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Re: Slash rejects dance re-mix offer
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Slash rejects dance re-mix offer
…and is excited by the prospect of recording his next solo album with Myles and the rest of his live band.
Reported by Eric MacKinnon
Published: May 18, 2011. © Rock AAA.
Slash has revealed that he refused to remix one of his hit singles as a dance version despite the fact it could have been a huge cross-over hit
Slash stuck to his rock guns and declined the offer, which is something he insists he has no regrets over. In an interview with Tom Russell, from our partner in noise Rock Radio, Slash said:
“I was asked to remix ‘Beautiful Dangerous’ [featuring Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas] to more of a dance version but I would only remix it to a certain extent, as the way they wanted to [do it] I was like…. ‘I can’t do that.’
“So it just had to stay pretty much as it was and it didn’t slip into mainstream rock radio at this point but I’m actually prouder of the fact we didn’t re-cut it or remix it for that.”
His self-titled solo record featured a host of all-star guest vocalists but for the follow-up he has handed the mic, and song writing tasks, to just one man – Myles Kennedy. And Slash says the process is moving ahead at top-speed with a new record on course for next year.
He explained: “At the moment we have the same exact band as last time with Myles on vocals. He is one of the most fantastic singers I’ve ever worked with, he is amazing. So we are actually knee deep in the writing for the next record as we’re all going to perform on it.
“It’s going to be really good as the material we have is awesome. Our turnaround between records is a little slow because we’ve been touring so much but it should come out next year.
“The thought (to play some of the new tracks on tour this summer) has crossed my mind but if there’s something developed enough to the point where we can pull that off then we will as I think that’d be a cool thing to do but we haven’t had a chance to actually go into a studio and rehearse with this stuff.
“So lately it’s been a lot of writing and I’ll send a copy of something I wrote to Myles and he’ll write lyrics to it but we haven’t got in as a band to start doing pre production yet.”
He also revealed that Corey Taylor was NEVER a serious contender for the frontman role in Velvet Revolver and the rumours linking him to the band were blown way out of proportion by the press – and six months after he had tried out:
“There is a lot of controversy over this one. Yes, Corey came down but we had kept it pretty quiet but word got out that we had worked with him. We had written some songs with him and made some demos and stuff but it just didn’t end up working out.
“Then word got out about him coming down way after the fact. So then it became this new rumour that was six-months behind schedule but it didn’t end up working out.”
As this week marked a year since the tragic passing of ex-Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Heaven & Hell singer Ronnie James Dio, Tom asked if Slash had ever met the great man:
“Ronnie was awesome and one of my favourite singers of all-time. It only seems like yesterday. I never worked with him but we both had our hands in the Rock Walk of Fame in LA at the same time. And that was the first time we ever met and he was a true gentleman and one of the nicest, unassuming rock stars you could ever meet.”
