Slash's new single to feature Ozzy Osbourne; more guest singers revealed
Mistress Carrie of the Worcester/Boston, Massachusetts radio station Waaf has posted the following message on her official blog: "One of the benefits of being the Music Director of Waaf is hearing new music Way before anyone else!
"Today I got a chance to hear some of the new Slash [Velvet Revolver/ex-Guns N' Roses] album that will be released in March of 2010. We should have the new single (which is going to feature Ozzy [Osbourne] on lead vocals) in January!
"This song was Awesome! And the lyrics are going to piss off Axl and Black Sabbath!
"I heard Chris Cornell, Kid Rock, M. Shadows, and even Fergie lending their voices to Slash. They were all great! Also featured on the lineup? Lemmy, Iggy, Alice Cooper, Flea, Duff, Myles Kennedy and, you guessed, Dave Grohl!
"According to my 'source,' Slash wrote the 'blueprint' for the songs with someone specific in mind. Then he asked that person to get involved and help write and record the track!
"Every song has a bit of Slash and the other musicians in it? Very Cool!
"This album is going to be Huge!"
Slash has just released a two-track CD single in Japan containing the song "Sahara" (featuring singer Koshi Inaba of the Japanese hard rock duo B'Z) and a version of the Gn'R classic "Paradise City" (featuring Cypress Hill and Fergie [a.k.a. Stacy Ann Ferguson] of the Black Eyed Peas).
Slash recently told MusicRadar.com that he got almost every special guest he wanted to appear on his upcoming solo album, except for one: White Stripes singer/guitarist and Dead Weather drummer Jack White. Slash revealed, "I wanted to get Jack White to sing on something, but he didn't want to sing. He said I'll play drums, I'll play guitar, but I don't wanna sing. He was one guy that I wanted to work with. Pretty much everyone else that I went after I managed to get."
"Slash" will see Roadrunner Records enter into a unique and innovative association with a U.K. media partner - the special-interest media group Future. In a brand new concept in record distribution the standard album release will be preceded by a "fan pack," in which the Roadrunner Records album will be bundled together with a highly collectable special issue of Future Publishing's Classic Rock magazine dedicated to Slash's career. This will be the first format of the album available anywhere in the world.
Slash tracked most of the CD with former Nine Inch Nails drummer Josh Freese and ex-Jane'S Addiction bassist Chris Chaney.
"Sahara" (featuring singer Koshi Inaba of the Japanese hard rock duo B'Z):