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- metallex78
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
I think Slash even stated in a recent interview, that he isn't interested in an instrumental guitar album, and only likes to solo within the context of a song structure with vocals and with a band.
That said, I kinda wish he stayed away from the people who's bands and music I despise, which go against everything GN'R once stood for (Adam Levine, Fergie, Pussycat Dolls skank). But it sounds like some of them might work out well. I'm already sold on the Fergie track from the sample.
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
I see there's the impression that instrumental guitar albums are only shredding, they aren't. There is more emotive playing on a handful of instrumental albums I own than the rest of my hundreds of CDs with vocalists.
Frankly, the fact he isn't interested brings me to another point of contention I have with Slash. He just won't get out of his comfort zone of singer, bass, drums guitar. It's a comfort zone I see a lot of you guys in too. Imagine a CD of stuff like Vocalise. Come on, that would be incredible. I'd much rather hear that than yet another Slash-Alice Cooper collaboration.
- metallex78
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
I never said I wouldn't be into it, I just pointed out what Slash has stated in regards to an all instrumental album. It's not so much that he's against it, he comes across more as being too humble to indulge in an album of just his playing, rather than being stuck in his comfort zone.
I'd like to hear it myself, even that Spanish flavoured Obsession Confession track he did was awesome.
- monkeychow
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
Yeah your right about my Bri....i am in that zone...but i see it more as a prefrence rather than a comfort zone. I agree an album of songs like Vocalise would be cool, and I have a number of instrumental albums I deeply love, but at the same time, in general I enjoy music with vocals more is all.
For example I love soothsayer. Those guitars are amazing. But i would probably like it even more with some thought provoking axl style deep lyrics but in somewhere. That's just how i'm wired.
Anyway I'm just saying i dont think slash is afraid or unable to make instrumental tracks, I think he just likes to express himself in the context of a band....and basicly a lot of people such as me prefer that. I'd be happy to have an instrumental as a B side and stuff....but frankly I prefer something like Vengance is Mine with Alice long term.
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
i hink the beauty of instrumental tracks lies in the fact that for most bands they are a rarity...look at stuff by metallica for example...orion or call of the ktulu are some of the most amazing peices in their catalogue, but i think that when you listen to one of those tracks its not the norm
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
I see there's the impression that instrumental guitar albums are only shredding, they aren't. There is more emotive playing on a handful of instrumental albums I own than the rest of my hundreds of CDs with vocalists.
Frankly, the fact he isn't interested brings me to another point of contention I have with Slash. He just won't get out of his comfort zone of singer, bass, drums guitar. It's a comfort zone I see a lot of you guys in too. Imagine a CD of stuff like Vocalise. Come on, that would be incredible. I'd much rather hear that than yet another Slash-Alice Cooper collaboration.
I was thinking this same thing today. Slash has put himself in a nice little comfort zone that he won't get out of. I'm sorry, but playing a rock song with Fergie isn't exactly leaving your comfort zone. Now if your career, for the sake of argument, ranged from Soundgarden to Scream... that's a HUGE difference there, even if the latter kinda blew.
I think instrumental albums are great for the reason you touched upon, there's a lot more emotive playing. That stems from the fact that the guitar now has to do all the talking to illicit such responses from people, the guitarist can't pawn that off on the singer to do.
I also think Slash could pull it off very well.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
I think Mother Maria and the song with MShadows are both out of the Slash comfort zone. Anyway, I am still very excited for this album, and we haven't heard any solos except for By the Sword, Sahara, and PC, and his lead playing was pretty damn good on all those, so I have high expectations for the solos!
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
I think Mother Maria and the song with MShadows are both out of the Slash comfort zone. Anyway, I am still very excited for this album, and we haven't heard any solos except for By the Sword, Sahara, and PC, and his lead playing was pretty damn good on all those, so I have high expectations for the solos!
His lead playing on PC was good in 1987 as well, where that song should have stayed.
Let me clarify a little bit more, by comfort zone I mean rock music with drums, a bass, a couple guitars and a singer. (He may be the only guitarist on most tracks but he essentially recorded the rhythm parts and then the lead)
