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Living For The City is the sleeper for me!

Is that Tash or Slash on the low guitar at 5:43? Love that. 

I love The Pusher (only one song in!).

... and I knew I would! Co-sign on the Chris and Slash album request.  

I wonder if they’ll do 3 singles.

I don’t wanna wait a month!

I like it. Man, it just *sounds* good.

Somehow these tracks have decidedly less of a cheese factor than SMKC does at its worst. 

stop hogging the track, Australia! jeez 

let's go let's go let's go (has this been posted? extended snippet)

Sometimes you kick around GNR land and it gets a little stale in 2024, and then you hear Axl's vocal run on Anything Goes in that intro clip, and it's like... oohhh right... 

Listen to the snippets you masochists!

22 hours ago, MaskingApathy said:

I'm not talking about his post, I added that because it seemed relevant to what we're talking about. What I've been saying is based on private conversations I've had with in the last month or so with people involved with SMKC. Not going to give any specifics because they're private conversations with friends but I can tell you with absolute certainity that that the idea that Slash's heart is no longer in SMKC and he's just using it as an excuse to tour is 100% false.  The fact is that if he wanted to tour he could go out with them anytime and do it and play the old stuff, he doesn't necessarily need a new record for that (although he has stated in the past that he makes records so that he can tour them but there's more to it than that). 

Also the fact that they put together new setlists in 2022 and then made some new changes this year says to me that he (and the band) are very much invested in what they're doing. They made Always on the Run a regular feature and brought back deep cuts like Shots Fired, Bad Rain, No More Heroes, Nothing to Say (in 2022) and Too Far Gone this year. Oh and don't forget Don't Damn Me and Bad Apples too. They could've just kept the general setlist from the LTD tour and swapped in a few songs from 4 but they redid it completely. 

This guy gets it^^

Yeah Frank has no reason to lie. They're all very excited to be playing together again. The blues album has nothing to do with Slash being tired of SMKC, it's just another creative outlet. Something different to explore another side of his playing and an opportunity to collaborate with different people who he maybe wouldn't get to otherwise. In some of the interviews that he's done recently about this album he's said that he wanted to do the blues album for a long time and now's he's finally had the chance to put it together. Nothing more to it than that, no deeper meanings or hidden drama. It doesn't sound like it took that long to record everything either, at least the basic instrumental tracks as seen in the video. He probably had to wait longer to do the parts with the guests.

I bet Gibson made it really easy for him to do, too. They probably greased the wheels quite a bit in getting everything in place -- it seems like a major initiative for them from a branding perspective, and to get their label off the ground. 

10 hours ago, nugdafied said:

Monstrous Black Crowes fan here & of all the songs in all the world...Chris Robinson & Slash cover The Pusher 🫤

 

That snippet sounds so exciting. I like Happiness Bastards, but the production on this song sounds way better than that album. 

Slash should just join the Crowes at this point, though. Why the f not lol. Do an album and tour like they did with Jimmy Page. Slash in a stonesy context is way preferable to me than the quasi-metal shit he indulges sometimes (a pipe-dream, of course).

Oh those snippets sound awesome. Great production sound.

The female vocalists always seem to be hard to nail for Slash collabs, but I'll reserve judgement. Seem to easily veer into hammy land. 

Sounds like for Crossroads Gary is panned hard left and Slash hard right. I think I'm most excited for that track, even though it's been covered a million and one times... SOME GUITAR INTERPLAY, BABY. Slash's tone sounds perfect on it -- I was really curious how he would approach that song. It's meaty and growly and dry.

Robinson sounds fantastic, too. I'm super excited now.

2 hours ago, Free Bird said:

Wasn’t the biggest fan of the song but I got used to the parts that annoyed me and the rest is super cool. What a performance and what a great decision to let Steven play the harmonica spontaneously. That’s a huge improvement for the song. Also great guitar by Slash. And then the production. Asking myself why it lasted that long to have Mike Clink as producer again. In combination with this nice video, it’s a strike. Well done.

Yeah I honestly didn’t like much on first impression (aside from the cool vid), but it’s grown on me.

Slash’s solo is more interesting than I gave credit, too. I’m so used to his modern noodling I think I kinda tuned out first pass.  Cool that he busted out the 335.

Pusherman with Chris Robinson is over 7 mins long… should be ample room for some cool shit in there! Black Crowes circa 2024 doesn’t interest me, but Chris can still bring it. 

Windsor but no Vancouver  

Slash shoulda worn a pink leather jacket. 

