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Slash – Slash
It pays to have friends in high places. With a group of buddies that need no sleeve notes to identify like Ozzy, Iggy, Fergie, Lemmy and Kid, Slash had the opportunity to make something either very interesting or very disjointed.
Thankfully and unlike some other all-star collectives where a star on an unreasonably high-priced guitar hooks up with everyone in his Rolodex and disappears into the commercial abyss, the man with the black top hat keeps things firmly in his comfort zone. This is a good thing.
It’s not however a perfect world, there are a few missteps along the way but they stem more from the guest’s input than any six-string shortcomings. Chris Cornell drags things down with his earnest but boring rawk on Promise and Starlight (with guest Myles Kennedy) veers a little bit too close for comfort to disposable. Elsewhere there are high-points a plenty.
On Beautiful Dangerous, who thought Fergie could rock this big, maybe someone in her vegetable patch should learn how to use a Big Muff and Iggy will never loose his eloquence as long as he writes lyrics as poetic as “We’re all going to die, so let’s get high”. Sobriety seems to suit Ozzie and he has never sounded better than on Crucify The Dead while on Doctor Alibi, sobriety-less Lemmy proves once again that he has one of the all-time great rock and roll growls. I can see this one being worked on over a snifter or two.
Going with what you know works out fine this time and thankfully you don’t have to hear Slash play 128th notes to get the point that he knows his way around a Les Paul. Instead you get interesting tones, a great balance between bravado and restraint and a consistently cool collection of guitar rock songs.
Rob Hudson
www.slashonline.com
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