SLASH - Guitar Center Presents Your Next Record Winner STATE LINE EMPIRE To Open Key Club Show Tonight
August 20, 2010, 13 years ago
SLASH's (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) concert tonight at The Key Club in Los Angeles, will feature openers STATE LINE EMPIRE. Slash hand-picked State Line Empire as the winners of Guitar Center Presents Your Next Record with Slash, a first-of-its-kind unsigned band competition. After sifting through more than 12,000 entries, State Line Empire was selected to receive the ultimate career-altering opportunity: record a 3-song EP with legendary producer, Mike Clink (Guns N' Roses, MÖTLEY CRÜE, MEGADETH) and have Slash write, record and perform on their single.
"Earlier this year, Guitar Center and I set out to find a great unsigned rock n' roll band with a lot of energy and some great songs and take them to the next level," said Slash. "I'm proud to announce that that band is State Line Empire. They're the real deal and we're going to be hearing some fantastic rock n' roll from them in the near future. I cannot wait to get in the studio with them.""I can't even put into words how awesome it was to get a call from one the greatest guitarists of all time to tell us we'd won Guitar Center Presents Your Next Record," said David Pearl, bassist for State Line Empire. "A lot of people have told us that they love our music and we appreciate their support so much but to hear Slash say that our band is 'rad' was something that I will never forget. We're incredibly grateful to Guitar Center for giving undiscovered bands like State Line Empire such an amazing opportunity."
