Todd Kerns, the bassist for Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) in his touring band, is featured in a new interview with Leslie Michele Derrough at GlideMagazine.com. An excerpt is available below:

Last week, Kerns called in to give us a scoop on what has been happening inside that studio in the heart of Hollywood. The Dominator has been laying down some heavy duty bass lines for the boss and, as he notes, some damn good songs are coming to fruition. “We started demoing, just playing around with songs and things, riffs that Slash had brought in,” Kerns explained about the tunes in their virginal stage. “We had started playing with those on the road last year at sound-checks and rehearsals, so those kind of started to morph and metamorphosize into songs”. When Kennedy came in around mid-September while on a break from touring with ALTER BRIDGE, “we went in and did three songs completely, with bass, drums, guitars and vocals.”

They returned to the studio in December where they “managed to do about a song a day and most of it live off the floor, the four of us. We were trying to get all the drums and bass and guitars, including guitar solos, live in one pass. We recorded five or six different passes of the same song. Then Eric Valentine (producer) had some room to play with it and if there was anything glaring from one take, he could kind of find an alternate take.”

Slash is also very involved with the recording of his new CD. Although some may see him as the poster boy for rock n' roll’s wild side, this is not 1991 anymore and the monster guitar player is a clean and sober father of two boys. “Slash is one of the most intelligent guys I know,” Kerns told me when I asked what Slash was really like. “I don’t think people think he’s not smart but I think they have this kind of image of him as this sort of rock & roll, smoking, drugs, rock n' roll guy, like he’s some sort of a rock n' roll animal. I think that’s the impression people have of him and that is somewhat true, although all those things I just mentioned he doesn’t do anymore. I’m always kind of terrified that I’m spoiling his image somehow by saying that he’s a very thoughtful guy."

But how is Slash in the studio? Is he very vocal about how he wants things or is he more on the quiet side, contentedly playing his guitar? Kerns explained that he was actually a little of both. “A lot of what Slash is all about is he just wants to play guitar. When you know Slash, it’s weird to see him without a guitar in his hands. You see him all day long sitting somewhere with a guitar in his hands playing and then you see him onstage playing and then you see him later on playing guitar sitting in the bus (laughs). In the studio, it’s a lot more focus and a command to making it the best it can be and he’s absolutely tireless. We all kind of joke how like we’re all getting hungry or have to go pee and he’s still going, ‘Hey, let’s try this one’. He’s so very focused and very sort of driven. He is a very laid back guy but he also knows what he wants.”

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As previously reported, Slash was part of the NFL On Fox broadcast of the NFC Championship game between the New York Giants and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, January 22nd. He pre-taped an intro last week at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, CA. It can now be seen in a YouTube clip below:

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anchor Bay has picked up rights to Nothing To Fear, a horror movie that is acting as the feature producing debut of Slash and his new horror label Slasher Films.

Producing with Slash are partners Rob Eric and Michael Williams. Anthony Leonardi III, a creature artist and storyboard artist who worked on Rango and the upcoming 47 Ronin, is directing the movie, which will begin shooting next month in Louisiana.

Slash will also co-produce movie’s score.

According to Anchor Bay, Fear centers on “a family whose journey towards a better life in a small town is savagely derailed by a charismatic but emotionally conflicted man of the cloth.”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter.