassist, Todd Kerns (SIN CITY SINNERS, AGE OF ELECTRIC), did audition to be the singer of Velvet Revolver, but didn’t make the cut. Now they’re both in Slash’s solo band. “I didn’t even know about the Todd Kerns thing until Todd told me; so we never actually met,” reveals Slash. “He must have submitted something, but I didn’t know he was one of the people who tried out for vocals in the band. It’s funny too ‘cause he’s a great singer (Todd handles lead vocal on ‘Doctor Alibi’ on Made In Stoke). But with Myles, I remember the second time we sent music to him, he never sent it back and it just sort of got forgotten. Myles is the one that told me about the first time; so yeah, there is a little bit of an incestuous thing to it, and it’s very ironic.”

A bonus live DVD is packaged with the special edition of Made In Stoke; featuring a mere five of the 21 songs performed live, as well as an interview with Slash, serving as an enormous tease. The top-hatted guitarist explains that, “The whole concert was released on DVD in The UK and the rest of Europe. The typical licensing issues that we have, having to do with Guns N’ Roses stuff applied in The States so I couldn’t release the entire package. If you want to get the whole concert, you have to buy an import.”

Slash is currently working on his next solo album and has announced that Myles will sing all of the songs this time around. During the interview contained on the Made In Stoke bonus DVD, Slash describes that forthcoming album as “musically epic,” a phrase which he elaborates on. “I started writing material for the next record with Myles in mind pretty early on. I just wrote the way that I normally write, but I sort of made allowances for taking things an extra step, just ‘cause I know him. So I built up this arsenal of material and I kept sending it to Myles, and Myles was doing whatever it was that he wanted to do with it; that’s the way it went while we were touring. Then we came home and I started working the songs up with Brent (Fitz, drummer) and Todd (Kerns, bassist), and Myles had written stuff on the road while he was in Alter Bridge. He was sending me that stuff and we basically had complete creative license; a chemistry and a certain amount of freedom, so I can just do whatever it is that I feel I want to do and it’s not restricted. So the album hits a lot of different styles; we have real straight-ahead hard rock songs, and we have what I would call six-minute long journeys, all kinds of stuff and it’s all aggressive or heavy in its own way, but it really hits a lot of different moods. We’ve recorded three songs and we’re going to start recording the rest of the record in December. I’m really excited about the way – I don’t know how to explain it, but it does a lot of different stuff and it invokes a lot of different feelings. It’s very honest and very musical, and we’re performing it live so it’s got that certain urgency to it. It’s just cool.”

Reports of an April 2012 release have been circulating. “It’s very realistic,” confirms Slash. “We’re ahead of the game at this point, so we should be fine. If anything could possibly happen, it would be May, if there was any kind of a hiccup.” The three aforementioned song titles have been leaked: ‘Halo’, ‘Standing In The Sun’ and ‘Bad Rain’. “Those are the three we recorded, so I can safely say those titles aren’t going to change. I have a lot more but you never know, so I’ll leave it out for now.”

In addition to reconvening with his solo band in the studio in December, however it’s also been said that Velvet Revolver is going to get together in December with “a couple of singers.” “There is some truth to that. In the first week of December, we’re going to get together and work with a couple guys – in what capacity – if we’re really going to get in the rehearsal studio and work that way, or meet up with them and figure it out, none of that is etched in stone. But we’re going to definitely hook up with a couple guys this winter.” Refusing to reveal their names for obvious reasons, Slash does offer the following tidbit about the Velvet Revolver candidates, “One of the guys is sort of known, the other guy as it happens is definitely pretty well known. Then there’s another guy who’s well known in another country, anyway.”

Back in 2007 Slash issued his biography, simply titled Slash. Last month his GN’R and VR cohort, bassist Duff McKagan published his autobiography, It’s So Easy (And Other Lies). “I talk to Duff pretty regularly and he personally brought a book over to my house. I haven’t read it yet; I’m going to because I said I would. But I’m really reluctant to read rock biographies or autobiographies, especially people that I know. I don’t want to know more than I know at face value, I don’t feel comfortable. It’s a weird perspective; it’s like spying on them or something. So I haven’t read any of my bandmates’ books, I haven’t read Steven (Adler)’s . The only rock autobiography I’ve read in a really long time was (AEROSMITH drummer) Joey Kramer’s ‘cause he gave it to me. Other than that, I avoid it. I didn’t read Keith’s (Richards of THE ROLLING STONES). I did read Heroin Diaries (by MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx) actually; it was good, especially ‘cause we come from the same cloth.”

Grabbing headlines around the globe is Guns N’ Roses being nominated for induction into the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame. “It’s cool. I think over the years people have – especially when Velvet Revolver did the VAN HALEN induction – been saying ‘in a certain amount of years you’re going to be eligible.’ People have been hinting at that and all of a sudden here it is. At this point it’s pretty quiet because you have to get inducted for it to really mean anything. It’s an honour to be nominated; I think that’s good enough when it comes to my own personal feelings about it. But you do have to get inducted to start planning any kind of event or how it’s supposed to go, you cross that bridge when you get there.”

Finally, those waiting to see Slash live on stage will have to be patient. “We’re talking about doing a couple concerts after pre-production, playing as much of the new material as possible before we actually go in and start recording it. The plan is to do it right before Christmas, but it’ll be a private kind of thing. Publicly it will probably be closer to the release of the album – late March, April would be the best bet.”