Dude it's crazy they refused it. Especially after all that Q-sound stuff in the 90's. 

I thought maybe its because it would cost them more money to release it somehow? A business decision? Deny the ATMOS and release The General... 

I wanted it for the isolated guitar stems -- when those came out from the AFD 5.1 mix it was a revelation. That and the Ritz 91 are my two GNR diamonds.   

There's no nostalgia for VR, and they'll never top Contraband as a cultural and musical achievement (not saying it's that great, but in terms of popularity, crossover success, winning a grammy, showing they could "do it again," securing a really lucrative record contract etc.). Libertad was a flop, the whole thing became poisonous between the guys (and their wives?), Scott is dead... Hell VR almost didn't get off the ground until Scott walked in the door. They'd probably never find "the singer" again at this point. And if they did, they'd probably be better off with a new name and clean slate. 

I thought it was a tasty little solo. 

Hard to dislike Gosling. The oscars are a pretty gross self-congratulatory bore, though.

2 hours ago, El Guapo said:

Slash's latest releases, the guest spot with the Dandy Warhols and now the Killing Floor cover with the album to be released in May made me think.

I really love those tracks and Slash's playing on both songs are just as good as anything from back in the day.

I haven't felt that kind of excitment for the man's work in a long time.

I really dislike SMKC at this point because it's super boring and uninspired to my ears and the GnR approach with these Chinese leftovers is just a collosal failure in my opinion.

So, I really hope Slash keeps on doing new and different things from here on out and doesn't waste too much time with his established bands.

Anybody agree?

 

How could you disagree!

I really enjoyed seeing the early SMKC in 2010, and liked it up to World On Fire, but I mean... four albums... the well has run dry. Myles has nothing to say lyrically or melodically anymore with Slash.

Slash post-Guns is always best when he gets challenged with something fresh. Contraband via Weiland and Kushner, new singers on both Snakepit albums and the associated style shifts, the diversity of the self-titled, "Street Child." 

I hope he does a Slash 2 next and keeps it moving that way, do all kinds of weird collabs. Liam Gallagher, Jack White, Mustaine, Justin and Dan Hawkins, Eddie Veddar? Alicia Keys? F'n Izzy. Whatever! Keep mixing it the f upppp before the clock runs out. 

14 hours ago, Tyler Drama said:

Ever seen Duff’s version? It’s really beautifully done.

That's great. GNR should play it with Slash on slide, since he seems to be dipping his toes in that world. 

Skeptical that a song called "Metal Chestnut" would have piano on it, but maybe I'm narrowminded. Could be some major tone shifts during the song I guess! I doubt Axl would even do like a honky-tonk kinda thing. 

Bums me out to think the lack of Izzy is a reflection of the state of their rapport post-NITL. 

Maybe we need some kind of legislation to force them to collaborate one more time. This is what governments are for. 

I'm surprised Metallica hasn't done it during their sort of elder statesmen era that started with Hardwired. They currently seem to be the most quintessential American rock/metal band that hasn't broken up or declined too much in performance capacity.

The Jungle/SCOM/Paradise City trio is tailor made for a Superbowl show, but I don't think they're there anymore in terms of performance quality (just my opinion). 

During negotiations:

Axl: "okay so we'll open with Chinese Democracy" ...

*uncomfortable shifting in seats* *lots of throat clearing*.

It would have made a hell of a capstone stop on the UYI tour, though. 

35 minutes ago, t-p-d-a said:

what's the source of "all things considered" ? i can't remember

It's just been Slash's go-to crutch phrase in interviews for a long time. 

16 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

I hope they play Vancouver, but I'd travel to Seattle to see Slash playing a set of blues covers in a bar or theatre. The Showbox would be a killer place to see him, holds just under 1200 people. I saw Buckethead there years ago, it's a cool venue.

Hopefully The Commodore — saw the self-titled show there in… 2010? So good! Better vibe than Queen E… or the Hard Rock, bleh  

I’ll be bummed if it’s just like the 12-15 obvious US cities.

Blues Ball played clubs, wonder what venue size it’ll be. 

8 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

 

"To round out his band in the studio and on the road, Slash reunited with two of his bandmates from his BLUES BALL outfit in the '90s, bassist Johnny Griparic and keyboardist Teddy Andreadis, and brought on drummer Michael Jerome and singer/guitarist Tash Neal."

Seems like that will also be the touring lineup, with Tash on vocals.

Thanks that's really cool -- I think that'd be super fresh to see relative to SMKC at this point. Sign me uppppppp.