SLASH Talks Jamming With AXL ROSE For The First Time - "He Was The Only Singer That Ever Brought An Emotional Content To It"
December 28, 2021, 2 years ago
Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash recently guested on Revolver's Fan First and looked back on his personal journey as a music fan and artist, from encounters with the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith to working with A-class vocalists like Axl Rose and Myles Kennedy. Check out the interview below.
Slash: "When I met Axl and we started jamming together, he was the only singer that ever brought an emotional content to it that affected me on an emotional level, on an energy level. A song all of a sudden went to a whole new level and I felt it, and that's when I realized where music and vocals really meet. Because prior to that, everybody that I'd worked with sucked and I had no use for it, and I would just rather play instrumentally. But that's when I first really arrived at that poignant feeling that you get when things connect on a lyrical and the vocal level and the music level."
In 2018, Guns N' Roses released the Appetite For Destruction - Locked N' Loaded Box Set, celebrating the 31st anniversary of their landmark debut album. It included 73 songs on four CDs, seven 12-inch LPs, an EP of B-sides, a 96-page book with unreleased photos, 12 lithographs, and assorted memorabilia.
2021 marked the 30th anniversary of Use Your Illusion I and II, both of which were released on the same date in 1991. GN'R fans had been hoping for a similar all-encompassing box set, yet nothing materialized.
During a new interview with Andy Burns of Biff Bam Pop!, Slash stated: "It got delayed by the pandemic but it is coming out, I think this summer. We're just working on it. There's a bunch of cool live stuff on it, a couple shows. The Ritz from the early ‘90s and a show that we did in Las Vegas back in 1989, I think it was. And it’s actually the show that I met my ex-wife at."