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Slash has revealed that the Alter Bridge frontman is in it for the long haul. Get more details inside!

Slash has begun to think about his second solo album and has confirmed that when it is made, he’d like Alter Bridge vocalist and the top-hatted legend’s touring vocalist Myles Kennedy to handle singing duties on the whole album. Get more details here!

He also says that his solo band won’t be at Download again in 2011 as he won’t be touring his solo material over the summer until August.

- Metal Hammer 

This is probably the closest we're ever gonna get to Guns n Roses but hell some might argue this could be better. Slash was on top of his game and Myles Kennedy was just on crack with his vocal capabilities. Not to forget the solid rhythm section comprised of Bobby Schneck, Todd Kerns and Brent Fitz. 

Music knows no boundaries is the take-home of the day with a sold-out crowd ranging from the youngest kids to the most elderly folks (I swear I saw the most out-of-place looking elderly dude right behind me but that just makes it so much cooler!). It was a sight to behold. How could it be better than Guns N Roses you might ask? How about GnR, Snakepit, Velvet Revolver and Alter  Bridge combined? =)



Sticking to their standard setlist, the band played non-stop for 2hrs rocking the whole of Fort Canning for what's to be one of the most exciting week of gigs Singapore has ever had as a 3 Day SINGFEST shortly follows.

Setlist:

1. Ghost
2. Mean Bone (Snakepit)
3. Nightrain (GnR)
4. Dirty Little Thing (Velvet Revolver)
5. Back From Cali
6. Beggars & Hangers-On (Snakepit)
7. Civil War (GnR)
8. Rocket Queen (GnR)
9. Fall to Pieces (Velvet Revolver)
10. Sucker Train Blues (Velvet Revolver)
11. Nothing to Say
12. Starlight
13. Watch This
14. Guitar Solo/Godfather Theme
15. Sweet Child O' Mine (GnR)
16. Rise Today (Alter Bridge)
17. Slither (Velvet Revolver)
18. By The Sword
19. Paradise City (GnR)

Despite dripping with perspiration from start to finish, Slash still blew the crowd away with his trademark emotional guitar playing. Once again, a band pays tribute to the almighty Dio with the song "Starlight" and deservingly so for someone who was looked upon by many as one of the Godfathers of Heavy metal.



With the crowd heating up like a erupting volcano, the venue really erupted when the GnR anthem, Sweet Child O' Mine, sounded through the venue. The iconic intro to the song played by the very man himself, Slash! 

It was full-steam ahead from there and ending off with their trademark encore, By The Sword and Paradise City. The band looked like they utterly enjoyed themselves because! The Singapore Crowd was A W E S O M E! 

They say you reap what you sow. Singapore has continuously sowed very healthy seeds as an amazing crowd. Will we see more and more heavy-weight bands hit our shores? I say yes! =)

 

All pictures courtesy of Donald Soh! 

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pwnerer: Do you agree with all these 'Top 100 guitarists of all time' lists? I mean they systematically exclude guitarists from the jazz and classical genre, only have a handful of blues and folk guitarists, while 95% of the list are guitarists from mainstream, generic rock bands. What are your thoughts on these lists? 

SLASH: I don’t really pay much attention to them. These lists are more popularity contests than anything. 


forsaknazrael: How has your experience with your solo album differed from your solo work in the past (Slash's Snakepit)?

SLASH: This was more a record that I made on my own from top to bottom without a band or a record company. This record was definitely the 1st time I could do whatever I wanted. 


CoreysMonster: What is your opinion of the direction the music industry is going nowadays, with record companies becoming less and less diverse in their chose of new bands signed, due to the fact that record sales have become less and less lucrative? 

SLASH: I think the industry as it is stands right now is killing the spirit of commercial music by diminishing the possibilities of musical diversity. We have to come up with a way for new acts to get a fair chance. 


Eddy~: What other playing styles and genres you like to venture into when you're just playing by yourself; ever play Jazz, Metal, Pop, and such? 

SLASH: Some Jazz/Blues, Latin, Metal & some other styles I don’t have a proper name for. 


Duffman123: What other artists would you have wanted to collaborate with on your new album?

SLASH: Steven Tyler, Dave Mustaine. 


wizards?: If you had the chance, would you go back to whenever you started and do it all over again at the risk of not becoming famous? 

SLASH: I don’t think I have a reason to go back & do it all over again, I wouldn’t change anything if I did.


TwistedLogic: How did you come up with that Appetite tone? It has a lot of early Zep in it for sure, but it makes me think of Lemmy for some reason. It is just dirty and nasty, and effectively conveys life in the seedy side of town, no offense. So, being gear heads here on UG, how did you do it? 

