On February 4, 2010, Slash announced via a MySpace blog that " Myles Kennedy is going to be fronting the band for the upcoming tour.
Slash during a concert in Rome on July 29, 2011 The video was part of the donation for the Los Angeles Youth Network. In a later interview with the Finnish Soundi magazine, Slash stated that he would have wanted the record to feature his friend, former- Hanoi Rocks lead singer Michael Monroe, but there was not a song that Slash thought fit him.Īs of April 18, 2010, the album has gone gold in Australia.Ī music video for the remix version of "Gotten" featuring Adam Levine, released in March 2012. In an interview following the release of the record, Slash revealed that he would have wanted Thom Yorke to sing "Saint Is a Sinner Too" but that he was too nervous to call the Radiohead singer. Best Buy also sells an exclusive digital version of the album that includes two bonus tracks: "Baby Can't Drive" (featuring Alice Cooper/Nicole Scherzinger/Steven Adler/Flea) and a cover of Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City" (featuring Fergie/ Cypress Hill). īest Buy released an exclusive version including the album and a Slash T-shirt. The cover art was produced from a painting by Ron English, a prominent Pop Surrealist artist and friend of Slash. The album was made available in the United States via EMI, and in the U.K. "I Hold On" was featured on the season one episode of Hawaii Five-0, "Malama Ka Aina", which aired on Octoit was featured as characters Steve and Danny drive to a pizza shop. Slash also announced that Izzy Stradlin is the only other person who played guitar on the record, performing rhythm guitar on the song "Ghost", featuring singer Ian Astbury.
Just prior to release, the song "Back from Cali" featuring singer Myles Kennedy was added to the album's track listing, making Kennedy the only person to be featured on more than one song on the album's standard track listing. The song was later featured as an iTunes bonus track for the record, and appeared on a Platinum Deluxe Edition. On January 19, 2010, Slash teamed up with Linkin Park's Music for Relief, along with Alanis Morissette, The All-American Rejects and others, and donated a previously unreleased track, "Mother Maria" featuring Beth Hart, to aid the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. On January 16, Slash made an appearance at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show. It has been awarded Western "Single of the Year" award at the 24th Japan Gold Disc Award by RIAJ. It charted at number four on the Oricon Singles Chart, as well number six on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and number four on the Top Singles Sales chart. On November 11, 2009, preceding the release of the album, Slash released the Japan-only single " Sahara", featuring Japanese vocalist Koshi Inaba (from B'z) who contributed Japanese and English lyrics. Slash reported rights to "Crazy" were owned by Bennington's family after his 2017 suicide, with any possible release of the song needing their approval. Slash re-rerecorded the song with Lemmy on vocals as "Doctor Alibi". The song "Crazy" featuring Chester Bennington was recorded for the album but was blocked to avoid conflict with a pending release by Bennington's group Linkin Park A Thousand Suns was released a few months later after Slash's album was issued. Slash's wife Perla mentioned in a 2008 interview that the album would include "everyone from Ozzy Osbourne to Fergie". He stated that the album would be called Slash & Friends (although & Friends was later dropped from the title). In his 2007 autobiography, Slash mentioned he was planning a solo album, and listed some of the vocalists with whom he would like to work.
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