''Slash'' is the debut solo studio album by American rock and roll musician

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, best known as the lead guitarist of

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. Released in 2010, the album was produced by

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and features multiple musicians, including four of the five members of the ''

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''-era Guns N' Roses lineup: Slash himself,

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and

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History and recording

In his 2007 autobiography, Slash mentioned he was planning a solo album, and listed some of the vocalists with whom he would like to work. He stated that the album would be called ''Slash & Friends'' (although ''& Friends'' was later dropped from the title). Slash's wife Perla mentioned in a 2008 interview that the album would include "everyone from

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to Fergie". The song "Crazy" featuring

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was recorded for the album but was blocked to avoid conflict with a pending release by Bennington's group

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; '' A Thousand Suns'' was released a few months later after Slash's album was issued. Slash re-rerecorded the song with

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on vocals as "Doctor Alibi". Slash reported rights to "Crazy" were owned by Bennington's family after his 2017 suicide, with any possible release of the song needing their approval. On November 11, 2009, preceding the release of the album, Slash released the Japan-only single "

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", featuring Japanese vocalist

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(from B'z) who contributed Japanese and English lyrics. It charted at number four on the

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, as well number six on the

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and number four on the Top Singles Sales chart. It has been awarded Western "Single of the Year" award at the 24th Japan Gold Disc Award by

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. On January 16, Slash made an appearance at the

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. On January 19, 2010, Slash teamed up with

's Music for Relief, along with

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, The All-American Rejects and others, and donated a previously unreleased track, "Mother Maria" featuring

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, to aid the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The song was later featured as an

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bonus track for the record, and appeared on a Platinum Deluxe Edition. Just prior to release, the song "Back from Cali" featuring singer

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was added to the album's track listing, making Kennedy the only person to be featured on more than one song on the album's standard track listing. Slash also announced that

is the only other person who played guitar on the record, performing rhythm guitar on the song "Ghost", featuring singer

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. "I Hold On" was featured on the season one episode of '' Hawaii Five-0'', "Malama Ka Aina", which aired on October 4, 2010; it was featured as characters Steve and Danny drive to a pizza shop. The album was made available in the United States via

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, and in the U.K. via Roadrunner. The cover art was produced from a painting by Ron English, a prominent Pop Surrealist artist and friend of Slash.

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released an exclusive version including the album and a Slash T-shirt. Best Buy also sells an exclusive digital version of the album that includes two bonus tracks: "Baby Can't Drive" (featuring Alice Cooper/Nicole Scherzinger/Steven Adler/Flea) and a cover of Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City" (featuring Fergie/

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). In an interview following the release of the record, Slash revealed that he would have wanted

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to sing "Saint Is a Sinner Too" but that he was too nervous to call the

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singer. In a later interview with the Finnish ''Soundi'' magazine, Slash stated that he would have wanted the record to feature his friend, former-

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lead singer Michael Monroe, but there was not a song that Slash thought fit him. As of April 18, 2010, the album has gone gold in Australia. A music video for the remix version of "Gotten" featuring

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, released in March 2012. The video was part of the donation for the Los Angeles Youth Network.

2010 World Tour

On February 4, 2010, Slash announced via a

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blog that "

is going to be fronting the band for the upcoming tour. Something I'm really stoked about. Myles sang a killer track on the record and I think he is by far one of the best rock and roll singers out there today. I'm really honored and proud to be working with him." Prior to the tour, Slash confirmed that his own solo material and songs from

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", "

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", and " Nightrain" among others),

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, and Slash's Snakepit, as well as

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material (" Rise Today") would be played. The touring line-up for the initial tour, besides Slash and

included Bobby Schneck ( Slash's Blues Ball) on rhythm guitar, Brent Fitz (

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) on drums and, initially, Dave Henning (

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) on bass, though prior to the start of the tour Todd Kerns ( Age of Electric, Static in Stereo, Sin City Sinners) took over bass duties instead of Dave Henning. Slash performed "By the Sword" on ''

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'' on April 6, and on ''

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'' on April 9. While performing the song on Jay Leno's show, Slash was wearing an "I'm With Coco" pin, to show support for former ''Tonight Show'' host

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. There are very few close-ups of Slash during the song, but

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caught one second where the pin was displayed on camera. Slash also played "By the Sword" on '' Lopez Tonight'' on April 9, 2010, and performed "Back from Cali" on the show on April 12. Slash and Adam Levine performed "Gotten" on ''

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'' on May 11.

