Legendary guitarist SLASH (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) spoke with Classicrockrevisited.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Classicrockrevisited.com: I am going to ask this because I just can’t help myself. When is Myles Kennedy going to be named the new singer for Velvet Revolver?

Slash: "There are a lot of rumors going around about that. I don’t think that is going to happen -- in fact, I know it is not going to happen. He is in a band called ALTER BRIDGE and they’ve got a new record coming out. We are juggling between Alter Bridge and my tour all next year. I am going back to LA next month and working with Duff, Matt and Dave and working with a couple of new singers to see how they turn out. There is no effort being made to have Myles join Velvet Revolver."

Classicrockrevisited.com: Do you remember the day you wrote the riff to 'Sweet Child O' Mine'?

Slash: "Yeah, very much so. We had this house that this management company had rented for us, they were courting us to be our managers. It was a really nice house in Laughlin Park, California. We had reduced the house to a mere shell of itself in only a few weeks.

One afternoon, when the smoke was still clearing from the night before, Duff, Izzy and I were sitting around on the floor --- we didn’t have any furniture anymore --- and I was dicking around with that riff. In all honestly, I don’t really know where the riff came from but, all of a sudden, it started to sound really cool. Izzy started playing acoustic behind it and the chord changes started coming together. Axl was upstairs in his bedroom and he overheard it. A couple of days after we had put together our simple riff/chord structure, Axl said, “Play that song you guys were playing the other day.” We were like, “What song?” He goes, “That one with that do do dodo do doo do do.” He had written a bunch of lyrics to it without us even knowing about it. It came together relatively quickly. We started rehearsing it and we wrote it from one end to the other that night."

Classicrockrevisited.com: Legend holds that you tried out for POISON but didn’t make the cut. Is that true?

Slash: "Yeah I did. I was living in LA and I had just gotten done working in a band with Axl, actually, called HOLLYWOOD ROSE. Steven Adler was in that band as well. I just quit. I told Axl I couldn’t handle it anymore and I walked. That was right after the first time Axl and I ever worked together. Matt, the original guitar player for Poison, who was actually a pretty cool guy, had gotten his wife pregnant or they were getting married or something like that. He was moving back to Pennsylvania. He goes, 'You should try out for Poison.' I hated Poison but in those days you did whatever you had to do to keep moving.

Being very ambitious, as I was, I went and auditioned for Poison. I ended up being one of two guitar players left that they were going to pick from. I remember kicking the shit out of the songs they had. There was no denying that I could play them but there was an issue about makeup and stuff. Bobby Dall asked me what kind of shoes I was going to wear. I was like, 'What?' It was kind of obvious that this was going to go nowhere.

As I was walking out of the audition, CC Deville was walking in. He had on pancake makeup and a ton of hairspray. I actually remember thinking right then, 'That should be the guy.' The next day I got a call from Bobby and he said, 'You know, you are great and all but I think we are going to pass on you and go with this other guy.' It was CC and it really did make all the sense in the world. I was in a couple of bands after that and then we started Guns N' Roses."

Read the entire interview here.

The Deluxe Edition of Slash's latest solo record will be released on September 28th in the US and October 19th in Canada via Universal.

The two CDs/one DVD features the following tracklisting:

Disc 1

'Ghost' (Ian Astbury of THE CULT)

'Crucify The Dead' (OZZY OSBOURNE)

'Beautiful Dangerous' (Fergie of THE BLACK EYED PEAS)

Back From Cali (MYLES KENNEDY)

'Promise' (Chris Cornell of SOUNDGARDEN/AUDIOSLAVE)

'By The Sword' (Andrew Stockdale of WOLFMOTHER)

'Gotten' (Adam Levine)

'Doctor Alibi' (Lemmy Kilmeister of MOTÖRHEAD)

'Watch This' (Dave Grohl/Duff McKagan of FOO FIGHTERS/VELVET REVOLVER )

'I Hold On' (KID ROCK)

'Nothing To Say' (M Shadows of AVENGED SEVENFOLD)

'Starlight' (Myles Kennedy of ALTER BRIDGE)

'Saint Is A Sinner Too' (Rocco De Luca)

'We're All Gonna Die' (IGGY POP)

Disc 2

'Sahara' (English) (KISHI INABA)

'Paradise City' (CYPRESS HILL/Fergie)

'Mother Maria' (BETH HART)

Baby Can't Drive' (ALICE COOPER, NICOLE SCHERZINGER)

'Sahara' (Japanese) (Koshi Inaba)

'Beautiful Dangerous Radio Mix' (Fergie)

'Demo #4'

'Demo #16 '

'Back From Cali' (Acoustic) (Myles Kennedy)

'Fall to Pieces' (Acoustic) (Myles Kennedy)

'Sweet Child O' Mine' (Acoustic) (Myles Kennedy)

'Watch This' (Live) (Myles Kennedy)

'Nightrain' (Live) (Myles Kennedy)

DVD:

Making Of The Album

'Back From Cali' - Live From The Roxy

'By The Sword' - Music Video

'By The Sword' - Behind The Scenes

'Starlight' - Live From MTV Classic Launch

'Mean Bone' - Live From MTV Classic Launch