Todd Kerns, who plays bass in Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, offers fans an extensive song by song guide to the band's new album, World On Fire, via his latest blog entry; an excerpt follows:

"I am certainly not the authoritative voice on the recording, producing, mixing, master and release of World On Fire. I am but one tiny cog in a much bigger wheel. This is just the reflections of a guy who was there... as best he can remember. Some of this will be illuminating, some redundant. Either way it’s how I saw it go down. Hope you get something out of it!

1. World On Fire

Woking Title - I Wanna Pull Your Hair

Slash came up with that working title. I always thought that title sounded like a more extreme I Wanna Hold Your Hand. Way more extreme!

There were several riffs that we had jammed on the road. If memory serves me this was one of them. I immediately locked on to this one. It is a jaunty little ditty which is a fancy way of saying it rocks. It is the perfect song to open the record and the perfect song to carry the spirit of the album as the title track. If World On Fire were a country this would be it’s national anthem...

2. Shadow Life

Working Title - You’re The Truth

It’s funny looking at that title because whenever I went into the vocal booth to sing harmonies on a new song that was the first time I’d see the new title for that particular song. I distinctly remember saying how it sounded like a movie title.

Shadow Life starring Nicolas Cage and Olvia Wilde. Just kidding. That film doesn’t exist... yet...

3. Automatic Overdrive

Working Title - Manual Automation

Not sure if the final title was at all inspired by the working title or not. Slash came up with the working title which I thought was pretty clever.

This one starts with a tension building chugging that reminds me of The Who before going into the main part of the song. I was trying my best to channel Paul Simonon of The Clash on this song. Gene Simmons is in there a little too with the descending, walking bass in the pre choruses. Elvis caught that reference right away. We speak the same language, he and I..."

To learn about all 17 songs that make up World On Fire, visit this location.

Read BraveWords scribe Aaron Small's review of World On Fire by clicking here.

Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators will celebrate the release of World On Fire, by returning to the iconic guitarist’s stomping grounds with a series of three one-night-only club shows: September 23rd (The Troubadour) and then, moving up the hill to the world-famous Sunset Strip, September 25th (The Roxy) and September 26th (The Whisky A Go Go).

Fans can be a part of history as Guitar Center will present Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators “Live From The Roxy,” to be broadcast on national television on DIRECTV’s Audience Network (Ch 239) November 9th at 8 PM. The 90-minute full rock concert will be filmed in stunning 4k and 5.1 surround sound.

(Slash / Todd Kerns concert photo courtesy of Joshua Lowe)