Looking at all your Twitter updates, you sound really pumped about the new disc. This time around, you and Myles wrote all the songs and he sings lead on all the tracks.\u00a0 What inspired this scenario since your debut solo album featured multiple vocalists (including Myles on two songs)?<\/em><\/p>\nWell having Myles sing on the first record inspired me to take him on the road, then taking him on the road inspired me to have him sing on the whole record. So yeah the tour last year definitely inspired the decision for him to sing on the new record. He has a really broad range.\u00a0 He is just very musical as far as his melodic style is concerned and he\u2019s also very lyrical and just a really powerful singer. There\u2019s a lot of positives about the way he sings.<\/p>\n
Perhaps you want to talk a bit here about your other bandmates and what they each bring to the sound?<\/em><\/p>\nThere\u2019s Brent who is probably one of the best drummers I\u2019ve ever played with–he has a great way of playing very powerful rock n roll while still being able to keep it behind the beat and sexy. And then Todd has got to be one of the most overall talented musicians I\u2019ve worked with, just a really great bass player. Todd\u2019s very quick in the studio, a quick learner and creative as a writer; on top of that, he\u2019s also a great singer.<\/p>\n
Beyond you and Myles writing all the songs and Myles singing all the leads, in what other ways is the new album perhaps different from your debut solo album?<\/em><\/p>\nMyles and I basically collaborated on the new material.\u00a0 The main thing is we wrote these songs together which is a big difference from the last album where I wrote each song with all of the different collaborators. The whole creative nucleus is between Myles and me. On top of this, the whole rhythm section of Brent and Todd brings something to the table and changes the dynamic completely from the last record–it\u2019s much more cohesive.<\/p>\n
With your record company Dik Hayd Records, you remain an independent artist and work with major companies for distribution.\u00a0 Can you talk about how you as an artist benefit by this scenario in these interesting times for the music industry?<\/em><\/p>\nIt puts me more in the driver\u2019s seat of how I want to market the record, but even more importantly than that, I\u2019m not giving half of everything that comes in on the album to the record company.<\/p>\n
Eric Valentine returns as producer for the new disc.\u00a0 What<\/em>\u00a0do you feel he brings as a producer to these songs and the overall approach?<\/p>\nThe first thing we always talk about with Eric is he\u2019s an extremely gifted musician, but he is basically as talented an engineer, so it makes for a great combination as a producer. As a person he\u2019s easy to work with–he\u2019s very patient and he lives and breathes what he does.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot like how I am, we\u2019re similar; I can call him at any moment and ask him a question or share an idea I have with him.\u00a0 He\u2019s always in his element and it\u2019s something that I can appreciate.<\/p>\n
You toured the world\u00a0<\/em>seven\u00a0times with the last album.\u00a0 What are your tour plans for the new album?<\/em><\/p>\nRight now we\u2019re starting off with radio shows in the states and then we\u2019ll do as much of Europe as possible. We\u2019ll also tour in Asia and Australia, and try to hit South Africa this year as well as India and a couple other spots.\u00a0 Trying to just broaden our horizons a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SLASH–the iconic,\u00a0Grammy-winning\u00a0rock guitarist and songwriter–is currently in a\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0studio putting the finishing touches on his\u00a0second solo album.\u00a0 The as-yet-untitled disc is due out\u00a0May 22\u00a0on\u00a0SLASH\u2019s\u00a0own label\u00a0Dik Hayd International\u00a0distributed through\u00a0EMI\u00a0and will follow his\u00a02010\u00a0debut album\u00a0Slash\u00a0and his\u00a0November\u00a02011\u00a0first-ever live \u00a0solo album, the two-CD\/DVD set\u00a0Made In Stoke 24\/7\/11.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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