"Slash Day"

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Just saw a clip that Hollywood was declaring August 26th to be "Slash Day". And then they referenced Time magazine article form last year that had him as the #2 greatest electric guitarist of all time. I couldn't believe it, so I had to go look it up:

http://whtq.com/blogs/rock_news/2009/08/time-magazine-lists-10-greates.html

(Yeah, I know it's Time magazine, but still....)

He's maintained his "rock icon" thing. but since Appetite for Destruction, what's he really accomplished? I find all of his solo work and Velvet Revolver albums to be quite unremarkable. Can't figure out why he gets so much acclaim. I could think of 100 other guitarists that I'd put on that list ahead of Slash. What am I missing here?
 
wdiv said:
(Yeah, I know it's Time magazine, but still....)

What am I missing here?
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How much it pays to wear an Abe Lincoln top hat, big dark sunglasses and always have your hair over your face ?

aka: sensationalizm
 
wdiv said:
He's maintained his "rock icon" thing. but since Appetite for Destruction, what's he really accomplished? I find all of his solo work and Velvet Revolver albums to be quite unremarkable. Can't figure out why he gets so much acclaim. I could think of 100 other guitarists that I'd put on that list ahead of Slash. What am I missing here?
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Ever since the Illusion albums came out, I'd have to agree. The Velvet Revolver discs were among the most overrated in history IMO (One of the last albums I ever bought blindly, wished I had learned from it when I bought the new Jovi, but I digress). I think it's because of Appetite and Guitar Hero and his iconic image which has kept him in the spotlight.

Slash is a rather unique guitarist in his playing. There are guitarists way better than him who have a helluva time trying to figure out how to play his stuff, just because most of it is so off the wall.

His post-GNR stuff hasn't done much for me. A few VR and Snakepit songs were good, but beyond that, nothing's really grabbed me. It's probably why I didn't miss him when I saw "GNR" earlier this year. [BTW, if you get the chance, go see them!]
 
i've heard most of the new slash album. its ok. i'll still buy it and crank it through my car instead of computer speakers but it sounds like slash guesting on other peoples tunes instead of the other way around. slash's snakepit and the velvet revolver albums sounded like music slash wrote with someone singing it. this sounds like the guest vocalists wrote the tunes
 
would it be possible to say that Slash's playing is like a updated Clapton ? I havent heard alot biesde AFD and radio songs but he does seem to have a good sense of feel/expression.
 
These kind of phony fucking things happen all the time. No real accomplishment needed just a high profile name. They "gave" Dennis Hopper a mercy Hollywood Walk of Fame upgrade because he's on his death bed. What has he done lately? Slash is a good guitarist and this is nothing more than an event to (hopefully) boost sales of the album. I personally will be buying the album regardless...
 
sixxswine said:
These kind of phony fucking things happen all the time. No real accomplishment needed just a high profile name. They "gave" Dennis Hopper a mercy Hollywood Walk of Fame upgrade because he's on his death bed. What has he done lately? Slash is a good guitarist and this is nothing more than an event to (hopefully) boost sales of the album. I personally will be buying the album regardless...
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are you saying dennis hopper doesn't deserve a star on the walk of fame?

anyways the slash album is decent enough but doesn't touch chinese democracy which was groundbreaking. i thought it was weird slash featured myles kennedy twice on the main album but made the alice cooper track a bonus cut. one of the kennedy songs should have been a bonus track and the alice song on the regular album. also weird izzy isn't credited on the back of the album and duff and izzy should have done lead vocals. also found it odd no one from aerosmith or sammy hagar was on the album
 
I don´t like Velvet Revolver ("Contraband" is OK but "Libertad" sucks) but, for me, "Ain´t life grand" from Slash Snakepit is brilliant and totally overlooked. After "Apettite" is the best Slash album and totally recommended.
 
sixxswine said:
Kennedy will be the singer on the tour that's why he's featured twice. The best track in the opener with Ian Astbury. It should have been the track they put out to radio...
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didn't know that dennis now has 2

i agree the opener is the best track.
 
sixxswine said:
These kind of phony fucking things happen all the time. No real accomplishment needed just a high profile name. They "gave" Dennis Hopper a mercy Hollywood Walk of Fame upgrade because he's on his death bed. What has he done lately? Slash is a good guitarist and this is nothing more than an event to (hopefully) boost sales of the album. I personally will be buying the album regardless...
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What's phony about Slash being one of the most influential guitarists of his generation and recognizing it now?

And I literally just finished watching The Graduate, Hopper was great in that. Who cares if the accolade is 43 years after the fact? It's somehow wrong to recognize someone for something when they're going to die and might slightly ease their transition into death?
 
poundingmetal74 said:
What's phony about Slash being one of the most influential guitarists of his generation and recognizing it now?

And I literally just finished watching The Graduate, Hopper was great in that. Who cares if the accolade is 43 years after the fact? It's somehow wrong to recognize someone for something when they're going to die and might slightly ease their transition into death?
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I don't know that I'd say Slash himself has been influential as in people copying his style. Guns as a band has been more of an influence than him as a guitarist. I like the Slash album quite a bit. There are only two real clunkers on it.

Read the previous post on Hopper. He already had one. They gave him another!:Smug:
 
Taken from thread from a Metal Sludge poster that was there last night.

setlist
Dirty Little Thing
Mean Bone
Nightrain
Back From Cali
Beggars and Hangers On
Civil War
Sucker Train Blues
Nothing to Say
Starlight
Solo/Godfather
Sweet Child O' Mine
By the Sword ( with Andrew Stockdale)
Woman ( with Andrew Stockdale)
Rise Today
Slither
Paradise City

and for all the shit about slash screwing over adler.. Adler showed up on stage to sing paradise city with myles kennedy

"nightrain"



"back from Cali"


"beggers and hangers on"



"Civil War"



"Starlight"



"By the sword" with Andrew Stockdale




"slither"





"Paradise City"

 
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pretty crap setlist. hardly anything from the album he is promoting. also whats this about him screwing over adler?
 
mdmatt4ever said:
pretty crap setlist. hardly anything from the album he is promoting. also whats this about him screwing over adler?
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I didn't have any issues with this set list, that said I think it will change as this wasn't the opening night of the tour. This was Slash breaking in the band. The screwing Adler comment has to do with Slash praising Josh Freese who played on the record and him not mentioning Adler's perfromance on the Alice Cooper (bonus) track....
 
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