Slash has tapped
ALTER BRIDGE's
Myles Kennedy to sing on the final song of the legendary
VELVET REVOLVER/ex-
GUNS N' ROSES guitarist's upcoming self-titled solo album, due in Europe in early 2010 via
Roadrunner Records. "This track is awesome, [and] it completes the record,"
Slash writes on his
Twitter page. "
Myles did an amazing job and the song is fucking great."
Slash told
MusicRadar.com this week that he got almost every special guest he wanted to appear on his upcoming solo album, except for one:
WHITE STRIPES singer/guitarist and
DEAD WEATHER drummer
Jack White.
Slash revealed, "I wanted to get
Jack White to sing on something, but he didn't want to sing. He said I'll play drums, I'll play guitar, but I don't wanna sing. He was one guy that I wanted to work with. Pretty much everyone else that I went after I managed to get."
Speaking at the
Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards in London on Monday (November 2),
Slash said regarding his upcoming CD, "There's quite a list of [guest musicians] on the album. I'm not publicly talking about who it is until all the ink is dried on all the different contracts, but the rumours are out there — you sort of know what's going on."
Slash added, according to
AOL Music, "There will be some people from the pop business that people are surprised that I'm using, and there's also some real rock 'n' roll people with pop guises."
Slash said he only drew up his wish list of singers when he had written the songs for the record. He explained, "When I was actually doing the writing of the songs I didn't have singers. But then, when I had finished them, I thought 'you know who would sound good on this...' and that's how it would start."
"Slash" will see
Roadrunner Records enter into a unique and innovative association with a U.K. media partner — the special-interest media group
Future. In a brand new concept in record distribution the standard album release will be preceded by a "fan pack," in which the
Roadrunner Records album will be bundled together with a highly collectable special issue of
Future Publishing's
Classic Rock magazine dedicated to
Slash's career. This will be the first format of the album available anywhere in the world.
Slash will release a two-track CD single in Japan on November 11 containing the song
"Sahara" (featuring singer
Koshi Inaba of the Japanese hard rock duo
B'Z) and a version of the
GN'R classic
"Paradise City" (featuring
CYPRESS HILL and
Fergie [a.k.a.
Stacy Ann Ferguson] of the
BLACK EYED PEAS).
Slash tracked most of the CD with former
NINE INCH NAILS drummer
Josh Freese and ex-
JANE'S ADDICTION bassist
Chris Chaney. Other confirmed guest singers so far include
Ozzy Osbourne,
AVENGED SEVENFOLD's
M. Shadows and
Chris Cornell (
SOUNDGARDEN,
AUDIOSLAVE). The CD was produced by
Eric Valentine (
GOOD CHARLOTTE,
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) and features additional appearances by ex-
GUNS N' ROSES drummer
Steven Adler,
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS bassist
Flea and former
NIRVANA drummer and current
FOO FIGHTERS frontman
Dave Grohl.
