Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Slash interview
Once the epitome of the hard-living heavy metal superstar, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash has released a solo album, Slash, and is now a tee-total non-smoker, who also happens to be English.
Slash, the erstwhile Guns N’ Roses guitarist and the most rock ’n’ roll dude in Los Angeles, strides into the Sunset Marquis hotel and past the foyer’s Whiskey Bar – where he first met his wife, his friend and fellow English transplant Robbie Williams, and, no doubt, many others – and up to a first-floor room.
He’s ostensibly here to discuss his robustly tuneful debut solo album, which debuted at number three on the US charts (just behind the teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber, of all people) and which features vocals from Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Lemmy, Alice Cooper – the kind of cockroach-like hard rock survivors that we’d expect to work with Slash – as well as Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas. But then Slash’s extravagant talents on the guitar have previously seen him work with everyone from Michael Jackson to Rihanna. In matters musical and recreational, he’s a rather catholic chap.
10 Question to Izzy Stradlin
Izzy Stradlin' recently answered a list of 10 question written by his fans, thanks for the folks at www.beenafix.com/forum for telling us about this. Here we go:
IZZY STRADLIN' INTERVIEW
1. Rick Richards told us in an interview that there's a new solo album recorded in Miami (Criteria Studios), are there any plans of getting it released via a label or the "Like A Dog" way?
yeah,still workin on it......should be ready soon.
2. Ron Wood guested on your first album. Have you ever tried to get Keith Richards to appear on one of your album? Or to co-write any songs?
Guns N’ Roses
Biography
Guns N’ Roses is an American hard rock band founded in Los Angeles, California in 1985.
The band has released six studio albums: Appetite For Destruction in 1987, G N’ R Lies in 1988, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in 1991, The Spaghetti Incident? (a covers album) in 1993 and, after 15 years and with only one member of the original lineup remaining, Chinese Democracy in 2008. They also released an EP titled Live Like A Suicide in 1986.
The group was formed in early 1985 by Hollywood Rose members Axl Rose (vocals) and Izzy Stradlin(rhythm guitar) and L.A. Guns members Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Ole Beich (bass) and Rob Gardner (drums). The band created its name by combining two of the members’ names. A short time later, Beich was fired and replaced by Duff McKagan, and Guns was replaced by Slash after not showing up to rehearsal. Slash had played with McKagan in Road Crew and with Stradlin during a short stint in Hollywood Rose. On their first tour (from Sacramento, California to Duff’s home town of Seattle), Gardner quit and was replaced by Slash’s friend, Steven Adler.
The band has released six studio albums: Appetite For Destruction in 1987, G N’ R Lies in 1988, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in 1991, The Spaghetti Incident? (a covers album) in 1993 and, after 15 years and with only one member of the original lineup remaining, Chinese Democracy in 2008. They also released an EP titled Live Like A Suicide in 1986.
The group was formed in early 1985 by Hollywood Rose members Axl Rose (vocals) and Izzy Stradlin(rhythm guitar) and L.A. Guns members Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Ole Beich (bass) and Rob Gardner (drums). The band created its name by combining two of the members’ names. A short time later, Beich was fired and replaced by Duff McKagan, and Guns was replaced by Slash after not showing up to rehearsal. Slash had played with McKagan in Road Crew and with Stradlin during a short stint in Hollywood Rose. On their first tour (from Sacramento, California to Duff’s home town of Seattle), Gardner quit and was replaced by Slash’s friend, Steven Adler.
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