SLASH: My tone has always been the product of what I want to hear, ever since I got my 1st amp. I have a very defined sense of what I do & don’t like in a guitar’s sound. I just go for what sounds good to me as simply as possible. 


SomeoneYouKnew: If you could have mad skills on any other instrument in addition to guitar what instrument would you choose? 

SLASH: Violin or Saxophone. 


androidred0100: You're a pretty rocking guy, with a definite, tangible, and highly sculpted image and people obviously see you in a certain light. Do you ever do anything that people would consider "Un-Slash-like"? For example do you listen to world beat music, play the sitar in your spare time or are you a secret Dungeons and Dragons dork? Basically, is there anything that you do that you'll openly admit to that people just wouldn't believe to be true?

SLASH: I do have a very nice sitar that I got from India. I never play it though. LOL! I love Disneyland as much as my kids. I watch Spongebob. I love pinball & play it constantly. I TiVo dinosaur programs & hang out in natural history museums in the dinosaur exhibit in every city in every country I visit. 


androidred0100: I've read your book and it's pretty apparent that you've been through a lot in your life and most average joes would be content to be where you are now for the rest of their lives. And yet you continue moving forwards. What's next for you? What makes you get up in the morning and say "Man, I can't wait to get started!"? 

SLASH: I’m always trying to progress in what I do. I want to play all the time & hopefully get better at it. If I rest now that’s as far as I will have gotten. Plus, I love what I do more & more as time progresses.

- Ultimate- Guitar 

Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose has filed a countersuit against his former manager, claiming Irving Azoff and his company, Front Line Management, attempted to sabotage Rose's "new" version of GNR so he'd reunite with Slash and the band's classic lineup.

According to gossip site TMZ, Rose alleges in his $5 million countersuit that Azoff was "devising and implementing a secret plan to set up Rose and the band for failure so that Rose would have no choice but to reunite with the original Guns N' Roses' members," a move Axl had resisted. Rose also took issue with Azoff's decision to file his original lawsuit against William Bailey, the singer's real name -- something that "carries significant emotional damage from Rose's childhood."

Azoff filed suit against Rose in March, claiming GNR owed his company $1.8 million, an amount equivalent 15 percent of the gross revenue earned by the band during its run of tour dates through Asia, Canada, and South America in support of their 2008 comeback album Chinese Democracy. Read SPIN's review of their 2010 Canadian tour kickoff here.

According to TMZ, Azoff -- who also serves as CEO for Ticketmaster -- has already responded to Rose's countersuit: "On advice of counsel I cannot respond at this time, but will discuss in my upcoming book, My Life with William Bill Bailey." Ouch! 
 
 - SPIN 

I loathe aggression in music. When 50 Cent got bottled at Reading, I barely even doubled up laughing.

Even so, there’s something about a hefty uppercut caught on camera that appeals to the horrible nihilistic bastard in us all. I was reminded of that today when someone sent me this clip of Robbie Furze from The Big Pink punching a heckler’s lights out (0.35).

Obviously that’s a totally unacceptable way to treat your own paying fans. A karate kick to the Adam’s apple would’ve been far more appropriate.

Predictably, it inspired a flurry of office emails where everyone suggested their own favourite examples of onstage violence. Here are a few of the best/funniest/most deplorable/delete as appropriate.

Guns N' Roses were forced to cancel a concert in Costa Rica last night (April 9) after the stage collapsed.

The show at San Jose's Estadio Ricardo Saprissa was called off because part of the stage collapsed from the weight of the screen which the band have been using as part of their live performances.

They had planned to reschedule the gig over the weekend before jetting off to their next South American concert in Guatemala, which is scheduled for Tuesday (April 13).

But Axl Rose posted on his Twitteraccount earlier today (April 10) that it now looks unlikely the gig will be rescheduled.

He wrote: "3 shows 2 go!! No word on if there'll b a makeup 4 Costa Rica. Though we'd obviously rather have a had a fun show we're more than thankful the very real n' serious staging problems were discovered b4 hand n' no one was hurt. 

"We're lookin' at gettin' bk 2 a place or 2 in SA asap. Hope everyone enjoyed the shows. Big thanks 2 everyone who came out n' supported us!!" 

This is the second time a Guns N' Roses concert has been cancelled on their current jaunt due to the stage collapsing.

Last month the band axed a show atRio De Janeiro's Apoteose Stadiumafter heavy rain resulted in a similar problem. 

At a later gig in Peru anotherconcert was almost shelved after Rose threatened to walk offstage when he was hit by an object

- NME 

Guitarist says no amount of money could prompt reunion

Guns N' Roses' former guitarist Slashhas revealed that he has turned down "seven, eight digit kinds" of sums of money to reunite with his old band at various times since his departure.