SLASH On Working With FERGIE - "She's Been Talking About Doing A Rock Record; If She Does And Wants Me To Work With Her On That, I Will"
November 21, 2010, 13 years ago
Robert Gray at Ultimate-Guitar. com recently caught up with guitarist Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) to discuss his experience working with BLACK EYED PEAS vocalist Fergie for his new solo album. An excerpt from the story is available below.
The April 2010 eponymous full-length debut from the erstwhile Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver axeman includes 'Beautiful Dangerous', with vocals from none other than Fergie.
"The riff that I wrote was initially for a movie right before I did a solo record" reveals Slash. "I scored a movie, and a couple of the songs on my album originally came from riffs I scored for that movie. One of the scenes in the movie was the strip scene; I wrote a piece of instrumental music for that, and then I started thinking it would make a good song. When I started to work on my solo album, that's when I made that into a song. Fergie I knew a year and a half or so prior to that, and I found out that Fergie had a really great rock voice so I called her up, took the song with her to the demo studio I was working at, and she wrote the lyrics for the tune. Musically, the song was finished. It was very quick and simple; I went into the studio to record my solo album however much later, put down the actual track, and she came in and recorded vocals. It was pretty easy."Fergie's guest appearances on 'Beautiful Dangerous' and a cover version of 'Paradise City' leaves the door open for future collaborations with The Black Eyed Peas vocalist, of course.
"She's been talking about doing a rock record," Slash discloses. "If she does that and wants me to work with her on that, then I will. If it does happen, cool, and whatever else she's got going that needs guitars on, I'm probably up for doing. "Beautiful Dangerous" should give you an idea of what a Fergie rock record would sound like; she's pretty wild, and a lot more extreme than people realize."Go to this location for the complete story.
