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Re: SLASH Says He's Already Working On Material For Next Solo Album - Mar.
They just know the game hits a whole nother level when the entity that is Guns N' Roses gets involved. They might hate to admit it, but Axl, Slash & Duff get off enormously on that stuff. Duff saw it in London, i'm sure, and it seemed to feel right to him. About the only guy who doesn't give two shits is Izzy. He's not a big stadium/arena kind of guy. He didn't care for it in 1991, and the same in 2006.
To monkey: Slash might be on his game live, and stuff organically is just happening with Myles, but Myles is not near talented enough, nor is Slash to pump out classic albums every year. They just aren't. They're not the Stones of the late 60's/early 70's or Queen of the mid-70's. Slash 2010 was good, not great like I said and that thing is the backbone of their future, and if so, that's a pretty weak future. Even Slash's live sets are heavily reliant on his past catalog, despite it being a solo venture.
I just don't have high hopes for a rollout that quick. If they're on the top of their game, fine, write it, jam it, and record it on the road, then shelve it for two years and re-evaluate. It might be the Axl thing to do, but it's the way I do things too and it's the right thing to do, unless Slash wants to Bucket-ize his catalog.
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Re: SLASH Says He's Already Working On Material For Next Solo Album - Mar.
They just know the game hits a whole nother level when the entity that is Guns N' Roses gets involved. They might hate to admit it, but Axl, Slash & Duff get off enormously on that stuff. Duff saw it in London, i'm sure, and it seemed to feel right to him. About the only guy who doesn't give two shits is Izzy. He's not a big stadium/arena kind of guy. He didn't care for it in 1991, and the same in 2006.
I both agree and disagree about that. I mean on one level, Slash and Duff experienced uber fame, and being in GNR and I'm sure it must be awarkward to not be in the band that made them famous.
But at the same time, i think Slash's primary motivation for anything these days, recording and so on, is that he enjoys playing live, and he's stated on a few occasions that he prefers smaller intimate audiences than the big stadiums and festivals.
So i guess it's a balancing act, of course he'd enjoy the success and the wealth and so on, but being able to tour smaller venues most likely has it's own charm.
I know when I went to that MTV gig thing that was in a small theatre slash really went nuts...almost more so than the bigger shows I've seen. Something about the intimate atmosphere I think.
But at the same time I think there's an element of truth to what you say as well, it's similar to do Slash stuff than VR, stuff, and simpiler to do VR stuff than GNR stuff...once you involve GNR you are now messing with rock history at this point.
To monkey: Slash might be on his game live, and stuff organically is just happening with Myles, but Myles is not near talented enough, nor is Slash to pump out classic albums every year.
I agree to a point. Like I thought audioslaves first album was better than the subsequeent two and I think some of that is the speed of production. It's also the reason why a lot of sophmore albums suck - because the inital album had 10 years of songcraft as the band got famous, then the second album was written in 2 months while hungover after a tour 
But at the same time. I dunno. Slash has always had some killer riffs in him. And sometimes to me it seems like the periods of inactivity harm him more. Like I felt he was a little off during the contraband tour compared to normal, but these days he's really firing again.
Playing and Riff wise...it's my view that the solo album was sort of on par with UYI level slash. In terms of the guitar parts. It's just lacking the Izzy/Axl type approach that was also on those songs. But i'll grant it was a fair while between libertad and that one....I guess it depends how much slash has in his vault in his head so to speak...like we know songs like Ghost were written a long way back now. Who knows how many more potential vr tracks like that he has that he can re-cycle with myles.
The real issue to me is what will myles me like over a full album. I really loved back from cali and starlight...but will be interesting to see what he did on a rockier track like "Nothing to Say" - he handles them live alright - but writing wise I mean.
Anyway, I know what you mean, don't wanna see him go the bucket route of over saturation....but then i also think with slash you get these windows where everything works - when he's not on drugs, when he's got a workable relationship with a singer and so on...and sometimes you have to work that while you got it.
