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AND THE SINGER FOR SLASH’S SOLO BAND IS…

 Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 2:14pm by

With his virtually-guaranteed-to-suck new solo album coming out this spring, Slash now has to start thinking about putting a band together for a support tour. Since each song on the album features guest vocals by a different all-star singer, and Slash was never gonna be able to get ‘em all to do a whole tour with him, the logical solution was to hire a singer for his touring band.

And that singer is Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy.

This comes as a disappointment to me only because I hate Alter Bridge. As far as I can tell, Kennedy is actually a very talented singer. And he does vox on one of Slash’s solo tracks, “Starlight,” so I guess his presence makes sense; Lord knows Alter Bridge ain’t doin’ squat right now, so he might as well get paid.

Is Kennedy an electrifying live presence? I dunno, I ain’t done never seen him live. But I can tell you that this cover he does of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” isn’t as awful as I would have guessed it would be. It’s definitely a little touchy feely, but like I said, the dude can sing.

Slash promises to “announce the other band members shortly.”

-AR

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rik-Powell/286400508 Rik Powell

    Either my 2 attempts at a comment didn’t just work, or they’re just not showing up for some reason and they’re all going to appear at once and make me look like an idiot.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rik-Powell/286400508 Rik Powell

      Oh, I guess they didn’t work then…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rik-Powell/286400508 Rik Powell

    This comes as a disappointment to me only because I hate Slash.

  • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

    Interesting…..

  • http://schenkeltown.blogspot.com SchenkelTown

    “virtually-guaranteed-to-suck new solo album”

    hahah well said!

  • stu1

    Wasn’t this dude at the forefront of the Velvet Revolver new singer rumors?

    • William Grimmkvlt

      He was also supposed to be Robert Plant’s replacement in the aborted Zep reunion.

      • Kuranes

        He is the Ryan Seacrest of vocalists.

        • stu1

          hahaha

  • Brian \m/(-_-)\m/

    hes actually pretty damn good vocally, but as far as stage presence, ive only seen him with a guitar around his neck, and just vox (as opposed to guitar and vox) is a completely diff stage presence. ur not tied 2 wherever ur mic stand is, u hav at least one hand free, its a diff ballgame. who knows, it might rock…well, it wont, cuz this album will suck big hairy black man parts, but at least myles should be good

  • This Shit Sucks

    hate to say it, but that dude is awesome. he was in a band called Mayfield Four that released an album called “second skin” that has some of the best rock tunes i’ve ever heard. He just should have kept that going and not fucked around with the shitty creed dudes. I saw em open for Fuel when i was in high school, and they blew me away! Just my 2 cents. i didnt lose any cred with these statements right?

    • familyghost

      *takes away metal card*

      • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

        See Principal Anselmo to have it returned.

    • http://myspace.com/northwestroyale Blake

      Mayfield Four WAS awesome. Glad someone else knows who they were.

      • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

        And you sir get your ass to Detention. Mr Araya is waiting.

        • familyghost

          *breaks troll character* I’m not gonna lie i lol’d dude

      • This Shit Sucks

        fuck the haters. they dont know. but we do…

      • cyrollan

        As someone who owns both Fallout and Second Skin… I agree that they rock. Of course I bought them before I was a big metalhead. But we are all forced to rock now and then

  • familyghost

    fuck slash!!met him in 89!!fucker is leech!!fucking guns and poses was nothing but leeches!!kicked his ass in the pit i did!!show’d who ‘d boss around here!!Mmmmmmmmmmmm Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

      Youre doing it again.

      • familyghost

        its true story!!slash aint a man!!he’sa bitch!!went down in 2 hits son!!we_get_it_here!!take that apple motherfucker!!take that shit and smoke it!!

        • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

          *Shakes head and smiles*

          At least your consistant.

      • Brian \m/(-_-)\m/

        i think he exhausted his options in the trivium post and moved up to here to spew some more. at this point it ceases to be funny. familyghost, are you trying to be ziltoid?

  • Sammy

    Kennedy is also three times the guitarist Slash ever was.

    • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

      Anyone who can learn the basic major/minor chords and the minor pentatonic blues scale, and progress from there is three times the guitarist Slash is.

      • Kuranes

        Millions of guys can meedly-meedly their way around Slash all night long. But he is still better.

        • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

          Not so much..

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Gingras/691170904 Michael Gingras

            Hammer knows what he’s talking about. Slash is a hack, some pentatonic bull and some legato can go a long way in fooling the non-guitarist. What the fuck is with the top hat, maybe he has a midget guitarist up there playing all his shit for him so he never has to actually learn to play the guitar

          • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

            Nice to see a fellow green suiter. You in the sandbox homie?

  • Jewers

    Why am I the only one who thinks this won’t suck?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Gingras/691170904 Michael Gingras

      because your retarted, and jewish

  • Timmayy

    ive actually seen alter bridge live twice, amazing both times. myles has great stage presence, and is also a very talented guitarist. if you search youtube, theres a few clips of him performing in and winning a contest for guitar players/vocalists. He definitely matches his live vocals with the recording note for note, and his guitar skills are shredtastic, much better than any of the solo’s he recorded on alter bridge’s blackbird album.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Bailey/1624089874 Joel Bailey

    He’s a good front man… He’s got good stage presence, with our without a guitar in his hands. Here’s a link of him sans-guitar…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L3NWYYdjac

    One thing I’ll say about Kennedy… He can carry a tune live. He’s got serious pipes and a good range. A lot more than you can say about a lot of rock singers right now.

  • Fufkin

    Bashing Alter Bridge again? Your loss. The world continues to turn.

    Great singer – savvy move by Slash because Myles is one of the best live singers I’ve heard.
    He declined to audition for the band that became Velvet Revolver in the early days when he was asked because he didn’t think he’d be suitable, but I’m interested to hear what this combination sounds like. He can probably nail some of the old Guns songs.

  • Metal2thePetal

    Myles Kennedy can hit all the notes live AND play Rythm Guitar quite uncanny. As for 5Lash’s creative material….Mk may need to toss it out. FERGIE??? MAROON5%%%???? that son of a whore!!

  • me

    I would ordinarily be thrilled to have someone post my video as part of an article about the fabulous Myles Kennedy, in this instance given the “author”‘s stance toward (or should I say against) Alter Bridge, I’m apalled.