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- Smoking Guns
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
Smoking Guns wrote: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)
Correct, but even most one guitar bands do this, see Motley Crue, Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, etc...
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
Saikin wrote:Smoking Guns wrote: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)
Correct, but even most one guitar bands do this, see Motley Crue, Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, etc...
You totally missed the point. I was expecting someone to complain about my multiple guitarist comment so I qualified it by explaining what I meant.
I understand that ALL bands do that, not most.
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!
I totally get you here, but let me point out something: You have high expectations for the solos. Imagine if the whole song were a solo. That'd be the shit. I don't want to have to listen to Adam Fucking Levine to get to the sweet solo, you know what I mean? That's why I'm not real excited. It's the same reason I've played Buckethead's Enter The Chicken about 3 times. Or any Eric Johnson song with vocals. Or Vai with vocals. They were made to play guitar. It's like if you had to listen to Michaelangelo read poetry before he painted the Sistine Chapel. Just cut to the chase, for christ's sake. You are Slash. You own the guitar.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
Yes, I agree Bigbri... Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow is a killer instrumental album, Slash could pull it off... Just listen to Vocalise.
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
Smoking Guns wrote: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!
I totally get you here, but let me point out something: You have high expectations for the solos. Imagine if the whole song were a solo. That'd be the shit. I don't want to have to listen to Adam Fucking Levine to get to the sweet solo, you know what I mean? That's why I'm not real excited. It's the same reason I've played Buckethead's Enter The Chicken about 3 times. Or any Eric Johnson song with vocals. Or Vai with vocals. They were made to play guitar. It's like if you had to listen to Michaelangelo read poetry before he painted the Sistine Chapel. Just cut to the chase, for christ's sake. You are Slash. You own the guitar.
great post...karma, but I don't hold Slash in the "creator" crazy genius category.
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
Smoking Guns wrote: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!
I totally get you here, but let me point out something: You have high expectations for the solos. Imagine if the whole song were a solo. That'd be the shit. I don't want to have to listen to Adam Fucking Levine to get to the sweet solo, you know what I mean? That's why I'm not real excited. It's the same reason I've played Buckethead's Enter The Chicken about 3 times. Or any Eric Johnson song with vocals. Or Vai with vocals. They were made to play guitar. It's like if you had to listen to Michaelangelo read poetry before he painted the Sistine Chapel. Just cut to the chase, for christ's sake. You are Slash. You own the guitar.
Thank you. That was a wonderful post.
A lot of the times, for me at least, the vocalist ruins what could have been an amazing song. Musically the band can be firing on all cylinders and put out this monster of a track, but the singer comes along and just doesn't do the same and the whole thing is ruined. One part falls apart and the whole thing suffers.
I don't like Adam Levine. I think he's a total pussy when it comes to singing and writing. I'd listen to the track, and go "wow that solo was incredible" and then never listen to it again because of the vocals. I mean, come on, Fergie has more of a manly voice than Adam Levine does.
Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
That's my piece on the matter. I want my Slash instrumental album. You guys enjoy this one.
Actually, you know what would be cool? If he offered a CD of the tracks in instrumental form, like Dream Theater did with Black Clouds and Silver Linings. I think I've listened to the instrumentals as much as or more than the ones with LaBrie's vocals.
- Mikkamakka
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
I think it's ridiculous to say that Slash 'hides behind the singers' and to insinuate that the only respectable solo album by a guitarist is an instrumental record. No. For Slash the singer's voice is an important music instrument. I'm sure if he wrote an all instrumental record the chorus would be 'well, Slash can't work with singers, history proved that, the instrumental record is his confession'. Now we have the joke that 'Slash is playing safe cause he has singers'. WTF? I'm waiting for Axl to do an a capella record. That'd be great.
- monkeychow
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Re: Slash: New Album Release And Tour Set For March/April
Ok...so some people if they don't like a singer feel it ruins the whole song for them...ok...i can accept that...doesn't really apply to me much but I get the logic.
What I can't understand is why anyone would want anyone to "get out of their comort zone". Personally I want peformers to do what they are best at, at that's usually what they are comftorable with, and what made them famous.
Jorden was out of his comfort zone playing baseball, but I'd prefer him in a basketball game.
Axl could probably sing opera, he has a powerful voice, but I'll take him making more songs like There was a Time for my Dollar, Slash could break the mould and do a full album of banjo music, but I know I'd prefer to hear him do something like Sahara.
It's not that they need to change what they do, they're doing what their best at, if you don't like it, I think it just means you are bored with the genre. And you need to give yourself more variety. Spin some opera if you want that, some vai if you want it, some dr dre if you want rap, whatever that is, and then listen to this rock stuff with it as well, but don't ask artists to do stuff they don't specalise in and be someone that they arn't.
