Nov. 23, 2011 - Issue #840: Battle the world
Made in Stoke 24/7/11
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy {recordings_bands_mg} Made in Stoke 24/7/11 {/recordings_bands_mg}
Armoury, 2011
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After using a different singer on each song of his solo record, Slash enlisted Myles Kennedy to handle the mic on tour with him. Kennedy fits in just fine, and the rest of the band sounds pretty good alongside the guitarist, a proper group rather than just a bunch of hired guns there to support the showboating (though there's still a good amount of that: 10-and-a-half minute Slash guitar solo, anyone? No thanks). But while the band blasts out a good set of rock 'n' roll, it ultimately comes off as a cover band. And that works fine some of the time—usually when they're digging into a Guns N' Roses tune, which really serves to highlight the fact that Slash was only one piece of the five-part puzzle that put together Appetite For Destruction. On his own, though, without his old songwriting foils, too many of the songs become lessons in virtuosic riffing, but not much more, which wears a little thin over two discs, despite the wholehearted efforts of the band.
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