Release and reception

Upon release, ''Slash'' entered the ''Billboard'' 200 charts at number 3 (also at number one on the

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and the Independent Albums Chart) with 61,000 copies sold during the first week. The album also debuted at number one in Canada, Austria, New Zealand and Sweden while it also broke into the top 20 in Germany, Finland, Australia, France, Norway, Poland and Switzerland. The album's first single, " By the Sword" featuring

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, peaked at number 41 on the Rock Songs Chart and number 78 on the

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. " Beautiful Dangerous", featuring Fergie, charted at number 11 and number 58 on the

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and Canadian Hot 100. The cover of "

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" featuring Fergie and

also charted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 75. The album has received generally mixed-to-positive reviews, scoring a 56 out of 100 ("mixed or average reviews") on

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writer Kyle Anderson called the album "a tremendous collection of hard rock songs that center around the axe man's signature chunky, swirling

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s.... On balance, it's an excellent album, and it feels good to have that classic Slash sound back." Writer Shelby Powell took note of Slash's precision on guitar, rating the album 3.5/5 thumbs, but took off points for "a little too much reverence paid to the 90s and some of the feature selections may have old head purists poking their bottom lips out and putting their lighters down," but concludes that "the assortment of genres blends well."

Track listing

Notes:
*Different countries list the track title as "Watch This Dave".
**"Nothing to Say" and "Chains and Shackles" are two versions of the same song with different lyrics and production.

Personnel

;Primary musicians *

–

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and

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on "By the Sword", lead acoustic guitar on "Saint is a Sinner Too" and "Sweet Child o' Mine",

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on "Paradise City",

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on "Demo #4" and "Demo #16", production (all tracks) *

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– bass (excluding track 9, "Chains and Shackles" and "Baby Can't Drive"), rhythm acoustic guitar on "Saint is a Sinner Too" *

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–

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(excluding tracks 9, 12 and "Baby Can't Drive"),

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on "Saint is a Sinner Too" *

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– percussion (excluding tracks 1, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, "Chains and Shackles" and "Mother Maria") ;Production personnel *

– production,

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, mixing, keyboards on "I Hold On", backing vocals on "Mother Maria", percussion on "Mother Maria" * Bradley Cook – additional engineering * Big Chris Flores – additional production, keyboards & programming on "Beautiful Dangerous", drum programming on "Demo #4" "Demo #16" * Mastering: George Marino at Sterling Sound ;Featured guests *

– vocals, percussion, production (track 1) *

– vocals, production (track 2) * Fergie – vocals, production (track 3 and ''Paradise City'') *

– vocals, production (tracks 4, 12, "Back from Cali" (acoustic version), "Fall to Pieces" (acoustic version), "Sweet Child o' Mine" acoustic version, "Nightrain" (live version)), rhythm guitar ("Back from Cali" (acoustic version), "Fall to Pieces" (acoustic version), "Sweet Child o' Mine" (acoustic version), "Watch This" (live version)) *

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– vocals, production (track 5) *

– vocals, production (track 6) *

– vocals, production (track 7) *

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– vocals, bass, production (track 8) *

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– drums, production (track 9) *

– bass, choir, production (track 9) *

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– vocals, production (track 10) * M. Shadows – vocals, production (track 11) * Rocco DeLuca – vocals, production (track 13) *

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– vocals, production (track 14) *

– vocals, production (''Sahara'') *

– vocals (''Paradise City'') * Nick Oliveri – vocals, bass, production (''Chains and Shackles'') *

– vocals, piano, production (''Mother Maria'') *

– vocals, production (''Baby Can't Drive'') *

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– vocals, production (''Baby Can't Drive'') ;Additional musicians *

– rhythm guitar (track 1) *

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– backing vocals (track 2) * Kevin Churko – backing vocals, production (track 2) * Joe Sandt – harpsichord (track 5) * Deron Johnson – organ (track 7) * Anton Patzner – violin, viola (track 7) * Lewis Patzner – cello (track 7) * Mark Robertson – violin (track 7) * Alyssa Park – violin (track 7) * Julie Rogers – violin (track 7) * Sam Fischer – violin (track 7) * Grace Oh – violin (track 7) * Songa Lee – violin (track 7) * Maia Jasper – violin (track 7) * Lisa Liu – violin (track 7) *

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– drums (track 12) *

– drums (''Baby Can't Drive'') *

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– bass (''Baby Can't Drive'') *

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– backing vocals (''Paradise City'') * Bobby Schneck – rhythm guitar (''Watch This (live version)'' and ''Nightrain (live version)'') * Todd Kerns – bass, backing vocals (''Watch This (live version)'' and ''Nightrain (live version)'') * Brent Fitz – drums (''Watch This (live version)'' and ''Nightrain (live version)'')

Release history

Miscellaneous

* Slash worked on a song with

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which has not been released. *

said he wrote "Crucify The Dead" lyrics about what he would tell Axl Rose if he was in Slash's shoes. * "I Hold On" was recorded in Kid Rock's personal studio. * Slash originally composed "Saint is a Sinner Too" to figure on the film ''This is Not a Movie''. * "We're All Gonna Die", featuring Iggy Pop, was the first song Slash recorded. * "Mother Maria" was first used for Download to Donate for Haiti, a compilation album to earthquake victims in Haiti.

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

Slash's official website

Slash: Solo Album Artwork, Track Listing Revealed

"Slash" Review

"Slash" Review on Maximum Threshold Radio

"Slash" Guitar International Review by Brian D Holland
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